The belt-tightening budget was presented to the nation on Friday.
The "highlights" of the budget that made a lot of people whinge was taxation on online streaming services like Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc, which doesn't affect me personally because I'm not subscribed to any of these because I'm old school like that. That said, I'm not so sure about my Proxmate annual subscription, though...
The other was the RM20-40 departure levy (at airports) which I'm kinda surprised that Malaysia hasn't imposed before until now (but I've experienced it in other SEA nations) - apparently it's RM20 if you're travelling to a fellow SEA nation and RM40 everywhere else. If it's business travel, then your company's paying for it anyway and it's no skin off your nose, if it's the annual vacay then STFU and pay lah; if you can afford to travel overseas for holiday more than once a year, then it's just small change for you. They haven't said how they were gonna collect this levy - if it's a cash transaction during the airport checkout then there's gonna be hell to pay. It's only less annoying if it's included in the air ticket price.
The petrol subsidy part of the budget I'm kinda confused by.
Mind you, these things are only happening in Jan 2020, but still.
- Just as I already bought a ticket to the Singapore show, it was announced that Jim Jefferies was gonna be in KL the day before the Singapore show. Cis. Guess my Singapore ticket is going to waste cos I'm not about to spend money to travel to Singapore.
- Checked out new performing arts space in TTDI.
- Realised that the Shopee Shake music was actually the Baby Shark song.
- It was a matter of time before WhatsApp is gonna start serving ads. That said, I wonder what kind of ads are gonna be in the family groups...
- Foot Locker opening soon in the second home. No idea when specifically.
- Everyone is trying to get a head start on the 11.11 sales.
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