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I have emailed my client a quotation for this sports courts in Shah Alam. Yesterday, he emailed me that he will consider doing business with us provided with lower the price. We have already given him a rock bottom price and yet he asked for further reduction. It is difficult to do business with a Chinese. They keep pressing you for further reduction until you hardly ever make money or just enough to cover the expenses of your staffs and materials. The Malays are more generous, perhaps because they get easy projects from the government and have the money. The trend is changing because the Chinese are not able to get projects directly from the Government, while the Bumiputra contractors are being spoilt and very dependant on the Government for all projects.

For the first time, I stayed in Sunway Hotel near Macalister Road and KOMTAR. It cost RM190 per night without breakfast. The furnishings were modern and upgraded. However, upon walking near the lift on the 12th floor, there was strong smell of cigarette without any sign of smoke seen nearby. I thought people were not allowed to smoke in an air-con building. But not so in Malaysia. They smoke like a chimney, air-con or not in shopping malls, hotels and in restaurants.

Just outside Sunway Hotel were a lot of eating stalled and food ‘kopi tiams’ or food cafes for my overseas readers. I ordered fried fish cutlets with fried mee suah and 10 sticks of chicken satay. This is a food paradise for many locals. You can seen the place buzzing with diners and many hawker stalls selling various local food. The Chinese are a eating lot. Wherever you see hawker stalls, there you will find plenty of Chinese eating away. And since they are hardworking and richer, why not?