First we have the ‘God’ issue and now we have this from the Star.
Our currency wrongly denoted
FOR many years now, prices or monetary values used in our country are denoted by the acronym RM and pronounced as Ringgit Malaysia (or Malaysian Ringgit).
However, try picking up an Asian edition of an international magazine or checking our exchange rates via an international financial website, chances are our currency is often denoted as either MYR or MY$, while currencies of other countries (including those of neighbouring ones) are correctly used.
What happened to RM?
ABDUN NIZAR AHMAD,
Kuala Lumpur.
Obviously someone failed to see that MYR stands for Malaysian Ringgit much like JPY stands for Japanese Yen, USD for US Dollar, AUD for Australian Dollar…etc.
As if a preoccupation names isn’t enough, we decide to add stupidity to the list. Sorry Abdun Nizar Ahmad, you score a huge fail.
Also for the record, my issue of the Economist which had a picture of Adam and Eve on it, was also censored with their private parts blackened out. I shudder to think what’s happening in Malaysian museums with Greek statues.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
this is the LOL of the day~
January 20th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
lol, you too realised about the Economist front cover picture eh? =D
January 23rd, 2010 at 6:57 am
Malaysia Boleh… mah
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Let’s start burning…err…. MYR?
January 25th, 2010 at 11:58 am
kejap $ kejap M kejap MYR kejap RM kejap sendiri pun tak pasti apa yang betul….
February 1st, 2010 at 6:00 pm
I gave up on subscribing paper-based magazine in bolehland.
Besides censorship, non-delivery and/or horribly mangled magazines are common place.
Now I only subscribe to the online edition of those magazines.
February 6th, 2011 at 4:56 am
This is Abdun Nizar Ahmad…or Abdun N. Ahmad. Yes, the person who wrote AND sent this letter to the papers. I’ve made aware of these remarks/sites about my letter and about me as a person, just as soon as they first appeared on the Internet. But I chose to ignore them all this while, bcoz this ‘blur’ person has other important things to do….in life. Unlike some people, who feel, they are the most perfect creations, living in such perfect and fairy tale lives, who are quick to judge and condemn whenever someone makes mistakes.
But today, I believe, is a good day for me to revert to these comments and at the same time, defend myself and clear my name.
First of all, just so you know, thanks to my comments on RM, an Asian travel magazine who had been respectful enuff to denote Baht, Peso, Rupiah and other currencies correctly but used MY$ for our currency, had immediately started using RM (to denote Malaysian price for the mag) ever since.
Meantime, in my defense, when I included MYR in the letter, it DIIIIDDD occur to me that MYR is actually correct. I DIIIDDDDDD realise, it is the same way as using AUD or JPY etc. I wanted to remove the reference to MYR but forgot to do so when sending the letter. To make matters worse, the paper editors didn’t edit that out!
So, here I was became the talk of the town. Judging from all these comments and the sites’ names (heck, one site is even called Bolehland? HAHAHAHHAAAAA), I can tell these are the disgraceful and ungrateful types of people who always point fingers and find others’ fault, but not realising that when they do so, 4 of their fingers are pointing back at them.
Don’t bother trying to comment back with more hurtful words, because I won’t be reading them. I am going back living my life if you don’t mind. Also, should you able to pick up any grammatical or spelling erros from these comments of mine, feel free to point it out and brag about it, because that’s what you are good at right? Sayonara to you losers – Abdun Nizar Ahmad / Abdun N. Ahmad
February 9th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
MYR makes more sense to me. RM, RInggit Malaysia, denotes the utilization of the Bahasa Malaysia for the Malaysian currency, in-vitro to the naming of the currency being based upon common international standards for a currency (i.e CAD; Canada Dollars). International Finances, Banks, Institutes and Business/Companies refer to our currency as MYR as far as transactions and/or conversions are concerned. It’s never DUS (Dollar of United States) or RIN( Rupees India). When I go to xe(dot)com , it hadn’t occur to me that MYR is not apt,rather, I just need to know how much is the Google Nexus S would cost in Ringgit Bolehland.