Look at this 8 sets of words and through its form. try to guess out the meaning.
(1)
STAND
____________
I
(2)
_______
READING
______
(3)
SIDE/SIDE
(4)
FEET
FEET
FEET
FEET
FEET
FEET
(5)
NRUT
(6)
SI HE’S SIDE
(7)
OTHER/1
(8)
B lo O ok O ing K
May 03, 2010
Writing an Informal Letter-Format and Exercise
We had an exercise on how to go about writing a formal letter recently. We will now have an exercise to write an informal letter.
Let us review the format of both formal letters and informal letters again. We write informal letters to family members and friends but we write formal letters to organizations, societies, companies and clubs.
Let us look at the format and content of a formal letter once again.
INFORMAL LETTER | FORMAL LETTER |
· Sender’s address on the top right hand corner | · Start with Sender’s name on the first line at the top let hand corner Follow with the address of the sender |
· Date of letter directly below sender’s address | · Draw a line across below the sender’s address · Write the recipient post followed by the address next · At the end of the address, on the right hand side, write the date |
· Friendly salutation, “ Dear….“ | Write the salutation-“Dear Sir/ Madam” |
· Friendly introduction | Write the title for the subject of the letter. Underline it. |
· Purpose of letter | Write purpose of the letter |
· Background information | Next is the body of the letter: Purpose should be briefly spelled out Details |
· Conclusion | · Conclusion · Giving thanks |
· Signing off- “Your loving……” | · Signing off- “Yours faithfully/sincerely……” |
· Signature at the bottom right hand corner | · Signature at bottom of left hand · Write designation below signature |
Let us look at a sample of an informal letter.
Address of Sender Date | 45,Jalan Kemboja 6, Taman Kaya Mewah, 733900 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 3 May 2010 |
Salutation | Dear Penny, |
Friendly Introduction | How have you been? I haven’t heard from you for ages since we said goodbye to each other at the Bayan Lepas International Airport last November. How are you? In the pink of health, I hope. How are your parents? I do hope you mother is doing well in her law practice. I know this is an important year for you as you are taking the PMR examinations. Do study hard and you will get what you wish for. |
Main Body: Purpose | . I I am writing to inform you that my family will be migrating to London in October this year.My elder brother who is a cardiologist in Manchester has completed all the documentation needed for our emigration and while we are eager to leave for this new exciting country, we are also sad to leave all our relatives and friends behind. Dad says it is for the better as education is better for me and my brother, Jerome in UK and he himself could find a job quite easily there with a renowned computer software company. I So before I leave for London, I intend to pay you a visit soon. I am quite free during the month of August and if it is no trouble to you, I could fly in on Air Asia on any of the week-end so that we can spend some time together. We had so much fun the last time,remember? |
Conclusion | II hope to receive a reply from you soon. Meanwhile do take care and send my regards to your parents and also to your sister, Sally. |
Signing off | Yours sincerely, |
Signature | Caithlin Jane |
Now by following the format and example above, you too can do an assignment to test your skill in informal letter writing as well.
ASSIGNMENT:
You would like to invite your good friend Corey Lee to come and stay at your house for the long school holidays after the PMR examinations. Francis is your good friend but he is no longer living in Petaling Jaya as his father was transferred to work as the Regional Manager of a Multinational company in Kulim in Kedah in February 2010. In your letter, describe what both of you could do together during the holidays if he should come and stay with you.
A Dividend Bond to Take over all Malaysian Toll Highways?
I do hope these people know what they are talking about.
A company called Asas Serba Sdn Bhd today revealed that they intend to finance a proposed RM50 billion takeover of all toll highways nationwide via the issuance of dividend bonds through a new concession company. Is there a catch somewhere?
Company officials said shareholders could subscribe the required equity value of up to ten per cent of acquisition costs and dividend bonds would be issued with tenures based on projected cash flow statements of the existing toll concessionaires.
“The reason why we opted for dividend bonds is because we are looking at the possibility of allowing the bond holder also to share the upside of what we will gain from the whole operation of the new concession company,” said CEO Ibrahim Bidin.
“The existing lenders can also opt to stay. They may maintain whatever debt they hold against the toll road companies.”
He added that he would let the public decide if this proposed structured was attractive enough.
“We have the structure on how we’re going to finance, how we’re going to do it... let the public judge whether it is viable or not.”
“It’s a PFI (privately funded initiative). There’s no government [funding]... It’s quite straightforward.”,” he added.
Ibrahim, who was the former CEO of Plus Highways, explained that he plans to achieve the proposed 20 per cent reduction in toll rates by making concessionaires operate more efficiently and claims he can keep it frozen at that level until 2038.
“We will streamline the operation. We will make them more cost-effective in their operations,” he said.
“When you consolidate there are savings... I don’t need to have 10 departments, for example, to do the same thing.”
He added that aside from lowering costs he was also looking at options to increase non-toll revenues, which were not subject to government approval.
“We also have to increase the revenue, not only [reductions] on the cost side. We have to look at both.”
However, he declined to comment further on what these non-toll revenues were.
“I cannot tell you exactly where and how because then our ideas will not be our ideas anymore,” he said, but clarified that these revenue streams “will not be away from the business of the toll road operation”.
Ibrahim sidestepped the issue when asked to respond to DAP MP Tony Pua’s claims that Asas Serba represents a return to Mahathir-era cronyism given allegations that the company is linked to Tan Sri Halim Saad and Tun Daim Zainuddin.
“Number one, it’s not going to be owned by any individual. The shareholdings will be open to several entities,” he said.
“As I said earlier, we are talking to institutions. We don’t talk to individuals only. So it’s not [as though] one individual will own the expressway.
“And you have dividend bond holders who will dictate based on the terms and conditions of the bond. So I don’t see that return to cronyism is an issue.
“It’s not going to be Ibrahim Bidin owning the whole expressway. It’s not going to be... my highway.”
Asas Serba sent their proposal to the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Finance and Works Ministers last year but has yet to receive an official response from the government.
Khazanah managing director Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar poured cold water on sell down speculation in January when he said the state investment arm would keep Plus Highways as one of its core assets.
“The government has not said yes or no,” said Ibrahim.
Datuk Syed Amin Al-Jeffri, chairman and shareholder of Asas Serba, refused to speculate on why the government has not gotten back to them.
“I’m sure PM (Datuk Seri Najib Razak), he must have got his own timetable and how he wants to approach this,” he said.
He did, however, stress that Asas Serba could not proceed without government go-ahead as the highways were a matter of national interest.
“And naturally, when you talk of national interest, the government is the first area that you have got to clear. It is a hurdle. You must clear the hurdle.
“If the government were to tell us [this] has nothing to do with us, you go ahead and talk to operators, we will do so. But that’s not the case.”
So, what else is new with government?
A company called Asas Serba Sdn Bhd today revealed that they intend to finance a proposed RM50 billion takeover of all toll highways nationwide via the issuance of dividend bonds through a new concession company. Is there a catch somewhere?
Company officials said shareholders could subscribe the required equity value of up to ten per cent of acquisition costs and dividend bonds would be issued with tenures based on projected cash flow statements of the existing toll concessionaires.
“The reason why we opted for dividend bonds is because we are looking at the possibility of allowing the bond holder also to share the upside of what we will gain from the whole operation of the new concession company,” said CEO Ibrahim Bidin.
“The existing lenders can also opt to stay. They may maintain whatever debt they hold against the toll road companies.”
He added that he would let the public decide if this proposed structured was attractive enough.
“We have the structure on how we’re going to finance, how we’re going to do it... let the public judge whether it is viable or not.”
“It’s a PFI (privately funded initiative). There’s no government [funding]... It’s quite straightforward.”,” he added.
Ibrahim, who was the former CEO of Plus Highways, explained that he plans to achieve the proposed 20 per cent reduction in toll rates by making concessionaires operate more efficiently and claims he can keep it frozen at that level until 2038.
“We will streamline the operation. We will make them more cost-effective in their operations,” he said.
“When you consolidate there are savings... I don’t need to have 10 departments, for example, to do the same thing.”
He added that aside from lowering costs he was also looking at options to increase non-toll revenues, which were not subject to government approval.
“We also have to increase the revenue, not only [reductions] on the cost side. We have to look at both.”
However, he declined to comment further on what these non-toll revenues were.
“I cannot tell you exactly where and how because then our ideas will not be our ideas anymore,” he said, but clarified that these revenue streams “will not be away from the business of the toll road operation”.
Ibrahim sidestepped the issue when asked to respond to DAP MP Tony Pua’s claims that Asas Serba represents a return to Mahathir-era cronyism given allegations that the company is linked to Tan Sri Halim Saad and Tun Daim Zainuddin.
“Number one, it’s not going to be owned by any individual. The shareholdings will be open to several entities,” he said.
“As I said earlier, we are talking to institutions. We don’t talk to individuals only. So it’s not [as though] one individual will own the expressway.
“And you have dividend bond holders who will dictate based on the terms and conditions of the bond. So I don’t see that return to cronyism is an issue.
“It’s not going to be Ibrahim Bidin owning the whole expressway. It’s not going to be... my highway.”
Asas Serba sent their proposal to the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Finance and Works Ministers last year but has yet to receive an official response from the government.
Khazanah managing director Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar poured cold water on sell down speculation in January when he said the state investment arm would keep Plus Highways as one of its core assets.
“The government has not said yes or no,” said Ibrahim.
Datuk Syed Amin Al-Jeffri, chairman and shareholder of Asas Serba, refused to speculate on why the government has not gotten back to them.
“I’m sure PM (Datuk Seri Najib Razak), he must have got his own timetable and how he wants to approach this,” he said.
He did, however, stress that Asas Serba could not proceed without government go-ahead as the highways were a matter of national interest.
“And naturally, when you talk of national interest, the government is the first area that you have got to clear. It is a hurdle. You must clear the hurdle.
“If the government were to tell us [this] has nothing to do with us, you go ahead and talk to operators, we will do so. But that’s not the case.”
So, what else is new with government?
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