BleacH tHe SinS!

Have you read or watch the news lately? If you read
Utusan.com, you can read issue about price increase for almost everything from
chicken, bean sprout, rice, toll and oil and if you watch the news in Buletin
Utama, they play stories about murder or robbery. What Malaysia has becoming to?

 To me the price increase starts with the increase
in oil price. How can you maintain the price for services and goods when you have
a significant increase in oil price? Many people have commented on the
comparison government made, so I won’t go into that discussion anymore. But I
would like to let you guys know the factor for this significant increase from
my perspective.

 To me the increase is being planned by world most
influent country that is US. If you watch 9/11 Fahrenheit (or the maybe the
title is the other way round), the director gives reason for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are driven by the desire of US to
control middle east’s asset that is oil. It’s nothing to do with WMD or
Al-Qaeda or even the attack to the twin tower. That just staged reason for the
approval of UN. And the rest are history.

However in Malaysia,
oil is not the only thing that experienced price hike. Almost every item that has to
do with oil, increased in price. But if you ask me what is the most illogical
price increases in Malaysia,
I would definitely say it’s TOLL! Up to this second, I still can’t find a
logic explanation for the demand of highway operators for
the hike in toll. The minister that responsible said the government has to pay
the operators if they are not allowed to increase the toll. But what I really,really
don’t understand, how come the government has to pay, if the traffic for each
highway is suppose to be enough for them to make millions in profit? And how
come the agreement between the government and the operators did have clause
that stating the operators have the right to increase the toll without considering
the increase in traffic. Somehow I sense the agreements are bias to the
operator. I just wonder how the government that is suppose to run the country
could be possibly tricked to sign an agreement that is clearly bias to the
other party? Just wonder…

I actually would like to write more on the increase of
prices for most of the goods and crime cases in Malaysia.
However since I have whining a lot about toll, I’ve lost my interest in writing
about something else. Maybe in the next entry I’ll write about it if I feel like to.

I’ve been driving and riding in KL for more than 6 weeks now. And every
single time I’m on the road, I just pissed off with the attitude of other
drivers. Be it motorcyclists, car, lorry or even pedestrian, I would say more
than 85% of them are really selfish, greedy, reckless and like to do something
foolish to get themselves in danger.

In KL it’s just normal of you being overtake while in queue and I really
hate that. Can you imagine, in a traffic jam, you wait patiently behind a car
then suddenly, in the middle of nowhere, a stupid driver on your left without
signal just intend to cut the queue and go in front of you. Would it be great
if you could just get out of the car with a baseball bat, smash the mirror,
pull the driver out, punch him in the face, and when him lying down, kick him
in the stomach or head like a football and at then at the end of all that, you
spit them in the face, and shout to him "You stupid driver!". That
would be my imagination every time that thing happens to me. But if you think
only male driver do that cut queue act, oohh… no, no, you’re wrong. In KL
even some women drivers do that. I think she doesn’t realize that one day; she
might meet a crazy, hot boil male driver that would do her harm. And if that
thing happens, just pray that some other drivers would come out from their car,
to help her out and ease the situation.

What unique in KL, that selfish and foolish attitude, doesn’t happen to only
vehicle driver. Even pedestrian can be really, really stupid and do things that
can bring danger to them. Don’t they realize that if other drivers didn’t see
them, they might end up in hospital of worse dead? A place where you can
see this stupidity is Jalan Bukit Bintang. If you drive along this road, be
really cautious and concentrate on the pedestrians as well as the motorcyclists,
taxis, lorries and car drivers. Those pretty much like anything that moves on
the road or near its boundary. The pedestrian would just cross the road even
though the traffic light for them clearly shows red and yours is green,
motorcyclist would just push forward, fill up any gaps between the vehicles,
taxis would just stop wherever or whenever they fell like it, lorries would
just move ahead without giving any chance to other vehicle with the attitude
I’m big, so if you mess with me, then its not me who going to get hurt, and
other car drivers would just try to push forward and don’t want to be left
behind. So most of the time along Jalan Bukit Bintang, you can see a bunch of
people who are not stupid on their own, (they owned vehicle or at least have
work) but become stupid when they are being put in a society. Isn’t that
something weird?

I wonder what had happen to our society, which made us so selfish, greedy,
stressful, stupid and doesn’t care about other people and only thinks about
ourselves? Is it because of the road system, pressure living in a city, money,
time, self esteem, education or simply because we just become that fool every
time we behind wheels? Probably if any of you have friends or family who do psychiatric
for living then it’s a good study to find out the root of our current
situation. Then the report must be published on mass media and everyone
who just tired of living like this can do something to rectify the problem.
Together we can become a better society.

As few people might know, I already back in Malaysia. This is my forth weeks back home but it seems like I’ve been here for ages. Nothing much happen here except for few activities in which I’ve jot below.

For the passed three weeks, my time was occupied of me being sick. Since I got back, I’ve had 2 sessions of sick time. On both occasions I had muscles and joints pain, diarrhea, headache and fever. I don’t really know the cause but hope I don’t have to go through that anymore. I suspect it because of mosquito (hey I never been bitten for the past two year!) but it maybe because of something else such as water or allergy. I did go to Dr. the first time but he just gave me medications for fever, sore throat, headache and antibiotic. No blood test as I hope, because he said if it dengue the antibody won’t show up in the blood yet if the fever is less than 3 days. The medicine did help with my muscle pain and fever.

Last 2 weeks I enter go-kart competition in Plus Elite Speedway or something sounds like that. It was a team effort consisting of 2 drivers. With humble tone I would like to inform you guys that my team got podium finish (3rd) for our maiden appearance. Imagine what we could achieve if we had a lot of competition experience and practice. The competition is my second time driving a go kart in my life. So if you have extra money and don’t know that to do with it, I suggest you to sponsor us to go into go-kart racing. We would be really glad, thankful and would put our 100% to it. Hehe… FYI Each 40 mins session of practice cost a sucking blood of RM 110. And because of that I’m almost broke. (I am currently unemployed and living on my little saving.) Oh I’m also thinking of making my own go kart, but it only achievable by doing more research and if I got tons of money to spare. :D 

Another activity that I’ve been doing is going out with friends. It’s good to have time catching up with things that happen while I’m away. Many of my friends with exception friends from Bath(like Zaki and Ada, :P) are either married or getting married. They also have established themselves in whatever they do (Zaki you’re included in this list). Their future seems to be bright with good pay and I am really happy for them.

Oh btw I’m thinking of changing the purpose of my blog. Instead of writing about me, I’m thinking of writing about my experiences in Malaysia. (Pardon me but hey I just got back and all the things I experienced in UK still fresh in mind.) Since I got back I see a lot of things need improvement, from Malaysian’s attitude, driving style, advertisement, TV show, etc. So I think by jotting down my observation about our people, you guys who been overseas studying or working could bring back some positive attitude from abroad and try to change the society. I really think this new exposed generation can contribute something positive in our society.

Oklah, I’m off to bed now. Till then, take care.

Ciow