Of Malaysia's Garbage Men and Policemen
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Happy Chinese New Year!
All goes well with my CNY visit to Malaysia to visit some relatives.
All goes well with my customs entry and exit into and out of Malaysia.
I declare the customs of Malaysia are gentlemen with sense that despite disputes between Singapore and Malaysia recently.
BUT there was a problem within Malaysia.
Not our house business but let's have some gentlemen talk on this...
I see a little corruption.
This is the ONE THING that ruin many countries.
Here's what I heard or see.
Scene 1:
I heard this.
Playing firecrackers and fireworks IS ILLEGALLY BANNED in Malaysia since a few years ago, and there was very little of such illegal activities last few years. But THIS YEAR's CNY, The sight was very much "beautiful" across Malaysian's skies, with fireworks, of course!
There... It's Chinese New Year's Eve and one of my young cousins, aged about 10, was playing firecrackers and fireworks on his street.
But unlucky enough, one of his crackers flew to a front of a Malaysian police patrol car...
To solve this problem, my cousin gave the policeman a RM10 Ang Bao and the policeman open one eye and shut the other...
So much FUN, I was having with the firecrackers and fireworks though it was illegal...
Scene 2:
I saw this WITH MY OWN EYES!
It was CNY and was a Malaysian public holiday for all. But there were "hardworking" people in Malaysia. One of them were the Malaysian Trash Collectors, without them trash would have accumulate at home during CNY.
There... It was CNY's first day. Happily all my relatives and I was busy having fun. Then... A smell came... and flies came... Then we saw a garbage truck at out doorstep...
To avoid giving Ang Bao to them, the garbage men, we send our kid to give them garbage only... But then, the garbage men did not leave but was compressing garbage with a little garbage water *Urg
* Then we quickly gave them a Ang Bao and ask them to leave.
The Ang Bao giving was very much, almost traditional every CNY, my relatives say.
Though nothing really much to fuss about, since it was a happy CNY. But this really "helps" in the reputation of the garbage men...
(Well, they already did not have a good image...)
Dr. Mahathir NOW REALLY needs to watch out for his people...
(It's quite obvious his Garbage Men and Policemen were under-paid or something...)
These scenes prove one thing, "MALAYSIA! Truly ASIA!"
Haiz... Malaysia... -
Well going across the border to visit one's relatives became quite an experience this year, when compared to other years.
The greetings of "Gong Xi Fa Cai" was warmly given, with grins, and hints of 'ang pows' as the passport is being stamped - both when coming in and going out.
It must have been quite a windfall, if the number of cars moving in both directions were to politely hand over any "ang pows".
So the economy in Malaysia is doing so well that Civil Servants have to ask for the obligatory "ang pows" ?
PM Mahatir must have been wrongly informed about the economic boom in Malaysia which he claimed Singapore is jealous about and is causing all the issues to distract Singaporean from our severe economic problems. -
MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!!!!!!!
and.... i think their police was more POPULAR at express way ??? -
alot of corruption in malaysia... best not to encourage it.
for example, if u were caught speeding, the police wun even wait for u, they will tell you, if u give them a little coffee money, they will let you go. its not that malaysia underpaid or anything, but they just want to earn a quickie, the thrill of it. -
hee hee... wait till u hear this one about my JB beng fren... drives a proton wira modified until dunno like wat!! stick decals all over until loke rally car and his glove compartment FULL of summons!
guess what... he managed to renew his malaysian road tax without settling ANY of the summons...
how did he do it? how do you think?
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...... and they have the audacity to accuse Singapore car owners being the biggest culprit for not settling fines.
Little wonder that they are stopping Singapore Cars, as they cross the Immigration-Customs JB Check Point - to collect official fines, or "kopi duit"..? -
either way, u could always bribe the cop who gave u the ticket so he'll tear it up
those who kena stopped at the causeway were probably the ones who were too cheap, too principled or too dumb to bribe the cop in the first place...
hell, if i was speeding and i got stopped by a m'sian cop, i'll act decent, feign remorse and whip out my wallet post haste and make him a decent offer to forget the whole thing... why play punk with the law -
How do you handle a situation, when your offer is refused, and you are "reminded" that your fine is actually SIX times more then what your miserable offer is at RM50...?
Put on an act that you are broke...?
It happened once before, and told them that I was broke, and they insist on checking my wallet..!!! -
knn.... like that also can??? why never ask them go and ktt??Originally posted by Atobe:How do you handle a situation, when your offer is refused, and you are "reminded" that your fine is actually SIX times more then what your miserable offer is at RM50...?
Put on an act that you are broke...?
It happened once before, and told them that I was broke, and they insist on checking my wallet..!!!
*ktt = kam ti two (f spider) -
i said "make a reasonable offer" ... the least u could do is not insult a guy with a mediocre bribe... the whole point of a bribe is to make it worth the crooked cop's while to let u off instead of playing by the book...Originally posted by Atobe:How do you handle a situation, when your offer is refused, and you are "reminded" that your fine is actually SIX times more then what your miserable offer is at RM50...?
Put on an act that you are broke...?
It happened once before, and told them that I was broke, and they insist on checking my wallet..!!!
if your fine is RM$300, of course u have to apply a more substantial leverage to get off easy lah... its not paying the fine u know... its the trouble of having to find a place to pay it afterward.
and get real! u go to malaysia with only RM$50 in your wallet? -
It was simply unfortunate that this had to happen after an expensive night at Genting, and the remaining journey home was on the credit worthiness of the plastic card.Originally posted by CX:......................and get real! u go to malaysia with only RM$50 in your wallet? -
oh man... yeah... the casinos do that to u... i had to hold myself back from making a cash withdrawal from my card... the interest rates are way off the charts man!Originally posted by Atobe:It was simply unfortunate that this had to happen after an expensive night at Genting, and the remaining journey home was on the credit worthiness of the plastic card.
too bad the traffic cop don't accept visa and all this while i thought they very high tech and creative one...