truly asia
last weekend 5 of us drove up to KL to spend the weekend. it was quite a hellacious ride up, because my friend was driving at 140kmph on a 2 lane 'highway' and especially after watching one too many car crash videos.
anyway we got there in once piece at about 6am on saturday morning. in the car, i was talking to my friend and i told him i've never liked going to malaysia. i don't feel safe at all in that country.
the criminals there are brutal as fuck and it doesn't help that they like to target singaporeans. besides, the police there are also corrupt as fuck and it doesn't help that they too like to target singaporeans.
i've been to quite a number of countries but in none of them do i feel as sketchy as i do in malaysia.
so anyway 6am we couldn't check in to the hotel so we went to eat breakfast and walked around a little. we went to their shopping district and i believe it was around 9 by then, there were quite a number of people around although the shopping centres weren't open yet.
we were walking past the front of one of the malls when a guy on a motorbike rode up onto the pavement and up a little slope. he looked as though he was going to park his bike there, but then started to ride in circles up and down the slope.
why the fuck is this guy playing on the slope, i thought. as we were nearing, a security guard there waved him off, telling him to go away, so he rode down the slope towards the pavement.
there was a tourist couple on the pavement and the bike guy casually stretched out his arm as he was nearing the woman. i thought he wanted to push her away so he could pass through.
suddenly he reached up and ripped off her gold necklace, and before anyone even knew what was going on, he revved up his bike and dashed right across the big intersection to the opposite side. the man only managed to shout "OI!" but by then he was already far far away.
we were all like dafuq just happened? i looked at the security guard and he was just shaking his head. no one else seemed to have any reaction and i suppose there was nothing they could do either. we were right there and no one even saw the plate number. i remembered his face though, and honestly he just had a typical 'fucker' look.
after that incident we were all very cautious and wary of our surroundings, mainly because i was the only one with a bag and all our passports were in it. i felt a strong sense of injustice too, that such a brazen attack could happen and no one could do anything to stop it.
we also had the impression that such incidents were the norm in malaysia and that their people and police didn't really care about such 'minor' cases. this reinforced my previous idea that malaysia is a fucked up place to be.
when i got home, i went to youtube and searched for 'snatch theft' and wow, most of the videos were from malaysia. however, it was rather comforting to see that a lot of the videos showed the theives being caught by the public and they were usually beaten up by big mobs. at least this shows that the malaysians don't like this shit happening too.
just listen to him crying like a baby at 1:00.
anyway we got there in once piece at about 6am on saturday morning. in the car, i was talking to my friend and i told him i've never liked going to malaysia. i don't feel safe at all in that country.
the criminals there are brutal as fuck and it doesn't help that they like to target singaporeans. besides, the police there are also corrupt as fuck and it doesn't help that they too like to target singaporeans.
i've been to quite a number of countries but in none of them do i feel as sketchy as i do in malaysia.
so anyway 6am we couldn't check in to the hotel so we went to eat breakfast and walked around a little. we went to their shopping district and i believe it was around 9 by then, there were quite a number of people around although the shopping centres weren't open yet.
we were walking past the front of one of the malls when a guy on a motorbike rode up onto the pavement and up a little slope. he looked as though he was going to park his bike there, but then started to ride in circles up and down the slope.
why the fuck is this guy playing on the slope, i thought. as we were nearing, a security guard there waved him off, telling him to go away, so he rode down the slope towards the pavement.
there was a tourist couple on the pavement and the bike guy casually stretched out his arm as he was nearing the woman. i thought he wanted to push her away so he could pass through.
suddenly he reached up and ripped off her gold necklace, and before anyone even knew what was going on, he revved up his bike and dashed right across the big intersection to the opposite side. the man only managed to shout "OI!" but by then he was already far far away.
we were all like dafuq just happened? i looked at the security guard and he was just shaking his head. no one else seemed to have any reaction and i suppose there was nothing they could do either. we were right there and no one even saw the plate number. i remembered his face though, and honestly he just had a typical 'fucker' look.
after that incident we were all very cautious and wary of our surroundings, mainly because i was the only one with a bag and all our passports were in it. i felt a strong sense of injustice too, that such a brazen attack could happen and no one could do anything to stop it.
we also had the impression that such incidents were the norm in malaysia and that their people and police didn't really care about such 'minor' cases. this reinforced my previous idea that malaysia is a fucked up place to be.
when i got home, i went to youtube and searched for 'snatch theft' and wow, most of the videos were from malaysia. however, it was rather comforting to see that a lot of the videos showed the theives being caught by the public and they were usually beaten up by big mobs. at least this shows that the malaysians don't like this shit happening too.
just listen to him crying like a baby at 1:00.
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