Oh gosh… I really hate public transportation in Malaysia. You really see all the weirdest people in Malaysia congregating in one place. Add in the fact that everyone is usually in a rush somewhere and it’s a recipe for disaster. I hate how people walk soooooo slowly, like hello! It’s called RUSH hour because people are RUSHING. (Although I know how ironic it is that when it’s RUSH hour, you are either usually sitting quietly in your car in the middle of horrendous traffic, or like me, very STILL and unable to move an inch in the monorail!) I really hate it how in Malaysia, they haven’t learned (after so so many years) that you have to stand on the LEFT hand side of the escalator cos the RIGHT hand side are for the people who are rushing. I think it’s because we all are very “courteous” and we don’t make any sound at the people who block the escalator. Even when I fake cough or ahem, I already feel like I’m being very rude. Why you wanna make me feel rude when you’re the one blocking the way!
When I took the monorail back, I saw a bunch of Malay youths randomly standing outside the monorail station and wolf-whistling at random Malay girls who came out. As long as they are Malay, they will wolf whistle, and then one of them went up to the girl and asked if she wanna hang out or something like that. OMG! So freaking creepy! The girl was of course, damn scared, and she said no. But then she also blushed and was like very embarassed that there was a guy hitting on her. -__- The dudes were like just hitting on whoever crossed their path, so weird. Whenever I see guys like that, I always wonder — what is their success rate like? Do they even get 1 girl who says yes? If the girl says yes, how is the “date” like? How does she look like? Why she so random?
The second thing that I saw that kinda pissed me off was this random chinese girl gave me a leaflet. Ok, I like to take leaflets from those promoters because I once read a book or an article some where, and this gal worked as a promoter giving leaflets. She said that she can’t understand why some people just refuse to take a leaflet from her, and that it doesn’t hurt them, but for her, the longer she takes to give away the leaflets, the longer she has to stand there. Yeah, I know you say, “Well, that’s your job!” To me, it doesn’t hurt me and ok, I just wanna help them get rid of their leaflets. My boyfriend has another theory, whereby – if you are not going to look at it and you’re going to trash it in the end, you are wasting the restaurant / store’s marketing money.. well, in that case it’s the marketing strategy which is crap if you can’t put something on the leaflet that makes me want to keep it right?
Anyway I digressed. The point was this random girl gave me a leaflet, so I took it and I continued walking, because it was starting to rain and I wanted to get back to KL Central ASAP. Then she followed me and said, “Er er.. you must open it now!” (In chinese.. which also irked me, another story for another day). Then I looked at it closely and though the whole leaflet was in chinese, I recognised enough characters to know that this was one of those scams, whereby if you open it, they will say you have won like donno what large prize, and that you have to pay rmXX,XXX amount more to get the chance to win a bigger prize. It’s been reported in the newspapers like dozens of times, and apparently an intrepid journalist once went undercover to expose the whole organisation. I THINK in the end if failed because when they were supposed to break into the office, the cops took their own sweet time til everyone there managed to run away and in a way “close shop”. Guess they are back in business huh.
I was quite disturbed as I continued walking because WHY WHY WHY do people take part in helping someone scam other innocent people. I suddenly felt like scolding the girl, but as mentioned, I was in a rush. Then up ahead… I saw it. They managed to capture a potential victim who look like a young, nerdy schoolgirl. She was laughing and looking giddy with all the attention given to her by all the leaflet passer-outs. They were congregating around her in a group and going, “Oh my tian, you got the grand prize! Do you know how jealous I am of you right now! No one else gets the grand prize! You are so lucky!” and everyone congratulating her. I feel mad now because I am wondering should I have dragged the girl away from them? Tell them stop scamming her, and all of them pls f*ck off?!? I feel so mad at myself now because I didn’t do anything. But it was a huge gang of them versus me who was carrying a lot of things + cannot speak in chinese which was what all of them were speaking.
Passed the THIRD leaflet giver and when he tried to pass me a leaflet I said loudly, “NO THANKS! IT’S ALL FAKE!” and then the people who were walking near me all look at me like I was quite insane, which I am beginning to think I am.
SIGH, why are people still falling for tricks like these which are widely reported in the newspaper?!? There are so many stories, reported so many times. I think it’s people like these that keep Datuk Michael Chong busy. And also the whole “British online boyfriend” thing. HOW MANY TIMES REPORTED ALREADY, STILL GOT SO MANY LONELY HEARTS WILLING TO PART WITH THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF THEIR CASH to some faceless sweettalker? By the way, for you guys who are very smug and saying that women are so easily cheated, a lot of guys also get cheated in a similar way, ok? I just think that lonely people with an Internet connection are very very vulnerable.
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