Being Malaysian is the
next best thing happen to me. A country
full of diversity and consistently growing towards improvement. Now let see the
ugly part of Malaysia. The keyword “SELFISH” will be the post for today. How
selfish can Malaysian be in their daily life? Let me show you how three main
races in Malaysia can be selfish enough to make other Malaysian miserable.
1)We shall
start with our Majority group. These people are so particular about food. They
have to fulfill halal requirement in order consume their food. No harm in that
since it is compulsory in religious practice. They are too particular about
Halal, to the extent that major portion of them do not go to a Chinese restaurant
since the food might have contact with PORK which is “Haram” for Muslims. No
harm in that also. Everyone respect your believes and follows. But they tend to
forget that other races have such restrictions as well. Indian who follows
Hindus religion does not eat “BEEF” or any product made out of cow. But still
we can see that Beef served exactly beside chicken in almost every Malay
Restaurant. Won’t they feel the same as how you feel about pork being kept near your food and eating at
Chinese restaurant? There were circumstances where beef served in an official
event and when there are Hindu participants questioning “Why beef? We can’t eat
beef you know”, they will like “Ei, Korang tak makan daging ke, sorry sorry”.
Is this the type of Ignorance we need in Malaysia?
2)Second
of all, let’s see how our Chinese brothers and sisters make use of their
selfishness. One word, “TRAFFIC”. This may seem like a stereotype but we will
come across of this situation a lot in Malaysian roads. You may make your own
judgement. First of all, most Chinese friends here use big and luxurious cars.
What happens is tolerance of giving way for vehicle to enter in front of them.
The distance might be reasonable for cars from left to enter right lane, but
once this Chinese friend in right lane sees someone wants to enter in front of
him, he will accelerate to the max not to give way for that friend from left
lane. I don’t see how many seconds get delayed giving the poor man space to
enter. In addition, if they had to change lane they will enter blindly by just
putting signal (sometime no indicators) and expect others to give way for them.
Next is the use of emergency lane as extra lane when heavy traffic jams. The
ignorance takes place where emergency lanes are mostly used by motorcyclist to
travel. They don’t give damn and use the emergency lane to move faster than
other vehicles, forgetting the fact that everyone is in hurry. The worst of all
they don’t care to use the left and right signal when changing lanes. Even they
got honked; they pretend not to hear it. Basically every other race also does
these mistakes as well, but our Chinese friend will be the professional leader
in this case. Is this the type of Ignorance we need in Malaysia?
3)Finally,
let us see our Macha, how his selfish acts creates nuisance for others. Whether
it’s “Thaipusam” or “Thiruvila”(Temple annual celebration), only thing that run
in their mind is alcohol and dance party in public. They place drink stall along
the roads, and play a loud song with their extreme woofer so that they get people’s attention. They’ll just start to dance at every stall and dance like
bunch of monkeys and scream their lungs out. And they call that “FUN”. If one stare
at those groups of monkeys with hatred and the next thing you see is your head
get chopped off. It supposed to be a holy event. Those who live in the
surrounding gets disturbed by the noise made.
Worst of all, the drunken monkeys move around disturb the public. I think
they can get all that in a PUB and DISCO rather creating your own DISCO and PUB
at public. And the recent trend is that having the hand blower and blows the
horn during at Thaipusam day. This is not football stadium; it is temple and a
place to fulfill your religious responsibility. You are
creating public nuisance by honking around. Is this the
type of Ignorance we need in Malaysia?
Being Malaysian is not only about standing
still for Negaraku and wishing Happy Merdeka during Independence Day. It’s
about understanding each other and giving mutual comfort. Being selfish will
only create Chaos not Solution. Every single one of us has flaws towards each
other. Let’s rectify and create a more understanding society. Let’s throw away
our selfish nature and work towards self-belongingness.. Malaysia Tanah Airku…..
