It all smells of hypocrisy.

Malaysians are a strange bunch of people. Normally, quite cordial on a personal basis, going about their day to day activities but put them behind the wheel or in a warehouse/members sale and the worse comes out. Suddenly, faces take on a strange hue of pink and one could almost see tiny little horns poking out on either side of their heads. Sad to say, this seems more evident in the fairer sex and one truly wonders how anyone can label such specimens with such devilish tendencies, 'ladies'.

Not so say that malaysian men are in the clear but the majority of people who go to warehouse/members sales are women. It is at these, very personal (yes, it does get very personal) occasions when you experience the worse side of malaysian women, young and old. The male malaysian's devilish tendencies are more evident on the roads where for some strange reason, all rationality gets thrown out of the window.

The reason why I decided to touch on this topic in my post today is because over the weekend, I decided to take note of these strange but now recurring characteristics. The sad, sad thing about it is, such acts of irrationality and aggression is now becoming the norm in our everyday life and I can only sigh when people say malaysians are a nice bunch of people. We, most definitely are NOT if this is how we treat each other in the malls and on the roads.

Let's get a bit personal, shall we? On the end of Jalan 222, there is a tiny roundabout. Well, it's more like a bump in the road but purely based on it's existence, it is still a roundabout. This poor little roundabout gets very little respective as indiscriminate drivers either drive right over it or to the right side of it. On more then one occasion, there have been near bumper to bumper misses when law-abiding malaysians go around the little bump and other irrational individuals (thinking that they can be just one car ahead) cuts that person and goes right over the roundabout. Like one car ahead makes a whole lot of difference. Maybe it does, psychologically for these irrationals brain-dead individuals. So, tell me, where in the rule books does it say that if the roundabout is just a bump in the road or of a certain size it's okay to treat it any differently from other roundabouts?

Let's take another example, shall we? Every morning, at the junction between Riana Green, Chinese School and Sunway Damansara, perfectly normal malaysians break the law. Yes, during the morning rush hour, it does pile up but where does it say it is okay to drive on the wrong side on the road so that you can turn right (coming from Sunway Damansara)? I can just imagine a whole bunch of malaysians now trying to rationalise this behaviour. Let's be real people, it is a blatant example of breaking the law. Let's not even talk about cutting the queue or being fair to those in line? Where do you draw the line? What's stopping you now from cutting the queue at the check-0ut counter or at the post office. Heck, what's preventing you from stopping at the red light when there are no cars coming from the other side. Just about everything can be rationalised but there is a reason why there are rules and laws.

I can't imagine these are the same people who go to church or temple or mosque every day. What do these individuals teach to their kids about what is right and what is wrong? I will agree that malaysians are a nice bunch once these blatant acts of nonsense stops but until then, I can only feel sad for such hypocrisy.

TGIF

It was a wonderful day. Part of the reason, of course, was because it was a friday which meant waking up the next morning to do whatever I pleased instead of getting ready for work. Also, retail therapy the night before added to the rosiness of a friday morning and more potential retail therapy during the day made the day even better by the minute.

Only downside that morning was that humidity levels were high, possibly due to the fact that there were gray clouds in the sky, foreshadowing a potential morning shower. Fortunately, nothing could bring a wonderful friday morning down, not even a visit from a not so favourable source.

So, lunch was planned to be another bout of warehouse shopping. This holds huge potential as I have never been to a warehouse sale done by this particular distributor. The highly anticipated Isetan sale at KLCC is going on at the same time which meant an overwhelming availability of discounts and bargains. So many choices, so little time, so little money...

Well....sales galore...here I come again....(hmm....must remember that I have another spending trip in Bangkok soon......)