" Bangau Oh Bangau"

I carpool with my officemates to work but KTM Komuter is also part of my mode of transportation. The rendezvous point is at Padang Jawa KTM Station and today,this morning while waiting for the train, a bilingual announcement was on the air which sounds sort of like this:

" Selamat pagi tuan-tuan dan puan-puan.Disebabkan masalah teknikal, tren komuter ke Pelabuhan Klang akan mengalami kelewatan. Harap maaf.."

( Good morning, ladies and gentleman. Train to Port Klang will be delayed because of technical problem.Our apology)

Wa lau weh!! the KTM Komuter is late ,again. Not surprised but kinda pissed off like always.

So, this frenzy over KTM lateness always makes me soo gatal (ithcy) to smoke (Yeah, instead of reading) . Since waiting for KTM Komuter can be a stressful and 'heavy' task , i guess it wont hurt to smoke because you can even finish the whole pack if you are waiting for their service . So, i move a bit to the edge and without any much concern , i lit up one fine Marlboro. Just after a poof, i heard someone greeted me with Selamat Pagi at the back. It was one of the station crew ,with KTM's blue uniform.

" Encik, maaf,..Sini tak boleh merokok.Satu stesen tak boleh . Kami dah letak papantanda tu"

(Sorry, Mister,..smoking is not allowed here. Not allowed at this station. We already put the signboard)

and all i can say was," oh..um...ok..sorry bang, sorry.." and nervously butting out the cigarette in the bin. He just smiled and went back to the office or the control centre ( i think) and 45 minutes after that, that famous bilingual announcement was in the air again: ( which is not really exactly sounds like below)

" Selamat Pagi tuan-tuan dan puan-puan yang dihormati sekalian. Tren ke Pelabuhan Klang akan tiba sebentar lagi. Para penumpang diminta menjaga keselamatan barangan anda dan berhati-hati dengan penyeluk saku. kami juga minta bekerjasama dari anda untuk tidak merokok di kawasan stesen dan juga di dalam tren. Terima Kasih"

(Good Morning ladies and gentlemen. Train to Pelabuhan Klang will be arriving shortly. Please take care of your belongings and becareful of pickpockets. We also ask for your cooperation for not smoking in the station area and also inside the train.Thank you.)

I am sure the last part of the announcement was meant for me because i rarely (never!) heard the no-smoking announce before this at the station. padan muka aku!!

"..They are soo quick and soo fast to caught me smoking but yet still soo slow in the service!!!" i yelled,but in my head only la..

Anyway , that's not the real issue. I just want to have the excuse for myself smoking in public and point the blame to KTM. If the train can arrive early, i wont smoke at the station. Just like Malaysian politician will do and just like the old malay folk songs " Bangau Oh Bangau" where everyone blame others for own failures.

The real issue here is , how i couldn't see that big 'NO SMOKING' Signboard on the wall as a real warning for not-to-smoke in that station? or maybe i was soo adapted to Malaysian's culture of 'tak kisah' (dont care) even we can see a big signboard said 'No Smoking' or 'No Litter'??

That Bloody Malaysian!!!

Procastination

OK..I got a confession to make. I am a lazy SOB . To restart and reactivate this blog is like having a constipation problem. It took me months just to log in again. I don't know why but somehow, somewhere, i got drifted by my own excuses (lotsa them!)

well, yeah..i got this really bad procastination problem and maybe i need to seek for professional help .Or maybe, it is just another Malaysian thingy: It is " tak apa" to procastinate everything until the last minutes.

So,..if procastination really a Malaysian thingy, should this bother me??

i don't think so.. .

It deserves a celebration actually.

The Malaysian Chronicles

So.., i found the definitions of Malaysian on the Web:

a native or inhabitant of Malaysia.

but politically, the criteria to be a Malaysian citizen are :-

• every person born before Malaysia Day who is a citizen of the Malaysia by virtue of these provisions
• every person who immediately before Merdeka Day, was a citizen of Malaysia by virtue of any of the provisions of the Federation of Malaya Agreement, 1948, whether by operation of law or otherwise
• every person born within Malaysia on or after Merdeka Day and before October, 1962
• "any person born within Malaysia but whose parents are foreign can acquire citizenship after a period of 6 years"
• every person born within Malaysia after September 1962, of whose parents one at least was at the time of the birth either a citizen or permanently resident in Malaysia, or who was not born a citizen of any other country
• every person born outside Malaysia on or after Merdeka Day whose father was a citizen at the time of his birth and either was born in Malaysia or was at the time of the birth in service under the Government of Malaysia or of a State
• every person born outside Malaysia on or after Merdeka Day whose father was a citizen at the time of the birth if the birth was, or is, within 1 year of its occurrence or within such longer period as in any particular case was or is allowed by the Malaysian Government, registered at a consulate of Malaysia or, if it occurred in Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei or North Borneo, registered with the Federal Government
• every person born on or after Malaysia Day, and having any of the qualifications specified below
• every person born within Malaysia of whose parents one at least is at the time of the birth either a citizen or permanently resident in Malaysia and
• every person born outside the Malaysia whose father is at the time of the birth a citizen and either was born in Malaysia or is at the time of the birth in the service of the Federation or of a State and
• every person born outside Malaysia whose father is at the time of the birth a citizen and whose birth is, within 1 year of its occurrence or within such longer period as the Malaysian Government may in any particular case allow, registered at a consulate of Malaysia or, if it occurs in Brunei or in a territory prescribed for this purpose by order of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, registered with the Malaysian Government and
• every person born in Singapore of whose parents one at least is at the time of the birth a citizen and who is not born citizen otherwise than by virtue of this paragraph and
• every person born within Malaysia who is not born a citizen of any country otherwise than by virtue of this paragraph
• and bla bla bla bla bla bla..the
  

If you are so rajin ( hardworking?) to read all that , you can get the whole thing here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_citizenship

I got the info from wikipedia. From the NET..( can you believe that?)

My own definitions of Malaysian are :-

"..an inhabitant of a country called Malaysia ,whose life and routine are dictated by FOOD.."

Anyway, this blog is about us, The Malaysian ,and it'll talk about some 'famous attitudes' of Malaysian .Im not a perfect Malaysian either and i have tonnes or perhaps dozens of 'really bad' and 'not-so-nice' attitudes myself. Anyway, maybe it's not suitable for all coz i assumed that not all of us have sense of humour .

For me , it's time to laugh at ourselves. To see that our own silliness is the best real life comedy.

But for some , it'll going to be nasty.