Ever wondered what the main difference between Malaysia and UK (United Kingdom) is? Well of course there is the 7x currency (murder!!) as well as the four seasons compared to Malaysia's khatulistiwa. However the main, yet subtle, difference I would have to say is the mentality of 1people in UK.
The latest incident that made me think about this issue was my fire alarm. Its a well known thing for student residences to have up-to-standard fire safety measures; including fire doors, fire extinguishers all over the place and none other than the fire alarm itself. I recently accidentally triggered one of these while cooking (sotong goreng sedap gler bab) in my kitchen. As usual we went thru the fire drill, with the fire-engine and all. At the end of it, I was charged 50 pds (RM 300). Well I wouldn't mind paying the fine but it wasn't my fault!! Fined 50 pds for cooking sotong goreng?? If ikan goreng?.. 100 pds??
So for the first time in my life I wrote a letter of complaint stating my points of arguments and all. But a month later, I got a reply and the person-in-charge redeposited the 50 pds back into my account. To be honest I never expected anything to happen. A typical letter of complaint written in Malaysia would just masuk into the tong sampah. Wow... I'm impressed. Never thought this kinda letters actually work. V happy now coz 50 pds richer! But since I'm writing a blog means still bored... v bored... Can't wait to go back Msia to see all ma frenz!
For the record though I kutuk Msia teruk teruk, its still my homeland and I still love it v much. Its just that I hope one day we would be able to progress, mentally that is. We're got enough infrastructure as it stands.
The latest incident that made me think about this issue was my fire alarm. Its a well known thing for student residences to have up-to-standard fire safety measures; including fire doors, fire extinguishers all over the place and none other than the fire alarm itself. I recently accidentally triggered one of these while cooking (sotong goreng sedap gler bab) in my kitchen. As usual we went thru the fire drill, with the fire-engine and all. At the end of it, I was charged 50 pds (RM 300). Well I wouldn't mind paying the fine but it wasn't my fault!! Fined 50 pds for cooking sotong goreng?? If ikan goreng?.. 100 pds??
So for the first time in my life I wrote a letter of complaint stating my points of arguments and all. But a month later, I got a reply and the person-in-charge redeposited the 50 pds back into my account. To be honest I never expected anything to happen. A typical letter of complaint written in Malaysia would just masuk into the tong sampah. Wow... I'm impressed. Never thought this kinda letters actually work. V happy now coz 50 pds richer! But since I'm writing a blog means still bored... v bored... Can't wait to go back Msia to see all ma frenz!
For the record though I kutuk Msia teruk teruk, its still my homeland and I still love it v much. Its just that I hope one day we would be able to progress, mentally that is. We're got enough infrastructure as it stands.
The negative sign [ - ] before the 50 pds means money refunded. :))
1Born-bred and water-fed in the UK. Not immigrants that just came from another country.
5 comments:
yalo yalo yalo..they suka refund 1..
wai..go put 1 msg board on ur blog la..then can chat ma..general msg that dun relate to the blog 1 can masuk ma..
update la brader...
here.. if fire drill.. 1 fire engine come, $300. itu baru fire engine, belum fire tyre, fire ladder, fire hose, fire windscreen, fire steering...
gila cekiki duit.
so sbg melayu2 berjaya, kami meng off kan smoke detector rumah kami...
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