Thursday, November 25, 2004

Ugly Malaysians...

Ugly Malaysians.... I first heard that term was during my secondary school days in my english class. Our english teacher brought us and article for us to discuss. It talks about all the ugly habits malaysian can have. And mind you its all true and you will feel "how can malaysians have such behaviors" well now its worse.

This morning i saw another article with the term ugly malaysians.

Well, I wouldn't say I am perfect but i sure cannot stand some of the behaviors of these ugly malaysians. Eg would be, if you travel in a plane, these ppl would ask for blanket and then when no one is looking , they slip that blanket into their bag, or the fork and spoon after they eat.. blabalba. You get the gist.

You know this is another habit i can't stand. We had training for 3 days, internal training but conducted by external consultant. So we have 2 breaks and 1 lunch break - all provided. Lunch is provided at the cafetaria and catered by the company's caterer and so is tea.

What I saw is really bad behavior. This even started on the first day itself. From my dept there are about 6 partipants. And this training is initiated by our dept but we have other depts attending as per our invitation. Gosh.. on the first day, during tea, while we were still standing at the area wehre they had food. I saw these two from my dept, one is bonnie mind you and another is a lady about 36 years old, they are packing the stuff into another plate to be taken to the others in the dept. Gosh what bad habit. and i purposely said, wow.. cleaned up the plate huh. Their faces changed but that didn't stop them.

If you thought that was bad, yesterday during lunch I witness something which is worse. As mentioned earlier, each is given a lunch coupon. So this same 36 year old woman, came to the cafetaria at the special section where we had the catered food and bringing her boss in too. Only with one coupon. The boss went to sit at the table, while she went to stack her plate to the brim and brought another extra plate to transfer the food for her boss. GOSH .... i can't believe it...

can you imagine... this is just half of what all the ugly habits that malaysians have.

Malaysians need to have a change of attitude....
or is this a universal asian culture. Its sad if it is...

2 comments:

Ringgit Me said...

It's the Asian culture. It happened in SG (that's where the term kiasu came from), in HK and it's worse in Cina.

And that's probably the reason why the Asians are looked down by the Westerners.

mystic_grey said...

thats one thing i hate being asian.
And some asians are actually proud of these sort of behavior - how sad.