Malaysian are funny and some times weird people! Government can spend thousands of ringgit to organise functions like Dengue awareness campaign, AIDS campaign, Health talk, blood donation.....etc but you could hardly see 30 persons (if you are lucky) who will attend the function voluntarily. But once there is an accident, you can have hundreds of people gather around the scene within minutes, from young to old, from rich to poor of all races.....hey, who said Malaysia got problem with unity?
Last few days, one of my Mat Salleh friends got into an accident and i was there to be his translator. He was puzzled with all the people around him, he asked why were there so many people. Ok, then i was puzzled, " What? you mean you don't see this in your country?" He said no way there will be so many people to stop and look an accident scene in his home country, they have better things to do!.
Oooppss, he crossed the line! There is no way the kiasu side of me will let him to talk like that about my fellow countrymen, i have to defend my fellow brothers & sisters! No way that i was going to let a Mat Salleh to say that we Malaysian got nothing better to do other than looking at accident scene, eventhough i have known him for quite a while.
" Mate, your countrymen are terrible, how could they not stop and look...err...i mean to help? We Malaysian are very concern of each other,there is no way that we could just pass by without lending our help, that's wrong! We stop to look at the victim to see whether he is a friend or a family member? We stop to check the vehicle number for 4D ....err......i mean to know the owner. We need to gather as much info about the accident, you know why? Its because we will tell everyone about the accident, from aunty in the market to the officer in the bank will know about the accident within hours, we do this so that everyone is aware that accident can happen to everyone and they should drive carefully!"
My friend started to nod his head in agreement! "Yeah, it makes sense.....Malaysia is truly a great country!"
Ok, now since i have done my civic duty defending my fellow Malaysians, let us be truthful to ourselve, aren't we too were puzzled at times why Malaysians like to stop and look at an accident scene? Every morning the radio DJ will annouce there was a congestion in some place and the main reason of the heavy traffic was because motorists slowed down and look at the scene! Why huh? Why we like to stop and look huh? Its really a great mystery and i shall dsicuss about it tomorrow.......now i have to be in a police station as a translator!
By the way, no one was badly injured in the accident!
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