DISQUS

Alfred · 1 year ago

I can't agree more with you. However, no matter how much we feel disgusted, no matter how many times we feel disgusted, there is nothing much we can do about it too... Too bad

Shon Yap · 1 year ago

Nice post girl. Always a supporter of u..

vvens · 1 year ago

this is so true!!!! not only policemen, the government servants. omg i hate them like shit. i always have arguement with them one. the last one was just last week man.

i had it when i use English and they reply back in Malay. hahahahaha.

Swee Ping · 1 year ago

Bureaucracy.. sigh.. it's just sad that we can't do anything much about it... and things is just getting more tensions lately, even me who always oppose to my friends decision to becoming PR of another country begin to have second thought.

Cloudy Rainbows · 1 year ago

How very true. Isn't it odd that most civilians that do join the police force join the traffic control for obvious reason?

Sarah · 1 year ago

That's just so sad isn't it? There is absolutely no sense of security or whatsoever back home when it comes to anything to do with the cops. I am living in Australia now and let me relate a story to you. I had a friend who was robbed at her house and she lost a couple of things including a laptop. We made a report, they came almost immediately to take the finger prints etc. And then, 2 days later the inspector called her and told her to come and pick her laptop up cos it has been found! The best part is, 4 months later that guy was charged for robbery.

I was so amazed that they actually found the laptop and then charged the person!! But that's only because we come from Malaysia and this will NEVER happen there. No effort will be put in and if they EVER find the laptop, it will never be returned to you. After reports are made, I doubt they even look at it anymore. They're probably just filed up and end of story.

Wong · 1 year ago

We are using camera phone these days. Learn the fastest way to turn into video recording mode. Record everything and upload to the internet. Politicians will then do their jobs...

vainjupiter · 1 year ago

Totally agree.. I experienced that years ago when i was at my hairdresser's in Puchong. Three indian men with parang came in and robbed (2 weeks b4 CNY). There were 8 of us in that shop and we were all tied up by them. When the three robbers left, we called the police and waited long enough to be brought to the police station to lodge a report. The police officers felt so annoyed and made the remarks that we had troubled them to do the extra paper work!! I only wanted to lodge a report so that i could get my ic and driver's license done. if not, i just cant be bother, even though my mobile, car key, LV & rolex were gone!

The funniest part was, one of the officers got my mobile number from the report and called me a few times after the incident to ask for 'ang-pow' and 'limau', reason being he had helped me to do a police report!

michelleg · 1 year ago

good post. malaysia is becoming worse everyday. *shakes head*

anonymous · 1 year ago

'more and more of my friends are studying abroad and never coming back. why? i ask them, and they tell me it’s because they can’t stand Malaysia anymore. they’re all going to Singapore and Australia.'

its all very tempting to 'run away' from the problems that we face here in Malaysia.

but i believe, we shouldn't give in. we should all do our part and help fight these ills that are so prevalent in our society.

hey, they want a rm 50 bribe?take the rm300 ticket instead.
digs a deeper hole in our pockets for sure, but fight fire with fire.
hopefully, it'll all work out for the better.

keep up the good work pinkpau.

caryn · 1 year ago

aiz. makes me feel like leaving, but where to?

Anonymous · 1 year ago

I cannot agree more with anon @11.35am.
YES, we all can make a change.
Pinkpau, I see you make changes too by blogging. In fact, I think you can even do better.
Keep it up girl.

Jeff from LA · 1 year ago

Man, that story just infuriated me. The incredible corruption and racism you describe just amazed and sickened me. For a cab driver to be so confident that the police would either A) do nothing or B) side with him just because you're Chinese really made my blood boil. It sounds like the only thing the police force is good for is beating peaceful protesters and taking bribes.

I've always thought that we had a problem with racism here in the US, but clearly, there are many worse places for Chinese people to be than here.

lynndhia · 1 year ago

excellent post my dear girl.
you should too, go off for your studies and never come back, this country doesnt deserve someone like you.

Jeff from LA · 1 year ago

Oh and please, please don't give up. Get an education that will allow you to go back and be a force in your country. Be a lawyer, a politician, whatever profession that will force them to listen to you. Please don't give up!

pinkshirtz · 1 year ago

I agree ... corruptions going haywire in this country! Cops are going dirty cheap nowadays ... my friend just bribed one with Rm 10 for traffic samans.

anonymous is right ...just swallow the saman and pay la ... if not .. whats the point in having the laws to remind us what is right or wrong.

malaysian police ... standards are so low ... There was once .... in penang ... they had tourism police then. These officers can't even speak simple english when asked about directions. Amazing.

Pink pau .. i found it! bought the swimwear already! and she likes it! thanks ya!

heartless-usagi · 1 year ago

nice post =)

i've never had those kinda experience with the cops except that they were a lazy bunch who pretends they were busy.but i heard a lot from my bestfriends.about how a cop tried to molest her once she tried to lodge a report, how a couple of friends of hers were caught pak to-ing in the middle of the night, the cops started to touch the girl and threatened the guy, and there was nothing the guy could do but bribe the cops.i think he had to bribe the cops around rm600 just to let them go.

sigh.the people who were supposed to protect us were the ones doing this kinda thing.

sheon · 1 year ago

the hell with pdrm! nothing more than a licensed mafia.

fern · 1 year ago

oh my god, i feel so angry right now that steam might just come out of my ears!

crime cases have been happening more often right in front of my own house, once to me when i was with 2 of my malay buddies. we didn't even bother going to the police station which was a 2 minute drive away because we had NO faith with the police at all. we didn't expect them to do anything. maybe that's why they are so horrid. no one expects them to do anything! they are lazy and corrupt because doing so doesn't really affect their achievement level so far eh?

Sv · 1 year ago

what u said is so true. i couldnt agree more. your post is eye opening and encouraging to many. keep it up.

redriot · 1 year ago

do we blame the system that offer them dirt wages or do we blame them personally because of their attitude. to me, i really just think that they are gangsters in uniform, they are not much different from gangsters. "pao-ing" people and spending time setting up road blocks to take rm50 because u don't wear your seatbelt instead of resolving crime and actually helping citizens. and yeh, there is a vast difference between authorities overseas and here. there was this one time, i was stopped by the police on the roadside in australia, just for a random routine check, and when they saw that i was from malaysia, they'd actually asked me, hey, how's your corrupted executive system? well, we're not like that, don't worry. LOL. true story

AndrewNg · 1 year ago

For the conman cabbies,take down their number plate and report to the main office of the cab company.At least screw them upside down inside out for such cab drivers.tht's what my friend did lah.I used to donate so much of money to those conman cabbies also,but not after I got my license.As for the police,all i can say is..Malaysia.ohwell.Don't you just love the country? =)

a very nice post btw!

AndrewNg · 1 year ago

to redriot! i give you my biggest juiciest LOL for tht true story!hahahahaha.real good.

sieutheng · 1 year ago

FURIOUS.

bulat · 1 year ago

i remembered the last time my dad went to make a report, he had to give money just to have the report done. "banyak tenaga untuk tulis"-_- was the reason.

There was also this time when my brother had a minor car accident with a malay lady, although the lady was wrong, the policemen still sided the lady and blamed it all on my brother saying he is too young(just got his license for around 6 months) and a whole lot of silly reasons and of course asked for money, unless he wants to get into trouble. my brother ....according to him '"i just screw them upside downlarh, what kind of police is that!?"

lynndhia · 1 year ago

redriot reminded me of my own personal experience with the police once on kesas highway.
i was speeding lah, 130km/h cos it was late at night, just finished a house party in cheras, heading home to usj. turned a corner and, alamak, roadblock la. scene proceeds as follows:

me: *winds down window*
mafia: ah-moi! 127 wor! banyak laju lu pandu
me: sorry la tuan, nak terkencing la ni *puts on a pity face*
mafia: *scans my road tax and sees my RSGC members sticker* (at this point you can literally see $$$ in his eyes) Belakang sana tadi ada petrol station, lu tak tau pergi kencing sana? macam mana lu mau sekarang?
me: saya satu orang lu ingat saya berani mau pergi kencing malam malam kat petrol station? nanti saya kena rogol macam mana? polis semua sibuk tangkap orang speeding, takda tangkap perogol. macam mana saya mau sekarang?????
mafia: ... *waves me off*

foreverjas · 1 year ago

ya. i'm really really angry with malaysia. arrgh. why lidat one. u're a better leader pink pau. hehe.

Nick · 1 year ago

I can relate to the palm greasing process. A close relative of mine was quite the rascal and ended up in the lockup for something he didn't do. A friend of his, charged with same, left within three days when his family coughed up the dough. My relative ended up in for a week because we didn't want to do that initially, but relented eventually because there are simply no other ways. Proper legit channels were all exhausted. Blatant signals were given to us every time we were there, pay up or suck it up.

It's no wonder everyone capable or at least want a better life for their kids leave this god-forsaken country. The very people mandated to protect us are actually the ones we should fear for they wield the power but lack the civility and morality to use them for good.

wenc · 1 year ago

i've been reading ur blog for months but never write any comment before. I feel sooo sick after reading this.
This is the reason why I never plan to go back to KL(now living in HK). The police are the major robber in our country. Crime rate keep rising and the government is doing nothing! Where are the justice? How can we feel safe living there?
I'm really really sad because I used to love my country very much.
btw, why don't u drive? I'm very afraid to ride a cab in KL. Is not safe.

thegeekinpink · 1 year ago

you're so right! last year when i reported my house theft at the police station, the police instead of trying to help, they just scolded me for being out late at night and leaving the house empty. and then when they came to my house to do their inspections, i was already in tears surveying all the mess and all the losses (precious cameras and etc) they chided me for the uncut grass saying "cari pasal lah tidak potong rumput. tengok pun rumah tidak ada orang". they didnt take fingerprints or anything, and i know that they were never going to find the people who broke into my house. and it's true, they never did.

:( i hate all the police in malaysia. instead of helping problems, they add problems.

Di · 1 year ago

I am furious. I love malaysia very much, the place, the food and the people but the policemen, government ugh. what will this place ever be?

pinksterz · 1 year ago

my mom was in the same situation before. a van crashed into her car but she was the one kena accused for being careless when the van was obviously speeding like mad and my mum was parking by the street.

turned out the tauke of the company is a buddy with the head officer. grrrrr.........!!!!!!

Sam · 1 year ago

this is one post where i must say that i admire ur guts and despite all that fury u managed to compose urself a wholesome true story with style. bravo su ann.

tara · 1 year ago

this post rings so true. there is nothing worse than living in a country so rife with rape, murder and kidnap cases and on top of that having a police force that not only refuses to do anything about it, but has been known to partake in such heinous crimes themselves.

many a time i have actually felt just as scared seeing full police vans drive by when i am out alone as i feel when i see a van full of rowdy men. why? because they leer and they whistle and they laugh. the first thought that enters my mind is always "i need to get out of here".

how terrible is it that we actually feel THREATENED by people who are supposed to be authority figures? people who are supposed to protect us? malaysia can blather on about supposed nilai-nilai moral and it's lack of racism etc but it is SO blatant and rampant that i can't even imagine how the people up there can attempt to delude themselves and the people any longer.

this is a country with so much potential. and yet time and time again this potential is trounced by the backward minds and insecurity of some of its people. and they dare to urge its best and brightest to come back. if that's what they want, then they have to provide a REAL home for people to return to. a place with integrity. a place that walks its talk.

keep it up, su ann.

Dan-yel · 1 year ago

Your story came up in Jeff 4 Malaysia.

This is a country that has seriously gone wrong.

Look at what happened to the Bar Council. After that Zam made a bit of noise, the police went on to pressure the Bar Council to get a police permit, permit to act on your inalienable right, the right to walk, movement and peaceful assembly. And to make matters worse, they also demanded for permit for their event at the Central Market, and tomorrow the Bar had to move all the Festival of Rights celebration indoor. Can you see how ridiculous this is? Clearly they're teasing the Bar around until they had to cower to their own building.

This week, the worst being the charging of the 31 protesters of murder, and worse deny them the bail. The trial would only start next yr, and God knows how long the trial would finish. Look at Altantuya. We all must remember some of these individuals were caught for having happened to be there, they may not be taking part in the rally, and then to charge them with attempted murder? Can anybody tell us how different we are from dictator states? Isn't this supposed to be a democracy? Well I guess not.

But the real question is will Malaysians make a stand? Against this travesty of justice? I dunno, maybe not, I hope I'm wrong. But only recently I came across a comment that said the opposition is no better. What a DEFEATIST bloody mind they got there. Are they saying they'll vote the gov't despite what has happened recently? How bleak is Malaysia's future. I feel that we have nobody but ourselves to cast that protest vote because the mainstream media is well within their grip and a hell lot of gullible Malaysians actually take that for a word.

Going back to my classmates, my friends around me, everybody within my vicinity, virtually none of them had a clue, well they knew a bit what happened, but they couldn't even form an opinion of whether what the govt did was wrong or not. They couldn't judge themselves. They just like err.....or hehehe... Rock your boat people! Plato said "one of the penalties for not taking part in politics is that you'll be ruled by your inferiors". I came across this proverb from watchman, how true it is for Malaysia.

"Truth be told. If you're looking for the guilty, you only need to look in the mirror.."

Forgive me for my rant.. :)

Fu Han · 1 year ago

I see your point. But is running away from the country you have been brought up for years the solution?

I see no reason why you shouldn't take that cabby issue thing further. Write to The Star or something and I'm pretty sure you would be taken pretty seriously.

And that's if they do publish your article.

Rachel · 1 year ago

The whole situation is very infuriating indeed. Sigh. And the worst part is.. Malaysia has all the potential to be successful...
Not even sure what to say anymore. Sigh.
Amazing blog btw! Keep at it! XD

zzzyun · 1 year ago

so true..!! this post makes my blood boil..coz i know how disgustingly true all this can be.. *sigh*

SzeWei · 1 year ago

No doubt our country has its non-democratic facets that they 'obviously hide' just to make us people angry helplessly.
Hopeless unmotivated bunch of pretenders. They're so famous for it, but still proud of staying the way they are.

It's really impressive of you going against the cabbie uncle that way. Really courageous.
But please do be careful :) some of them can be really ruthless.

*boils*

jimmy · 1 year ago

would it anything change if their peanut wage was upgraded?

thegeekinpink · 1 year ago

eee! read it second time and then got all riled up! i must go eat salmon to cool down... ANGRYYY. this also reminded me of that time when my friend wanna be a cop, and i've been having emotional conflicts with myself about asking him to NOT do it. i told him "how can i respect you if you do?" because i know he said it's a way to earn easy money... and I know he's such a good person, and he was mildly joking about it but it's scary to know that being cops can change a person, to the worse because of the job pressure and the social pressure within the force. among the bad cops, it's guilty to be a good cop.

... huu...

melanie · 1 year ago

All i can say is..I SO TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU babe!This so-called tanah tumpahnya darahku is becoming more and more rigid and i really wanna leave this place a.s.a.p.Maybe leaving for good.

Talking about police,the dawn before the Bersih rally,a close friend,her mum and two friends were at a petrol station,pumping petrol at 3a.m. and two policemen came up to them.One of them kept flirting with my friend's mum and said,"Woah,macam pelakon Bollywood!Buat apa sini?" Stupid idiots were pretty blind to notice that they were obviously there to pump petrol.

The idiot kept flirting and asking all sorts of annoying questions till he let them off.He was also suspicious with the two friends sitting behind the car and asked who were they.Luckily,my friend's mum lied to him that they were her niece and nephew because both of them were dark-skinned.In the end,he warned them to leave and head back home quickly.

One thing I can't stand is those ignorant and hamsap policemen eying us females with a one kind look and continuously flirt with us.Trying to be some Casanova..pffffttt...

a_guy_who_loves_his_country · 1 year ago

"i remember one time in Melbourne when i was about eight years old and walking around St Kilda’s alone, a lovely police officer came up to me and asked if i was lost, where my parents were, if i had come out alone, what my name was. when i went back to my parents, the first thing i said was, ‘why in Malaysia dont have police wan?’"
My eyes actually got wet when I read this part. Ya... ‘WHY MALAYSIA DON'T HAVE POLICE WAN!!?’

Seeing 40plus comments being written almost every few minutes with this post barely past 24 hours - all agreeing with you - tells us something is seriously wrong.

All we can do is pray for Malaysia...I guess.

I got here through http://parliament.jeffooi.com/ btw.

Dan-yel · 1 year ago

(Being a good boy reading for my exam next week, but can't help it, so here it goes...)

WHAT THE F***..?! to melanie's comment

Those a******s really have nothing to do huh?!

Wow, I guess my already-tainted opinion of the police force is still too mild. What a revelation?!

lishun · 1 year ago

i refuse to believe this country is beyond hope, but that's cuz i'm stupid that way. dunnola. somehow, i believe in "let me find 10 righteous men, just spare this nation", but it gets harder and harder to hang onto that belief every day.

kez · 1 year ago

and then guess what he said to me? he LAUGHED, and he said, “think properly before you make such a decision, girl. if we went to the police station, who do you think the police will help? you or me? you ni orang cina saja; aku siapa tau tak?. (you’re only chinese, do you know who i am?)”


we jz hv to admit that in the eyes of the police who are mostly malays, Malaysia belongs to only Malays. Wat special treatment r u expecting from them isnce u r a "foreigner" in the country. why stay in msia wen u r being treated as a 2nd lvl citizen wen u r rlly the citizen of Malaysia? conclusion : the earlier u leave the country, the better you will be.

Dan-yel · 1 year ago

Lishun, count me, thegeekinpink, melanie, Su Ann, and the other commentors here. Well well well, what you'd know, you just got yourself more than 10 RIGHTEOUS MEN!

Pssst... thegeekinpink I just replied your comment in my blog.

Kevin · 1 year ago

Government not so corrupted from the start.
Got more money to distribute as pay, civil servants get more money.
If more money in pocket, probably don't have that much tendency to take bribes.
But then again, they'r malays...no comment.

LimCZ · 1 year ago

I am totally agree....
Bek when i was form 4...my house was being broken in...lost wallet,phone,watch,money, n a PS!!!!!
Made the report....police came,took the finger print,n no news from them till now....alrd 5 yrs...
And guess wat,now i am studying in Russia...last few weeks...my fren house being broken in,lost 3 laptop,up-to-thousand of money.They did the report.Police came at around 2p.m, left at 4.....N at 6p.m they received a call from police station tat they found their laptop!!!!!!Fuyoyo....tat was like only 2 hours after they left....
I am reli impressed by the way how the police works here.They reli do their job,not like those lazy fat ass malaysian police,wat they know is to take KOPI DUIT.
If i have chance,i wont be staying in Malaysia.Malaysia is jz too unfair for those who r not bumiputera.
N wat the politician do is not to figure out the way to improve the country,but to find out ways to keep those bumiputera alive(hope u all understand wat i mean).i wonder how the malays will end up if they no longer have the government to take care of their ass.....

Dan-yel · 1 year ago

To kez,

Here's a story;

Once there's a village where there's a heavy dark cloud looming the whole area. The villagers had many problems and were sad.

One day, a stranger came. And he asked the villagers what's wrong. They replied they couldn't solve their problem.

The stranger had an idea, he made them put their own problems into their own respective bags. And then hanged them along a line. Tomorrow they were going to run and grab the bag they wanted. Each of them had planned of taking another person's bag for they assumed the other person's problems would be less problematic.

The next day, all the villagers lined up. They waited for the whistle to blow, so they can run after the bag they want. Some of them were surprised to find the other person's bag heavier and larger, they assumed they were better off.

When the whistle finally blowed, none of them had even made a move. The stranger asked them why the hesitation, they replied that they weren't sure if they could handle the other person's problems. They were afraid that the problem would be too strange for them, and they would not have the experience or skill to deal with it.

So each of them took back their own bags of problems. Moral of the story? :)
heard from Miss Ambiga, the Bar Council President

kei · 1 year ago

you're so right!!and it gets worse because the bloody cops know that nothing is gonna happen to them no matter what. cuz noone takes action on it. so yeah gets worse and worse

songjun · 1 year ago

the cabbie was just trying to do a 'bluff'. He 'all in' you haha but truth be told , ur cabbie would NOT have prevailed if ur dad had some 'connections' ;) He just tried to scare you and use the racial card.

But admitingly, most of the rest is sadly true. Thats why instead of rallying for 'free and fair' elections.. rally for independant ACA and free judicial system. Elections wont change anything within the police sadly. The police union is strong and even if a new government came to power and tried to revamp the police, the police can just 'protest' en masse ; ie dont go to work. This has been.. sadly... threatend before by union representatives. And thanks to strong ties within the system.. aih. Its just going to be very very difficult to reform the police. We will need youthful idealists to join the force and work their way up to enact real change.

songjun · 1 year ago

and technically, fraud is not really up the police's alley. U have to report to the taxi commission about that dude.

songjun · 1 year ago

dan yel: uh.. whats the moral of the story? that we take our own problems and deal with our own problems?

entwined · 1 year ago

pinkpau for PM! :P you're my heroine!

my friend related a true story to me once. she was driving back home at night after supper with her bf and her brother back in her hometown in Kedah. she did somethng wrong (i can't remember what) and the police stopped her. he asked her for a RM 300 (!!!!) bribe straight out. when she said that they just spent all their money on supper, he asked them to show him their wallets and give him EVERYTHING they have, down to the last cent. luckily, my fried resisted and said sorry la, no money, just give me the summons. and so she got summoned and paid the fine.

i agree with anonymous at 11.35. the only way to get back at those fuckers is to show that we're not their milking cows and we can't be that easily pushed around. if you made a mistake, own up and pay for it. don't perpetuate this neverending cycle of bribery and then complain about it.

Dan-yel · 1 year ago

Song Jun, you're right about the cabbie, You back out and managed to see the whole picture.

Why rally for elections? 'cause that's one of the things that we need to stand up for. If you're going to organise a rally for cleaner ACA and police force, God-willing, by all means, go ahead. I'm sure a lot more will join the rally. We could do with some more demo to show the PM who's the boss.

Moral of the story? It's always greener on the other side of the fence to mean "let us stick where our arse is, and don't think about migrating too soon" ;)

Miracle · 1 year ago

Sigh, another reason why I'm here. I'll take the lousier, more healthy food over the shit that happens in KL.

Thing about them is that they need the Chinese, Indians dan lain-lains for economic progress.

And we're all Bangsa Malaysia 2 months before elections. Other than that, we might as well hold foreigner IDs.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Pinkpau, you are absolutely right! I am so proud that you have the guts to put this up in your blog- bravo!!!
I thought of migrating for the 1st time in my 39 years of life after seeing the Hindraf rally people being treated. Sad...........

ashley · 1 year ago

my dad said you know the "ANTI-RASUAH" badge they wear?
it's missing an "N".
it should be
' SAYA NANTI-RASUAH'
hahahahahahhh!!!

anyway u encountered one incident myself.
my boyfriend was just sending me home from cineleisure.
it was just another 5 mins to my condo when *gasp*
a police car stopped us.
we had our seatbelts on,
we were perfectly sober,
so we weren't at all afraid.

but when they stopped us they raided our cars as well as my handbag and that's beside asking for our ic's.
i knew that they weren't supposed to do that if we weren't alleged any wrong.
so i asked 'apa kesalahan kami?'
dirty cop replied 'tak de tak de, ini biasa saja'

the next day i asked my law lecturer whether
they're allowed do raid our personal stuff
as part of their 'routine check ups',
my lecturer said OF COURSE NO!

what's worse is that when they couldn't find any wrong doings even though they desperately wanted to,
they jotted down our details in a BUKU LATIHAN!
passerby's were looking in such disdain,
like we really did something wrong.

i was so pissed about that incident!
but what could we do?
perhaps form another rally?
conjure up another demonstration?

meh.

JD · 1 year ago

I'm furious also!!

Know what are the little things we can do?

1) Pay as little tax as possible - income tax, stamp duty, land tax, road tax. Take every tax deduction possible, invest money overseas (very easy, open a unit trust account in Singapore, buy China shares, get foreign currency FDs), buy smaller-engined cars. All our tax money goes to these stupid fagfuck polis, and RM600 million palaces and RM95 million space freakin participants.

2) Stand in line and vote. A little hot sun? Well, it's to put a dent in the corrupt government for the next four (or five) freakin years. Every vote really counts. Even if they win, their margin is reduced. Show them what's up!

3) Keep your money overseas, especially not with racist Maybank. Open an account in China. In Singapore. Reduce your consumption here. Buy all your iPods, electronics and clothes in Bangkok, Singapore or Jakarta - cheaper there anyway.

4) Don't pump petrol at Petronas - they rarely let other races get a franchise petrol station, and their employee hiring is biased - words from a Bumi friend.

5) Forward emails and spread the word about idiocy of politicians, eg Hishamudin (your Education minister), saying he will de-sensitize other races to the keris, Rafidah saying Hindu temples were not destroyed unfairly, Lingam tape, prosecutors charging 31 Hindraf members for 1 instance of attempted murder, denial of the basic democratic right to peacefully assemble, etc etc etc etc etc etc x 100

k0k · 1 year ago

When I was ganged up by two Malay men, beaten, and had my stuff taken from me back in my Taylor's College days - I didn't even bother to make a police report (especially since my IC wasn't taken). I guess it's just deeply ingrained in my mind just how impotent the police force is in Malaysia.

Further back when my house was broken into, we had Malacca's finest over to check out the crime scene. My mom's watch - a rather expensive bit of anniversary gift from me ol' Dad - was quietly pocketed by one of the coppers when we weren't looking. And it couldn't have been the breaker-inners because my Mom only took it off when she returned to find the house looted!

And s'not like they managed to catch the burglars and restore our stuff anyway. We were better off before we called the police. That watch nearly cost as much as what the burglars took in the first place.

I've never bribed a police officer before though - because I'm just that heckuva careful :p

adamthe · 1 year ago

I agree with the person who said we shouldn't run. We stay and fight. We are Malaysian, we own the land, not the politicians. We have a right to live in harmony.

Our father, grandfathers and great-grandfathers contributed so much to this land's development. We paid so much taxes.

DON'T LET THEM FORCE US OUT. We stay and fight with our votes and our noise! So all races can progress together, not just several people of one race.

Kaiba · 1 year ago

Well, isn't it improper to mark all the PDRM as those minority who are racist. Though I sympathize what happened to you but I did happen to know some incidents which in those cases, those law enforces really did a great favour. Maybe just like Pak Lah said, there is some black sheep in the team doesn't mean that we should totally give up hope on them. Hmm, what can I say? since we are born here and in this particular era where some of the ethnics accused themselves to be the greatest but in fact they are not. Just bare with them all I can say.

Yappy · 1 year ago

You write bravely and you write well, very well.. Another great post! :)

Lke vainjupiter, I was a victim of robbery years ago too and it happened at my parents' shop. 4 guys with parangs came in and started shouting and waving their weapons like mad. One of them even hit a worker on the head with a 5L can of paint, resulting in serious head injuries that required 8 stiches. I was made a hostage of sorts, they held a parang to my neck while kept demanding more money from my parents. Thank goodness they didn't do anything to me in the end. They left with some valuables and all the money in the shop. Except the worker, none of us were hurt.

Now, how did the police handle this? They actually got a call from our neighbour while the robbers were still in our shop because our neighbour suspected something was amiss. But for the next 30 mins the robbers were there, no sight of the police at all. The police knew a robbery is happening but they were too chicken to come and confront the robbers! After the whole ordeal, my mom called the police and around 15 minutes later, a lone policeman came, riding a motorbike. And he dared to asked, "Mana mereka pergi? Oh, sana? Okok, saya pergi kejar" Yaa... as if the robbers are gonna hang around waiting for this lone policeman on motorsikal to catch them..

Later, we heard that the owner and a few workers of another shop in the same area were killed by robbers. Same robbers or not, we don't know. Of coz, till this day no one was caught. I never trusted the police force after that incident.

songjun · 1 year ago

danyel : lol some how that story doesnt seem to convey that message at all.

however, u are right that the grass is greener everywhere. I am very cynical so therefore no country out there is as good as anyone claims it to be. Except maybe switzerland. haha.

in anycase,

JD: your thought is very flawed. You are attacking the country, instead, further pushing our country away from economical surplus, thus making EVERYONE suffer. You're only as bad as them when u resort to revenge type thinking. You're akin to the people who attack 'american interest franchises' like mcdonalds or starbucks because they think attacking and looting and demanding they close down = attacking the american economy. In actual fact, those franchises are owned by locals, run by locals, provide jobs for locals, buy from local producers and source everything locally. The only thing that is foreign is the concept and the brand.

Pushing all our money out of the country and propping up other countries will do what to us? Do you think China will be happy to accept u in? Maybe singapore will if you have a good degree, proven brains and such. But whats the point u invest ur money out there when ur home is malaysia. Effect change and invest in ur home.

I know su ann has gone thru some tough times with the police, as i was with her during her friend's lock up incident, and it was very distressing.

But Somehow, my encounters with police have always been a good experience.

My house was broken into while i was asleep. Then when we found out the house was broken into, we called the police and they were here in 5mins. The Investigations unit came within an hour or so. Though they didnt know who did it (i assume they were either chinese or indons.. because they knew how to steal the good wine or liquer but left the nonsense behind), the experience with them was not unpleasant and they didnt pull all that 'lazy police' thing. The inspector attached to our case was also very accomodating as my parents kept going to see him to revise the report for claims. No request for bribe. Dad even commented how stressed he looked.

Another time was when some malay student from a not so good school tried to extort money from me (rm1 omg -.- and i was in form 1) and i refused. So i got beaten up in front of the school. Police report ensued. They found out who it was, and even asked me and my dad how they wanted to proceed... either roughen him up and put him in a lockup for a day.. or just give him a warning. My dad chose to just let him off with a warning and so they did.

My friend who was drunk was parked by the side of the road on the federal highway to take a nap. Police came and knocked on his window asked what he was doing here, explained he wanted to nap an hour or 2 before going back. Police said ok, got into car and friend just fell asleep. He woke up later to find the police car still behind him waiting for him to wake up and go home. Whether he was waiting to see if he was lying or watching for his protection, or using that as an excuse for a break, we dont know. But he was there waiting behind him the whole time.

I callled the police once because i saw people and a car suspiciously hanging about outside my house at 4am in a dark corner. They came with lights flashing again within 5 - 10 mins to check it out. (Turns out it was my neighbour pak toh-ing hahahaha :P this was after the robbery mind u so i was paranoid :P) And once the motorbiker police managed to catch a suspicious dude behind some dumpsters near my house cos someone reported it.

Few bad experienes were mild, including getting caught for playing firecrackers. They came, found we had in possession, fire crackers and they saw one go off near us so caught in the act. However they acted all coy and wanted to bring us to the 'balai' and said it was a seriuos offense. (mind u we knew that it was only a serious offense to sell fire crackers and not play. Playing just gets u a fine of rm 150 or so) to get bribes from us. Got out of that because friend's dad knew the head of dang wangi and came over with a phone direct from the head to talk to the police. However, his dad called the head again later to report that he tried to get a bribe. The rest is just usual traffic police but those were always my fault for speeding anyway.

Maybe cos its from the brickfields and dang wangi station thats why lol.

Michael · 1 year ago

uber nice post.

and then. they treat ppl differently. if u are rich and powerful with atas connections, the polis are your private tools. If not, police is just mere thugs in uniforms. Just giving a very simple example, similar to what Su Ann gives.

I feel safe when i saw the hk policemen.
what can i say bout the PDRM? u think of it.

P.S: my hk frens are persuading me to work and live in hk after graduating. they say that whats the point of going back to a place that tells u "balik tongsan".

tomatoinc · 1 year ago

not all cops are bad cops. out of 10 encounters, 8 of them have been bad for me though. I think i have had enough materials to publish a short book on it.

sigh.

what do we do?

Joanne Khoo · 1 year ago

Dear Pinkpau,

My sentiments exactly. This is a very well written entry. Keep up the good work!

Keep the entries coming. You put thoughts on paper when most ppl darent speak out.

aimee · 1 year ago

uh huh. we hear you loud and clear, girl

this was powerful

Christine · 1 year ago

this is sooo sad. Malaysia o malaysia. No, Malaysia's police aaa!!! What are they thinking? What sort of activities they have during their trainings? Practising of rasuah? Or they just rasuah the officers so they can bloody pass the test to become a police and then keep on asking for more tribes from the public?!
THIS IS HUMILIATING!!! If this continues, i am sure one day, no one is going to admit they ARE a Malaysia...Embarassing...
I really really hope something good will happen, some miracle.
Why Malaysia's police cant make it while the Singapore's police are doing such a great joB? I am not being a traitor or whatsoever pengkhianat....just that, it is a fact. WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!??? CAN ANYONE TELL ME!!!?? I THOUGHT EVERY RACE IS SUPPOSE TO BE EQUAL & FAIR!!!!!

caryn · 1 year ago

just thought of something that happened quite long ago. when i was in the national service program, the officers i knew there were from the army and also the bomba. the way we saluted during kawad was the tentera/bomba way, with the palm facing inwards, as if it was a tent protecting the eye.

one of the ex-firefighters told us it was because their jobs were to shield and protect. the way the police saluted, he said, was with the palm facing upwards. he asked us why, but none of us got the joke, until he demonstrated that it was easier to take whatever we had to give.

the officer who related the story was a malay man by the way. i miss the days in national service... especially in the jungles. when we were one team, everyone was there for one another, no matter what race or religion you are. the team was not "one" before we had our first jungle trip. it made me realize that we do need to face some hardships before we learn that unity is strength. but now, i wonder, if hard times do arrive, what will happen to this place which we're supposed to shed our blood for. will they ask us to balik tongsan then.

personally i like this place. but just, it's the things lately that make me have second thoughts about whether the grass is really greener on the other side.

sweat · 1 year ago

dunno what to comment but die die wanna comment cause i read the whole thing wtf.
this is well-written blabla i'm sure all 71 comments above me said that. but yeah, this is so well-written that i feel like showing it to my american friends and go MY friend wrote this! wtf

sweat · 1 year ago

actually right what am i thinking, i don't even have american friends wtf.

Namewee1 · 1 year ago

我們的警察 叫做MATA 因為他們的眼睛很亮
新年一到 他們就很努力 拿住筆可是很會少跟你開單
因為他們口很渴 需要喝茶 還有kopi O要不要加糖
如果加糖 他嘴巴會甜甜跟你微笑
你要離開的時候 他還會跟你tata (tata)

Negaraku, tanah tumpahnya darahku,
Rakyat hidup, bersatu dan maju...

http://namewee1.blogspot.com/

johnleemk · 1 year ago

I surprisingly have not had much experience with Malaysian cops - most of what I know is hearsay. With cabbies though, I'm so used to rigged meters - I don't think I've ever sat in a Malaysian taxi that doesn't have a rigged meter. After a friend (who was on holiday from studying in Singapore) bitched about being fleeced, I did a bit of simple arithmetic and was horrified to find how much money I've been giving up to corrupt cabbies.

Malaysia Suckz · 1 year ago

Nice post you have there.. Cant agree more... Malaysia Jz Suckx!! Migrate to other countries if you have the chance!! bring ur family along.

Jeff from LA · 1 year ago

I was reading Jeff Ooi's blog when I saw that he posted a link to a Time article talking about Malaysia's identity crisis. This paragraph from article is so sad because it shows just how powerless many feel in Malaysia:

"At the same time, a nation that once prided itself on its robust institutions is finding these foundations eroding. Little wonder, then, that up to a million Malaysians, mostly the white-collar talent needed to keep the economy humming, have simply abandoned the country since independence; by the government's own estimate, 70,000 Malaysians, the majority ethnic Chinese, have renounced their citizenship over the past two decades, although far more have emigrated without officially giving up their nationality. Many local companies are leaving, too, investing so much offshore that as much money now leaves Malaysia as is attracted to it."

A million Malaysians leaving? That's a shocking number. You would think that the gov't would realize that that many people leaving the country is probably a sign that the current government is not working. On the other hand, maybe they do realize it, but they couldn't care less.

jared · 1 year ago

I couldn't agree with you more, Su Ann. Great post and do keep up with the good working spreading the truth! :)

jirwan · 1 year ago

seriously pinky i really agree with every word u say i suddenly feel ashamed and angry to be in the cor police cadet . i always thought that it was one of the proudest things that i had in my life but now its become a side of me that i never wanna get involved in . police now days have no self pride at all the only reason why they take the job is cause even tough they dont do shit allday and just sit in there patrol cars all day they get paid . why ?? "go-men *govt* bagi mah !! " and also bribes from people who they self claim to be mat-rempits when actually they are poor people who need the money that they gave to the police as bribes to feed a family of 4 . taxi drivers will always remain failures in life thats why they are taxi drivers not all of them but most of them just are hopeless bum depending on con jobs . this post has really open my eyes up to see what is really going on with the people who we "USED" to depend on taking care and protecting us . now the people are feared of polive officers the first thing they see when they see the badge is "holy shit i dont have enough money to give him how la ? " .
Anywayas thx alot pinky . miss u much much much

_jirwan_

Kim · 1 year ago

seriously, this shit is so true it isnt funny anymore..
our country is soooooo going down the drain.
see , even the rest of the world knows this and dont want to come anymore, thats why they have to extend Visit Malaysia Year which is really the stupidest campaign of all time anyway.
*shakes head*
whats become of this country?

DolphyN · 1 year ago

is our country really that bad? reading all these stories above seem to say that it rly IS that bad...but sumhow i cant bring myself to believe our country's that bad. sigh. its so sad to see Msia going backwards....all that shyt about Vision 2020 will probably never see light (or if it does then pfffft, its probably just a lie by the government wtf)...

i've been thinking of going to SG to work too, after i finish my degree here in uk....instead of going back to malaysia. i honestly feel im gonna miss home (Penangite all the way... =p )....cuz i was brought up on the island and i just love it despite all its faults. I mean, where else can u find the best laksa and char koay teow and rojak and hokkien mee etc etc but in good old penang??? and the relaxing pace of life on the island (compared to KL of cuz)...but thinking about the atrocities happening in the country definitely tips the scale towards leaving for another place where there is at least SOME form of democracy.

Cuz Msia is NOT a democratic country no matter wat they say and i believe it now super big sigh.

Furkids in Hong Kong · 1 year ago

Hi Su Ann, first time posting here. Saw you once many months ago in Soho (where I reside) but refrained from saying Hi as I was worried you'd think I was some madman :)

Anyways, though I have a few blog friends from Malaysia - whom are mostly Chinese - I'd never heard anything this appalling! Truly worrisome and has certainly given me second thoughts (for now at least) on visiting Malaysia.

And all of this happening in 2007! This, as you know, would be unimaginable here in HK - though before the formation of the Independant Commission Against Corruption, HK was pretty much the same - pre 1970.

Sigh, I can only say that your Government has done a 'good' job at concealing all of this. What with the twin towers, Visit Malaysia Year etc. Your countrymen are fortunate to have people like you who speak the truth and allow people from not only Malaysia, but also from other parts of the world, to know what really is happening in your country.

Gosh, I can imagine a possible scenario when and if I'm there with my wife. Get off plane. Walk out to take cab to Hotel. Get in cab with rigged metre. Meet roadblock along the way. Get fined for whatever reason they see fit whilst they grope my wife. Finally reach Hotel only to be ripped off from cab driver. Go out a few hours later for dinner. Get robbed at knifepoint and have head split open. Police arrive. Get blamed for touring there. Gropes wife again. Told to 'Go back to China'.

How anyone would want to visit Malaysia is beyond me.

Keep up the good work. Fight the good fight. There are undoubtedly other good people like you who can and will one day make Malaysia the wonderful place it should be.

My biggest respects to you. Will be one of your many frequent readers.

Take care.

Pete

foreverjas · 1 year ago

i'm just sad of malaysia. sad. sad.

Jd · 1 year ago

YAPPY:

I beg to greatly differ. You have drawn an incorrect parallel too quickly.

Opponents of McDonalds and Starbucks do so on nationalistic grounds and this is entirely a differing scenario.

The correct parallel is - let your money and votes do the talking. When a restaurant bullies you, serves you unhygienic food - do you still continue to patronize them? No, you make your opinion known, and you make it known that you will take your money elsewhere.

Supporting the growth of a country that marginalizes, abuses and lies to its people is illogical. Revolution and change does not happen when everyone is comfortable. The status quo will remain - the polticos will say, and have said - "Look everyone is happy and we are fair, otherwise how is the economy is doing well?" It happens when the bottom line gets hit, people feel the pinch.

Your tax money is going to support more corruption, injustice and waste.

Please reconsider.

Jd · 1 year ago

We must not be the chicken shit Chinese or Indians people have accused us of, only concerned with money and ourselves, too damn scared to "rock the boat".

It has been said, there must be a sudden pain of change, or there will be neverending pain.

One would have to be delusional not to see that some immigrants get treated better than non-Bumis - access to schooling, medical care, use of infrastructure, land and resources without paying much taxes.

I say let the doctors leave, let the entrepreneurs leave, let the geniuses leave, let the locals and the foreigners take their money out of Malaysia. For those that can't leave physically, just put as much money as possible elsewhere. Hit them where it hurts instead of sitting idly by, crowing about affecting change on a blog, but going on with life like a hamster in a wheel while your contributions are unacknowledged and abused.

China and Ireland are two countries that have in the past 10 years woken up to their talented citizens and money going away in droves, and this has become a catalyst for progressive policy changes.

Please, read more before you simplify and nitpick and whine without suggesting any concrete actions like I have suggested.

Jd · 1 year ago

Not patronizing a restaurant does not mean negatively hating them. It means not patronizing them, until they change. Likewise, civil disobedience or milder actions does not mean not being patriotic or hating your country. It means doing something, taking action such as showing low confidence and not contributing, until the government changes.

Fu Han · 1 year ago

furkids in hong kong, that groping thing is so "CRASH"!

Ryan · 1 year ago

The picture is crystal clear even for the blinds now.
All there is to do now is to pack up and leave.

Nuff said.

tw · 1 year ago

I would be really happy to see when all the chinese and indians pack up and leave Malaysia lor..

I wanna see how the government could feed their own kind without the taxes they collected from us.

Great post pink pau. You've voiced out many people's thinking towards malaysia's government.

Allan1 · 1 year ago

i have enough of M'sia, the situation will never change, currently applying for Aussie PR, will uproot my whole family over there once and for all ! i only live 1 life !

S · 1 year ago

i agree with you whole-heartedly except i have to say that malaysia is doing a little better in the corruption dept. take the narcotics for example, 3 stations in kl has IOs who refused to take bribes. in fact they'd say "tak buat salah dik, mengaku saja". i know because i often have friends who are caught with drugs or high on drugs so yeah 3 stations is a huge improvement! (although sadly that means a life sentence on one of my friends) anyway, rome wasn't built in a day..all that jazz hehe.

so yeah, just a silver lining :)

S · 1 year ago

TYPO: oops i meant, "dah buat salah," not "tak buat salah" heh

PhooiSze · 1 year ago

you ni orang cina saja; aku siapa tau tak?

MWHAHAH u should say 'you tahu bapa i siapa tak!' thts called the power or err...scaring?! XD

Malaysian · 1 year ago

To be honest and truthful, i do agree with you 100%. However, if we were to take a step back to understand the situation. We would realize that this issue goes way deeper than police being lazy and corrupt. How many of us when we were young wrote being a policeman as part of our ambition or goal? How can we get rid of corruption when the officers are drawing minimum wage? The whole system is screwed. Hence to fix the system, we need to fix the society...to fix the society..we must understand our country's social history...

sweat · 1 year ago

hahahha have fun replying comments! wtf itulah akibat popular wtf

chm · 1 year ago

haihz.. i jus luv dis country... my fren's fren gt sent 2 bukit aman on suspicion of sellin pirated laptops... no phonecalls no lawyer no ntin... he was released 3 weeks l8r... his parents n frens tot he went missin or kidnapped or killed or sumthin n lodged a police report..... police told his parents tak jumpa

yee · 1 year ago

"how many of you girls have had your legs leered at lecherously by male cops from the windows of their patrol cars?"

so damn bloody true.

i once saw cops driving and throwing rubbish(food wrappers duhh) and tissue papers, littering right out of their patrol car windows flying straight at my car.

i once saw a patrol car reaching the traffic light at red, turned on their siren, sped off and turned it off the moment they made the turning. gosh why bother, man?

carol · 1 year ago

agree with you totally. omg, i hate the police in malaysia..
and the bloody racism. useless bunch of lazy turds.
just reading this post, haih, hate them.

but oh well, what can we do..we're the minority.

defiance · 1 year ago

with regards to the police, i know many countries who have maybe worse, or similar police systems.

i've been in KL/m'sia a few times these past months. and i completely agree with you on everything you have said. but like, most of the comments that have been said, this goes far deeper than the police.

it is quite sad actually. i am currently *based* as such in singapore for a couple of months or so. and its amazing to see the difference. when i see m'sia i see a country full of potential and also the vast resources that the country has. but the fall down? the split of 1st class and 2nd class citizens. i can't believe the govt are so ignorant. it is unbelievable. i think singapore, must be damn happy that they gained independence and got kicked out by malaysia, and malaysia has to be weeping to lose a top class country. in singapore i see equality, in malaysian i see stupidity.

i have family back in m'sia and most of them are trying to save up to 1, either get out of the damn country 2, send their kids away for education for a better, safe and more equal life.

i was in the OUG area in KL once, and bought a burger from a burger stall, and the guy serving me must have been around my age, 23 or so. and i was amazed that he could speak good english, and we got chatting. and he told me he went to university in malaysia, he said he didn't even want to go the go, but the govt gave him a scholarship and paid. he said, he just wants to run his burger stall. i couldn't believe it. i know so many family members who literally work their asses of to get to uni, and yet they get no support or even the choice of class. its a shame.

the over protectionism in m'sia will be its downfall.

loopie · 1 year ago

didnt read much of the post

skipped almost all of the comments

I'm lazy liddat!

but hey, you know, one day on my way to the office, i reported a really rude cab driver who asked me for extra charge (his argument was, traffic jam, must charge extra, stupid!), smoked in the cab, ignored my request to turn on the aircond (it was so frigging hot, and he had finished smoking his rokok keretek), to LPKP (1800 88 9600).

After i gave the operator all of the cab drivers information, which i got from his dashboard, i made the operator repeat them again, his IC, license no, cab no, his name, and address, and stuff.

Just to make sure the operator really did her job.

I did all this in front of the cab driver.

And of course, the operator did her job well, was really helpful and she even gave me the direct number to the director of LPKP. So i could get the update of the case.

since ill be meeting you this tuesday, ill tell you the whole story, and perhaps, if you still have the cab drivers info, let me know if i could help you with the report yeah

miss p · 1 year ago

good post and so very true. i am never coming back to malaysia!! or even if i am, i'll come back for the food and family. the police force, the government and their ass wipers are all despicable.

Yappy · 1 year ago

JD: I think you refer to the comment below mine right? Haha...

smartypants · 1 year ago

it's a rare find, for one at your tender age to be so politically conscious and socially aware. this is an awesome indication of early awakening and powerful potential in you. wish you all the best. i'd like to recommend barack obama’s “the audacity of hope” and jared diamond’s “ guns, germs, and steel” as a good read of politics, government and fates of human societies.

edwin masripan · 1 year ago

just get a car. forget about police, they are idiots. only lodge a police report to claim insurance or something. for crime, that would be stupid.. we dont have anyone to rely to.

Sureindran Raja Silvam · 1 year ago

I agree with you. I am almost numb with our police's working style. Many complaints, ugly comments, newspapers report all these years, but things are still the same with them.

vincent · 1 year ago

For every crooked cop out there, there are others doing their job. It is sad that your experiences with them have not turned out well.

I used to feel the way you did, until one day I nearly got into deep shit for trying to bribe a cop. Not to sound corny, but that incident really changed me forever. Not to whore my blog, but I would love if you would read about it here:

http://vbglau.blogspot.com/2006/05/first-and-la...

smartypants · 1 year ago

vincent:-
for ur info, cops who work in genting are by far and large a little diff from the regular. they are under intense srutiny and absolutely nothing escapes the 'eyes' of genting. another thing is their benefits and working conditions are better. these may be the reasons for the difference?

songjun · 1 year ago

jd : what are u talking about? China before mao was replaced did not allow people leaving, and prior to that everything was kept internalised. People moving out of china? Dont be stupid. They couldnt even move from state to state back then. Now, They look for jobs overseas with the intention of going back ultimately because these business will send them back. Dont know about ireland though.

No, your suggestions about sending your money outside, investing overseas because ur government isnt good is a reactive way of doing things. A restaurant and a country is two totally different things. You cant demand a restaurant to change its way of running things because its not YOURS to change. A COUNTRY can be demanded to change because it is OURS. Sending your investment overseas will just perpetuate the problem.

Yea, so attacking ',mcdonalds' and 'starbucks' is nationalistic but sending investments overseas isnt the same? What nonsense is the logic in that. They were attacked during riots in indonesia because they stood for 'america' and 'globalisation'. And again, you assume that to everyone in the country, this 'injustice' is felt by everyone. What about those who dont feel it? Those who do not support acts like yours because its REACTIVE and not INTUITIVE. People who are comfortable with their lives because it is sufficent. The prolateriats and the majority who live day by day working and living comfortably within their means. The middle class chinese, those who work hard and beat the system and instead of WHINE WHINE WHINE. The middle class malays who appreciate their new found wealth. The execs who have comfortable jobs, living with the system.

yes there are those who are marginalised. There are those who suffer. But to call people who sit back and complain about the traffic jam caused by BERSIH unpatriotic/ignorant is the same as the government calling BERSIH ralliers heretics of the government. Im not saying that u say that, but yes, i am speaking for those who do not speak, who are fine with what Malaysia has done, who are proud of what Mahathir has left us. It is not THE best place in the world to live, but to me, and a majority fo them, it is home. And there is no place like home.

Until the day i see there is WIDE OPEN OPPRESSION, blatant 1984-isque tactics used to run the country, i am still proud of it. We could use with a LOT of fixing, but to abandon our homeland ? Scum. Leave if u think u have better oppurtunities. The reason why there are chinese people to the ends of the earth (quoted even in the quran) , is because we go where oppurtunity is. When ppl say dont like it, leave? Do it if u think u can fare better. No qualms. But to abandon it because u think its being unfair is stupid.

Jd · 1 year ago

What are YOU talking about? Before Mao? Mao DIED in September 9, 1976.

You totally ignored the restaurant analogy that you yourself brought up. Right - so as long as the food sucks, but does not kill you, you keep paying the restaurant. That seems to be your take. You also ignored the Ireland scenario..

What nonsense? That description seems to be more characteristic of your point. Publicized reactions to McDonalds & Starbucks involve forcing them out of the country. It's obvious you don't know what nationalistic means, check the dictionary. This is diffierent from taking your money to some other outlet if they do not improve their service. There is still expectation for them to change their ways, while nationalistic reactions against McDonald's & Starbucks leave no such room. However, consumer reactions against McDonald's trans-fat usage have succeeded in making them introduce healthier menus. This is the path we are taking by making our money and our votes talk.

If you are really interested in presenting a coherent argument, I suggest you do more research and have both a dictionary and calendar on hand.

Beyond that, yeah pay as much taxes as possible and contribute to the corruption waste. We are not thanking you.

vvens · 1 year ago

pau, you'll have a hard time reading and replying all these comments! muahahahaha.

Jamie · 1 year ago

You know what we can do?

We can start a revolution.

Not a march.

Not a protest or a riot.

But a fight for freedom: go watch Vendetta. Are we oppressed enough to want that?

Francis Foo · 1 year ago

Malaysia has no hope...leave this place at your own will..

songjun · 1 year ago

JD : Yes and when did China begin to open up? Only recently did they allow people to travel out of their country, so what are you talking about when u say they have realised their brain drain? They dont have one.

And i didnt ignore Ireland, i dont know anything about ireland's issue. Care to elaborate thank you.

No, if its a restaurant you're talking about, you go and dont come back. A country does not work like a 'restaurant'. If it dies, it dies. Its just an investment. A business. A country is an eco-system of lives. Once it goes, everyone goes. And it takes years and decades to recover. Did the HK-nese leave during their high corruption anti-corruption commision? They could have just gone somewhere else. No, they stuck to it, fixed it and prospered. Singapore is the same. China is tightening up not because people are leaving, its because foreign investments WILL NOT invest if it was still corrupt. The chinese dont pack up en masse and take their money to taiwan do they. During the Katrina incident, did the african americans pack up their whole state and leave when their government failed them? Did the indonesian chinese leave when the majority rioted, raped and looted them? No, they are still there doing business.

What kind of person are you if you suggest that you run away from a problem. A wimp? Coward? Stick to your guns and fight for it to change. The sicilians did when the mafia was basically running sicily and central government Italy was so inefficient that the police sometimes even protected the mafia. They stood their ground and demanded change.

And honestly? As a malaysian, im glad that you leave :) We dont need gutless people around anyway. I will gladly pay my taxes on one hand, and demand for it to be used properly.

If you think running a country is as simple as : Hey, no money coming in, no taxes, no internal spending, i think we have to change.. will result them in changing? Things will just become tighter, as the state will then want to control more and more, because they 'own' them. If countries like australia, and companies like Boeing are refusing to invest in our country due to.. not corruption, but due to racial discrimatory policies, did malaysia back down and say " whoa whoa.. ok ok we'll reverse on that" NO. They said mind your own business, we dont need you.

Russia is corrupted to the core with oglioarchs and state control yet people still invest in them. The state controls are so tight that even if u farted, mr president will know. Yet, do we see outflow of capital? No.

Resident of Cheras · 1 year ago

Strangely my experience with the police have always turned out well.

Once my mum was slashed by two Malay robbers who wanted to steal her car. But she managed to get away from them without giving them her car keys. Anyway when she went to the police station to make a report, the police were courteous towards her. There was none of the racism the rest of you encountered.

Then there was another time where my father suspected the house at the back was being robbed. He called the police, they came within 15 minutes and confronted the 'robbers'. Turns out it was a misunderstanding. The police explained everything to my father and even commended him for being a good neighbour.

Both these incidents happened in an opposition stronghold (and very Chinese) called Cheras.

nen · 1 year ago

hey there. erm, not to butt in, but if u hv the taxi license plate number and or traxi driver details along with the details of when the incident occurred, cud u email them to me...

.... cnt say i can do anything much... but i can try.

ps: no, im not a geek nor busybody. just someone who deals a lot with complaints of cabbies. eheh. =)

Ida · 1 year ago

Hi pinkpau. I'm not from My. Am from Sg. Been reading ur blog since Kenny Sia had wrote about you and this, by far, is the best post I'd ever read from you.

Like I said, am not from My but I'd heard so much about the corrupted officers in the Force. I had just came back from Genting today and had stopped by KL yesterday. While my bf & I were cabbing down to KL, we got into talking with the cabbie and he was actually voicing out his views about the My govt and we cldn't agree more. He was saying something like 'lu takda rasuah, lu tak boleh buat apa2 sini. Sini orang tak ikut tu undang2'.

My Police has a long way to go before becoming a proactive country with a non-corrupted Force. How do you expect cabbies to earn a decent living when the ones who are suppose to uphold the law and set the standard are the ones who starts the indecent living first?

Waifon · 1 year ago

pau u brought this upon yourself wtf so many comments how to reply!!! got work no time to reply but good job as always hahaha. eh i damn like ur mismatched socks idea la. Best :) and ur pants damn nice also T__________T ok la lots of work to doooo have fun replying these comments! kacau u on msn err when ure online and when i hv drama to share wtf.

skyler · 1 year ago

Oh I love this post so much!

*hops around and claps

adelaide-ian · 1 year ago

excellent post! It is a true reflection of the rotten police force of the country....lazy bums who are feeding off taxpayer's money.

3zeroes · 1 year ago

okay, sounds like we really gotto balik tongsan

CF · 1 year ago

Very well said, Su Ann.
You made all the points so true.

Liz · 1 year ago

yeah I HATE it when they leer at your legs or go 'amoi amoi, nak gi mane?'. god, is actually DOING THEIR JOB so damned hard?

anyway, I got robbed last year, and yes the police were very unhelpful. i believe everything i have to say has already been stated, though!

and oh, I ADMIRE how you are courageous enough to blog about 'sensitive' issues like this, and the bersih walk. in our country there's always the possibility of getting into trouble for speaking our mind, but you do it nevertheless ... and you do it very well, I must say. :D

Jin · 1 year ago

and they always talk about how malaysia is a multi-racial peaceful country. it's disgusting, really. Zzzz..pathetic.

Asyraf Lee · 1 year ago

Aih, I'm really sad when racism happens =[

pau · 1 year ago

blatant corruption/injustice/racism .. sigh =((

this is why you need the personal # of that sweet cabbie that went home for his wifey hehe

zthon · 1 year ago

nice post.
i still believe malaysia is doomed. i seriously hate all those police. bribes and bribes and nothing else.
when i see police i get scared. i don't feel safe at all.
i remember walking home with my girlfriends after shopping. and we were followed by a police car with some policemen inside. we didn't know what they want. we just kept walking without looking at them. those stupid policemen were saying something to us and were laughing. but we just can't really understand. and the car was following us for quite some time. i still don't think they were trying to protect us. i don't think we need this kind of special protection. i really don't know what they were up to. luckily they left us at some point. so scary.

chris · 1 year ago

Real experience, real thoughts, raw feelings, all flowed flawlessly into this piece of emotional article. What can I say, you always had the knack of puting the right words in the right places to express yourself in a very vivid manner.

I believe everyone can relate to your experience. If only we had a proper functioning civil rights group that will be able to look into this matter, at least stories like these won't go unheard of.

Though it's another matter for the complaints to be listen to. Nevertheless, right now creation of awareness is of utmost importance, and that your blog brings in readers of all backgrounds, race and status will definitely help in spreading it.

Let's all blog about our own experiences, and hopefully we'll create a tidal wave that will expose the incompetencies of our upholders of justice. After all, with more and more criminal offense like open-air kidnapping happening around us, how are we supposed to feel safe in our country we dearly call home?

Michelle · 1 year ago

Everyone seems to have their own experiences here. And I'm not afraid to say that I have mine too.

Well, like the usual, it relates back to the police force. They are very inefficient and if you actually make a report via the telephone. The first thing they ask is: "Apa bangsa you?"

And remember the budi bahasa budaya kita shitty advert? Makes me wanna scream "In your face" everytime I see it.

ashleighhhh · 1 year ago

you go girl!

angie · 1 year ago

"harapkan pagar, pagar makan padi"

When ppl told me to stay around and fight, I keep on thinking, "Fight for how long?"

Our security system is so screwed from the inside out tat one needs to be in the system to make a diff, but how does one do that when the current "management" level has been dominating for years and shows no sign of improving?

Sure we got hp cams and all, but with the current management levels being the culprit of all these issues, it will only be time before the proofs are erased like the many oreo-cookie-cases we see everyday.

Many times robberies and other snatch thieves happen to us, we'd never go to the police station for report cos they solve nothing and do nothing. So, how correct is the statistic of the current crime figures when they mentioned that the crime rate has dropped?

So, too many holes for the current country to swallow that the neighbouring countries are starting to use our daily news as the butt of their jokes.

Summary; young ppl, vote right.

gurl · 1 year ago

ha ha ha. this is malaysia! polis raja di malaysia.. not polis diraja malaysia :(

TB Soh · 1 year ago

First of all, I am 49 years old and I have 5 kids. I have told them to live a simple life. Not to wander in the middle of the night as most of the youngster did. My first question to you is : Why midnight movie? What you want to do at that time of night to take taxi when you know very well what he is doing! YOU ARE HEADING TOWARDS TROUBLE! SO STUPID OF YOU AND YOUR BROTHER!
Being a mature person, think wisely and do better planing and spend your time and money to change the situation of this country.

regina · 1 year ago

so agree with what u've mentioned.recently,my sis's place in Puchong was broken into and we went to lodge a police report. police officers bombarded my sis with crappy qs which r nt even related to the break-in such as "kamu datang dari mana?" and "kamu student lim kok wing kan?bapa kamu tauke balak kah?".i was there witnessing all tat.all they did when they reached her place was draw a plan of d house,take note of wad was stolen n TAT'S IT yet they cud've taken finger prints or wadever that was obviously left bhind by d thief.one of the officers even asked my sis y on earth did she run away when she shud've stayed there n get sum1 else (tat's me) 2 gt d guards as they really wanted 2 catch the thief after receving numerous theft cases at the same place.hw is it possible 4 police officers to say stuffs lidat?will they even take d responsibility shud my sis get killed,raped or taken as hostage?i bliv this is d main reason 4 many ppl 2 b more daring 2 commit crime nwadays.government shud might as well fire all police officers and use the salary of d officers 2 help d needy(which i doubt they will). hw can Malaysia evr improve?*shakes head*

regina · 1 year ago

i 4gt 2 add tis.1 of the police officers cudnt even spell d word diamond 4 gudness sake!

Jason · 1 year ago

Yeah damn right i agree with you too. I have heard people who mirgrated because of that,and i was one of the people who thought "Malaysia is our country,no matter how bad it is,we have to stay and improve it,dont abandon our country" but now,it seems that we have no other choice.... Right?

fireangel · 1 year ago

With this post, I think you've practically summed up the entire nation's (minus law enforcers) thoughts on our police force. Thank you.

Cher Wee · 1 year ago

my mum was robbed on last Thursday. So we went to lodge police report at the nearest police station.

As usual the police asked the incident in ' detail' then finally he asked what is my mum'd occupation, cz' she doesnt understand bahasa quite well, I then answered for her said:" she is a clerk".

Then this policeman still asking, ' apa perkerjaan dia? ' i answer again, ' clerk '. I hv repeated at least 4 times only i realised he doesnt understand the word " CLERK". Finally, I said:" KERANI"/

This is our Msia police quality.

bgunited · 1 year ago

Su Ann

u r incredible, not only what u said and experienced were truth and are actually happening every hour, u write it so well that it will one day bring the impact it intended to.

read this month's TIME magazine (Vol. 170, Nov 23 2007 issue), page 29 ASIA. The title is Identity Crisis, the Header reads "Racial and religious tensions are forcing Malaysia to grapple with a vexing question: What kind of country does it want to be?"

go get a copy and read it.

anyway, well done and thx.

Francis Pang · 1 year ago

So true.... Malaysia is really going to ...... I have so many case with those barbarian, i was rob and they ask me got money to treat them eat Nasi Kandar or not only will help me check for finger print on my car. Where the hell i got money after being rob and also they tell me the finger print powder too expensive... T___T really sad case. Another case a few indian rob a group of us and when we went to report, we was treated like criminal instead. The robber treaten us saying they have parang sword and when i overhead the police use the intercom to notify the other police, he told them armless. T__T

Mel · 1 year ago

That bugger TB Soh! people like that are hopeless....instead of focusing on the wrongdoings of the said cab drivers...the police and so forth..he turned it around and put the blame on you and your brothers...or in general cases....police blaming those who supposedly make reports because they were the victims,....

nice gigi · 1 year ago

it is so sad to see how the policemen treat those victims of robbery. =(

back to the issue of bribery, i always hear that many of the cases come from the police traffic,when they saman us.

i have an experience, about three month ago. i was crossing a single-lane, one-way road, and suddenly a speeding car came from behind and almost hit me. To my suprised when i turned back to see the car which had almost cost my life, i couldn't believe it when i saw the car driver, a middle age woman, was cursing to me !!! it was not my fault because i was at the housing area, and the driver should give priority to the pedestrian like me. i forgave her although it was not my fault =( because i thought maybe she is the only one who drives like 'tak ada otak'. however, few days later, when i went back to the small shophousing area again, i was shocked, once again, to see most of the drivers that using the road were speeding !!!

i still remember, what my parents told me about their experience when they studied at USA.
they said the citizens there are very helpful and not selfish, unlike the citizens of malaysia. and it is true when we always see drivers in malaysia alway brake the rule like not wearing seatbelt and helmet, disobeying the the traffic light and SPEEDING !!!

moral of the story:
how DARE we say police are corrupted, when we, at the first place are 'morally and mentally' corrupted too? like few of the comments above, not all of the police are bad, some of them really did a good job. however, the rest of 'stupid' police only waiting the chance (which indirectly caused by us) to get 'duit kopi'.

part of the problem lies inside of us. that's why i totally agree with songjun, those who opt to run away from the country are COWARD and nothing better that the corrupted police.

Angeline · 1 year ago

i agree with songjun.
malaysia is my home, my childhood memories are all in Malaysia. i do not want m'sia to fall.

only humans who are not really humans inside will be ignorant for counterparts who cannot get out. so what if i have nothing to do with the middle class in m'sia who will certainly be affected if resources are flowing out of it? they are still fellow countrymates

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it's very hard to get a head confess that things have been done wrong and apologize. not unless he's a leader. the heads in our countries are probably religious ppl, they are just ignorant about some things. u know how like if you see this garbage dump on the road you pass everyday it'll just be as if it's invisible after a while. if we keep blaming they will get more defensive. i know i might. i just don't think the whole trying-to-find-who-is-wrong strategy works a lot now. for discipline purposes. yes. but for development purposes. it's just that they get it so much that they're kinda immune to it.

i grew up having malay friends, all neighbours were malays and they do things differently. i reckon someone need to research on the psychology and sociology of them. eg they do not take initiatives very much, and sometimes a little push is just what's needed. the trick is that little push, which marketing specialists are experts in. and when comfortable they wouldn't wanna move in any way, and i'm thinking in this case that an appeal for them to do something is not gonna work, but it you say that 'with you approval we will do it' they might just approve it.

last i've heard the ppl-in-charge in china govt now are engineers who does not embarrass each other with one-liners, but are ppl who really examine the system and know what's not going to work and what will

imhos

ionStorm · 1 year ago

*sighhhhhhhhh*

tom · 1 year ago

WHY LEAVE MALAYSIA?

I find it no reason to leave Malaysia for good. But to gain a better education? Yes, that maybe.

I've always believed that we should not leave because of these matters that intimidate us to leave. NO. We as Malaysians, NOT Chinese, Indian or Malay should leave for a better living. We Malaysians can make a difference and it all starts from the very basic = EDUCATION.

Everyone needs to be educated, be it educated to write, educated to be a good policemen, educated in their own field of studies with quality or anything else. Education sparks a new generation of life and thinking. What we all need now and today is a look towards a country where it sees no colour but wealth.

Wealth being a society with robust thinking and politicians with good governance. I feel we all should do our part, firstly to make a change and be the change.

Why do you want to leave when you are already raised and grown up in this beautiful country? Just kick the bad apples out! It takes time, but it will make a change for good.

Su Ann, nice post ;) Always an avid reader.

michellesy · 1 year ago

Babe, my thoughts exactly, on the police, the state of our nation and why I am not coming back. Ever.

ps: Perhaps TB Soh should get a reality check. Are we to cower in our houses because the police are incompetent at their jobs? Isn't that equivalent to saying that a rape victim is at fault because she 'asked for it'? Or that someone deserved to get mugged and murdered because they were in the 'wrong place at the wrong time'?

epilim · 1 year ago

my police encounters have been good so far, so it seems like these black sheeps are the one marring the police image. shame on them. leaving the country is just not an option for me though. having been brought up and educated here (my personal choice for the belief i have in *some* parts of the education system), and worked here (for the gov,yes), running away is as bad as not having FAITH in myself. a true blue malaysian i am, for better or worse. we need more people like you to change things, instead of running away and not actually doing anything for the nation's sake.

keep up the good blog pinkpau.

Michael · 1 year ago

there is always some ignorant and foolish person like TB Soh. I suppose after ur wife being raped on a street corner, u will blame her for being a slut/whore instead. yeah yeah. Malaysians mentality needs to be changed....

miss.cc · 1 year ago

wahh.....a lot of comments here. Very amazing post pinkpau. =)

what is the point of teaching moral values to students but the police/government themselves don't even apply them in their daily lives? we are also at fault too; sometimes we just want to avoid trouble and just bribe them. anyway, it is up to us to improve the country. after all, it's the tanah tumpahnya darahku. (actually more like tanah hilanglah duitku) lol!

Lalita · 1 year ago

Disgusting lah the whole situation - it just makes me so angry. I read somewhere once - I love my country, but the question is, does my country love me? Probably not if I am told to "balik India" all the time. How can we when we were born in Malaysia? No where else is home is it?

TsuChong · 1 year ago

Don't lose hope. When we lose hope and faith, we lose everything.

Things will change. It may take 10 years, 50 years, or even another 200 years, but it WILL change.

Maybe we will not live long enough to witness it, but let's do watever we can to help. No matter how small or how big, in our own capacities, we can do something.

Believe in the power of the people!

PS: So.... those who are already 21, please make sure you've registered to vote okay?

KY · 1 year ago

can't agree more with what you've said.

Eries · 1 year ago

there was once this big hu-ha about the forming of the IPCMC. an independent commission for reviewing the complains against members of the police. because at this moment, complains to the police themselves, and very obviously goes against the rule of natural justice because no one should be a judge of themselves

quote latin, 'nemo iudex in causa sua'.

but the issue here is that the government is too fragile to actually allow the forming of such a commission. the police force rakes in a huge amount of votes. and coercion on the government is enough for them to come out with some form of weird excuse (as they always do) and say its impossible to do so.

dialogues all around malaysia have been held regarding this issue by the bar council, but you know how it goes. its no use. we need the opposition to win to change the mentality of the people on top who think with power they can get anything.

i want to see them all fall down hard and laugh with no mercy. sadist, but very heartlessly true.

me · 1 year ago

sometimes i think that the more time you give for malaysia to improve.. the worst it becomes..
well isnt that true ? 10 years ago it was safer and better in many ways
i would dare to walk out late at night but now i don't even dare to step outside my gate!

zewt · 1 year ago

ppl asked me... why you wanna migrate... things are looking good career wise and you got a nice car and a nice house.

well... this is exactly what i am trying to tell them.

fiona · 1 year ago

I completely empathize with you. What you described also happens all the time in Indonesia (where I'm from), and I've made the same decision as many of your friends who are not coming back to M'sia ever since I moved to Canada.

The worst thing is we can't do anything to change the situation partly because we (Chinese) will forever be a minority in these SE Asian countries and won't be taken seriously. :(

Ken · 1 year ago

RESPECT for speaking up. you've highlighted something which is so very true and probably common scene around town...

Shen · 1 year ago

Comment No.158:
What an affirming display to how many if not close, somewhat feels the same..
Thank you Su Ann.

Phoon · 1 year ago

I am SO voting for the Opposition this general election.

lulu · 1 year ago

Enough is enough. kick BN out. Time to change. Vote for PAS, DAP or others opposition on this coming GE. DO NOT VOTE MCA/MIC anymore.

dev · 1 year ago

A strong opposition is needed to check and balance. Otherwise BN will start to "bermaharajalela" which is what they are doing now.

Ida · 1 year ago

Wow. Look @ all the comments!

To Fiona, I beg to differ. I come from Singapore and 70% of the population is Chinese and here, the Chinese rule! There's always the 'Speak mandarin' campaign. And the jobs always states to have a mandarin-speaking personnel. and I assure you, any Chinese coming to Singapore to work will prosper.

I'm malay, btw and it infuriates me when I read such articles. I don't think it's your race. It's about the majority of the population in one's country.

I bet I'd do well do if I were in malaysia or Indon. but too bad, I'm born in Singapore where the majority is the Chinese. Even our government is filled with hoodles of Chinese ministers. And the last time we had a malay president? It was since our very first president. No doubt, I'm proud to be a Singaporean but there are just times when things like this bothers me. We say we're a democratic country with no racism in place. So wat's with the Speak mandarin campaign and job looking for mandarin speaking pple?

That's just my 2 cents worth.

Eries · 1 year ago

Ida :

I can't speak Mandarin either. Heh. And I get looked down by fellow Chinese people. Chinese people have the mentality problem whereby they think China is the biggest and most upcoming market and the dont gv a fck about other languages. So when people look at me and find out I dont speak Mandarin, they pity me. Malays on the other hand, as what I am beginning to see now, learn all, Chinese, Malay and English.
...................
Malays in Malaysia, Chinese in Malaysia, both have mentality problems. Just that now,... when u look at Fiona's POV, use the Bangsa Malaysian kinda view to it.

next,.. you must understand that jobs seeking Chinese speaking people are a mere preference of employers. Of course if you own a business, you'd want a specific type of person. And if what people want in the working world is a Chinese speaking person, then its up to u whether u want urself to be more marketable and learn Chinese or whether u want to get the other jobs which are less attractive (presuming the attractive job is the one which want Chinese speaking people).

In the corporate world, the one with a more attractive package will get snatched first regardless.

Furkids in Hong Kong · 1 year ago

Ida,

My experiences differ. Most people here in HK (including myself) do not speak Mandarin. I am furthermore at a 'disadvantaged' as I cannot read nor write Chinese. But I've not had an encounter where I have been looked down upon or felt belittled.

I agree with you though that a lot of the Mainland Chinese do not feel, at the moment at least, that they need a second language. Probably stemming from their practice to make ends meet with whatever they have in the now, than to plan far ahead for the future. Hopefully this practice will, and is, changing as the younger generation clearly understands the importance of not only being internationally recognised, but to also be internationally understood.

songjun · 1 year ago

To those who say to hell with tb soh :

All police everywhere in the world will give you the same advice also. The police are not angels who are there 24/7. They will ALWAYS tell you to avoid putting yourself in any situation that will endanger you. You will see posters here in the UK telling you about determent and avoiding danger instead of saying

" Dont worry! The police are here! We are the saviours of the world!"

You go and whine to them about something, they will also say the same thing. Why didnt you take steps to prevent .. bla bla bla nag like old grandmother. But of course, they do their job too.

Over here its pretty rediculous sometimes that the police fear people here. I've seen drunk people/just normal ppl sometimes fight/intimidate the police , calling them names and being rude to them just because they were doing their job. Sometimes the cops were just being nice and they mistake or dont appreciate it.

And what can they do? All i see is a defeated face. Yes they are proud of what they do and they do it well. In malaysia, we fear more then we respect. But i'd rather ass holes fear the police then pick fights with them.

Blaming incidents like Rape, Robberies and all that on the police is blaming the wrong people. It is not that they are not doing their jobs.. its that people allow the situation to happen. The police cant always be there. And if and when they 'are always there, watching' we start to complain about our privacy.

Its not about the institutions. Its the mentalities. Sadly, the most capable people of running things usually are not in the businesss of politics or government. I bet 90% of the people bitching and complaining here will not even lift a finger to enter the government system to change it. They rather oppose and bitch.

When I tell people : I had an interview with bank negara!! most ppl go.... "?!?! wtf. why do u want to work with a government affiliated organisation??"

Because I want to do good things for my country. I have faith in the upcoming generation of overseas educated malays, and the middle class.(presuming they do enter politics even instead of being a corporate whore lol) I have faith that when the old fuckers like najib, samy velu, khairy bunch are all gone, we will have a better future.

nice gigi · 1 year ago

songjun:
yes, i also believe education is the most important substance to change our life, instead of bitching around about our home country. sadly, those who are so-called overseas educated prefer running away. i think that is more wasting of tax-payer money (overseas scholarship for ungrateful bunch of people)

peace everyone! =)

JonJon · 1 year ago

w00t. Read this post a bit too late.

The way cops act here in Australia and Malaysia is different mainly because the cops here are paid ten times more than Malaysian cops, hence they can make a decent living. Malaysian cops have to resort to bribery to survive simply because they get slave wages.

It also has to do with the culture here. Most Australians are helpful and will always put on a smile for you... unlike Malaysians. The government brainwashes people to think that Malaysians are well-known for being kind and helpful, the reality is far from that.

hj · 1 year ago

You get the kind of government you deserve. We complain to our friends, but do nothing to change things. "aiyah.. won't change wan lah..." We envy the clean streets of Singapore but have no qualms about littering. "nvm lah... everyone also like dat wat" We know that our rights are being trodden upon but many are too lazy to get registered and vote!

Malaysians, do your job as a citizen, Get Registered And VOTE!

au naturel · 1 year ago

i dont see the point of some of the people here starting to go racist. dont we have enough racial issues with the hindraf thingy? if it's such an issue, then leave, migrate, go wherever u think u'll be treated better than here. i've travelled a lot, and in no place am i treated better than home. and i am not a malay neither.

Albert Ng · 1 year ago

The North Court ones go by the meter because they're in a queue. First to say this, I think!

skeat · 1 year ago

Hey pinkpau, I hate to say this but everything you said was hardcore facts. Corruption, racism and discriminations are nothing new to us Malaysians. As much as the government would deny them, we know better the very existence of these problems.

There is no sense of security among the people. Not anymore. Just take a look at the escalating crime rate and the police force available. They're just a bunch of incompetents, constantly leeching the tax-payers' money which they blatantly do not deserve.

It is saddening to see even the most basic function of law which is social cohesion remains unfulfilled. We could no longer trust, even the police force. So who are we suppose to turn to??

Oh Justice, where art thou?

Changes. That's what we desperately need, to improve our current system. We need a stronger check and balance system to ensure the executive body is actually doing its job. Besides, the police force should try extremely hard to save its remaining dignity, before it actually hits rock bottom which is not far away i'll say. and also reflect on their sordid behaviour.

Sigh. Such disappointments. Nevertheless, great post pinkpau =)

ken · 1 year ago

I been called Singaporean when I am back in Malaysia. I tell my friends its not me that always like to compare Singapore with Malaysia but to be frank we are all educated people even we are not the worse people in Singapore way better than those con dog in Malaysia !

Taxi with meter , govt process all world class standard in Singapore. Do you guys know that most of the talent worker in Singapore are mostly chinese malaysian, Indian and China chinese?

Anonymous · 1 year ago

i read ur post and i'm interested to comment. yes, all of us want changes to be done in this country especially with all those lazy policemen and some corrupted politicians who rule our places. yes, u watched they debate their rights inside the PARLIAMENT and you feel mad when ur fave ones being knocked down or being tossed away by those you despise. AND you believed that? Uh uh! you shouldn't because politic kills! and have everyone register as voters? if we want changes, all of us who are qualified to do so, please register and then vote! who says "undi hantu" exist? hantu who doesn't vote, yes, they exist...
not all policemen are lazy but most of them are. i hate people who should be protecting and helping us with our problems need bribe to do their jobs! they're suckers! i even had few incidents with 'yang berkuasa' that need no further description.
maybe some of you here should become policemen or policewomen so you can make all the changes.
we all want changes (cliche). we become racists and we hate each others. i have two eyes, one mouth, two hands and two feets and so are you but our ideology that differ us from others. we want others to respect us, we want others to understand our religion, we want others to give way for us to go thru life, BUT do we do those things to others? do you really respect other people? do you respect other religions? do you give ways or do you just fuck people all the way?
when you go to singapore and look at how clean their country is, you compare it with malaysia. but we're the ones who couldn't stop littering!
yes, we have freedom of speech. but for for those who never take even a peek at our Pelembagaan Persekutuan, maybe you should take your time off blogging and read it. it may help you with this matter.
i love malaysia not because i'm Malay. I'm Malaysian and it wasn't my fault that i'm Malay. I'm born with it! hahaha
i was never a racist and i will never be one. maybe pinkpau has encounter many people who are racist and think they're bigger because they're the majority, but in my life, i've been surrounded with people who love others not because of their races or religions, but because we are all the same; HUMAN!
pinkpau, you have great writing skill. maybe you could use it for perpaduan kaum. what you wrote are true (i can't deny it) and you should keep writing about it.
i always make myself remember that i should change first before asking others to do so...
but whatever it is, i hate police who do bribe and MALAS!

Anonymous · 1 year ago

and my name is LIZA, by the way. i don't have any google account yet.

Eries · 1 year ago

erm... songjun

even if we join the government service... we get discriminated... we do the donkey work, we do the hardest job, we dont take rasuah, we dont get promotions, we get shunned during meetings, we get grouped and said to be the bad people...

you know normally who gets employed into the government? normally those who dont get jobs outside. nothing bad to government people. some of them really do want to help... my dad was working in the government service.

back then u'd say to ur kids... "join government service... good back, and respectable"....

nowondays u say, "join government service? YOU DUMB AH?"

the people inside have to first do something to change how it goes... look at the police force? all the fat round bellies. seriously, if they were in UK, they'd be thrown out already. policemen have to keep fit and work out. ours drink teh tarik on their duty. and that why we say they dont do their job.

of course there will be the time where the girl/guy is also in wrong, no doubt about it... but the police force are putting Themselves in a vulnerable spot to be the ones where the blame is pushed to. look at all the bad reports against them?

but they're not doing anything. WHY? cos they just dont give two fucks. because can drink kopi and makan duit kopi... its all good. at the end of the day they have twice the salary they are supposed to get.

and i dont blame it solely on police, but the government. raise the salary, increase the standards, the lazy farts will be kicked out of the freaking force... simple cow sense. oh, but no... later votes wont go to them.... so u know what? lets just jeopardize our citizen!! :D yeay!

Eries · 1 year ago

oops... good pay*** typo..

adam and eve · 1 year ago

to Jeff from LA,
u definitely have it easy.in US racism is a personal thing and definitely not part of the constitution.here the first day i was born i was and still am a second class citizen.why so ?cause the constitution said so

bash · 1 year ago

All of you want to know why you have to bribe those bastards? Because if you go for the ticket, you'll get your license suspended in no time. Mine got suspended for two months for 2 speeding and 1 illegal u-turn offense.

follower of songjun and JD · 1 year ago

Thanks songjun and JD for starting a debate -- songjun says we should change the Tanahair from within while JD suggests to save Malaysia Inc. via the free market mechanism -- this is really interesting, yet serious! I'd love to see you both continue the debate in a dedicated website (http://livingorleaving.blogspot.com)...

ms pening · 1 year ago

be patient okey.. there are many crazy ppl out there..

Malaysian Chinese are weird · 1 year ago

Police are corrupt no doubt ... but racist? No more racist than cops in America who are even more racist against the blacks. I am really surprised at the comments made here by the Malaysian Chinese. I'm Malaysian Chinese myself, but most of the Chinese females I come across seem so flirty, friendly, cosy, etc. with Malay men and hostile towards me, I think the complaints are just weird. I suffer the same institutionalised discrimination too, and yet the strongest support I have are from my Malay colleagues at a public university.

You Malaysian Chinese deserve the government you vote and will probably treat the Malays like shit if the special position is removed from the Constitution. And you treat your like fellow Malaysian Chinese like shit. So, who gives the shit about your complaints? Get the point?

Malaysian Chinese are weird · 1 year ago

Malaysian Chinese with the kiasu attitude, selfish Chinaman attitude (including women) are just pathetic. It's not Chinese education ... nothing to do with that, I'm English educated and can tell you that many English speaking Malaysian Chinese are just as Chinaman as they come. Look at the corporate world. When I ask for directions in KL, guess who is the friendly one? You guess it ... definitely not the Chinese, but the Malay. I say good riddance to those who want to migrate! And I am saying this as a DAP member and supporter!

Malaysian Chinese are weird · 1 year ago

The reality is if I were swimming in a pool, and two Chinese women wanted to swim as well, they would be very wary of dipping into the pool. But if a bunch of Malay men with leery and lustful eyes, possibly would even rape if not for the fact the pool is in a gated community, it's all smiles and laughs. That's the reality ... go figure ...

Malaysian Chinese are weird · 1 year ago

Chinese women deserve the treatment they get ... as ah moi and bocor tipa-tiap bulan ... they seem to enjoy it OUTSIDE of Parliament!!!

Malaysian Chinese are weird · 1 year ago

For those of you who were in the KLCC area on Friday afternoon would know that it was raining cats and dogs ... I had to go to a bank and was wet all along Jalan P. Ramlee simply because the instruction given to me by a female officer was misleading at worst, and unclear at best. After forward and reverse a couple times, I decided to take shelter in a cafe or something ... as I walked into the pavement, a Chinese lady laughed at me. Nevermind, maybe she can tell me where the bank is ... guess what she didn't bother to answer ... what kind of attitude is this? That's the worst part, not of laughing but of blowing you off even before you have chance to say something ... such cynicism, prejudice, hypocrisy, double-standards, cowardice, selfishness, typical of the Chinaman mentality ...

songjun · 1 year ago

malaysian chinese : lol i agree. Though not whole heartedly, but there is a study about the Malaysian Chinese community done by i think some dudette here. She claimed that the chinese community is a dichotomy ... split into two actually. One is the English speaking chinese.. and the other is the Chinese Chinese. They make up 70% of chinese and are more in the know of events happening in Taiwan then in Msia. They refuse to integrate, and insist on remaining in purely chinese schools.

Funny though. Why would the chinese lady have laughed at u for?

Eries : thats exactly the mentality that is counter productive to our society. You guys dont want to take the effort to try it out. With our qualifications, we can enter t he governemtn sectors, and if we are very much discriminated, we can just pack up and go to industry anyway. But no one wants to even try. Cos they THINK it is crap. Raising pay will not change anything, u know why? there is no incentive for them to stop. Human greed is a funny thing. You increase pay on one hand means bribes must be higher. What u do is increase pay but deregulate the ACA. Give an anonymous phone number people can call to report.
Sadly, most government organisations do not run on a merit based promotion system, they promote u based on seniority/need. And its always about who u know anyway. Even in industry, its dog eat dog.

bash: who says u have to bribe them? You commit a crime means you commit a crime, and the consequence is ur lesen is suspended. The reason why they cut off ur points so easily is so it would deter u from doing all that in the first place.

renaye · 1 year ago

what a disappointment to the present generation let alone of thinking what our future generations be experiencing. the most funny thing is seeing them wearing badges "anti-rasuah."

if the police are efficient, i'm sure we would have heard Nurin's case being solved.

sometimes i feel sad because i could not imagine my life in the future here.

r · 1 year ago

@songjun

the study u were referring to

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007...

fast0811 · 1 year ago

I saw this interesting comment in Malaysia-Today, just would like to share with yours..

http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/index.php?op...

written by KopiO, December 18, 2007 | 18:47:57

Here's an idea on how to protest agains the spin-doctoring in Malaysian mainstream print media, which my friend and I came across it in a blog.

http://fast0811.blogspot.com/

Here's the translation and gist of the article:

FLASH MOB AGAINST SPIN-DOCTORING
Time: Main Concourse, Suria KLCC
Date: 1 Jan 2008 (Public Holiday)
Time: 3pm

To do:
1. Go to Suria KLCC Main Concourse on 1 Jan 2008 at 3pm.

2. Bring a copy of local newspaper; it can be The Star, NST, Metro, Malay Mail, Utusan Melayu, Berita Harian, Sin Chew Jit Poh, Nanyang Siang Pow, or any Tamil dailies.

3. At 3.30pm sharp, crumple the newspapers and throw them inside the rubbish bins.

4. Disperse IMMEDIATELY

NOTE:
DO NOT LITTER. If the rubbish bins are full, stack your newspapers on top of the pile. If you can’t do that, find other rubbish bins at 1st Floor or other floors. The ultimate goal is to dumb the newspapers collectively as the sign of protest!!
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Imagine this: FRUs guarding the rubbish bins, uniformed and plain clothes policemen arresting people for dumbing newspapers into the rubbish bins!

Sarawakian · 1 year ago

I have been thinking for a long time whether to leave Malaysia for good and my time is getting short to make that decision. I mean, what we all have been saying here is really true. Government servants are really hopeless. They just like to sit in the office, go for tea and receive money at the end of the month. And they all think it is their rights to "goyang kaki"!!! I am speechless of all the excuses they give me sometimes........To leave or not to leave?

mirian · 1 year ago

Well, dont forget teachers are gov servants too! You have ur basic edu in gov sch except that u r filthy rich kids who have perants to send u to private or even international schools! Yeah, teachers some r bad who dont teach in class but force u to go to their tuition but hey! i have teachers who r so gooood, they sacrifice their time and money to ensure us the not so bright students get good results in our public enaminations
Some even ask us not to waste money on tuition, just listen in class, do their work, n some of my friends and seniors got excellent results without even goin for tuitions!
Some even offer us prizes if we gert good results in our sch exAM! most of them are not racist maybe a handful of them the black sheeps only!
some teachers have to act tough because the principals hteses days are so chicken to handle discipline problems
afreid the rich parents dont contribute to schools anymore if they reprimand and punish their spoilbrats!!!!]
yeah, i admit some of the police force are so rasuah driven, but hey the minorities of the police r striving to help the ctizens ok.....
the ic department n pasport are so efficient now!
racism happens evrywhere in the world, malaysia of course is not spared.
is true, the grass is never greener on the other side! i went to singapore, n guess what, the old aunties and uncles are the one who clear upo the dishes in food court. where are their young ones? the senior citizens sud be njoying their golden lives n not work by clearing up dishes!!!!in malaysia, u dont see our aged relatives working so hard except maybe in one or two shops. but this happen around the lion's island!!!!!
malaysia. is still bearable n okay! i met many good malaysians who helps me a lot, they are from different race, religion n backgrounds! i still keep contacts with my teachers of different races! salute to u pak lah, dr m for a great malaysia that we live in!
Malaysia is still the best place to be in except maybe in harry potter's sch in Hogwarts' School of Withcarft and Wizardry!
Give malaysia a chance, even if u have lost hope! u r born here in malaysia n is a malaysian cikgu who teach u how to read, write n count, dont stab ur ibu pertiwi!
NOBODY WANTS RACIAL DISHARMONY! Stop ur lethal words, it mite give foreigners a chance to attack our country!
u guys must hate history to forget about our pass history!
if u gvo to kampungs, n reflects back in the past, the chinese are getting back what they did to the quiet n good kampung malays in the padst!some of our ancestors businessmen cheated them!
again, don't be too harsh to our ibu pertiwi, u get what u reap! as newton says, when there is a cause, there willn be a effect!
AKU ANAK MALAYSIA!I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT IN THER PAST, PRESENT N FUTURE!

Sue Lin · 1 year ago

Just commenting to say that i've read this and like everyone else, i have my own views...

Joshua ONG · 1 year ago

Hmm. Allow me to share my thoughts.
Firstly, i believe that we musn't over generalize the entire sector (cab drivers ) as a whole i as believe that there are genuine cabbies who use meters although i must agree and it is undeniable that the majority don't and charge ridiculous and rip off prices.

At the same time, i'm sure we are all aware of the escalating cost of living esp. in KL and how the inflation is biting in everyone and these cab drivers are not excluded as well. If they were to follow the gov't "enforced" rates, it is quite unlikely that they are able to support a family with all the basic necessities of life. (I would attribute the same reason for the way our forces are behaving)

Notwithstanding that, i am against the deplorable attitude of the majority of our police force and cab drivers. I salute those minority who refuse to be in the flow and still hold on to integrity and work ethics.

However, unless the root of the problem (in my humble opinion) which is the fact that these people find it difficult to provide a decent living for their family if they were to follow the system entirely, i'm afraid not many of those 'honest' ones are able to last long.

A note to pink pau, I admire your civic conciousness, the fact that you attended the Bersih rally and continue to jot articles that will champion the cause of a better Malaysia for all.

Been in melbourne for 4 years already. However, i'm still very attached to issues in Malaysia that are dear to my heart. To all the young people out there. If only all young malaysians are more conscious of many issues that are plaguing our beloved Nation. Let us unite, work together and built a better Malaysia.

Malaysia might not be the greatest country but do know that every country has their own problems. However we all know that fundamentals of our country (economically, socially, public order) has been shaken. (Mongolian Bombed, KOREK KOREK KOREK, house in perth, Istana CIAK KAH LIOW (Zakaria in Hokkien), temples destroyed, escalating living cost to name a few.

Therefore, if you are eligible, i implore you to register as a voter for the upcoming election. Please vote with your head.

Just penning my thoughts.... =)

Jerry Mohan · 1 year ago

The police are actually part of the criminal network.

I saw in a tv documentary and in newpapers that they actually demand money form snatch thieves (part of the takings of the robbers goes to the police). This is so that the police will not 'kacau' them. This is especially so for the big drug rings.

Sometimes when police are frisking people during a body search they plant drugs in your pocket or bag & then they tthreaten to arrest you unless you give them money. Many malaysians will attest to this. Be very careful when they do a search.

Our church runs a drug rehab centre and many ex-addicts tell us that when the police do operasi they can get cleared from tthe urine test if they bribe the police. The policeman will then urine in the addicts bottle & the addict sends that bottle to be ttested.

vivian · 1 year ago

I feel sad for Malaysia. Things are getting from bad to worst and I don't think it'll ever improve if this government stays. Too bad majority of the ppl in this country do not see this.

Rani · 1 year ago

policeman? cab driver? government servants? They are all corrupted and very racist. In the end, they just want all Chinese to leave the country. For reasons only lazy people like them know, they always blame the Chinese for the situation that they are in. They thought the Chinese took away their rice bowl without realising or afraid to admit or in state of self denial that it is always their laziness were the root cause of their problems. lazy to work hard. lazy to try their best.... even one of the partners in a big 4 auditing firms always told the chinese staff to balik tongsang if they don't like him or don;t follow his instruction without realizing that his methods were wrong most of the time... He was what he was today because of his race, not because of his capability...and perhaps, this made him upset as there is no recognition from the top and below.....

Mudasir · 1 year ago

Always bring a video camera, or a tape recorder.

This story means nothing without proof.

Anyways, I myself was robbed at a LRT station (Plaza Rakyat) at 6:30 in the morning and when i went to the police station the Policemen actually took me on his bike and we went to search the culprit for 2 hours hoping i will be able to identify him. The police station i went to was the one behind Stadium Negara.

Saman · 1 year ago

well well let share a story with u i was a devil driving without lisen n road tax so wat i need is i need RM 50 inside my pocket always so whenever i was stop so. the Rm50 is for them

Ian · 1 year ago

wow. was pointed out to this blog by a friend. don't know if u'll read this since this post is old, but am glad to see there are youth in this country that is very civic conscience. hope to see you do more in the future to bring change to this country. :)

norman · 1 year ago

very very good post indeed. very enlightening. sigh.....
they're asking us chinese to balik tongsan, nevermind, it doesn't matter, we can go, but....what will happen? Kami balik Tongsan, Kamu balik kampung.

Sam · 1 year ago

I for one wouldn't bring a lot of cash with me at any point of time. It is just plain stupid - you wouldn't know when you gonna get mugged, so never put it at risk in the first place! If you can write so much about corruption, why don't you mention this one small obligation in your blog?

pinkpau · 1 year ago

sam : my mom was on her way to the bank. she was mugged outside the bank. i love how you just come in here and comment about my mother's 'plain stupidity' without any background knowledge. what an idiot.

anyway, i'd like to think that malaysians are civilized enough so that members of society can walk around with however much money they want in their pockets without fear of being mugged.