so it's been 2 weeks already time spent in msia.
1 week physical quarantine, 1 week virtual blog quarantine (not like i post anything much)
anyway the 1st night back home was spent at KLIA, as I had to wait for MAS flight back home on the next morning.Which brings to one of my points.
1. It happens so that I was hungry after the international flight so i headed to KFC on the 4th floor, standing at the front of the outlet, reading the menu and picking something to it. That was when I noticed a senior citizen slightly raising his voice. He was in his late fifties, wearing polo shirt, tucked into a slack with phones belt on his waist. Next to him was a woman around his age, presumably his wife. They was at the KFC counter, and he was talking to the cashier.
"Saya mintak yang ni dengan yang ni. You jangan argue"
The cashier was a young indian woman and replied, " I tak argue, cume tadi I tanye you cakap yang ni 2 ketul"
The conversation ran almost like that. Then the man said, "Dont argue! JUST DO IT!" The cashier wanted to speak, but was then cut off.
"Just do it!" the man said, before adding, "kenape lah bangang sangat."(he prolly said bengap)
I was watching from afar kept mum but the sight was very disconcerting. Somehow the ethnicity of the cashier and the difference economy of the status of the man and the cashier, was blown into the picture. Studying abroad in the mere 2 years did give me a share, of how bad it feels when people mistreat you, but barely a few hours after arriving in Malaysia, there I already saw how inconsiderate sometimes people are. Even back home.
The manage was called since he/she is needed to change the orders on the receipt.
Then as the man was about to leave, he managed to speak to the manager, telling how the workers treated him.
2. A few days after arrival, I went to my sis, where she was on her bed and around her were 4 of her children doing homework, which I was then to monitor one of them. Amal is in standard 3 but she was doing standard 2 workbook.
Science
In English.
So what, some would say. Well it's quite a revealation, as I thought they started science at Standard 4. Not standard 2 and in English.
Ok, xpala. Tengok Amal buat keja. Pastu dia tny, "ni apa?"
The word was wilt, which made me choked and laughed in disbelieve. Come on! I think I learn that word at form 4, and only knew how to use it when I was at GMI. And they expected Amal to know that?
Okay, maybe they expected the parents are there. However what about the rural children who wouldn't be able to answer Amal's que?
I know it seems a stale(read:basi) but the implementation of English for Science and Maths is outargeous. Notice the word implementation, not the idea of teaching. I don't care if I am late on the bandwagon to blog about this or not, but I really feel the system of education in Malaysia have really big flaws.
3. My third point doesn't seem so big, only I wish people would say thank you more often, something people somehow forget. Really, the change of expression on some of the persons I met (when I say thank you), is clearly noticeable. Almost shock on their faces.
I'll try to practice what I preach and hopefully it bring good effect, however little.
so thank you for reading!
so much obtained from observation ey.
ReplyDeletepoint no 1. things are even worse back home. sometimes its frustrating seeing how primitive one's mind set n action could be. how can you judge a person such ways. its not like we choose who we wanna be, how we wanna look like, in what society or ethnic we wanna born into. not saying im better than them tho. its just upsetting, how uncommon common sense is XD
i gotta agree with point no 3.
people nowadays dont seem to care to say those easy but meaningful words.
i even got misunderstood at one time, bcos i said thanks with a smiling face to a waiter when he sent me my drinks ^^!
point 1 is very sad.
ReplyDeletepoint 3: the waiter must have thought," apsal dia ni senyum. ok ke x?"
point 1-its very clear that people nowadays shows a lot of disrespect to each other.Selfish is the best way to describe them.Do they even think about others feelings? Manners is what people in this country need the most.Thank god we learn it a lot throughout studying in oversea ^^
ReplyDeletepoint 2-honestly i never know what it means by wilt... lol...
couldnt agree more about the rural children...pity them
point 3- how people somehow forget to say thanks you? again PR is important here
oh...aku pun baru tau wilt tu apa. :P
ReplyDeletepeople!
ReplyDeletewilt is 'layu' in malay.
haha. pening bdak2 tu blajar rojak.satu apa pon x dpt