Let Down

Last Saturday, I went to watch 2012 with my friends at 1 Utama. Before the movie, we went to have dinner at Bubba Gump at The Curve. The dinner was pleasant to say the least but what happened next really boggles my mind.

You see, when we left the restaurant my friend realized that he had left his handphone on the table so he went back to take it. The duration of us leaving our table and him realizing he left his handphone is not more than 3 minutes. Unsurprisingly, when he went back to our table the handphone is gone case already.

This is the best part of the story: just right before we left our table a new group of patron just came in to our area and they sit right next to our table. Guess what, when we went back there they are gone. Now, I do not like to make any accusations but I think it is quite obvious what just happened right?

I can still remember clearly how they look like. A Chinese family of 4; a fat father and fat son, aged around 10, a daughter around the age of 14 and the mother. I am seriously ashamed to be a Malaysian. Can't we all just lived virtuously? In Malaysia if we saw somebody drop something and return it to the owner we will be laughed at because we are stupid and does not know how to take advantage of the situation.

The biggest problem that I have with this whole ruckus is that if they are able to afford having dinner at a fine dining restaurant such as yours truly Bubba Gump, surely you have enough dough to buy your own freaking handphone? When I told my mum about it, she told me: "Son, this is the real world. People are always so realistic." Sigh...

You might argue that they are just among the small percentage of rotten apples in the basket. Well that may be true but I know... deep inside everyone, there's a shadow telling them to claim it for themselves.

I have long given up on Malaysian... Curse them all... curse them all to oblivion. What happened that day only served to strengthen my beliefs that courtesy among people and honesty are overrated. Look at how people drives and you will see my point. At this point I will say that one day, I will leave Malaysia. I'd rather lived in a jungle than this miserable place...

However, I have recently found something that I can hold on to... So, I will stay here... and hope that one day we will see improvements... even if it is by the smallest margin...