The view of Kuala Lumpur in the evening is so fascinating. Thousands of cars surfing the roads causing heavy traffic everywhere. Buildings with fascinating lights and shapes. So much difference compared to Kuantan huhu. Well, Kuantan has Teluk Cempedak. Not bad what hehe.
This feeling came to me while I was on the LRT from Asia Jaya to Wangsa Maju, my home sweet home. It was about 7pm. The prime time. People on the way back to home from work, shopping, strolling etc. So I decided to just stand against the door and watch through the window. Actually I failed to get a seat. Well, I don’t care much.
“ Next station, University,” the operator’s voice came out of the speaker announcing the next station the train will stop.
The door I am leaning against now is not going to open after this so I move not but change my position where I lean my forehead towards the window. Hands crossed. When the train stopped, I was shocked. It is as if you opened the cage of a group of hungry tigers. They serbu inside and without you knowing, the coach is already full and you hardly can move to make yourself more comfortable. So I stand still and stick my eyes out to the cars and roads.
When the LRT is about to stop for the next station a girl standing beside me lost her balance and held on to my back.
“Sorry, sorry,” immediately she said nodding her head few times.
Her English was a bit weird. I glance at her. “Chinese”. Yet I don’t have the mood to entertain anybody then so I just give her a smile as a sign of “it’s ok, peluk pun takpe,” hehe. Nah kidding 
, then I continue enjoying the panorama.
“Next station, Masjid Jame’,”
Argh, it’s not even half of my journey yet my leg is tiring already. Suddenly, I heard the girl from before said,
“wakarimashtak sensei,hehe” (I understood teacher)
Oh God she’s a Japanese. There were two of them. The one who held on to my back just now and her friend who was facing me. Both of them are so cute. Ya most Japanese girls are cute. But, siapa bilang gadis melayu tak menawan. Hehe. Then I heard another phrase I understood.
“chotto mate chotto mate………(opening a map of MALAYSIA while mumbling words I can’t recognize)……….so desu ne…”
“Wait a minute wait a minute…..that’s right”
It means something like that. I’m not even good in Japanese. Just know some words and phrases by watching anime. Back to the girls. I guessed they were in confusion. Wanting to help, so I said
“daijobuka?” (are you ok?)
And she replied… Nah, I was just imagining what to say, but it ended with just an imagination 
. Then, I start wondering about our people, the Malaysian. The so-called friendly and polite people. Sopan santun berbudi bahasa. Is that true? Is that really a fact or just a ‘joke’? Why I’m saying this is because the two Japanese girls here were obviously having some trouble. Although they were surrounded by Malaysian (including me), but nobody offerred any help (I planned to).
Well, there are always thousands of excuses for everything. People can say they are tired after a whole day of work and so on. However, a TV show I watched a few days later proved my thought. It was 3R. I never watched this program before but that evening I terdetik to switch on the TV and I saw they were doing a survey on our people about their manners.
The first test went like this. They give people free goody bags and see whether they say “thank you” or not. And the result, 80% of them said it. Congratulation! However, it is common to say thanks when we received something from someone. Furthermore it is FREE.
Let’s see how the second test went. They set a girl to open a door for other people who walk through it. The result? Only 6 out of 30 people say thank you to the girl! Equivalent to 20% which is the percentage of people didn’t say thank you during the first test!
Yeah, MALAYSIANS are so~ berbudi bahasa. Right?
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