Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Jo-hu-
I finally understand why so many Singaporeans love to go to JB.... Its just the irresistable mix of cheap good food and dirt cheap petrol... The only thing stopping them is the causeway jam....
1st stop: JB checkpoint. Why the hack do the Malaysians love to collect those white cards so much? Just as if its some collector's item. They're so stingy with the cards, and you actually have to walk all the way to the customs guy who is busy stamping away ppl's passport just to get those cards... And they built a booth before the actual passport stamping counter, I assume to give out those white cards, but there is nobody there! What the hack?!? They build stuff for no apparent rhyme or reason... Every time I go there, whether day or night, its always abandoned...
2nd stop: JB roads. The perfect place for tiong chia (basically, modded civics / wiras, driven by ah bengs, mostly) drivers... No TP breathing down your neck... so speed all you want! haha... And you'll find no lack of fellow tiong chia drivers to play with... many JB cars have huge, large, noisy mufflers, are all lowered with damn stiff suspensions, with decals of astoundingly bad taste... Just becareful where you drive, cause the roads there are in a horrendous condition.... pot holes the size of a car?!? I don't think those are called pot holes any longer... Maybe that's the Malaysian Army's way of getting prepared for a possible invasion from Singapore... Who needs trenches when you've got pot holes the size of trenches? Apparently, no one there cares anymore... Just too used to it I guess... And JB is supposed to be a city... imagine the country side....
3rt stop: 'Ramly Burger'. How cheap is cheap? Lemme see... Burger set -- think western, with the meat changed to a mcspicy double, and in fact is much more delicious than the highly comercialised thing u get from Mcdonalds -- with ice blended teh-ping (first time I ever drank such a thing), with otah, about 7 or 8, for RM$8.... that equates to less than S$4! That's what I call heaven =) Cheap, good food.... Something worth living for I guess... No wonder Malaysians would risk their safety driving in the night with their street lights all out of order... What people would do for good food! =)
4th stop: Caltex station. With an ever increasing obesity rate, with more and more singaporeans getting stroke and what not fitness related illnesses, the Singapore ministry of health should really thank the Malaysian government. I guess this is where all the Singaporean ah peks get their daily dose of exercise. It is only at this place, that you can see grown singaporean chinese males, and sometimes even females, humping their car in full public view! talk about outrage of modesty.... This should be one of the tourist attractions of JB =)... Apparently, they think that jumping up and down to shake their car can allow for more petrol to get into the fuel tank... wth?!? oh please! I know we are well known for being kiasu, but this really is overboard! We don't need to blatently advertise of shortcomings to foreigners while still in their country! *pengz* But I understand why they all do this... Petrol in Singapore is about S$1.40-150 per litre, depending on grade. In malaysia, its RM$1.25-1.40 per litre... that equates to S$0.60-0.70 per litre.... wow! But still, I believe that decency and repectability shouldn't be discarded with such disregard for the sake of saving at most, $10-20 Singapore dollars... Lets just say that many drive luxury cars, such as Lexus and Mercerdes... They can afford such cars that cost $200K++ and still are kiam siap enough to come all the way to malaysia just to pump petrol? Speechless....
So, that's it for my little supper stint in malaysia.... till next time....
- Emptiness - 1/11/2005 11:52:00 pm
