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Thursday, May 31

We only need but one minute.


  • To take a step back and realize that 16hours of driving lessons are not enough.

  • We have one of the highest fatalities on the road in the world!

  • We are impatient and quickly phasing out the use of round-a-bouts.

  • We use our hon all too quickly. And also, we are nowhere near as well mannered as we would like to believe. 

  • Were all turning into what we want to avoid.
Now, I have my fair share of bad driving days. Sometimes I'm just soo sooo tired. Others I just wanna get home. Its things like these which make for impatient bad driving. And more often than not, I'm in unfamiliar territory and am lost.

Let me tell you, it doesn't help that our road signs are either 50feet too far or too near.
There really should be a "I'm lost" lane... the left one just doesn't cut it.

Sad to say, most of our drivers here always have the "I go first" or "I'm right" mentality. Often you'll see the effects of these at round about's. Where were supposed to give way and be on a constant move, but we often jam up the thing, thus rendering it moot.

Don't you realize that round-a-bout's don't really work in Pj,KL and Selangor? This is why la. WE ARE ASS DRIVERS!

SERIOUSLY. if we just have patience and let just one, JUST ONE person go first, the issue wouldn't even exist.

I really miss BKK for this. Even though the jam was like 2freaking hours and all I could think of was what if I need the loo or I got no more fuel? People there are so patient and courteous, I bet they'd understand if you needed to go and left the car for awhile even.


Its really time we think of how we drive. Its actions of impatience that will only hurt those who truly have an emergency. As human beings, were starting to lose our sense of kindness. 

Please Malaysians, we say China is losing its humanity. Its high time we took a good look at ourselves. 

Here's some stats for you. To show how bad our driving truly is.

Year
Population
Vehicles Registered
Vehicle Involved
Road Length
Road Accidents
Road Casualties
Road Deaths
Vehicle Ownership (Person per vehicle)
1995
20,096,700
6,802,375
275,430
62,221
162,491
52,152
5,712
3.0
1996
21,169,000
7,686,684
325,915
64,511
189,109
53,475
6,304
2.8
1997
21,665,600
8,550,469
373,526
66,108
215,632
56,574
6,302
2.5
1998
22,179,500
9,141,357
366,932
66,741
211,037
55,704
5,740
2.4
1999
22,711,900
9,929,951
390,674
67,069
223,166
52,937
5,794
2.3
2000
23,263,600
10,598,804
441,386
68,770
250,429
50,200
6,035
2.2
2001
23,795,300
11,302,545
483,351
74,217
265,175
50,473
5,849
2.1
2002
24,526,500
12,068,144
507,995
74,641
279,711
49,552
5,891
2.0
2003
25,048,300
12,819,248
555,634
79,667
298,653
52,741
6,286
2.0
2004
25,580,000
13,828,889
596,533
71,814
326,815
54,091
6,228
1.8
2005
26,130,000
15,026,660
581,136
71,814
328,264
47,012
6,200
1.7
2006
26,640,000
15,790,732
635,024
72,781
341,252
35,425
6,287
1.7
2007
27,170,000
16,813,943
668,173
73,032
363,319
33,999
6,282
1.6
2008
27,730,000
17,971,901
671,078
73,419
373,071
32,274
6,527
1.5
2009
28,310,000
19,016,782
705,623
100,002
397,330
31,417
6,745
1.5
2010
28,910,000
20,188,565
760,433
111,378
414,421
28,269
6,872
1.4


In my head I go on and on about today's incident. 
It was wrong of me to raise my voice. But it was thoroughly unacceptable that a stranger in the wrong should be so rude. 

I think, I'm going to spend more time in church. Living here, I really need patience. For in the near future, nothings going to change yet.


As mom always says "the hardest thing to change is a person, it never happens". To be honest, I'm more hurt than angry. And puzzled at why this is. 

I do love my country. It is and always will be home. But day by day, I find myself wishing to not be here. Everything's going downhill, but I won't be going with it. 

Tomorrow will be a great day. Goodnight.

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