Brissy VS Malaysia

Hi again. I am now stoning in the uni library to wait for my club activity to start. T.T So as promised, I shall give you a post on the differences between Brissy and Malaysia (KL in particular). I will try to make this as interesting as possible because I don't have pictures with me XOXO.

1. Driving
Well you probably be thinking, "No need to explain la, KL driver so ganas, Aussie drivers should be more gentlemen and courteous." Well, you may be true, but only partly: They ARE courteous, but GANAS!

For my first few days here I felt like a noob stopping at the zebra crossing, trying to wait for the car to pass through so I can cross the road. So yea, imagine the car just approaches the zebra crossing, and goes slower....sloooowwwer......and SSSSLLLLOOOOOOWEEEERRRRR..... until they stop right in front of you. Yea. Just for you to cross. LOL. Malaysian drivers? They honk gao you if you try to cross when they are speeding towards you, even if they are miles away. lol. Yea, the first few days the drivers probably thought like "Why are there so many jakun kids who don't cross the road despite standing at the zebra cross". So yea, now I cross the road feeling LIKE A BOSS.

But well, courteous is one thing, GANAS is another. They drive really fast on the street. Oh speaking of which, Malaysia's roads and highways are much wider than Brissy's streets.But well, despite having smaller streets, they still drive WAY FASTER than us. So yea, having emergency brakes on the bus is starting to become more and more normal to us. lols. And they somehow like to brake only right in front of the traffic light, instead of braking from far away. I dunno, maybe I lack observation. XP



2. Malls
OMG MALLS. I miss Malaysia malls. Their malls are like......small. And they closes at 5.30pm like what the heck, where do we go at night???

 Well the restaurants are still opened in the mall, but the other shops are closed (except those big anchors) so except dinner you probably have no reason to go to the mall. T.T But well....on specific days of the week they close later, at 9:00pm for instance.But still, 9:00pm~~ the night is still young weih!



3. Food
As a chicken lover (and partly because I don't eat beef due to religious reasons), I find myself very kesian here. Chickens are MORE EXPENSIVE than beefs and lambs!!!

T.T Chicken burger usually cost a dollar, if not two, more than beef and lamb burger. So sad. But on the side note, pork aka babi are freely available everywhere. So if I don't feel like eating chicken I can still go for pork. :D In Malaysia probably I will need to stick to chicken.

Btw, I have not eaten A SINGLE FISH throughout my whole month here. I don't generally see fish burgers or stuff. They do sell salmon-made food but well, expensive la weih. And yea, because I dunno how to cook fish *pokes fingers* so I don't buy. Someone wanna come and cook for me? Puh-lease~ :P



4. Streets
The streets are undoubtly CLEAN. No trash around, seriously. Probably because it's too safe here, the street lights are so DIM~~~ Only the main streets are thoroughly lit, the smaller streets are so dark~~~ Scary weih at night.

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 This is not the picture that I took from Brisbane. But yea, it's dark something like this here. Scary huh?



Well since I am already on the issue of safety, let's just talk about their houses. Many of the houses here have NO GATE. seriously. Even if they do a lot of them aren't even closed/locked. Some houses don't even have FENCES.  Like what the heck. This are things we heard from our grandmother's generation when Malaysia was still safe. Now? Double lock triple lock in Malaysia also no use. Haih.





So yea, I guess this is what I've noted for the month? Let me know what else you wanna know and if it's interesting, I shall make it my next post. hehe. Until then, tata.