Driving in Malaysia can be pretty horrifying, bunch of idiots are driving on the roads, I wonder how they got their driving license. Arhh right, kopi duit..
A few important lessons should be learned by some drivers or road users..
1. When turning left or right, start the signal light BEFORE turning. It is absolutely USELESS if the driver signalling AFTER started turning. And please let the signal light blink a few times before turning, it is almost useless if turning immediately after the first blinking.
2. Keep a safe distance from the front car. Some drivers think their driving skill damn good and can always manage to emergency brake.. true, but the car behind might not be as skillful leh.. BANG!!
3. When raining, turn on the headlights, it might not help the visibility of the one driving, but will help the car in front to realize that there are cars behind.
4. When traffic jam, don’t horn. No matter how loud the horning is, the traffic won’t flow.
5. Motorcycle is designed for 2 persons, MAXIMUM. Don’t ever try to load the bike with 3 or 4 person, that is damn dangerous!
6. I almost killed a stupid motorcyclist a few days ago, not my fault.. to that damn-deserve-to-die motorcylist, RED means stop!!! Simplest rule of all!
7. Pedestrians.. when crossing the road, make sure there is no cars approaching and please walk faster. Never never rely on the car driver to punch his stupid foot on the possible malfunctioned brake, that’s how accidents happened.
8. Using cellphone without handsfree support is illegal. I don’t see why eating a burger when driving is legal?
glossary ~ kopi duit means coffee money or bribery in Malaysia. Despite the useless effort of Malaysia government to fight corruption, bribery still happens very much everywhere in Malaysia.
January 9th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
abang jee.. it’s definitely more dangerous to drive in KL Lor hehehe
January 10th, 2006 at 2:52 am
Do you realise that some people use “hands-free” but still hold them while talking? Defeats the purpose!
January 10th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Be very careful in when your car is involved in an accident with a motorcyclist. Apparently, in the absence of concrete evidence, the courts will always give the benefit of the doubt to the motorcyclist (even though the motorcyclist is the perpetrator!), unless you can prove that there were mitigating circumstances.
If possible, the best thing to do would be to wait for the police to take the pics of the accident aftermath *before* removing your vehicle from the spot. Failing that, at least take a pic with your h/p camera or digital cam.
If you forgot to take photographic evidence before moving your vehicle, you better pray that you can find some other physical evidence that can put the blame squarely on the motorcyclist’s shoulder, e.g. you find beer bottles in his motorcycle and his breath smells of alcohol (to prove that he’s been drinking and his judgement was impaired).
Frankly I think this “benefit of the doubt” thing really sucks. Not only do motorcyclists flout the traffic rules, but when they get into accidents, the law backs them up!
January 10th, 2006 at 7:59 am
9. don’t make out while the vehicle is moving or not. haha.
hey jee, thanks for sharing!
January 10th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Adik Alicia, driving in Ipoh also dang horror lar!
Tanya you are right.. some people when using handsfree like to hold their hand on the mic, and I don’t know why.
Thanks for the tips Ganchan
Laarni, you are evil
January 11th, 2006 at 9:41 am
haha,ya. that’s very horrifying to drive in KL. My husband and I also complain that lot of drivers drive so stupid..hehe..he said why traffic jam? coz got lot of ppl stupid when driving..too slow or “lun zhun” (careless)
January 12th, 2006 at 9:52 am
lol Irene sometimes I also frustrated by slow drivers but at least they are following the rules, so I’ll bear with them.. it’s those ruthless drivers that makes me sick.