Persepsi saya tentang orang Melayu

Melayu is synonim with politeness, kindness, emphaty, grateful, and beautiful. However, I also see some of them are lazy, slow, unproductive, arrogant, unthankful and defensive. Well I would like to share my experience about Malayu.

Exp 1 : Melayu yang tidak berterima kasih dan sombong
There was one fine morning when I received a call from a member of Bukit antarabangsa Landslide victims association who requested a space for their charity work. Enthusiastly I answered the call to assist them to get the space for F.O.C. and at the same time I did mentioned about our limitation. Less than a week my management has agreed to offer them space for F.O.C, but not as big as what he requested. With an arrogant he then rejected our offer and sacarstically criticised my company. I still remember his word "ini ke XXXX ,GLC company yang tak berterima kasih, kita orang UMNO banyak support syarikat you tapi ini ke balasannya? , bukan tu je ada panjang lagi complainnya which I malas nak cerita. For me if you are really sincere you should have just accepted what has been given or offered. We also sincerely offer the sapce to them but they should undertsand that we also have a limitation such as space constraint and etc. And may be this is a reason why recently UMNO has facing a hard time. It is because some of the members were so arrogant and unthankful. Oh yes,,, he did mentioned that they had managed to collect more than RM200,000.00. I think it was a great achievement as compared to our charity activities that we did for more needy people like orphanage and OKU. They should be thankful, that eventhough they lost their great, gigantic properties but they still got an attention for many big corporations, and still have more than enough money to survive. Even if they lost their properties, I believed they have insured their properties since they were aware of the risk of living at that kind of area. Unless, they are truly stupid or actually can't afford to get an insurance. Nevertheless, I feel symphaty to what had happened to them. Semoga Allah melindungi mereka semua.

Exp. 2 : Kedai Makan Melayu
Today I went to visit my office mate Nadia who had delivered a baby boy at Klinik Bersalin UMRA opposite the Shah alam stadium. And the best part was it is located at the same row of office lama I Enche Marketing which owned by Dato' Amat Cekap who is so called perfectionist... (erm perfectionist ke bile jawatan offered was marketing executive tapi bile report duty jadi P.A lepas tu buat kerja, jaga botol air rumah dia, beli tiket konsert anak dia dan register celcom line anak dia... that's make me dicided to quit). Basically it brings all my memories before I got married. Before we went back to office we dropped by at one Kedai Makan Melayu for lunch. Nama kedai tu AGORA. The restaurant is huge but the owner is not intelligent enough to utilize the space. The restaurant has the longest empty food counters. Not much varieties, yet we have no choice but to have our lunch there. One thing about kedai makan melayu, it always has these trademark, tak reti nak layan pelanggan, tak ada initiative untuk memenuhi kehendak pelanggan, tak productive dan inovative. When we entered the restaurant, none of the staff smiles, welcome and offer us seats until a while we found one empty table with a chair. Second, they are not creative and productive as they don't have initiative to replanish the dishes when the food tray was empty, nobody came to us to give options until we saw chicken rice and noodles counters were outside at the pathway.
Third, when were paying at the counter, the snobish lady at the counter was discrimanting the payer. Apa tak nya, I was standing at the counter earlier than other mans, tapi duit jantan-jantan tu yang dia ambil dulu and left me waiting until she collected all the payments made by the male customers. What a discrimination. Lepas tu yang tak tahan tu dengan muka yang pandang rendah kat orang asked me to add RM0.80 cents. kalau ye pun apa salahnya minta baik-baik bukannya aku tak mampu nak bayar. Apa? kalau pakai uniform je gaji rendah tak mampu nak makan kat kedai makan. Excuse me, we all exec tau, yang sorang tu lawyer lagi. Actually, kedai makan AGORA bukanlah pilihan kedai makan for me and my husband. Restaurant macam tu kita masuk bila terdesak je. Our standard is at least like FRIENDSTER, Bandar damanasara Perdana. That's the different kedai makan owned by non melayu dan melayu. Once you entered a restaurant owned by the non melayu, they will friendly welcomes you while when you are at the restaurant melayu, you will hardly welcome. Another example is TONY ROMA, Cineleisure,one of our regular place for us to have lunch or dinner.They will greet you and entertained your request and infact they want us to rate thier services. Kalau kedai makan Melayu lagi tak cakap degan customer lagi bagus. Below my rating for restaurants I've been :

1. FRIENDSTER : 5 ***** (THIS IS MY SECOND LIVING ROOM)
2. TONY ROMA (CINELEISURE) : 5*****
3. TGI FRIDAYS (THE CURVE, ONE UTAMA, SUBANG PARADE : 5*****
4. JAKES (DAMANSARA, STARHILL) : 5*****
5. PACIFICA , MANADARIN ORIENTAL : 6****** ( there were one tima I had dinner there with my hubby, the chef did demo for me on how to make durian creambule erm yummy..)
6. THE SHIP (BUKIT BINTANG) : 5*****
7. THE ITALIANIES : 5*****
8. BUBBA GUMP : 3***
9. THAI EXPRESS : 3***
10 SUSHI KING (IKANO) : 4****
11. SUSHI KING (SOOKA SENTRAL) : 2**
12. DOME (IKANO) : 3***
13. CHINESE RESTAURANT HOLIDAY VILLA : 4****
14. AGORA, Shah Alam depan stadium shah alam : 0( no star)

APA KATA ANDA BAGI RATING KAT KEDAI MAKAN YANG PERNAH ANDA LAWATI?

The morale of the story, bangunlah melayu, changed your attitude, jangan sombong, lebihkanlah kemesraan sesama manusia and don't create enemy. Good Luck!