Bike, Cabbies, and Buddhist Monks?
Well after getting pulled out of Tour of Langkawi I quickly realized that there is NO where to ride ones bike unless he or she is in the race. Actually I take that back I saw two groups of idiot riders ridding on the 4 lane highway. So I did not touch my bike that last two days in Malaysia, then traveled 24 hrs to get back in to Gerona Spain. Starting what could be my 4th day of no ride, I am thinking that I should get back on the horse. Well this is actually the first day I CAN get back on the horse.
So the cabbies in Malaysia are horrible…..WARNING this might piss a few readers off for me typing one or two words spoken to us by the Cabbies…….”Taxi, Taxi? You want boom, boom? Taxi, Taxi? Puuuuzzzzziiiiieee!? Sex? Good exercise! (imagen someone imitating a thrusting motion) Good exercise, like this, like this? You want taxi, taxi?” Those were some interesting cabbies.
What was almost better was the two Buddist monks that were pan handling donations from gullible tourist, well they got KiKi, but not me. As I had no money. They would have you read this translated message about how they are attempting to build there temple, how they needed additional help, and then have you write your name down, where you from, the word PEACE (which is a word they used to draw you in….”Peace, Peace, Peace” then they would place this golden card with Mandarin written on it), then have you write how much your were going to donate. Well KiKi pulled out 15 malaysian dollars quickly, but I had no money. SO I thought about it, the monk pushed the little booklet that I was to write my amount on towards me, I stated I had no money, the he pointed to KiKi like….”Hey jerk your friend has cash and he is helping out, so why can’t you?”. Then he got this frustrated/pissed look on his face, so not to leave him with an empty $$$ amount space, I wrote in PRAYER. I shall give you PRAYER. He was not happy, but I thought that it was a nice thing to provide. OK I am not going to pray day and night that the Buddhist monks will scam more people, but just that they might see things a little differently. I really could not believe how pissed he got when I did not provide him with any money….aren’t you supposed to be kind, gentle, and loving???
February 13th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Brad, that is how buddhist monks eat from day to day. They are very respected in the towns that border their monastery and every day they go to town to get what they can to survive. It is a tradition that has been going on for years and years and will continue to do so until the end of time. I’m not saying these particular monks were great guys or anything, but that is pretty much how it is over there.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
wait a minute, you mean to tell me you were all the way over there in malaysia, the renowned world capitial of boom boom, and you didn’t go for any taxi taxi good exercise?
February 13th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
It seems that anywhere Americans go where there are lots poor folks (anywhere except Europe, Australia, Japan), everyone thinks that Americans are just made of money. Those guys there only see very wealthy Americans on TV and thus they think that all of us live like “Cribs” on MTV. I got the same kind of sh.. stuff when I was in Venezuela. “Oh, you’re Americans, you can afford double.”
February 13th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Your watts per stitch ratio just went way up for offering prayer instead of money.
February 14th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Brad, I always respect you. Boom boom and prayer, again good job!!!