EMIRATES DISCRIMINATES!

sure - discrimination happens everywhere. even back home. some discrimination are actually good. like when you are in the lrt, and you are supposed to give your seat to a pregnant lady. of course, it's discrimination towards those of us who are not genetically capable of being pregnant. but it's positive discrimination. doesn't really hurt, right?

this country discriminates big time. it discriminates based on gender, it discriminates based on nationality and it discriminates based on your economic standing. so fine - gender discrimination is usually positive discrimination. they are established to provide 'assistance' to the so-called 'weaker' sex (i have a big problem with feminism). it is said that here, if you hit a woman (with your vehicle) on the street, you will go to jail straight (which is among the reasons why i've decided not to drive here). no questions asked. however, this is not the case of you knock down a guy. now being a guy - i'm not so happy with this law :P.

recently, it has been announced that the government is taking some measures to improve the traffic condition in the city (which is wayyy worse than kl btw). and how is the government doing this? by imposing toll on EXISTING roads that lead to the city i think it will cost about 4 ringgit per way). the idea is to discourage people from driving into the city. and the only people who will be discouraged by this are the lower income people. not only do they have to struggle with little money, now they are forced to take the public transport to get to work - just so that the ar*bs can drive their gleaming rolls royces and jaguars on a less congested road. this is also the same for the parking situation in the city. to make parking more available for the rich, they are imposing meter parking at residential areas (most apartment buildings would have some stores on the ground floor, so parking space is fought between the shoppers and residents). thank god i don't drive here...

oh and don't even get me started on discrimination towards nationality. it comes in many different ways and aspects of life here. even when it comes to information. i just realised that currently there is local tv that airs the news in english. this country has about 6 locally-based tv channels, and yet NONE of them has news in english. being in a country where more than half of the population are not able to speak arabic, i find it hard to believe. and why is this happening - because we're being discriminated. they don't really care about us - not so much.

i was at the d*bai zoo a couple of weeks ago (don't ask why). but this is what i saw at the zoo:



notice how detailed is the information provided in arabic as compared to english. this is how the country is. discrimination is everywhere - even at the zoo! (note to self : jangan nak drama lebih2. learn arabic la you lazy bum!!)

p.s : oh yeah - talking about being deprived of information - this is a special note to docteur paul. paul, your blog is not accessible from this country (since the last few months actually). i don't know whether you will be flattered by this or not (hehehe), but i miss reading your highly sophisticated blog