It was a normal sight among the streets of Kuala Lumpur. True to it's true name (translated as muddy delta), the facade of the Golden Triangle were littered and stained, with annoying beggars.
Pasty-faced, wrinkly old women sitting at the side of the street, armed with a cup or a bowl, bowed down to targeted tourists, hopefully to earn a little income to fill their empty stomachs, or their "hurtful soul". And these tourists being filled with money, can't wait to donate a few shillings to these beggars. They thanked them and happily counted their measly sum.
And then my eyes were caught on this very young boy. He was drinking from a fountain in front of a posh restaurant, and admittedly a very good looking boy for an age of 10. The water fountain was obviously not clorined but it wasn't healthy, yet he drank from there.
The security guard saw him and chased him away, and he glared at the guard with his big menacing eyes, and he took his t-shirt to wipe his mouth from the remaining water dripping. He walked swankily, like a street kid, like he knows the place so well he was born to walk on it. Like a Michael Jackson style.
Then he reached to a man puffing away out of Starbucks. He put his hand into his mouth, like the typical Indian way of saying "eat". Swiftly the puffer put a hand in his pocket and passed him to several shillings.
He took one good look, grunted, put the shillings into his pockets, walked past all the other office workers, and walked off.
If I wasn't wrong, I just saw a child beggar his works.
He don't look like a beggar at all, but when he made that motion, people just give money to him. He didn't need to beg, he didn't need to cry. He was as swanky as a street kid. Yet, people do that. Maybe they felt annoyed with the kid. But I'm surprised such begging occurs
This so called Golden Triangle is filled with these people. It's shameful that this land have so-called values so high only the elites can pay for it, but yet it shows nothing elite about their work in ensuring welfare to the poor.
This is the ugly side of Bukit Bintang.
Then he reached to a man puffing away out of Starbucks. He put his hand into his mouth, like the typical Indian way of saying "eat". Swiftly the puffer put a hand in his pocket and passed him to several shillings.
He took one good look, grunted, put the shillings into his pockets, walked past all the other office workers, and walked off.
If I wasn't wrong, I just saw a child beggar his works.
He don't look like a beggar at all, but when he made that motion, people just give money to him. He didn't need to beg, he didn't need to cry. He was as swanky as a street kid. Yet, people do that. Maybe they felt annoyed with the kid. But I'm surprised such begging occurs
This so called Golden Triangle is filled with these people. It's shameful that this land have so-called values so high only the elites can pay for it, but yet it shows nothing elite about their work in ensuring welfare to the poor.
This is the ugly side of Bukit Bintang.
2 comments:
agreed...i had this indian child kept staring at us...we didnt want to giv them money coz we knew they were syndicates...
when the shop keeper shooed them, they stared back at the shop keeper with those killer looks...as if they own the place...
kids these days...
Tis like they feel no shame...I gotta learn from them la
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