on the way back from work today, we had a brush with the law for the first time. it all started when ghulam (our driver's name) ran a red light at one of the traffic lights. right after that we saw the blue lights of a patrol car right behind us. stopping by the side, the ghulam went down from the car and was talking to the officer when he walked up to the car and had a look inside. then things got "interesting" from there on.
there is a law here that says that female mustn't sit in the car at the back with male unless he is the husband/brother/father. and in our case, philo was sitting at the back with me, danny & fauzi. the officer started to question ghulam why is there a female sitting (squeezing together is more like it) at the back. then he requested to see all our iqama. obediently, we passed our iqama to him. and he walked back to his patrol car and we were like "shit, definately have to go to the station now". ghulam continued to explain that we are working for NAS, which belongs to Prince Khalid (newphew of the King) and we are malaysian (which never fails to impress the arabs). ghulam even showed him a "forged" document saying that he is assigned by NAS to be our driver.
after 15 minutes of "discussing", the officer came back and says that philo shouldn't sit at the back and it is not allowed. so all we did to satisfy this "rule" was moved philo to the front and hisham squeezed at the back with us. after that, the officer allowed us to continue our journey home. things get to go our way when you're working with the right company and the right nationality. if we were Filipinos, we would have spend the rest of the night at the station (locked up) till we get our sponsor to come and solve this matter.
well, nothing much can be said about this country except that its a totally out-of-this-world. they are after all, one of the richest third world mentality country you would find in the world.....
there is a law here that says that female mustn't sit in the car at the back with male unless he is the husband/brother/father. and in our case, philo was sitting at the back with me, danny & fauzi. the officer started to question ghulam why is there a female sitting (squeezing together is more like it) at the back. then he requested to see all our iqama. obediently, we passed our iqama to him. and he walked back to his patrol car and we were like "shit, definately have to go to the station now". ghulam continued to explain that we are working for NAS, which belongs to Prince Khalid (newphew of the King) and we are malaysian (which never fails to impress the arabs). ghulam even showed him a "forged" document saying that he is assigned by NAS to be our driver.
after 15 minutes of "discussing", the officer came back and says that philo shouldn't sit at the back and it is not allowed. so all we did to satisfy this "rule" was moved philo to the front and hisham squeezed at the back with us. after that, the officer allowed us to continue our journey home. things get to go our way when you're working with the right company and the right nationality. if we were Filipinos, we would have spend the rest of the night at the station (locked up) till we get our sponsor to come and solve this matter.
well, nothing much can be said about this country except that its a totally out-of-this-world. they are after all, one of the richest third world mentality country you would find in the world.....
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