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I hate you, bloody, pompous, governmental officials. I hate you.

As per my previous post, my dad received this summon to court today, 9a.m. Not wanting to have a sticky ending, I was early for once. I arrived at the Mahkamah Majistret (Majlis Bandaraya) at 8.40a.m. O.o With my dad.

So yeah, the building was open. Surprisingly. Me walked in with dad, and approached the counter which says "bayaran kompaun boleh dibayar di sini". I showed that malay woman my (dad’s) slip. Without even taking it, and looking properly, she pointed upstairs. So, I went upstairs. And I approached the counter which says "semakan kompaun boleh disemak di sini". I showed that malay woman my (dad’s) slip. She took a look at it, pointed downstairs.

… What the fuck? I think I actually said "what the fuck" out loud. Anyway, I told her that I was just told my another malay woman to come upstairs. And she told me, "bukan bukan bukan, pergi situ jurubahasa kaunter."

So I went downstairs, to the "jurubahasa kaunter". I showed yet another malay woman my (dad’s) slip. She started shuffling through some papers, and told me to wait for a bit for the "jurubahasa" to come. So I waited. 45 minutes. I waited. And waited. And waited.

FINALLY the "jurubahasa" came. After taking a look at the slip, she told me to proceed to the courtroom and wait for the "judge" to come. So I went to the courtroom and waited for the "judge" to come.

OOT: Being a law student, I’ve always wondered how it was like being inside a courtroom. Whee. Now I finally get the chance. However, to my disappointment, it was nothing but meh. No handcuffs, no struggling desperated prisoners pointing middle fingers here and there, nothing. In fact, there was NOBODY there. O.o I stole a look at the time. 9.55a.m. Awesome. The "judge" ain’t here yet.

So I waited. 10.00am, 10.05am, 10.10am, 10.15am. I was still waiting.

And whoooooo, all 7 people in blazers came in. 6 interpretors, 1 majistret. And still the damn hearing’s not starting yet. The 6 interpretors were seen riffling through endless heaps of papers, while muttering to themselves. I glanced at the time, again. 10.20am.

Finally, the damned hearing began. I was there early, so it was only natural I was one of the first few to be heard.

"Bahawa kamu pada 06/06/2007 jam lebih kurang 4.34petang sebagai pemilik berdaftar/pemandu kenderaan motor nombor pendaftarannya MY8688, didapati meletakkan kereta anda disuatu tempat yang dikenali sebagai No. XOX, di XOX, Melaka di dalam kawasan MBMB di dalam daerah Melaka Tengah, Negeri Melaka dan dengan it anda telah melakukan satu kesalahan di bawah Undang-undang Kecil 7 Undang-undang Kecil Taman (MPMT) 1983 dan boleh dihukum di bawah Undang-undang Kecil 11 Undang-undang Kecil yang sama."

me: …

Interpretor No. 2: Anda faham?

me: ya.

Interpretor No. 2: Anda Foo K*** F***???

me: … Anak perempuan dia.

Interpretor No. 2: Anda mengaku salah?

me: … ya.

Interpretor: Ada apa-apa rayuan?

me: … Rayuan untuk kurangkan denda.

Majistret: RM120.

me: …

<== Anyway this is the receipt, which I got from the same malay woman who told me to go upstairs in the first place.

All in all, it was one helluva boring experience. Only good thing about it was that dad gave me 300 bucks just in case, and now I get to keep the left over 180 bucks. =p

so the moral of this pointless post is: people, pay your goddamn summonses ASAP. ^^

/me goes pay the rest of her summonses NOW.

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