being in labuan..

im here in labuan, touch down since yesterday after a 3 hour trip from Kota Kinabalu via ferry. shouldn't have come alone, the ferry ride was a bore and the couple seating behind me talking tagalog wasn't much help alleviating the boredom.

it has been a strange 2 days, i've met with frens i've never met before and i've gotten to know the shaddy part of labuan. the underworld or so to say; well perhaps just a glimpse. my friend's brother happens to work in a security service company, running the labuan branch and when you work in those areas you are bound to know those who 'runs' the island during the night. it isnt the police or the secret service. its the thugs and the 'bonZers'.

now before everyone jumps to the conclusion that these are terrible people; though only if you cross their line; they are some what for some a really nice. had the chance to met with a few and yep they look alright for me from safe distance that i was.

the underworld or the 'night' world would always be everywhere albeit in semenanjung or the any of the thousands of islands in the archipelago. its hidden, working behind the scenes and in most parts they are the actual powers.

police have no powers here, their credibility as a efficient law enforcing machine has long gone. corruption has tainted its image, to find a good clean policemen would be some what almost impossible. in my experience; things that i have seen with my own eye has taught me that the royal malaysian police have a loooooooooong way to go before they are truly trustworthy. seize illegal items are never safe from prying hands, albeit its as unregistered drugs from the phillipines or the many many indon islands. do they care about the public? i think thats the least that is on their mind.

i suppose im just dissolusioned with all the things that have been going on. i want malaysia to be a nice safe place, where anyone can go out with the sense of security that you can even leave the gates open and no one will pry in. but i guess my kind of utopia is still waaaaaaaaaaay in dreams. i just hope that someday, just someday things would turn around voila, i'll get my utopia.