A true story by John Kimani Ngure Do you live in Malaysia? Please feel free to share this story with fellow citizens... THE STORY OF THE LUCKIEST WOMAN IN MALAYSIA Not all women in Malaysia are lucky. Many – even the most educated - will have to toil all day in offices, factories and homes to make their money. They get it only in form of wages, allowances or salaries. Some have to depend on their husbands, children or relatives to meet their daily needs. Many have to suffer and humbly endure great situations before getting some work, opportunity or resource. This is not so for one specific woman in Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia. She does NOT need to go through all those hustles. She needs no employer, no supervisor...no salary ...even no work. her live does not swim that direction. She is just lucky. She is extremely so lucky. Here’s how she makes her money – a lot of it - in US dollars, cool and quick, everyday - Monday to Monday: STEP ONE - At Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), there is a SPECIAL OFFICE within the immigration department that is responsible for screening incoming travelers – especially those coming to the country for their first time from 3rd world nations. This place is always full of drama. Read on... A few lucky immigration officers work here. They have huge powers, all to themselves. It is in their hands to decide and determine who is to be allowed into the country or who is to be declared a PDE (Person Denied Entry). They are free to set and decide which rules to use for each individual traveler. The poor foreigners have no way of knowing which rules are official or not. In any case, all people caught in this place are at the mercies of these officers - and for them, there are no appeal mechanisms allowed. Having flown all the way from their nations and finding themselves suddenly faced with the possibility of being declared “PDEs,” these poor air travelers are quickly pushed into panic and desperation. Some are finally declared PDEs. Some are able to maneuver their way out – somehow. (…Your guess is as good as mine). Now, within KLIA, there is a dingy dungeon where all the unlucky ones are locked up – they have a chamber for men and another for women. By the time one is locked up here, their passports and mobile phones, ipads, laptops will have been registered and confiscated until their day – the actual moment - of their departure from KLIA; meaning, they cannot call or communicate to anyone outside of that dingy dungeon. (Some still manage to work out their communications here. How? Here again…Your guess is as good as mine). The flights for these PDEs will not be on any guaranteed day or date. It depends on when there will be an unbooked seat available on their respective airlines. It could be within a day, a week, a month or even a year. There are no beds or bedding here. Everyone sleeps on the concrete floor. Meanwhile, the immigration department has no obligation or responsibility to feed the PDEs. They are required to make own arrangements to get food. A notice pinned on a wall within the facility informs PDEs about this – ending with “…sorry & T Q” STEP TWO - Now, this is where the Lucky Woman enters the drama. She comes in to fill this hunger and thirst gap! She is the ONLY person in all Malaysia that is allowed to sell food in this special PDE holding centre at KLIA – once every day. That is how lucky this Malaysian woman is. She comes only once in the evening - when the PDE’s (in their dozens) have been worn out by hunger and thirst. This is when they are most desperate. Her food is sold both in foreign currency and RM. Those with USD buy first, then if there be items remaining, the RM lot may buy. In her Quick Shop, a bottle of mineral water is anything between USD 2-3 and bread is about USD 3-5. A pack of cooked rice with an egg, beef or chicken stew is anything between USD 5 to USD 10. If you are a PDE and only have your currency in US dollars, you are asked to have no worries. This Lucky woman is also allowed to help you – she is also a forex dealer. She sets her own exchange rates depending on how desperate you are for RM (remember you may be needing some RM to organize a call with an officer later at night..). For your 1 US dollar, her forex rate is anything but not beyond 25 RM. In a short few minutes, this Lucky Malaysian woman will have her hands full of sweet liquid cash – mainly in USD. She may have to share it with a few officers in the immigration department, maybe…but at any rate, she is definitely at the top of the list of Malaysian women who are well to do - and making clean cash in moments. One more thing. In this place of hopelessness and desperation, the Lucky woman wields a lot of power. At the top of her voice, she can be heard yelling and shouting “order! order! order!” This is to the PDEs because they will be scrambling to get her attention and mercy. Fron time to time, she will be screaming “Hey, you Pakistani, move from there! you African, come up here, you Vietnam, you this, you that…now! here! There!!!”.. Imagining that the place will have several new entrants every day, she may not be carrying rations enough to sell to everyone at all times. So, just like how new born babies learn to breastfeed instantly for to survive, PDEs here will are quickly required to learn the art of begging and pleading with this Lucky Malaysian woman. She makes her money in US dollars daily – cool and sweet. It just takes a few moments of her day, every evening. Any day, her god will have trapped a huge catch of clients - of a class no less than stranded air travelers in an international airport. These are not your usual refugees. These are people with some solid means – mostly in US dollars - yet again, they all have one thing in common – they are hungry, thirsty and very desperate. Dont you agree that this is the luckiest madam in all Malaysia! In Kuala Lumpur City and indeed all Malaysia, there is none like her, I bet. From today, please never say anyone is corrupt, say they are LUCKY! (This is an eye witness testimony by Pastor John Kimani – a church minister who was unlucky to experience PDE status at KLIA on the evening of Friday 25th October 2013. By God’s grace, Pastor John was able to fly out to his home country on the same night – but not before learning the tricks of survival in this place of horror and witnessing/ documenting this Lucky Woman drama taking place). THE STORY OF THE LUCKIEST WOMAN IN MALAYSIA Not all women in Malaysia are lucky. Many – even the most educated - will have to toil all day in offices, factories and homes to make their money. They get it only in form of wages, allowances or salaries. Some have to depend on their husbands, children or relatives to meet their daily needs. Many have to suffer and humbly endure great situations before getting some work, opportunity or resource. This is not so for one specific woman in Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia. She does NOT need to go through all those hustles. She needs no employer, no supervisor...no salary ...even no work. her live does not swim that direction. She is just lucky. She is extremely so lucky. Here’s how she makes her money – a lot of it - in US dollars, cool and quick, everyday - Monday to Monday: STEP ONE - At Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), there is a SPECIAL OFFICE within the immigration department that is responsible for screening incoming travelers – especially those coming to the country for their first time from 3rd world nations. This place is always full of drama. Read on... A few lucky immigration officers work here. They have huge powers, all to themselves. It is in their hands to decide and determine who is to be allowed into the country or who is to be declared a PDE (Person Denied Entry). They are free to set and decide which rules to use for each individual traveler. The poor foreigners have no way of knowing which rules are official or not. In any case, all people caught in this place are at the mercies of these officers - and for them, there are no appeal mechanisms allowed. Having flown all the way from their nations and finding themselves suddenly faced with the possibility of being declared “PDEs,” these poor air travelers are quickly pushed into panic and desperation. Some are finally declared PDEs. Some are able to maneuver their way out – somehow. (…Your guess is as good as mine). Now, within KLIA, there is a dingy dungeon where all the unlucky ones are locked up – they have a chamber for men and another for women. By the time one is locked up here, their passports and mobile phones, ipads, laptops will have been registered and confiscated until their day – the actual moment - of their departure from KLIA; meaning, they cannot call or communicate to anyone outside of that dingy dungeon. (Some still manage to work out their communications here. How? Here again…Your guess is as good as mine). The flights for these PDEs will not be on any guaranteed day or date. It depends on when there will be an unbooked seat available on their respective airlines. It could be within a day, a week, a month or even a year. There are no beds or bedding here. Everyone sleeps on the concrete floor. Meanwhile, the immigration department has no obligation or responsibility to feed the PDEs. They are required to make own arrangements to get food. A notice pinned on a wall within the facility informs PDEs about this – ending with “…sorry & T Q” STEP TWO - Now, this is where the Lucky Woman enters the drama. She comes in to fill this hunger and thirst gap! She is the ONLY person in all Malaysia that is allowed to sell food in this special PDE holding centre at KLIA – once every day. That is how lucky this Malaysian woman is. She comes only once in the evening - when the PDE’s (in their dozens) have been worn out by hunger and thirst. This is when they are most desperate. Her food is sold both in foreign currency and RM. Those with USD buy first, then if there be items remaining, the RM lot may buy. In her Quick Shop, a bottle of mineral water is anything between USD 2-3 and bread is about USD 3-5. A pack of cooked rice with an egg, beef or chicken stew is anything between USD 5 to USD 10. If you are a PDE and only have your currency in US dollars, you are asked to have no worries. This Lucky woman is also allowed to help you – she is also a forex dealer. She sets her own exchange rates depending on how desperate you are for RM (remember you may be needing some RM to organize a call with an officer later at night..). For your 1 US dollar, her forex rate is anything but not beyond 25 RM. In a short few minutes, this Lucky Malaysian woman will have her hands full of sweet liquid cash – mainly in USD. She may have to share it with a few officers in the immigration department, maybe…but at any rate, she is definitely at the top of the list of Malaysian women who are well to do - and making clean cash in moments. One more thing. In this place of hopelessness and desperation, the Lucky woman wields a lot of power. At the top of her voice, she can be heard yelling and shouting “order! order! order!” This is to the PDEs because they will be scrambling to get her attention and mercy. Fron time to time, she will be screaming “Hey, you Pakistani, move from there! you African, come up here, you Vietnam, you this, you that…now! here! There!!!”.. Imagining that the place will have several new entrants every day, she may not be carrying rations enough to sell to everyone at all times. So, just like how new born babies learn to breastfeed instantly for to survive, PDEs here will are quickly required to learn the art of begging and pleading with this Lucky Malaysian woman. She makes her money in US dollars daily – cool and sweet. It just takes a few moments of her day, every evening. Any day, her god will have trapped a huge catch of clients - of a class no less than stranded air travelers in an international airport. These are not your usual refugees. These are people with some solid means – mostly in US dollars - yet again, they all have one thing in common – they are hungry, thirsty and very desperate. Dont you agree that this is the luckiest madam in all Malaysia! In Kuala Lumpur City and indeed all Malaysia, there is none like her, I bet. From today, please never say anyone is corrupt, say they are LUCKY! (This is an eye witness testimony by Pastor John Kimani – a church minister who was unlucky to experience PDE status at KLIA on the evening of Friday 25th October 2013. By God’s grace, Pastor John was able to fly out to his home country on the same night – but not before learning the tricks of survival in this place of horror and witnessing/ documenting this Lucky Woman drama taking place).
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