Meet The Asylum Seeker

How do you spend your youth? Do you live with your family? Are you satisfied enough? Are you living in peace? Perhaps most of you are living in peace with your family satisfaction and government of your country is still protecting you. What if they don't?? you are living in screwed situation like our brothers and sisters in Syria, Lebanon, Myanmar, Afghanistan etc.

He was born in January 1st 1992

Me and my friend from Kenya, Ali Adam, were having a dinner after maghrib in Thai Restaurant, suddenly, one guy came and sat up next to me. Ive met one guy from Bangladesh his name was Raihan, obviously he's refugee from border of Myanmar and Bangladesh but I don't remember the name of the place. He was hungry and wanted to buy a meal, and he asked to the waitress:

”I want nasi goreng, how much??”

“Its RM 5” the waiters said.

“Expensive laa! Musafir ana musafir long trip!!” he said used hand gesture

“Expensive? Its not, its normal price for nasi goreng” waiters added

“I want nasi goreng please, no water is oke la. I'm hungry” he said

to make it clear, I just make everything is clear and explaining to the waiters what he wants, we will pay dont worry. The waiters left.

He ate nasi goreng without anything even water.

When I asked him,” Are you Rohingnya?” He said “No, I'm not (with broken English he mention about something in the gesture). Anyway, he was telling me the story about him and I kept asking him questions.

He traveled with the boat around seven-days-seven-nights sailing the sea without any radars or any technology devices only with the human instinct , surprisingly, that boat carried around a hundred-forty people. What they need was how to escape and they traveled without any single passport. He told me that, they spent around RM 8400 to reach here (Im not sure whether its true). Maybe, they thought either we die with the 'ruthless' government or we die into the sea (even escape there is possibility to still alive). How simple they are like playing with the dice. :((

They supposed to go to Malaysia but the boat docked in Thailand maybe because they had no technology that's way they get wrong destination. Then, Thailand Government took them into the refugee camp. He continued that in Thailand refugee camp, they served with 2 meals, breakfast and lunch in the evening time. He also mention that the policeman in Thailand looked 'so wild' to us in refugee camp. 

UNHCR card that has advantages for him

He didnt tell me about how they get here in Malaysia. As long as I know, he received refugee card from UN (UNHCR) which has several advantages and he doesn't need a passport. Now, he live with four friends remaining from that boat, and he doesnt know about their friends on boat. He said they left us since we came to Malaysia and we didnt know about them, they are bad. He is working as painter now, even there is plague of paint left on his body and clothes while eating dinner. What I think about him now is his mentally (literally) has problems.

It reflects me that...

How can you live with uncertain condition in another country, no family, no parents? And spend your youth in vagueness? Its like killing yourself in the country which living cost is expensive. Then I ask to the world,”Is it necessary to kill another life, when living in harmony still possible? Why do you take another person's life where you don't want to be taken too? ”.