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Strike Three - You’re Out, Mofo

Having been in Malaysia for nearly 3 weeks now, I’ve used up all my cash (converted all of it into ringgit), exhausted my credit cards and am now penniless.

So I borrowed my wife’s ATM card and made my way to a Maybank outlet at 7.30am in the morning, only to be greeted by this message - “ATM out of service”.

Grumbling, I went to another ATM at another branch - only to be told by the person in front of me that the ATM had run out of cash. Since when do ATMs run out of cash? Especially when they are inside a bank?

So later in the night, I went and tried my luck again. This time I discovered that ATMs had business hours too and didn’t dispense cash at night.

Who is to blame for this kind of idiot ATM self-service? I have no idea. It’s terribly disappointing. I could wish a swarm of flies to infest the armpits of the Maybank CIO, but I’m sure there would be no point. Plenty of other people must have had this idea cross their mind, and already made the wish only to realize that wishes don’t come true.

Haha.. Guess those business hours thingie are to prevent robbery.. and No one can kidnap you and force you to draw money in the dead of the night..

Dun you feel safe ?

gwahaha! welcome to msia man!

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Welcome to the world of Malaysia. You’ll get used to it if u stay longer! That’s the shucks part of Malaysia’s ATM.

How do you moblog to your WordPress?

You can use the new Blue POSBank ATM card to draw cash in Malaysia from any ATM with the cirrus logo.

Hope its useful for you.

Eh? I rarely have this problem. Are you in KL.. or out in the boondocks?

you do not need to withdraw from Maybank machines.

you can withdraw cash from ANY ATM machines at other banks - as long as the machines have the “MEPS” logo. You only need to incur additional RM1 if you do that.

Malaysia ain’t that bad.

hehe my man also borrowed some money from me last night (account overdrawn), must be going around !

it’s so easy to take things for granted when you’re so used to everything workign and just GEING THERE eh? haha.

sometimes when KL people go to the more rural areas, they get the same sentiments as well…