Jan 13, 2009
Yes!! that's my answer to your question.
wait a minute.. how can i know what u are thinking? cause i study psychology... i can read minds remember? XD u must be wondering did i met a mat rempit today and had a bad experience right? and so the answer is above, and again.. i say it here.. Yes!!
No la.. psychologist don't read mind. And no.. i didn't had any bad experience with mat rempit today. :p i just suddenly decided to blog about it cause....
today we had a really really short discussion about what we should do for our presentation in one of our subjects (Adolescent and adult development psych) and one of the topic is mat rempit. i thought that it would be pretty interesting (besides the fact that if we really can pull off this research, it would be really really super duper cool cause it will be the first ever psychological reseach on mat rempits and you know how popular we are going to be? ah fame.. people might actually invite us to give talk, ask for professional opinion.. oh i am already drooling from thinking about it :p) therefore, i came home and did some research (see.. i do my homework k)..
so this is what i came up with.. i found this blog of mat rempit and according to the blog, mat rempits are only interested in racing and not things such as gangsterism or vandalism. what they are aiming for are actually adrenaline 'high' during the race, and it gets especially high when police are chasing them. and jeng jeng jeng.. this is the most interesting point (or at least to me) i found out
some of the mat rempits are graduate from University. i repeat.. GRADUATE.
this is really strange. i can understand y they want adrenaline rush.. cause teenagers have a surge of hormone and they would want to find this 'high', apply to both guys and girls (as proved by the existence of minah rempit), coupled with teenagers' feeling of immortally, and wanting to prove themselves. and on the sidenote, human prefrontal cortex doesn't grow till it's optimal level until when we are in our 20's. So teenagers having such behavior.. understandable
but being a graduate.. that's another matter.. it means that the person is at least 22? and being a graduate, the individual should have a high expectation for him/herself and would find high in something more ... safe? really i don't understand.. which is what makes it more interesting.. but of course, according to the blogger, graduates are only a small fraction constituting mat rempit la.
and i also want to know.. y are mat rempits almost all malays? are there any other races? yes? no? WHY?? gah!! no use thinking so much since i can't do any reseach on them also.. no past research (if got, then it wouldn't be called 'first ever' in the first place right? XD), takkan go and interview them right? although i actually did imagine the scenario.. lol.. funny...
ok back to reality.. might do something related to retirement *wink wink* or teen pregnancy
God Bless~
