Crossing the road (and other Malaysian Adventures)

It's quite an adventure to cross the road in Kuala Lumpur and it seems to be one of the big kicks to do it as often and as risky as possible. Maybe I'm just not used to those kind of streets, coming from quite a small town, but crossing a six-lane inner-city road in the middle of rush hour on the basis of "Oh, they are going to stop anyway" sounds more than just dangerous to me.. especially considered the fact that Malaysian drivers are going to do anything but stop. Maybe they will sverve (sp?), but not stop.. amazingly enough, even with hundreds of people crossing the crowded street at the same time, almost nothing seems to happen..