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What a city

I live in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It’s the biggest city in Malaysia. And as other major city in other countries, it is crowded, full of people, and cars. If you own a car and you used to drive to work, you got to be ready anytime, ready for any chance to stuck in a massive traffic jam. It could happen at any place, and anytime, as long as you are on the road. Don’t presume you’d be lucky on the road, just be prepared, and patient. Well, of course, that’s my very personal opinion.


It might not be a normal day. We’ve just gone through a congested evenning 2 days ago, because of flash floods caused by heavy rain (pity all those car owners whose cars buried by flood). And this morning, it came again, you’d be suffering if you drive to your office through middle ring road or Istana road, or somewhere else connected to them. There are two tanker accidents which one got on fire and the other turned over. Then of course it caused the other massive traffic congestion. I have to spent more than one hour to reach my office. As I woke up early this morning, I was wondering it’s so great I could go to office much earlier than normal and avoid the traffic jam. End up I was disappointed, just the other day stuck in the car matrix…and I might consider as lucky, my colleague left his home at 7:00am and arrived office at 10:00am!! Could you imagine that?

When I walked down my office to go for lunch this noon, looking up to the clouds, I saw a hazy air, not very sure if those hazy days are back to us or not?! And watching a row of bank people stand aside the road and picketing, lots of car drive through and horning to support them. I got a thought to escape from all of these stuff. Is it because of the city? Or is it just me feeling exhausted? Anyway, the city still breath peacefully, it has no up-and-down emotion. It’s just me, wandering around, thinking of love and hate of a city.