2008 January | the argot of an eidolon

murderous traffic

I’m back! Back from all the SEA countries and finally back to KL. I was so enthused about getting home when I was out there but now, now that when I’m here, now that when I have to face with that drastic traffic every morning and the heart wrenched early mornings, I wish I was travelling again!

I realised I have been blessed all these years working in PJ and in my ex-company. The only times that I have to get through the despicable jam were when I have to go to KL for meetings. But even then it was far and few between so I was OK with that.

Not now.

The jam started just outside my door and merrily continue all the way to KL. The only possible way for the cars to move is to crawl. And then sometimes you get those smart arses who think they can cut queue anytime they want and using emergency lanes and worse still – following closely behind the butt of a rushing ambulance, all contributed to the foul mood every driver will experienced in a jam.

So now every morning I reach office feeling like I’ve just fought a battle, and won the move-along-NOW-you-idiotic-tortoise-driver-with-no-brains-war with my sanity intact.

The thing about jam is that it gives you plenty of time to think – be it reflecting about yourself with the rear view mirror, doing mental list of your work (or chores), or secretly admiring the beautiful lady in the car just next to you. I constantly think about ways to eliminate the jam and I will continue to hope against hope that eventually some official will see the genius of my plan and implement them and thus eliminate this horrible time wasting activity.

1) To encourage car pool – Did you realised most cars have only 1 driver and that’s it? No wonder KL’s flooded with cars! CAR POOL!
2) To have prefix time slots for heavy vehicles to enter city only – especially those bus bullies!
3) To install ERP like Singapore in city centre – I’m sure the roads will be quite clear.
4) To slap a heavy fine to all the wayward drivers – No thanks to your selfish antics!
5) To designate different working hours for selected parts of the city so that not everyone has to go to work and go home at the same time!
6) To have better and more secure parking facilities around the LRT stations, more trips during rush hours, and lower the LRT ticket price to encourage usage.
7) To build covered walkways in cities to encourage walking instead of driving intra-city.
To have more traffic police managing the traffic. Or actually just better manage the timing of the traffic lights!
9) And not forgetting to have better road planning! For goodness sake stop building mammoth buildings without expanding the narrow roads…

Save petrol, lessen fuel emission, save money, save mother earth!

So you see… actually I really did a lot of thinking during the crawl… (nervous laugh)

A new year

…is almost always a merry thing as it signifies the death of the lousy previous year and the birth of a brand new year:

a new outlook + a new approach + a new resolution + a new job + a new relationship = a refresh hope.

i miss home

It has been a crazy crazy 2 months for me flying to 3 different destinations, moving house and changing job. I only have small windows of time to do everything! During these couple of weeks I believe I have lost track of my nationality (am I Malaysian or Thai?), my orientation around the globe (not that I have much directional sense to begin with), my preferred language (I now speak a “rojak” of English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Canto, and have thrown in some cannot-make-it Aussie slang for good measure), and my preferences for food (is it yesterday or last week that I have Viet food?).

Well, at least I still remember my name.

Why did I ever think that jet setting around the globe was a fun thing? With my growing age and reduced metabolism rate I will be most disinclined to take on another back-to-back travelling plan again unless forced to at gun point.

Nevertheless, I have plenty of fun everywhere I go! See, it’s not really about the location and it’s all about the company. Nothing beats the experience of exploring different culture and food with the pleasant company of family and friends and being able to get away when anyone do any stupid stuff (somebody take the thai-boys-show scene off my head please!).

Having said that, I miss everything in KL. I have been away for too long. I yearn to go home…

sh!t, I am really getting older, ain’t I?

~writing to you in a freezing hotel room from a borrowed notebook with a stolen wireless connection in the land of lionfish: Singapore~

Happy 2008!

Happy New Year folks! I for one am particularly glad to send 2007 away and welcome 2008 with a big warm hug! …All because according to Lillian Too I will have ample Peach Blossom luck and super duper good career luck this year.

Despite needing to spray artificial snow on unsuspecting victims; accidentally ate some artificial snow myself; walking on wet, dirty floor which ruined my new red shoes; squeezing through the throngs of packed human (almost like sardines in a can) who stepped on my hexed toe; soaked under drizzling rain which spoiled my new top; got star strucked by cool Chinese Singers like Justin, I had HEAPS of fun at Bukit Bintang celebrating the all brand new 2008!

I wanted to write more but my credit is running out so here’s to wishing you all a healthy, happy and fulfilled year 2008!

~~ from Chiang Mai ~~

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