An Evening Outing

I woke to a rainy 6.45pm. Looked out from my perch and found the Federal Highway CONGESTED, and the traffic is stuck on Jalan University... That was when I noticed that my housemates are gone --- to Midvalley for movies! Oh no! I was hoping to get a ride to Midvalley's KTM station! Too late I realized that I didn't inform Sou Chen properly about my plans...

I'm going to my girlfriend's place. She sounded poor on the phone, and was very blur. I was kinda worried. On the grounds of giving physical and moral support, I decided to brave the rain, brave the jam and find a way.

I took a cab from UT to Taman Jaya. On the LRT, I overheard some Indian lady on her phone, Ampang's flash flooded... Ah! None of my concern, none of the authorities either. Everytime KL was hit by some kind of storm, places will be flooded, as usual... I see so many sky-scrapers sprout out, but I don't see the money going into the rakyat's interest. Even the SMART project is taking such a long time to be completed. (Personally I don't have faith in the project either. I really think that one day, during a flash flood scenario, the you-know-I-know insufficiency of the operators will result in a traffic jam, worst, it's underground in a proposed highway cum drain. I think many cars will be lost in that particular incident. Hope that people can climb out real fast though!) Seems the authorities, answerable to greater authorities, answerable to even greater authorities, are interested only to place Malaysia on the world map rather than tackling some nagging problems of the country. Sigh!

Then I reached Masjid Jamek's STAR LRT station. I knew not the origin of the name, 'Masjid Jamek' but I found that out today. Blaring 'music', the 'doa' was channeled through some huge speakers situated not far away from the station. Normally I would get a serious headache, but there was some difference in this 'doa' compared to the others I usually hear. This one has a tone of sadness, and yet it's a very peaceful sadness, or sorrow. This tone plus the setting sun plus the light shower plus the cool temperature somehow makes me think of Turkey in Malaysia. Why so? Turkey is always shaded by light brown to orange colour - the setting sun, it is situated at the Mediterranean - the cool temperature, and it is littered with mosque - the nice 'doa'.

Finally I hopped into a oncoming train and reached Salak Selatan. I noticed at Salak Selatan, a lot of young girls in miniskirts and raging outfits (in my standards though LOL) alighted from the train. They looked so cool until they stepped into some kind of old van or car. This makes me wonder. Did they spend all their money their parents provided on make-up? Did they do it because of work requirements? No way... I think they are still schooling. Are they so low in self esteem that they have to dress up to the latest fashion to keep themselves confident enough to face the world? Most likely. Sigh! Teens, anyone?