Stupid and stupidity - I feel stupid every time I drive into KL and it is the stupidity of the authorities not to think outside the box when it comes to managing the traffic volume in the city of KL. We are going to be stupid like the Walikota of Jakarta for not able to see the solutions to the
macet issue that has been plaguing the city since I worked there in 1984.
Can you imagine the crawl I had to endure yesterday from the Federal Highway-Bangsar exit to KL Sentral was 45 minuties from 5pm. Of course, it was peak time when the traffic volume was high but it was sheer stupidity that someone has to take that sort of time to reach a mere 5-7km distance. I hate those guys in DBKL and Police Traffic for not doing their job right.
But I guess, I am as stupid as the next guy, who prefer driving than taking the public transport. I have tried taking the KTM Komuter once but the KTM Komuter and other means of public transport is as stupid as the Works Minister from Samy Vellu to Drs what-his-name to Shaziman. To take the commuter train, there was this ritual massive human traffic rushing and pushing and jostling to get into the train. I think these Ministers and their KSUs, KPs are just goons and bodoh, arm-chaired and have done nothing right. Bodoh, bodoh dan lagi bodoh...geramnya!!
I also blame Proton for manufacturing sub-standard cars that breaks down more often than not. To divert this anger ramblings a little bit, my Persona is as defective as the Made-In-China toys. Can you imagine after so many years, the power window is still having the same problem (winding and unwinding issue), which tells us that Proton has not changed its vendor and has not changed its ways of working.
I also blame Toyota, Perodua, Volvo, Hyundai, Naza and other automotive manufacturers and license holders for manufacturing and selling more vehicles than the Malaysian roads can accept. There must be a law stopping these guys from selling too many cars than they should, as they not only contribute to more vehicles on the roads, they contribute more accidents, higher usage of fuel and more damage to the environment. Just stick out your neck in the middle of a traffic jam, all you can smell is fume. And, I am fuming mad for the fact that we are threading a dangerous world right now.
Maybe I can start bicycling to work. Not a good idea now, but may be if I could find a home in Putrajaya, bicycling to work would be an awesome idea. I remember watching this National Geography on the terrestrial TV about a town in Germany that embraces environmental-friendly approach in the daily lives. The homes are all solar-powered, home garbage collected to produce electricity, no cars on the street except in the outskirts, plant-your-own-food schemes, and the town folks turn everything that they can lay their hands on into environmental-friendly business and the business is indeed thriving.
How I wish I could go back and live in remote areas like Bario in Sabah or Grik in Perak where there isn't any traffic jam and the traffic is scarce (if there is any, the vehicles are slow-paced except to those lori pasir & lori balak), where life is so rustic and people are still simple, where you don't have to spend too much money on buying your essentials and needfuls, where you don't need to use the technology so much that you'd depend your very soul on it, where your children don't have to ask to use your car and drive the whole night through leaving the oil tank almost empty, where you wake up in early morning to smell the oxygenated dew and plants; and where you can praise Allah SWT for the creation of this universe when you hear the crickets at night, the frogs singing their hearts out after a raining spell and when you hear the sweet sound of the forests in the light of the day.
C'est la vie. I love my life but not now, not here in the city where there are just too many big bad wolves that will eat your Red Riding Hood of innocence in one fast and furious gulp.
