so near yet so far

5.22pm

hello hello hello. whats been going on with you guys? i hope you have been well and things are going the way you want it. as for me, well, on the job front, i have been doing my bit, by looking in the papers as well as online. now is the waiting game, so i'll just have to sit back and wait patiently. actually, come to think of it, I've been waiting patiently for like 7-8 years now. hahahaha

ok what exactly did i mean by so near yet so far. well, in my humble opinion, there's some difference between Singapore and the neighboring country Malaysia. some things that we all have in common is - our weathers are the same, we have multi ethnic groups living together and the food. other than that, i think the buck stops there.

i must say that actually kuala lumpur is a beautiful city to live in but unfortunately, some parts are just plain filthy. trust me i have seen it with my own eyes. at a market for example, after the stall owners have packed up and gone home for the day, OMG, the pong/smell around the area stinks to high heaven. on top of that, you see flies and rats running about in broad daylight! you can also see fruits and veggies strewn on the ground. yes, there's a road sweeper that comes and cleans up but do you really think he's doing a good job out of it? no way!

now when i go to the market here in Singapore, its clean and its orderly and not all the time you can smell the bad odour. and plus there's usually the hawker centre next to the markets. and that too is reasonably clean.

another classic example is visiting the public toilets. OMG!! you can die in there. its perpetually wet and the toilets are clogged up. i have seen even candy wrappers thrown into the toilet bowls! can you imagine what these women are doing? or even those bringing in their kids into the toilets and letting them throw whatever rubbish down the bowl??

i mean come on lets face it, these people wouldn't even do it in their own home but they dare to do it outside. why? because its not theirs! they don't own it therefore," if its not mine, why should i bother right?  im not paying for the damages". yes, that's the attitude of the folks there, generally. i hardly see a dry toilet in the ladies bathroom unless you go to a high end place or mall.

for the life of me, i cant understand why they would want to wet the floor( or their own bodies) in the loo. is it necessary, seriously? nevermind wetting the loo, most of the stalls do not even have toilet rolls!! but you can see the toilet roll holder though. but its usually empty. so, just a warning, do not forget to bring your own tissues or toilet roll along with you whenever you wanna visit the public toilets in Malaysia and i mean anywhere! just in case!! 

you know this is a very bad habit of  society. it reflects on the citizens. what would tourists think if they saw what i saw? wouldn't you be put off? if the authorities don't put a stop to this and take it seriously, how on earth are they going to attract tourists to come visit your country? look at china for example, people can be super rich or whatever, but they have their bad habits like spitting and littering in public.

speaking of littering in public, the other time when i went to penang for the Chinese new year, as i was driving behind a car, the person from the front side on the passenger seat, threw out an empty bottled water. can you beat that? so blatantly they did it. i was like telling my husband "did you see that? did you see that?" . really astonishing!

over in Singapore, you'll get fined if you litter!! and the toilets at public places, cant go wrong there. relatively clean and usually it has toilet rolls inside each cubicle. trust me on this. of course I've not been to each and every toilet around Singapore, you must be crazy! Singapore definitely is a FINE country. anything and everything you can report to the authorities and they do take it seriously, each complaint made.

like snatch thieves for example. I've seen signages being put up at places where the police have caught snatch thieves and telling the public to be aware. in Malaysia, if you went to the police station and lodged a report of your stolen bag, they would tell you the same old story which is daily they have people coming in to make a report of stolen bags or snatch thieves but nothing they can do about it and tell you to be on your way. unless you have seen the faces of these thieves. many women especially have been in coma or broke their legs, hands, scratches over their bodies .. all from these snatch thieves! police aint doing jack if you asked me. and mind you folks, this is just the tip of the iceberg. i do not want to go into more details which my friends/family have experienced. too much to tell you.

but anyways, these are just my point of view and what i think. that the proper authorities and citizens should work together hand in hand to sort this crap out. otherwise, things can only get worst. (which in my opinion it already has). it has to start from the TOP, if you know what i mean. if the TOP cant control the bottom then how? rules will be broken. i think that the authorities can LEARN the good things from Singapore and apply it especially in the bigger cities like Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ipoh etc. by taking small baby steps and slowly im sure in time it will hopefully get better, but until that happens, things will ever change.

well, that's about it i guess. im just harping. i know i cant change things. but i know i can do my part which i already am! people ought to change their mentality, their mindset. the world is already filled with filth, death, evil, poverty etc, isn't it time that we TRY to change a little bit, to make this world a slightly better place to live in??? if not for us, for the sake of your kids, for their future.

fruit for a thought, hey folks?


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