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Life in the City – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

By Mr. Ghaz, March 11, 2009

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Life in the City – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A city is a place where many people live, work and play in. Kuala Lumpur is the biggest city in Malaysia. To accommodate all these people, skyscrapers and super – highways are built. So K.L. (as it is popularly known) is mainly made of concrete and mortar. Some trees are grown to provide greenery and shade but they are few compared to the thousands of buildings that stretch as far as the eye can see.

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Daily Task

For most people working in Kuala Lumpur, the daily task of going to work and coming home from work is a much practiced and tolerated routine. Often the roads are jammed with cars. All it needs is an accident occurring on the roads and the traffic jam will get intolerable. It makes the difference between reaching the office on time or an hour late. Also the heat of the tropical sun does no good for the commuter’s frayed nerves. The more fortunate ones travel in air – conditioned cars while the majority has to make do with squeezing into buses, mini or otherwise, or taxis.

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Lunch – Break

Lunch, for most office workers, is a quick one at the most convenient shop or stall near where they work. So, come lunch hour, hordes of workers stream out of their office into the streets. They all have one objective in mind – to fill their empty stomach. So men with ties and without ties head for their favorite eating – stall as quickly as possible, before the food is sold – out. Women in costumes of all sorts likewise do the same thing. The variety of food available, for one thing, is plentiful. The price, however, makes one think about how cheap it is in a small town.

In that one hour or so for lunch – break, there are some workers who can squeeze in a bit of shopping too. So the shopping complexes and other shops are filled to the brim with people spending their hard – earned money on necessities, whichever they can afford.

Beside these office workers, there are hawkers, taxi – drivers, road – side barbers, pavement artists, businessmen, policemen, con – men, crooks and their victims all going about living in the city. Some of them do good business and make a great deal of money while some are not so fortunate. Practically all of them seem to be busy. Life is hurry. It is a never – ending pursuit of money to make ends meet, or to buy a most coveted product or to put into the bank.

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Daytime

In the daytime, one sees so many people concentrated in the city’s skyscrapers, in the buses, on the streets and in the shops. Cars crawl along the dual carriageways. The parking bays are always full. Parking attendants wait patiently for the next victim who forgets to feed the parking meter.

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The Klang River flows quietly through the heart of Kuala Lumpur.

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Night Activities

When night comes, Kuala Lumpur becomes alive in a different way. The night – clubs, snooker parlors and massage parlors open for business. These places are never short of patrons who arrive to release some of the tensions built up during the day. These nocturnal activities go on deep into the night. There are some that only cease when dawn comes. However behind all these activities are the less active people who sleep behind locked doors, fearful of the criminals that haunt the city. It is not wise thing to walk about alone on the streets at night.

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Festival Holidays

Busy it may be on ordinary days, Kuala Lumpur becomes a ghost town when Hari Raya Idil – Fitri (Muslim’s Celebration) and Chinese New Year comes. It becomes evident then that most people who work in Kuala Lumpur are from out – station. So comes festival holidays, they head for their home towns, leaving behind a massive concrete jungle with empty buildings and silent highways. What a contrast it is to the normal hustle and bustle! So for a few days there is peace and quiet in the city. It feels as though a giant is sleeping and recuperating from the hectic activity of normal days. Then all too soon the workers come back, reinforced and ready to make K.L. wake up from its slumber once again.

Thus life in the Kuala Lumpur city goes on, hectic and fast, filled with excitement and struggle, hopes and dreams.