Wednesday, September 12, 2007
9/12/2007 07:22:00 AM
9/12/2007 07:22:00 AM
Petaling Street : An Aftermath
posted by Francis Ho
Busy and popular Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur. 9 September 2007Due to the unavailability of hotel rooms in the Bukit Bintang area (which I understand is especially so over the weekends), I had to stay in Petaling Street as it was the only place in town which have hotel rooms available. I'd never stayed in Petaling Street before although I had visited Petaling Street eon years ago when I was working and living in Kuala Lumpur as an architect after graduating from Australia. There is now a high overhead canopy covering the street which keeps out most of the rain but not all of it (not much overhang) but lets in the light as well as the heat. Sometimes our designers forget that they are living in the tropics when they blindly ape designs from overseas.
What the vendors, locals and tourists alike left behind for the street cleaners - a sight most of us never see, care or even think about.
Anyway my son's AirAsia's flight from Kuching on Friday night was delayed (so what's new?) and by the time I met up with him at the bus terminal at KL Sentral and went back to the hotel with him, we were greeted with the most unexpected and unpleasant sight of Petaling Street with rubbish strewn everywhere. My son said that it resembles a war zone! It's a sight that got me thinking about people's disgusting littering habits and how much of the undesirable work in this world are carried out by people we never even have an inkling of, much less think about; and that we should be grateful for but are not.Trust that the rest of your work week is pleasant and if you are sitting smugly higher up the pecking order, that you spare a thought for the little people who may have to sort out the messy aftermath of your inadvertent or unconscious callous actions. Some of you know exactly what I'm talking about; right Charlie?
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