Friday, January 30, 2004

We wake up to see the drizzling still continue and the city horizon is enveloped in mist making visibility difficult... Usually we could see the Twin Tower from the front of our house but today it is missing behind those thick mist... We decided to drive to the District Office of Gombak to the north of the city to pay our yearly land tax at the Land Office there... We took the outer ring road and then wind our way the old Ipoh Road and eventually reach the office, a huge building nestle in the valley surrounded by lush tropical forest... All the way we saw new housing scheme being develop... What a change since we last take this road about a year ago... for we seldom take this road to the north of the country... We would prefer to travel on the Highway... so only on an occasion like this that we take the old road and the country roads... and indeed it is nice for a change to use these road.... but again it is as busy as ever..... The drizzling continue and after getting things done at the Land Office we drove back, this time I took the city road for a change and to our surprise there are many new developments on both sides of the road, huge housing and business park raised like mushroom after a rainy day..... That is Kuala Lumpur, a capital city of a 'third world' country emerging from its past with slow growth to one of the fastest growing city in this part of the world......It now look like any other cities of the 'first world'.....Well to be frank Malaysia is already a develop country and surely its capital city is a well developed city as well....The standard of living and life style is the same as those in the west.... Drop into this city and one would be amazed with the recent development.... Sky creepers has became the landscape of the city.... Jalan Kuching that use to be the entry from the north is still the same but without the toll plaza....... There is no more toll to pay using the Jalan Kuching now... They have decided to discontinue the toll and now it is free to use this roads... We drove into the city and took the side road that lead to Jalan Tun Razak and then we are on our way back home to Ampang Jaya via the elevated Highway... From here we still could see the city enveloped in mist and it just look gray... Well it is one of those days... The city change from it usual multi color scene to just gray....I hope the weather would change this afternoon and we would have a clear sky this weekend for an outing to the outskirts of the city... A picnic may be if the weather permit..... It is Friday again today... and soon it will be another weekend.. Time past so fast these days..... Well when time is yours to do what you like, it just pass by without notice......

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