I started sms-ing quite a number a people but nobody replied. Maybe I was a little too early, cause no matter how it was, it was still in the mid of morning, so probably nobody is up yet. Haha. After my friend arrive, we went to the bus stop, which is like only another 30 steps away from the place we met up, waiting for another friend of mine to start our journey of traveling to the central, Kuala Lumpur.
She arrived after she finished her class and we started our journey by taking the bus to the central. The experience was disgusting as it made me really dizzy during the journey and it took us more than an hour to reach our destination. This wasn’t the first time that it had happened, but we had no choice as it was the most economical and yet the simplest way to get to our destination, Jalan Bukit Bintang. But what we did in the bus was chatting all around until an interesting uncle popped up. This uncle, in my guess, should be in his 40s. This is the situation: This uncle would like to get down from the bus in front but he was scolded by the bus driver’s assistant as he mentioned that the bus will not be turning into the street itself. But what happened was that the uncle was scolding for approximately 10 minutes long just regarding the same issue. This uncle actually got the girl who was sitting beside her left her sits and moved her sit till the end of the bus. Haha. But for my thoughts, i would be thinking that both of them had their own mistakes. The uncle should be listening to the assistant as the assistant had mentioned that the bus would not be turning into that path, but the bus assistant had his mistakes at the same time because he should not be acting this way to a senior citizen. What kind of manners is this? Shouting towards a senior citizen. Imagine if your dad is being scolded like that in the public, what would you feel?
We reached Jalan Bukit Bintang in the afternoon and the only thing I saw other than tall buildings was people, people and people. This is definitely a typical city where it is a jungle built up by concretes, millions of people walking through the same path everyday, up and down, through and flow, and especially in the afternoon of a weekend where events are everywhere. The first event we saw that day was a shampoo event; collaborate together with a saloon where they have their target of the day by cutting the most hair in a day with the usage of a shampoo which could be purchased in the market. Haha, you might want to know what brand it was but no advertisements are allowed in this blog for now.
After that we continued out journey, walking up and down in the flood of people. Advertisements all around the hot and spiced up city, we saw a very interesting banner which tells people to actually save the environment. It is organized by a university and previously, all 3 of us who had went for this journey, had also organized a very similar event, known as the S.O.S. Earth as a part of our student project. When we saw this banner, we felt a warm in our heart because we had this as a part of our responsibility. Come on people, save the planet. We are the ones who started warming up the earth, we are the ones who started globalization, we are the ones who started industrialization, we are the ones who started chopping down the trees for the sake of ourselves, we are the ones… This is the time, THIS IS THE TIME for us to repay the earth for taking care of us for so long, contributing and sacrificing herself for our sake. Stop using things that are not biodegradable, stop using things that cannot be recycled.
We continued our journey to understand more about the city. We met up with another friend of ours and continued our journey knowing the place we thought we knew a lot, but regardless, there were still many places we had yet discovered. Walking up and down through the city, we found many interesting and small places which are still very antique, just like a small village, rather than being a real city. Tall buildings were covering all these small places, small people all the time. Most of the people who are living there are mostly senior citizens. We were all glance by the people there because I think that it might be weird for 4 youngsters to visit a place like this which doesn’t have anything interesting in it. But what I saw was a bunch of senior citizens, walking around doing what they don’t usually do. But definitely for sure, they are the ones who had the most knowledge about what had really happened to the central in from the past until the present, maybe from the second World War itself, or maybe from the changes of Kuala Lumpur from a place where it was a green jungle, converting into a concrete jungle itself, as there are so many stories which could be told, through a glance on them into the eyes of knowledge.
We walked past through the city, saw many cars which is actually destroying the Mother Nature, and the only we thing that we could do was to sit and look at it happening. We had no power, stopping it from happening; we had no power to stop every single car from running their engines because these engines are the ones who had brought globalization to the country itself. So, should we be grateful that we have the technology that destroys the earth for the sake of human or should we be grateful that we have the Mother Nature to take care of us all these while, giving us a place where we could build our own home sweet home on “her”?
We walked and eat and walked again and eat again until at night where more and more people had eventually fit themselves into a place which is already over crowded with people but they were still pushing themselves into the city. But nevertheless, this might be the life where people wanted. They always say that the more the merrier. But if you look at the other side, are the people really happy when they are staying in an overcrowded place like this? Will they find more happiness when there are more people? I think the only answer would be the thoughts of the people itself. Because everyone’s decision on a matter will be different this caused a different thought on everyone as different people gives out different opinions.
We took the commuter back to our own house which is located at the border of the city itself. But a day of journey had thought me lots on what is happening in the city itself. It was a trip which is worth remembering though my life was in a city since I was born, but things have changed since then. Back then was 20 years ago where even cell phone was still a thing which will be “WOW”-ed but not for now. Look at how things have changed our lives, how had the improvement of technology improved our lives, how an inventor’s brain improved the living of the world. But then, it is time…
Lets be green!!!! WOOHOO!!!
an event did by Subway!! it was very creative that they actually used human signboards and also car signboards to actually promote on subway around the central.
another event held in Times Square Malaysia itself... supermodel contest...
an event held by a shampoo brand collaboration with a saloon...
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