HOT STEAMY DAYS...

Help! I'm on heat...

The present weather we are experiencing these few weeks have been hot and according to the METS (Meteorological Services), it will remain until next month!

You can feel the heat everywhere and you don’t even need to go outside. It’s so hot that even after showering, within minutes, you will perspire and it defeats the purpose of showering in the first place.

If you were to go outside in the afternoons, it’s even worse. The feeling is like being baked in an oven (not that I know the feeling of how its been like, but pretty much guess it must be like that). I swear it so hot that even if were to fry an egg on the pavement, it will instantly cook? I’m not so joking about this!

However, the plus point is, if you were to do laundry, this is the best time to get your stuff dried up very quickly or even if you have to dry up stuffs or sun your furniture or pillows, excellent results. Apart from what I have mentioned, this heat does nothing positive to permeate into our daily lives but rather cause hardships, I guess!

For those who do not have the luxury of air-conditioning, I really pity them. The nights will be sweltering sweaty and your sleep will be interrupted incessantly either by humming mosquitoes or just plain heat! But, then again, air-conditioning is no longer considered as a luxury item anymore, rather, its more of an essential in today’s modern living. Imagine living in a house or condo without such luxuries??

On a broader picture, global warming also causes this phenomenon. Look at the conditions at our area. Have you noticed how many trees have been indiscriminately being chopped off? Large rain trees that are supposed to provide shade and also relief from the heat have not been spared either, all in the name of development. As I digress from this subject, look at the haphazard way hills have been raped!

Not only am I amazed by the lack of actions done by the local authority, the Government will only voice out his anger and then, the next few weeks after things have ‘cooled’ off; no action taken, everything is swept under the carpet, so typical of Malaysian way of doing things!

If there is strict enforcement being put into practice, I’m sure that everyone will do his or her part. But, looking at the way things are going, I don’t think that we will ever get to see much progress on this issue. It’s demoralizing that people just don’t care and how much we shout and cry, the authorities are more inclined to ringgit and cents rather than the preservation of our future well-being! It looks like these people who were elected by the electorate, have forgotten that they are there to serve us not LORD over us!

Sigh!! If only we had more intelligent Ministers leading the country with an open conscience to do the right things at the right time all the time, we will not have to live in a sub-standard country like Malaysia. Instead of progressing, day-by-day, it looks like we are degenerating….

So many examples of how mismanagement of things are creeping up but do we care? But, looking at the positive side of things, there are still a group of minority (maybe silent majority) who totally agree with me that this country has survived thus far is because of the people who are genuinely caring and totally immersed with the social causes of this nation. And, when I meant the people, its not only the normal straight people but also the other side, the special people, the PLUs that also helped to support the pillar of this nation!