Saturday 14 May 2011

Streets of Malaysia

I do not really have any ideas about the streets of our beloved country Malaysia. I am a pure city boy live in Petaling jaya. There is not much to talk about the streets. I've been to only one famous street, which is "Chow Kit route". I have only been there once when i was around 9 years old. I went there with my family because we were actually going to a temple near there. So after finishing with the temple business, my dad decided to bring me to that place. He said its the most famous street in Malaysia, because it was a historical place, it was there since he was small.
He told me, Chow Kit road was the largest wet market in Malaysia. He said, in Chow Kit, it might look just like any night market, but is best not the get into some conflicts with the stall keepers. He also said that, if we are not going to buy anything it is best for us to stay away from the stalls, just look from far, because the stall keeper are not the same that we encounter normally. They are hot-tempered, and greedy. So if we don't want to buy, we better stay far away from them.
Chow Kit road was a famous street because of its culture. The variety of the goods sold there is as many as shopping mall. The price of the goods were highly raised by the stall keepers even though their goods are fake. Why didn't the police came and sweep their goods away? This is an unknown. I have only seen the policemen sweep away pirated CDs before. For the goods, i never actually seen that happened ever.
Chow Kit road is a looks like a totally different place in the morning. The later it goes the merrier the street goes. During day time, the streets will be full of cars and motorcycles. The place will be none other like a normal place, which people drive around, going to their workplace, finding a nice place to eat, etc.
Chow Kit was a drug district before, which a lot of drug dealing happening in the place. Nowadays, there is not that much happenings about drugs there anymore. Maybe its just the surface which is calm, deep underneath might not be that way. Anyway, that is not part of my concern.
Although this place sounds dangerous, but we still can find a lot of fun in it. There are a lot of activities or events going on in this place. Street performances are held frequently by foreigners who cant find a proper job. This place is what that represents Malaysia. The various of races visiting that place, is like one big family. It might be weird, but the stall keepers there can speak a lot of types of languages! This should be proud of. Not many people from other countries can do that. This all thanks to our multi-racial country. Hopefully our country will continue the culture so that we have our own personal history to be proud about.

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