Safety first?

So guess what people, the haze is back. It had cleared yesterday after the heavy rains over the weekend and it was absolute pleasure driving to work under clear blue skies. Sadly, today the world is grey and smells of smoke.

Anyway, as I was driving on the highway today, I passed a family on a motorcycle. Dad in front, mum at the back and child in the middle. The child, probably around 5 or 6 years old was eating something and his mum was wiping crumbs from his chin. How loving and and motherly right? I thought so too. Except that there's something wrong with this happy family scene. The dad and mum were wearing helmets but the child sandwiched in between them, was not wearing any protection at all.

Ironic huh? That the mum thought to feed her child and wipe off the crumbs but overlooked a life-saving detail called the helmet.

-Anya-

Stupid Haze

It just looks hazy, but there's no haze in Malaysia at the moment, according to the director-general of Environment, Datuk Rosnani Ibarahim. "Since it is the dry season now, the air becomes dry and hazy but it doesn't mean that haze is coming back," she said.

Oh wow, when I read that statement in the papers a few days ago, saying I was shocked would be an understatement!

I mean, I'm not a meterological expert, so I don't care what term they want to give the situation in KL now. All I know is, it sucks!

The air smells bad. People are falling sick with flu and sorethroat everywhere. Visibility is as bad as 2km in some places (I checked this myself as I was driving).

So call it whatever you want. Haze. Dry Season. Smog. Polution. All I know is, as an ordinary citizen with my basic five sense, the view of KL now looks like this:





When it should look like this:

-Anya-