This Year: This City

A double dose of blog posts

On the final day of the year

I had a post about me

The highs and lows of my year

This post is about my city

The praises and complains about the place I live in

This year

This city

Road full of holes

Resulted from various projects

That involves digging the roads inside out

But without proper resurfacing

Gosh

Potholes everywhere

Damaging to my car

A torture to drive along those roads

This year

This city

Jam here and there

Roads kept changing to one-way streets

Yet the situation has not changed

If PJ had a Rothmans Roundabout famed for it's congestion

Then Meru Roundabout is this city's version of Rothmans Roundabout

Rothmans Roundabout has since became history

But Meru Roundabout's congestion is still a mystery

This year

This city

Criminal cases happened

Although the same goes to everywhere around this country

But sometimes it chills me to the spine

To hear one happening near me

Flip through the newspapers today

You will encounter a news that an old man was sentenced to death

For slashing his neighbour to death with a parang

Just because of a noisy gate

This case happened in this city

I was like what the hell?

But look on the bright side

This year

This city

A pasar malam got officially recognized as 'The Longest Pasar Malam In Malaysia'

By the Book of Records

A -.-" record by the way

This year

This city

Finally opened it's first Subway and Chatime

Finally following the footsteps of neighbouring cities

And last but not least

This year on the very last day

This city for the first time ever had new year countdown concert

Cool huh?

But all that doesn't covers the ugly side of this city mentioned above

It's down to the city council to do their jobs

And I just hope that

Next year

I don't have to drive into a pothole

And experience a loud 'earthquake' in my car

And curse like hell after that

This Year

Here we are again

The last day of the year

Here I am again

On my blog

Time to review my year

Oh so special yet so normal

This year

I appeared on TV for the first time ever

When the show I acted in last year

Goes on air in January

Appeared in a few episodes

And had quite some dialogues

Had some kind of sense of achievement

When I saw myself on TV

This year

Had a great Chinese New Year

Super duper 'ONG'

Made a small fortune out of...

Well you know it

This year

Being in a drama crew for the very first time

Where working hours are long and odd

Certainly the most tired period of the year

Ever since then

For every single movie or drama that I watch

I had a very different perspective from normal viewers

In certain scenes

I will think of how hard the backstage crew worked

To get that particular scene

Been there

Done that

And know what it's like

This year

I switched from Sony Ericsson K810

To Samsung Galaxy Ace

Smartphone used to seem something out of this world for me

But I got one in my hands

Took a while to figure it out and get used to it

But gosh...

Sometimes till now I still wonder what on earth are smartphones

This year

I got my Diploma cert

Studied 2 and a half years

To get that piece of paper

Stepped into KDU College

For perhaps the very last time

Oh wait...

It is now KDU University College

This year

I switched from a worker

Back to a student

Degree in Broadcasting this time

Once again going to a university without a single familiar face

I'm all alone

But not for long

Because

This year

I got a bunch of new buddies

Going places together

Doing assignments together

Helped me settled down pretty well in a new environment

This year

I found a special one

My other half

Should I say third time lucky?

But she's special

One of a kind

That caught my eye

This year

I went to Langkawi

One of my favourite local destinations

An island where mountain and sea sat close to each other

Escape from the busy city life

And dunk into the waters of the sea and trees of the jungle

This year

For the first time I really felt assignment stress

In the past

If you told me that one day I will drive all the way to Sekinchan just to take photos

I would probably give you that 'Yao Ming' face and say

F**k that s**t

But this time around

I would have to say I did that

Just for assignment purposes

This year

Is so special

Yet so normal

So complicated

Yet so simple

The Sea and Me

I am not a beach boy

I ain't gonna act like I'm one

I don't have what it takes to be one as well

But I love the beach

More so the sea

I love putting my sight on the horizon line

Where sky and sea meets

It's like looking towards infinity

And beyond

That intense feeling of freedom

Is what makes me love the sea