Again, it’s been a while.
Well, actually not, although I did not update my blog since some time ago did not mean that i did not write.
I did actually wrote some stuff during my off days and it was when i was in Penang during hari raya. So i hope it’s not months late to wish again?
Following post is the first part of the 2 i wrote in Penang.
Selamat Hari Raya.
Just yesterday – the first day of raya, I started my journey back to the island I once spent my days growing up.
It’s been about 8 months or so since my last journey back to penang, and many of the times I get the “when are you coming back” questions pointed at me by my parents.
Regretfully, it was only a 4 hours journey that I did not take up often, and any excuses of being busy and occupied isn’t much of and excuse when your parents misses you.
So now I’m back, and what welcome me is more than I anticipated of penang since the last Chinese new year when I was back here.
The moment I crossed the iconic penang bridge which is going through some heavy upgrades, I was greeted with reminiscences of the penang spirit and feel that linger in me.
I see more motorbikes’ zigzagging along the traffic lines of cars, and you realize you’re moving at 30km/h rather than the usual 90 km/h speed on a KL highway yet you don’t get impatient or mad at the driver in front of you.
Just somehow the calmness and slow and easy moods of the traffic naturally just slows the hectic-fast paced KL soul down and some how allows a home coming penangite to feel peace and at home.
On the roads also, I see the usual heavy traffic that I always experience each time I’m back, where other “off shore” penangites like me who make used of the long holidays to come back for their char koay teow.
However, upon a closer look, I noticed all these cars that are pilling up the streets are not the usual home coming folks, but instead I see that these cars with penang registered plates which are not even half a year old flooding the little streets of penang.
So it seems that people here are doing well more than I expected.
It’s good sign at least.
Also expected were the changes of the newly elected state government. People on the streets seem happy on what has happened since the young government took over in early march.
I stopped my car for the red light at the Gothlib Road cross junction with Burmah Road, and I couldn’t help but noticed the big gigantic rocket logo of the Democratic Alliance Party hanging big on the corner building of the intersection, making their presence felt.
I make a left turn, heading back home. And along the way, the pleasant sight of big old green trees replaces the white concrete walls of the KL city.
It’s good to be home.
Happymah!~