Just had dinner cum supper with my colleagues after finishing work at Modestos. Had a very delicious Fettucine Salmone and some tasteless Carlsberg draught beer. I’ll talk about this some other time ‘cos I couldn’t remember the names of the other dishes the guys ordered.

Back to something related to the topic. I’m not sure about other countries but actually in Malaysia, Thailand and some other South East Asia countries, we have night markets (hereinafter referred to as ‘pasar malam’) almost everywhere. Its stalls sell products ranging from food, hardware tools, toiletries, beverages, groceries,

On my way home, I passed by the pasar malam near my residential area. For a moment I thought I was by the outer perimeter of Philipines’ rubbish dump site. Not that I’ve been there but I’ve got a friend who has been there for charity works. He sent back some photos, so I know. Their ‘tallest peak’ in the dump site is like few stories high. So the outer perimeter should resemble this, which was taken at my area’s pasar malam.

All variety of rubbish can be seen everywhere. Sugar cane remainings, plastic bags, straws, paper/plastic dishes/cups, cardboard boxes, polystyrene, vegetable remainings, tissue paper, etc. You name it, they’ve got it.

I took time to wound down my window and took photos. Immediately I was ‘attacked’ by the strong sugarcane juice+soya bean milk+cow/goat/horse/chicken/fish remainings+frying oil+crap water+wutcha-ma-call-its water odor. My nose went postal instantly and started to sneeze. Hence I could only take 2 snapshots. Unless if someone pays me for a million bucks ten thousand bucks, I’m not gonna do such foolish act again. Decreased the age of my smell sensory cells by a million minutes.

Though so, I’m really quite disappointed with the Malaysian culture. Totally like not civic-minded at all. Although there are some city council cleaning personnel there doing the clean up, it’s not really an excuse to litter everywhere as you make your purchases in a pasar malam isn’t it? I can say nothing more. Can only conclude that Malaysians still have a lot of years to catch up in terms of maturity, civic-mindedness and sense of responsibility. It might not be only Malaysian night markets that are like this. Maybe the night markets in our neighboring countries are also like this. But it’s really no reason at all to point the finger at them and say “there, they are also like this, so we also nevermind la”.

These 2 photos, this situation, I can’t really say I’m proud to be a Malaysian. Anyone beg to differ and say they are proud of this?