Hazy town

Hundreds of hotspots spotted throughout Penisular Malaysia, plus the fire at Raja Muda Musa forest reserve situated at Kuala Selangor seriously deteriorate the air quality around Klang Valley and Melacca.

It was reported that although the fire had been temporarily contained, it is believe that it will still take two weeks to a month to be completely extinguished.

Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC) area had been badly affected, being surrounded with thick haze. But people were seen moving around, didn’t seeam to be bothered by that.

I was walking down the lane during lunch time, feeling really uncomfortable with this, especially since I started to work here. Visibility level is very low, even Wisma Central which is just opposite the Maxis Tower appeared to be so blur.

But really, hazy surrounding happends so frequently that I used to complain to colleagues that The Day After Tomorrow was coming.

Moreover, it always remind me of Indonesia forest fire which happened regularly over the last few years. The impact was quite huge as environment was deeply affected. Healthy level being disrupted. Subsequently, a lot of people fell sick.

However, most Malaysian as usual, the tidak apa attitude remain while those who are so-called self-conscious people will choose to remain intact at home, resting comfortably in home sweet home equipped with full air-conditioned environment. Tenaga National Berhad (TNB) must be laughing all the way as every degree celcious increase in temperature above 34°C will result in demand escalating up to 400MW.

In the end of the day, it’s time for us to experience self-made rude awakening and understand that, the world is getting hotter and hotter. Definitely, this is not a not a good sign though.

With this forest burning at Kuala Selangor, there is no more excuse to put the blame on our neighbourhood countries as it happened to be at our very own backyard. We better do our little bit by not contributing to the global warming, needless for me to mention how and what you might as well already known.

After all, it’s only 2005. I was thinking, what would happend to Malaysia alone, by 2020?

Now, it’s true that the feeling of anxiety permeates throughtout myself.