DECEMBER 18 — I spent most of Sunday sleeping; it was cold and the sky was heavily overcast. It was cold enough that I kept checking if I'd left the air conditioning on by mistake. While I was tired and spent most of the day in bed, elsewhere there were Malaysians who didn't have that same luxury...
DECEMBER 18 — I spent most of Sunday sleeping; it was cold and the sky was heavily overcast.While I was tired and spent most of the day in bed, elsewhere there were Malaysians who didn't have that same luxury of finding shelter from the seemingly endless rain.
Instead, Malaysians are easily placated with token gestures when it comes to the environment ― straw and plastic bag bans but still we haven't managed to make Malaysians stop littering. The problem here really is enforcement. Singaporeans needed huge fines to stop them from littering but I'm not sure if that would work in Malaysia.
That's when you see rotting chairs or mattresses by the road side and pieces of waste clogging up drains.
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