Mudskipper

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Swiped from williamnyk.

If you've been reading the papers, you'd know that the flood on the 10th of June had been hogging the headlines for a couple of days at least. Well, the dust has kind of settled, figurately, but literally it has not. The flood has left the Masjid Jamek area full of sand and the amount of people kicking it up is quite choking. On Monday (the 11th), I went to work like any other day. As I walked out from the Star LRT station I found it strange that the side of the roads were a little muddy and that the McD was boarded-up thyphoon warning style. I shrugged it off. As I reached the Putra LRT station, I found that grass and garbage had been wound tightly at the bottom of the Dilarang Menjaja sign post (DBKL performs raids every other week, but the traders still come back to ply their wares). As I walked further towards AmBank, I saw that a part of the wall separating Masjid Jamek and Sg Gombak had collapsed and that the AmBank basement parking was flooded. It doesn't take Hercule Poirot to figure out what has happened. I continued on towards Central Market and saw that the Sin Seng Nam coffeeshop was closed due to a mudlogged kitchen. Upon reaching the Tower of Solitude, I was greeted by a scene of chaos-- The basement parking had flooded; 6 out of the 7 lifts didn't work; the only working lift only reaches the 15th floor; I bloody work on the 25th floor; And upon reaching the top, the air-cond gives out at 2:00pm due to an interrupted water supply to the chillers. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Such a waste that the SMART Tunnel wasn't operational at that time. They could've used the alternative-- activate the SMART Tunnel in our beloved Works Minister's head.