A Morning Walk with Pa'Cak.

This water front is within a walking distance from where i live and my Cousins and I Ahmad Kalam and his wife often do our morning exercise along this strip at sunrise. I call him Mr.Perfect cause everything he does is to perfection and this is one of the reasons i take him as my 'Guru' in this day to day living. I am blessed in a sense to have someone who I can learn to emulate from as i am otherwise not so all together there as they say.

An insurance man for many years now working under the MCIS ZURICH, my cousin is considered to be one of the most trustworthy and gets the job done and i can safely vouch for this. He is caring and yet stern, religious, never missing a prayer five times a day, yet flexible and can handle just about any situation without loosing his cool; a vanishing specie in man.

Approaching 70 if not already he cans till drive all the way to Johor Bahru in the farthest town South of the Peninsular and back without much problem if he has to, and as a matter of fact he enjoys it more than most I know of. 

Always on call for one thing or another he is always on his hand phone even when he is doing his morning walk, here he learns about his twin brother having a heart surgery in Kuala Lumpur.

What a beautiful sight, this garbage dump by the sea has turned out to be after the trees has covered all the evidences of a dumpsite.

And the Chinese looses no opportunity to erect their very Chinese-ness are  everywhere they get the chance to do so. Sometimes i think it is a psychological thing more the religious thing with these Malays, Chinese and Hindus and their house of worships. Nothing against the Chinese and their cultural heritage being projected but sometimes enough is more then enough already!

That long stretch of what looks like a walkway used to be the sewage disposal pipe with stinky sewage water being dump right into the sea untreated, this was not too long ago until they created the new facility of sewage treatment  nearby.

The actual coastal line is about less than two kilometers inland from here as we are standing on reclaimed land and looking across the Penang channel towards Butterworth. The single tree growing in the seawater is the beginning of the new mangrove tree that will hopefully turn the whole area into the new line of mangrove swamp like it used to be  further inland not too long ago.  

The whole area is being developed so many more people can come and populate this small island that is already suffering from chronic congestion. But this is development and this is where money is being made most readily all around. Heavens forbid that there be a ground shake in this area for i place no guarantee that those tall structures are standing on solid ground.
 I am not anti- development but i am anti- over developing.