Have you noticed the recent Chinese fascination with stainless steel? The shiny metal adorns the front entrance of so many Chinese homes these days.
Shiny Thing
Being practical folks, they are probably attracted to the maintenance-free and longer lasting properties of stainless steel. It is ideal under our weather, especially when used for gates and grills.
So what can you give a Chinese homeowner who has every chrome railing and bannister? No. Not blue roof tiles. That is passe. Get him a set of matching, shiny stainless steel water tanks lah. It must be externally mounted though. 🙂
Spotted: 3-in-1 roof top symbols and obsession. Stainless steel tank with stainless steel fence 🙂
I filmed a video preview of DUKE (Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway) a few days before it opened last April. It is truly a convenient highway but after using it frequently for a year, there is one thing that really irks me.
The Smart TAG lanes behave really stupid, at least half the time. I almost always have to switch to the adjacent Touch N Go lane because of some inadvertent foul-up.
I am aware that many a time it was probably the drivers’ fault. You know those idiots who tailgate into the lane, the clueless who don’t replace weak batteries, the thrifty who don’t top up even when required and the careless who don’t aim properly, etc. But to have the system not functioning ever so often?
True enough, when I drove with the videocam mounted yesterday, the barrier predictably failed to open. Stranded cars were reversing their way out, as usual. After a year, the only remedy appeared to be the installation of a manual Touch N Go swipe sensor. Does that not defeat the whole purpose of using an infrared device?
And at the Air Panas Toll Plaza, the Smart TAG lane ought to be in the middle and not at the extreme right. Why? Because there is an exit immediately to the left, after the toll. Imagine motorcycles casually criss-crossing from their extreme left lane into cars swinging in from the extreme right.
In spite of that, it is still a pleasant ten minutes drive from Mont Kiara to UK. Once upon a time, the journey can take up to an hour during peak hours. Anyway, here’s the updated video, stupid lane and all…
It is tough being a graffiti artist in Malaysia, I suppose. Almost all the available walls are already pasted with stickers from the Bank of Ah Long. But to finally call yourself a vandal?
Vandalism Highlights The Issue of Destructive Behavior
At least the location of this public service defacement seemed well chosen. This stretch of road under Bulatan Pahang is perpetually congested. Is this a dying art? The writing is on the wall…
