After careful considerations, I've came up with the conclusion to write a coffee talk column which features my personal opinion based on my daily life happenings. Basically, this will be the part whereby I ramble on many things from work life to personal hobby or about friends to family related happenings. For my fellow readers, please do let me know if there's by any chance this space can be further improve in the near future. Your critics will be welcomed openly.
The recent tragedies that hit the island has become the talk of the town as of late. The death of several people caused by the collapse of the second bridge construction and also from the freak storm that hit the city was rather unfortunate. I had a few outstation friends asking me if I felt the impact from the two tragedies and my answer to them is a simple YES! I travel daily through the second bridge construction area and I also happen to travel past the area on that same fateful day itself. From what I can recall for that day, the traffic was rather bad and there's plenty of heavy vehicles like busses and lorries passes through the unsafe work zone of the bridge. With such heavy vehicles passing daily, such incidents are bound to happen someday and eventually it happened! I only knew about the bridge collapse in the late night when I read through message postings on Facebook.
For the freak storm, I was travelling home after work as I've decided to leave work much earlier than usual on that day. As I'm passing through the town area, I was hesitating to either take Macalister Road or Burma Road to get to where I need as heavy rain and wind picks momentum. In the end, I chose to use Burma Road instead. However it's not incident free. Rolling helmets, crashing tree branches, shop billboards floats right in front of your vehicle and I can even see some people holding hard onto the steel beams like that was used for their make-shift durian stall tent. The aftermath was really bad as plenty of age old trees being up-rooted and of course the news of the heavy concrete cum antenna from the UMNO building collapses. Gut wrenching to even hear that someone died under that collapsed structure.
People told me that it has been two consecutive weeks of such ugly incident and the question is, will there be a third one for this coming week? Let's hope not and will be definitely hoping that better days are ahead for every Penangites. However, it's quite inevitable that there's another problem brewing off shore and it will probably be engulfing the island soon enough. That'll be the ever dreaded haze and I'm having my fingers crossed that the haze will stay away from the island for as long as possible.
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