Desperate Housewives

I have this funny sense of pride. Everytime after I finished hanging up my laundry, I'll stand near the hanging lines and admire the hanging clothes and feel as if I just completed the Twin Towers! More so if its a bright sunny day and there's a bit of breeze lapping against the clothes... MY Pride and Joy.. My Kodak moment...for the morning that is. If I feel blue, I'll just look out my window and watch the hanging laundry and I'll feel my graph going up again. My husband had a good laugh when I told him about my Laundry Habit. I don't know why but just watching the Hanging Laundry gives me such a sense of achievement.

I also have a friend who is also a homemaker and she shares the same feeling. In fact at one time when she attended her son's prize giving ceremony for excellent exam results, she akins the moment to watching her hanging laundry!! Talk about Desperate housewives...

GOING UP!

UP! UP! UP! Everything's going up recently, most significantly, of course fuel and then food, electricity tariffs, temperatures (with the dry season) and of course tempers flaring up with the stress of making ends meet. However the only exception was the price of fragrant and glutinous rice which they announced will be reduced(Phew!).

It's good to know that the Government will save billions of ringgit from the reduced subsidies, but what will happen to those savings? My one wish is to see those savings being put to use to develop an integrated public transport system to make it reliable, efficient and available to everyone. Then everyone will have a dependable alternative when driving their own car gets to be more and more costly.

Reliable and efficient is of course very important because when you go out to catch a bus or train, you know it will arrive at your stop or station at the precise scheduled time. Now Available? Of course we have our bus services, commuter trains, LRT and monorails but they are only available in certain areas only. Why can't they service all areas or at least be linked to most residential areas regardless of demographics? It's not only those of lower income groups who use public transport, but if an efficient integrated transport system exists, I believe most people regardless of income or status are willing to use it. Then we could settle part of our traffic problems, our financial woes, reduce our stress levels (no traffic jams) and the bonus is we reduce our pollution problems as well... What excuse can there be not to have it?!