City Planning

That day over lunch, my colleague made a comment: "our city planning sucks. Why can't we be like Hong Kong." I almost chocked eating the ramen hearing a dissatisfied shanghainese complaining about their government's city planning effort.

To me, Shanghai, although is a city that is severly lacked of 人文素质 (don't want to repeat the spitting and cutting-q incidents again, sigh), but their city planning is far more advance than in Malaysia!! Over here, they have subway stopping at all the populated area, bus that never lets you wait for more than 10 minutes, taxi that never said "No" to your destination, or open lion mouth asking for RMB30 for a 3km drive (it is only RMB10 for first 3km), etc etc. Compare to Malaysia, we don't spit on the road, we occationally cut q, under abnormal circumstances, but we have the lousy subway destination choice, bus that's never on time, and taxi system that drives the drivers to no choice but go crazy or open lion mouth whenever possible. Also, here they don't suddenly one big sunny day sunshine on your head without the wig, and you suddenly have hot idea to build a highway that is 2km away from 百姓 house, nor do they suddenly faat-din and build a toll right outside your house, hoping you go crazy and move out, or guai guai pay them until your cucu also give birth, or adjust traffic light timing, perhaps synchronize to his mood that day, which totally mess up and does not make sense to change light every 5 seconds (no, green lights 5 seconds, then red lights 3 minutes) out of some days, and when you gave up and thinks this is the end of the day and you had better live with it, they change it back to normal frequency, etc etc etc.

I miss Malaysia punya nasi lemak, hokkien mee, rojak, banmee, and all the great great food, but I seriously don't miss the city planning.