Rant & Raves

Judging from the “Malaysia Boleh” (translation: Malaysia Can!) spirit, I believe Malaysia is on the way to break yet another world record; The Country with the Most Speed Bump. Yes, you heard it right, a country with the most speed bump, and the wonderful thing is that it comes with different size and color!

If you drive to the Curve shopping mall, one can’t help but notice that the surrounding road has more than 30 speed bumps of various size and shape. If you add up the speed bumps you can find around Bangsar, Mon’t Kiara, KL, and etc, I just can’t imagine why Malaysia hasn’t set the world record already.

A lot of my friends from oversea are amazed (annoyed) by the amount of speed bumps we have in Malaysia and they even declared that if they are being kidnapped, they sure can tell if they are in Malaysia even if they are blind folded. If that happens, I can visualize the headline as “Aussie Saved By Speed Bump” or “The Mighty Hero: Speed Bump”, or use your imagination for more creative headline.

Well, does it really warrant us to speed so much until they must install/build those speed bumps every 5 meters? The whole road itself is like a rollercoaster so how can we drive ultra fast? I mean, speed bumps are suppose to slow us down in order to create a safe driving environment, but we have so much speed bumps until we can’t even upshift to 3rd gear anymore! Furthermore, it seems like speed bumps are actually creating more accident than make the driving environment safe.

Another milestone of the record breaking is the various size and shape of those speed bumjps. It looks like we have problem with a STANDARD because it seems like they are just installing/build whatever they like, and some of those speed bump is so damn high that they can scratch the bottom of a 4×4.

Maybe one of the vision for Malaysia by year 2020 is to build speed bump on the highway and the aeroplane landing strip at the KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport). Then we will be the country with the most (ridiculous) speed bump in the whole universe!