Honestly, I have been staying in Kuala Lumpur / Petaling Jaya vicinity for years, but I can say it loud and clear that I am not familiar with Cheras. I do have a few friends staying in Cheras, but I don’t usually go there for meet. The time when I went to Cheras the most was when I was with my very-short-time-ex-girlfriend, but that was only limited to her housing area.
Lately I had to go to Cheras very often, and there was this one time that I had to deliver something at night, and I had the very bad experience.
I called him on the phone, “Yo! I’m in Cheras now. So how do I go to your place?”
“Just wait for me at the Petronas station. I will lead you, okay?”
“Okay.”
So I waited for about 30 minutes, and he finally came. He took the lead, and I followed him in my car. He zig-zag across the many roads, and we finally reached the place. We chit-chat for a while, and after dropping the stuff, I drove off, wanted to go back to Petaling Jaya to meet my friends for drinking session.
Now, here is the problem. I was lost!
Only then I knew why it took him 30 minutes to go to the Petronas station to meet up with me because it was such a big housing area that it is impossible to reach there in less than 30 minutes. Amazing, isn’t it?
I tried to look up the signboards, and it wasn’t helpful at all. In one signboard, it listed no less than 12 housing estates. I was like, “What the…” and some is even better. It just stated “To the housing areas” because there were simply too many housing estates in one area, and many of them are within the housing estates.
So I turned, and turned, and thinking to myself, that it looked as if I had been there before, or maybe not. Because at night, all the houses looked the same, and there wasn’t too much of a landmark to speak of. So I turned and turned, and finally I saw one signboard that says “Kuala Lumpur”.
Wooohoo!
I was so delighted, and I almost screamed in joy after being stuck in the maze for more than an hour.
Now, I am not trying to insult the people staying in Cheras, because I would understand that people living in Cheras would say Petaling Jaya is a mess. But it is really a freaking maze and it is one big ass housing estate! I mean, how could anyone not getting lost in Cheras? So if even someone is giving me a house in Cheras, I certainly won’t want to move there. I would quickly sell off the house and use the money to purchase a house in Damansara area.
A few friends whom are staying in Cheras are encouraging me to move to Cheras. Unfortunately, I am used to staying in Petaling Jaya, especially Damansara area, so I won’t be interested to start off to that new area and getting lost on daily basis. Of course, those who are used to staying in Cheras will love that place and not moving to other places.
But one good thing that I noticed about this city maze; there are plenty of Petronas station around these housing areas, so you don’t have to worry that you will run out of petrol and being lost in the big maze.
So next time if you go to Cheras (only applicable to those who are not staying in Cheras), good luck in finding your way out without a guide. So please, be prepared to bring the extra cash just in case you need to refill your petrol.
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