If you're the type of person that constantly whimpers about not having a lavish lifestyle or being picky over the food provided on the table, take a stroll down the streets of downtown Kuala Lumpur, and you'll finally understand how fortunate you are to even have a roof over your head and a nice comfy bed to sleep on.
It’s in these streets and back alleys where you’ll get your reality checked, because it is here where you can find all sorts of mysterious characters that manages to get you musing over how fortunate you really are. Walk along the rows and rows of shop houses and you’ll be surprised to constantly come across homeless individuals who scavenge for food in rubbish bins outside your favourite fast food joint or restaurant, hoping to get something within them that helps to soothe their hunger pangs. Then there are those people who sleep on extremely thin layers of worn out cardboard by the sidewalks where they get immune to the constant stares and glares from the passerby’s.
Of course, not to forget the abundance of prostitute joints that can be found in the back alleys of desolated shop lots right in Kuala Lumpur if you were to look hard enough (it’s not that hard, really). The streets also plays host to alarming amounts of persistent beggars that would hound you until you give them a small donation. It’s these types of people who jeopardize our sense of security as we do not know how far they would go to in order to get some money out of us.
Last but not least, disco clubs! There are a handful of them which are being operated illegally and it’s those which are considered as safe havens for drug addicts and illegal prostitutes. Fortunately those places are only active well past after midnight and when there’s no one around to interrupt with their frequent gatherings and afterlife ‘parties’.
All this and more, right in the very heart of Kuala Lumpur!
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