The Power of Imagination

Hey! Let's play a game of pretend. Let's pretend that I'm a really good and consistent blogger with lots of witty, insightful things to say about everything. Now let's pretend that I bring my ancient and heavy-as-a-brick camera with me everywhere and take lots of interesting pictures of Malaysia to show my friends who aren't here with me. Let's put on our imagination caps:

1) Standing on the 66th floor of the Petronas Twin Towers looking down on the deceptively smaller buildings, the traffic almost invisible and the Klang Valley becoming more evidently a valley.

2) Driving home at midnight on a busy street, I see two gweilos riding on elevated bicycles, perhaps circus performers backpacking around the world on impractical but amusing contraptions. What fun!

3) A late night snack at a famous alley shack, dining on fried noodles under a moonless sky. The hawker (a couple dressed in matching knee high fishmonger boots, sweat pouring down their foreheads) screaming over the hot wok alternately at their employees and each other.

4) Visiting a grandaunt at the hospital, a woman once bossy and rotund is reduced to a skeletal frame, an occasional nod and serious bed head. My mother, shouting into her right ear (a stroke has made her lose her hearing, you see) to "ask Jesus to come into your heart." The urgency of the situation - an unsaved family member on her deathbed - should be evident in the photo.

I hope you had fun pretending. Bye!