4am in KL

Sorry for the lack of proper updates. After writing two pieces of short fictions, I found myself deluged with college work (screw you Price Theory, and Quantitative Analysis that’s harder than Add Maths that I had to ask Jess how to do a particular differentiation tutorial-assignment question just two hours ago while she was online from McD) and am heavily involved in a particular thing called “life”.

That, plus I also discovered that Red Bull fucks up my brain for some reason, after the ‘success’ I had enjoyed last Thursday. When I took it on Thursday.. I discovered that – to the best of my ability to describe how exactly I felt – my mind was sitting in limbo between mental fatigue and alertness; I was soo very tired but incredibly alert at the same time. I thought this weird fog that’s clouding my brain would clear up as the day progressed, but nothing of that sort happened and yeah I felt pretty much crappy mentally up till a few hours ago. :/

Up to the point that even though I watched the awesome movie of the year that is The Dark Knight, my brain was too tired to even be able to remotely enjoy it. :/ My emotions were detached yet I was able to recognise what a top-notch movie it was, sigh I probably am making no sense.

I’ll put up pictures when I’ve a little more time on my hands on the next entry.

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That 4am drive from Kuala Lumpur was intensely calming after that crazy confusion and headiness in 1846. The intensity was such that it clears up that weird Red Bull-induced fog in my head for that short period of time, and then it began to rain. Drops came dropping silently on my windscreen, splashing transparent graffiti all over it – a quiet downpour in a sleeping city at 4am. And then OneRepublic’s Goodbye Apathy played randomly from my playlist from my iPod, and that sense of serenity was multiplied.

Have you ever been at KL at 4am while it was raining?

The streets were so deathly quiet that it was nothing compared to the sardine-packed jams that KL is infamous for. I could slow down my car before the road splits into two to look at the signboard placed right before the junction, which again I’d like to stress had moot point when it should be placed at least 500 metres before the junction to enable us to plan our driving slightly far ahead. I could drive at whatever pace I wanted, and in that period of crazy morning when the majority were sound asleep in my bed, I was the only few roaming the streets in a car.

I didn’t have difficulties once when exiting KL, when prior to that I was lost for an hour on entering it. There was something mystical about KL and its street lamps with its yellow lights and its deserted roads that stretched about haphazardly like spider webs and the few taxis that were still up and running.

Maybe when I couldn’t sleep the next time or for whatever inane reason (and when petrol is considerably cheaper), I’ll bring my camera along for a photoshoot at 4am in KL.