The many brightly lit sites in KL

Where there is good food at the right time , we would go to eat even if it is raining , late at night or even in Kuala Lumpur . These are the happy times of retirement when we just go to where the heart desires ! The choice of good and tasty beef balls/slice noodles of Soong Kee , near Jalan Silang was so apt for a light dinner especially when I have had tea/snack with my good Pengetua friends in SS2. I really enjoy my fun chat with my friends and then the togetherness with my husband.

We were going round and round to park our car near the coffeeshop restaurant because the earlier crowd had not finished their dinner there.When they left, there was ample space in front of the shop. I would claim that it is quite safe to park there because we have never been booked for illegal parking so far! In KL, one has to know certain designated places which are safe to park and yet get scotch -free from the traffic police! This is the point up for the 'locals' or the
' regulars' of KL.

After the sumptous dinner, I started to admire the beauty of KL at night on our way back. More lights and lighting decors are noticeable now as the country celebrates her 51years of independence. I spotted the beautifully lighted- up KL tower with blue and yellow lights which glitter at certain random intervals. The white coloured lightings look like diamonds glittering in the dark skies!

As we moved on to pass by the Dataran Merdeka, which is usually beautifully decorated with its galore lightings , I saw the big screen of all designs, hues and colours spread over the height of the Dewan Bandaraya building . The entire Raja Laut Road is always brightly lighted up but being Merdeka , additional lights have been added . I would say that KL is already well-lighted up with colourful decorative lightings before the Merdeka Day but now we can see even more lights and more sites beautifully decorated with colourful lightings at night.

Some other beautiful sites are the Lake Gardens and the iconic Parliament Building with its road leading to the building donned with poles fixed with big lighted up artificial Bunga Raya flowers .
Horizontal lines of red, yellow and blue lights flash across the facade of the Parliament Building and this effect gives the festive mood to the entire surroundings.

So much lightings everywhere and so there goes our expenditure on electricity! We must start looking for cheaper and suitable renewable energies to sustain this continuous consumption of energy. Besides the additional lighting added on to celebrate Merdeka, the colourful lightings in KL are permanently beautifying KL every night ! I hope there are timers to switch off all these lights when daylight sets in.