KL basically a dead city when CNY is here. Major roads or highways towards KL having very very less vehicles on road. One would ask,"I understand the chinese balik kampung for the reunion dinner, so where is the non-chinese in KL?" There is few answer for this:
1. They balik kampung as well~ Oh ho ho balik kampung~, oh ho ho balik kampung~~!
2. The city kinda empty,as it only have less crowds and when it is less crowds, the non-chinese owned shops would close as well to prevent robberies and when they closed the shops, the city have nothing to offer to the visitors!
There is this our former PM said, if we to "bulldozer" every properties that owned by non-malays, KL only left Kampung Baru. So, there is no suprise if the chinese owned shops, mini-markets, workshops, companies or industries stops thier operating hours and go for thier reunion dinners or holidays. Not only that, those who's Boss is a chinese, will have thier employees to take compulsory leaves as the boss hatta balik kampung as well for reunion dinner or simple, hisap angpau.
I witness myself, where all Malaysians stock thier home's fridge and dry foods cupboard before CNY. Not only that, during CNY, even the markets doesnt operating! with the few traders selling the "expired products" like kubis aged 3 days old [non-fresh foods].
Conclusion... When CNY comes, Malaysia's economic stops for 15 days?
PJ Low
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Sadly,Klang was the other way round.I was stuck in a jam in Klang town on the 3rd day of CNY.(Yes,a bad traffic jam DURING the holidays).I thought it was a good time to settle some bills(that don't deserve to be paid),only to be caught in a jam that was considered "quite merciful" compared to normal working days @_@.
I think more are staying at home this year since this year isn't that "prosperous" as it should be.
Hmm.. a little correction; the 3rd day of CNY is the day where most of the non-chinese starts thier works (e.g. Government Officer/Clerk). So, not suprise if u were trap inside the jam. Beside, government schools starts thier lesson on wednesday as well (only chinese schools having 1 week holidays).
And a little correction to my post, where it suppose to be "Less Traffic on CNY Eve, 1st Day of CNY and 2nd day of CNY only". Sorry for the mistake. xD
"I think more are staying at home this year since this year isn't that "prosperous" as it should be."
- Totally agree on this point where i forgot to insert in. With almost 80k jobless and more 200k are expected to be jobless, some social expert fella predicts, there would be more/increase cases of robbery or anything to do with the loss of money.
Thanks For Sharing Your Opinion ^^
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