Last Wednesday morning thus saw us at the railway station in Bukit Mertajam patiently waiting for our regular train service to arrive. Around 7.30 in the morning, just as the sun was about to break out from behind the hill at Cherok Tokun.
Only difference was there was no hill to see. Not that the hill had disappeared but because the haze was so think that it obliterated the sight of everything between the station and the hill. And of course, everyone knows that the country has been enveloped by a thick layer of haze from Indonesia since about two weeks ago. Haze which the Indonesian government had refused to acknowledge as their responsibility although it emanates from the plantations and forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Such irresponsibility, I have never known before.
Anyway, this hazy scene before me last Wednesday completely contrasted with the clear skies we had several months ago. Last April and May, I had also taken some pictures of the hill from the same vantage point of the railway station and it was totally clear. Such a sad difference four months later.
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