{"id":596,"date":"2005-09-03T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=596"},"modified":"2006-10-08T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T12:05:13","slug":"614-of-kuala-lumpur-first-world-and-third-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"[594] Of Kuala Lumpur: first world and third world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran a little errand yesterday. My eyes were a bit wilder than usual, ceteris paribus (read: controlling for sexy girls factor). While wandering almost aimlessly, I saw a couple run down wooden squat houses with modern highrise as backdrop.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/KLfwtw.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Two images of Kuala Lumpur in one shot. In my opinion, a good juxtaposition of two realities.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait what Selangor &#8211; <em>the only self-declared developed state in Malaysia<\/em> &#8211; has to offer. Fantasyland should be better than Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ludicrous for Selangor to declare itself as a developed state. And I still think it&#8217;s ridiculous to call Selangor capital of Shah Alam as a proper city. Forgive me for comparing but I think Ann Arbor is larger and more exciting than Shah Alam. Shah Alam doesn&#8217;t even have a cinema to start with.<\/p>\n<p>And I think I need a better camera. Or maybe, I just need to stop scaling down my photos for posting purposes. Yeah. Next time, I&#8217;ll use 500px for width instead of 400px. Or I just need Photoshop instead of some stupid imaging software.<\/p>\n<p>Argh! I want my old computer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran a little errand yesterday. My eyes were a bit wilder than usual, ceteris paribus (read: controlling for sexy girls factor). While wandering almost aimlessly, I saw a couple run down wooden squat houses with modern highrise as backdrop. Two images of Kuala Lumpur in one shot. In my opinion, a good juxtaposition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}