Post #3 from this meme.

Question from roslinforever: For some reason, knowing little about your country, I have this image of where you live as everyone being polite, clean-living, considerate, and there's little or no crime - am or right or is this wrong and Malaysia is just like anywhere else?! Do you have or have you had noise nuisance from the neighbours? Is there much crime? Do kids and young people go off the rails?

There's the good, the bad and the ugly here, pretty much just like everywhere else. Annoying neighbours pop up occasionally and crime happens. But of course, the government launches campaigns to promote moral values and things like that. Young people do get into trouble and there is no doubt that good values are waning amongst kids. We have a lot of corrupt politicians here as well. Malaysia as a whole is difficult to sum up, I think, because every state has its own identity and moral code.

However, I do like living in Penang, a lot more than I would like living in other states because there's loads of food and holidays we celebrate many festivals. We don't have to be a Muslim to celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri - just visit a friend who's Muslim and join in. ;) Or we can visit friends celebrating Deepavali and keep our stomachs happy with spicy Indian food! The Mooncake festival is gorgeous, because people carry lanterns of all shapes and designs at night. And of course, this question inspired me to do a picspam on Penang. This is part one of hopefully many other picspams to come. Enjoy! :)

*The filenames tell you what those pictures are of. :)