First, I open the tap - fountain of water gushing out with little effort. Water so fresh that it smells a bit like the 50 meter Chiling (water)falls; when you stand just appropriate beneath it. Malaysian are lucky not just mainly because they've natural resources, but because natural resources have not become a curse to us like some countries, say, in Africa. Indeed, having a bit of engineering it truly is the water from sources like Chiling waterfalls that runs via our taps. A lot to say about the far more necessary green-war is in reality far from the backyard of city dwellers; the urban green lungs that won a smaller city like Kuala Lumpur admiration from its residents and tourists alike. 
Ok, water initial; then comes the mint leaves. I feel this is where the hyper-market complements the good-old traditional wet-market. Mints leaves and parsley just isn't some thing commonly found within the wet-markets; nor I delight in driving to a massive and cold hyper-markets that for just couple of mint leaves. Possibly we should take into consideration having a hyper-market at the size of mini-market, like those in Antwerp's Franklin Rooseveltplaats. Countries like Malaysia is really a growing baby and we takes in loads of stuff, outside stuff, but pretty much still figuring how it's finest practiced in the context of our society.

Alright, in the event you not finding impatient by now, I am. In fact I want to wash those mint leaves I bought from hyper-market yesterday and wash-and-clean them to ensure that I can have an excellent glass of mojito tonight. The cleaning procedure is critical here - simply because only then I recognize immediately why my great-and-wonderful mother can invest the entire morning, washing and cleaning stuff just before she even start off cooking them. I don't want those dead-brownish mint leaves to be visual as the mojito washing down my throat, nor I need to spend time picking the green fresh one everytime I want a glass. To my surprises, I stand there patiently for a good half hour, cleaning, separating, alter the water, cleaning once more. 
It was an hour later, when those wet fresh mint leaves dried on a piece of yesterday-Sin-Chew newspaper. By the way, the Chinese press reports distinctive stuff, compare to Malay press or Tamil press and vice-versa to every other press and media in the nation. The 1Malaysia idea, like a lot of other idea say New Economic Policy of Malaysia is indeed benign and vital - but the reality that those concepts is necessary says some thing about our deep-rooted divide. Neither can we predict the end of those, concepts. But my professor said we must nonetheless do our part with convictions; some thing which I hold dear ever considering that.