As I write this, our nation has been recently rocked by yet another scandal.

This time around it alleges a well known politician was involved in an ‘immoral' act recorded in a room in Kuala Lumpur.

I wonder what our nation has come to, as we always seem to make world headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The world mourns the loss of lives in Japan, Libya is under attack, Yemen is on the verge of collapse and a potentially calamitous climate change is set to take place.

Yet all the attention in Malaysia is on an ‘illegally' filmed sex act which may or may not involve the said politician at all.

In the eyes of the average Malaysian, this issue has been blown out of proportion. I was on Twitter a week ago when the news of this video first came out and my immediate reaction was that ‘This is definitely going to make front page news tomorrow!'

But what's saddening is that nobody seems to look beyond a politician being involved in a sex act.

Firstly, the point that comes into mind is that the people who have exposed the video should have been arrested for possession of pornographic material under Section 292 of the Penal code.

Moreover, now that a police report has been lodged by the said politician and many have followed suit, it's important that the police carry out their duties efficiently and transparently.

To leave all this aside and to look at this whole fiasco from the average Malaysian's standpoint of view is a whole different matter.

That's where I'm coming from.

I am the average Malaysian and it bothers me to think that all the government and the media could think of since the 2008 elections only concerns the ruling coalition and the opposition.

The ‘people' has been neglected in my opinion. Let's look at the said sex clip scandal first.

The facts as we know them today are that the video was filmed in a hotel room in KL involving ‘someone' performing sex acts with a prostitute.

Now as a Malaysian, I am not concerned about the ‘someone' who was filmed in the video. I am more concerned over which hotel is it in KL that provides prostitutes to customers? Why hasn't the authorities spoken anything about this?

Prostitution is rife in KL and one only needs to go to Bukit Bintang and other places like it to assert the truth about these claims.

There are massage parlours that promotes vice in every nook and corner in KL and also everywhere around the country. Why has nothing been done to stop the spread of this? Shouldn't there be some kind of enforcement?

On a different note, my city is tainted with irresponsible and ill mannered cabbies, dirty toilets and endless amounts of potholes in and around every major road, yet all we could think of discussing about right now is about a dubious porn clip?

I am bewildered whenever I drive around KL because I get the impression that authorities are not concerned about their people at all. The Federal Highway is badly jammed all the time.

Whenever it rains, roads around KL are packed to the brim and traffic policemen are nowhere to be seen.

Public transportation is atrocious. We speak about controlling the rate of climate change, but take a drive around KL and you will know why this is unachievable if not a distant dream.

Public buses are not well maintained and we could see that every other day at least one bus breaks down in the middle of the road and thus causes traffic congestion which often stretches for hours.

So much black smoke is emitted from these buses that at times it is almost impossible to see the road while driving behind it.

What are the authorities doing?

If buses aren't bad enough, let's look at another mode of public transport - KTM Komuter. Every day during peak hours these trains are packed like sardine cans and it amazes me to think that there are people traveling on it every day!

I took a train recently after a hiatus of almost two years and I must say that nothing has changed ever since! The trains almost always arrive late and it's hot and humid inside. Illegal immigrants travel on the train like its Genting Theme Park.

Why wouldn't there be cases of pickpocketing and sexual harassment if the distance between me and the next person inside a Komuter is no further that a strand of hair?

Leaving public transportation aside, let's talk about roads. Every major road in the city is either badly laid or ridden with potholes.

It is extremely distressing to be driving under these circumstances and if potholes and bad roads aren't bad enough, these roads are also not resurfaced properly after repair work is done.

KL is filled with such roads and every day the number of such roads increases. Where is enforcement? Why has nothing been done?

What I have stated here doesn't even cover 10 percent of the actual problems that plague our country, its only an insight from a concerned Malaysian.

I am sad that all this is taking place with no action being taken about it, but whenever there is a scandal involving the ruling coalition or the opposition, it makes front page news almost immediately.

Twitter and Facebook looks like a war zone where politicians trade barbs against each other. Why can't there be a common ground when it comes to protecting the interests of the people they serve?

I love my country and I feel blessed to be a citizen of this wonderful nation. I hope politicians set their differences aside and first try to sort the problems that plague the nation rather than wasting taxpayers' money to launch a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe a despicable porn clip.

What happens in a person's private life should remain private and shouldn't be used against him/her. It's like saying I won't listen to Ricky Martin's songs because he is gay or Bob Marley's music is bad because he is a drug addict.

If you wish to gauge a person's capability, take him on in an even battlefield where in this case it happens to be ‘politics' and ‘how to help the people'.

This way, millions need not be spent on campaigning before the General Elections because ‘we' the people already know who to vote for in the ballot box.

I urge the authorities to take into consideration the points I have raised in this letter before launching into a debate on whether there should be a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe the authenticity of a porn clip.

There are much more pressing issues to be addressed and we are running out of time and me being the average Malaysian - is running out of patience.