COMMENT | So Malaysia now has the world’s second-tallest building. But yet, we don’t seem to have enough simple boats to rescue people stuck on flooded rooftops in Klang.

Perhaps the KL118 skyscraper is designed to make us look upwards (at the “keris” on top?), to fool us into thinking we are already an “advanced country”. And to forget our many problems in the real world.

The floodwaters in Klang began rising on Friday night (Dec 17). Two days later, many people were still trapped and desperate. On Sunday night (Dec 19), Klang member of parliament (MP) Charles Santiago had to beg Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein to send in the army for help.