[2nd class sleeper carriage on KTM]
 

PAS city is apparently a Pepsi town. Blue billboards all over the place proudly proclaim Pepsi as the first carbonated drink to be guaranteed halal in Malaysia. There’s even a prevailing disbelief in the way coffee shops have to put up signs stating "Coca-cola ada dijual di sini". Could this be why the Council of Non-Governmental Organisations Alliance campaigned to selectively boycott Coca-Cola in early 2003, but not Pepsi, in protest of America's foreign relations? While the many pondoks around town segregate men and women, nobody gives a hoot while indulging in the apparently state-sponsored lepak culture.  

 
     

Photography by Danny Lim © 2003