Is this Iraq?

I lay down to sleep, but i can't. The night is dark and quiet. A long pause of silence and again interrupted with a sound or a bang. I can't take this much longer. It has been 3 days in a row, day or night there are explosions, sometimes in a continous fashion and sometimes really rapidly like the that of an MP5.

I hope this doesn't last long. It goes to show that despite the legislation and the security forces, we are all here to suffer. At this very moment as the end draws near (hopefully), there are still sounds of explosions, some just above my home and some in the distance.

This is Foong Hoh Yun reporting for GNN, on Deepavali in Malaysia.

Thought of the moment:
"Don't people ever get bored of burning away their money?"