Raya Part I - The Traffic

For the past 5 years, we start our journey home in a morning, 8am - 9am perhaps. Partly to avoid the traffic. The most appaling reason is that I can't seem to be able to stay up driving at nite anymore. Unlike those days, we used to be travelling at early morning, even up to dawn.

Is this a sign of age evolving or something? - A big possibility. Or the zest is no longer great like last time? - Another possibility.

The kids were really in Raya mood. Our eldest, Azwar woke at 3am in a morning to get ready & he did not sleep even after "sahur". Followed by the 3rd, Awadah who woke up at 6am. The father (who was still in hibernation) was consistently disturbed until about 8am.

So as usual, we departed from our rented house in Bangi at about 9am on Saturday, Oct 29th. Yeah, it was still early for Raya... :). Both of us have taken early leave. As expected, the traffic was rather smooth & clear until we reach our first destination, Kemaman. We should thank Samy Vellu for the East Coast Hiway (LPT).

By the way, our journey on the next 2 days heading to Kota Bharu was a bit disturbed as we gotta take a non-hiway route. Hmmm... No hiway by the way... Having said that, we should also thank the Police for preventing lorries from the road during the season. Besides this, I think the Police should also prevent Mercedes (make 1960) & Toyota KE20 from taking the road too during the season. We (and many other drivers) gotta tolerate with them. Who to blame anyway? The car that can take 60km/h max or the driver who just wanted to go to "surau" nearby? It's nonsense to ask them to speed 110km/h to reach the surau which is not even 5km away from their home rite? Hmmm...

Well, that incident was easily tackled by remaining +ve while driving. With the intention not to lose so much fun, I keep reminding myself "diorang pun bayar road-tax...". So, be it lah!

In general, the traffic condition was well-organized. Not many reckless drivers anymore. Except 1 or 2 who don't have a tv set in their house. But overall, the tv ad has given the effect. Unlike previous years, I have seen lesser "potong Q" incident this year. Thumbs up to those who behaved & please continue to become "pemandu berhemah".

Generally, our journey home was good. The 11-hour journey back to KL was good too :D...

That's all for now. I will be back with Part II.. Stay tuned!!!
Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri...!