Thursday, February 16, 2006

JEMMMM..........

Decided to accompany Bob yesterday to Canon service center situated in Subang. He picked me up at KLCC around 6. At first, the road was normal. Normal means the traffics were crawling (what can you expect from Jln Ampang anyway). It's getting worse as we moved towards Jln Tun Razak. Thankfully I've bought a gaming magazine before I went out of my office, but the magazine content soon wore out, and we were still at Ampang Park. Bob's voices seem to fade away as I slowly dozing off.
I woke-up at about 7.30, we were at NKVE toll plaza and God! look at all those cars. Bob was cursing, the service centre closed at 8 and, based on the situation that we were in, could we make it? I dozed-off again, it's hard for me to open my eyes at that time. We arrived there at exactly 8 o'clock and guess what, the service centre was still open! Why? Because an Indian manager suddenly decided to go upstair for a while to catch a whiff of the traffic jam. We let go a sigh of relief as Bob finished off his deal (we is such a big word right? With me sleeping and all).
Yesterday's traffic was ridiculous. When we make our way back (I didn't fall asleep this time) using the old airport road, many cars decided to have a pitt stop at BP's and Petronas. Both of the stations were packed with people and cars who decided that it pays to wait rather than joining the traffic. I can imagine the grin of both the owner of the pump stations, praying in their heart that this goes on everyday, haha.
On the way, we decided to take a "short-cut" beside the road. The sign said Ara Damansara. According to Bob, he heard one of his friend's said that there's a road that could take you up to Tropicana from the old road. We decided to follow a group of cars that were making their way there.
It was a bumpy ride at first before we came to the new housing area. First, we decided to follow a brand new Nissan right in front of us. It didn't work, he took us to a dead end. When we turn back, a Kancil swoop past us. Hmmmm....very confident indeed. We decided to follow him.
"Jangan die parking sudah", says Bob.
We follow the Kancil for queit a time when we reach an area full of apartment.
"Aku kenal tempat nie, Menara Luxor!, caya la Kancil" exclaimed Bob excitedly.
With renewed strength, we followed the Kancil vigorously. He took us directly to his parking spot.
We turn back again, the Menara was right in front of us, but there's no road that could access there. We took an opposite road from the Kancil's. Again, the road looks very familiar. We didn't follow anymore cars this time, after seeing one or two met up with the same circumstances. It seems more and more people decided to escape from the traffic.
After about 15 minutes of searching for an exit, we encountered many familiar view when I shouted
"Exit sign!!"
The sign showed an exit to the right. We took the right road and there, about 300 metres right in front of us, the exit seems to beckoning us to come near. We did, with curses and swearing, as the exit that we were about to take were the same road when we came in. Happy driving guys, take care :-)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it was me who told bob about the shortcut.