One Corner, 5 hours drive, 20 minutes meal & kids new shoes

As school holidays arrive, I believe most of you do get wedding invitations, it could be your family members, relatives or friends. And the location could be next door, or even in other states. And we were not singled out from getting invited too, with the bride, the bride's brother and the bride's bosses are my wife's friends.

So on the King's Birthday, we hit the road 5 minutes before 10am. It was a clear & warm morning, my wife especially, was quite excited as she had a hetic month at the office and need to unwind a little bit. We took the PLUS highway to drive down to Muar, although the road was full of cars, but still acceptable jam where i managed to drive bout 80-90km/h.

My nightmare began when we passed by Sg. Besi Tol, and the cars started to jam up one behind each other, so it began, slow drive towards down south. And I was hopping that it will end shortly; i was wrong, big time!!!! I only managed to drive the car less than 30km/h from Sg.Besi Tol to Nilai, with my kids started to feel restless, crying for milk and desperately need a diaper change. And my patience started to thin out, i too, began to grumble & complaining to my wife. I have been driving about 2 and a half hours and we only reached Nilai, and there was still a long way to go.

The funny thing is that - there was one corner on PLUS highway exactly after the Nilai exit, the bend was not sharp enough to make cars slowing down, i could say u can still drive within the speed limit without causing any mishap, but the jam ended just after that particular corner. No sign of whatever it was causing the jam. WTF???

So we continue our journey towards Muar, i encountered more jams, which mostly exiting to Malacca - which was still acceptable! After driving more than 5 hours for 197km, we finally reached our destination, and it seems that we were not alone being stuck in the jam, actually there was a convoy of 10 more cars arrived 15 minutes later than us. And we were talking & complaining the same thing, the jam!!! So much of a wedding excitement, the jam became the hot topics to many of the guests. it was also the ice breaker to start a conversations.

I was hungry & tired, i quickly find a place to sit, and help myself with the food. After 20 minutes arrived, it was the time for us to head back home!!! But this time i was more prepared with the jams. had to say that i agree with William Shakespere - "Presence fears, are less than horrible imagining". fortunately it was a smooth drive till we stopped at Restoran Jenjatas Ayer Keroh, there we had A&W's famous Rootbeer Float, to quinch our thirst and also we bought Adidas and Nike shoes for the children at Al-Ikhsan's clearance sale. At least, these are cool momento we brought home from the trip!! We are talking about real-cheap-children's-branded-sports-shoes, man!

We reached home about 9pm. Tired and worn out, we slept early that nite...