The Rush Hour

I now understood how the phrase "rush hour" was coined. My rush this morning lasted exactly that. A full hour from home in Gombak to the car park in Subang. On call today, so I decided to kick things off early.

The hold-up this morning was not at the usual spot - the intersection between DUKE to Jalan Duta. This time it was the SPRINT entrance to the Federal Highway. It was a mile queue down the ramp.

Good thing that I had "MacBreak Weekly" podcast on my iPhone. I managed to finish a whole episode.

Roadblocks!

It would be the first time that I would be staying in the apartment while on call. So, after sorting out my admissions, I left the hospital just after midnight. I decided to take the NPE hoping that it would be nice and quite and I would be back home in no time.

Unfortunately, there were a couple of major road blocks along the way. The first one was just after the turning into Kewajipan, towards Sunway Pyramid. The second was just after the NPE first toll from Sunway towards Bangsar. In the end, it took me about 30 minutes to get into the apartment. Not impressed!

So, if I were to be called out again, it looked like I would be taking the Federal Highway instead. Hopefully that would be a lot smoother. Minus the toll!

Why the Morning Rush?

Was it just me or the traffic in Kuala Lumpur since the Chinese New Year break has been horrendous? Usually, I leave my Gombak house at around 7.30, enough time to wave goodbye to my kids an reach Subang comfortably by 8.15 or so.

On a couple of occasions lately, if I were to leave that late, I would only reach the car park at around 8.45. An hour plus drive and the hassle to start off your day? A definitely detriment to my quality of life.

I think much of the problem was contributes by the new traffic flow at the intersection of DUKE and the Jalan Duta exit. Comes were put up at the entrance causing a sudden reduction from 3 to 1 lane. The queue could easily stretched for a couple of miles.

To avoid this, I took the NKVE route and exit at the Subang Jaya interchange. A slight jam free that but if I left early enough, it should a doddle. I then settled for a quick breakfast near the hospital ....

Idiot Outrider!

After the long drive in this morning, I though I deserved a treat. Decided to head out for sushi after the last patient on my morning list. I was hungry anyway and the drive in this morning was horrible.

I didn't mind the queue at all. What got on my nerve was when the outriders came around with a VIP in an entourage and started telling people to push off. The policeman also got the cheeks to kick out at a kancil who could not move away due to the long jam. Such irresponsibility.

I wished that I have the number of the Policeman and tweet it off but they took a left turn out of DUKE after I left towards the NKVE toll. Such action was really uncalled for! Idiots!

Productive Monday

Monday. I was expecting really bad traffic, but it turned out to be not too bad. Maybe some of the city dwellers had decided to extend their leaves to Wednesday since it would be Hari Wilayah. I would not be surprised if some would be extending it further to next week as both Monday and Tuesday would again be public holidays.

As for me, I turned up for work extra early and finished my rounds just after 9. Did some paperwork and letters right after. Finally I decided to head home to fire off some lecture notes and had a quick lunch with Puan Anita. We then did some grocery shopping before picking up Irfan from school.

I got home in time to do some reading and preparation for my next set of lectures. Put it this way. It had been a productive morning …..