Of Chinese New Year Holidays, empty roads and hurling.

Hello there. Yes, yes, I know. It's been quite a number of days since I have written something. Well, it's been kind of hectic (sort of) these days, what with me running around doing errands for me mum.. (and I'm NOT being defensive) and of course doing that showcase project. Sigh...

Well since I'm here and all, let's not waste precious webtime and look at me digress. Let me tell you about the outside world (or at least here in Kuala Lumpur) today (the 9th).

Something that you only see on special public holidays. Empty roads. I mean seriously. Yeah there are a few cars here and there. But I could probably count them leisurely while driving about 80 km/hour. It's surprising to see the number of people who actually head back to their hometown on Chinese New Year. Since it's, like, a week's holiday, everybody is taking advantage and this leaves me wondering. I guess there aren't many native KL-ites and PJ-ians here are there. I mean, you could probably roll down the road outside my house (the main road called Jalan Beringin) and not get hit by anything (except probably my neighbour's cat).

So does this mean that all these people who go back to their hometown actually travel all the way here so they may find work and glory (really?) here in the city of Kuala Lumpur? A show hands to people who don't have a hometown they could call a hometown (or kampung) except for KL... (I raised my hand before hand...heh.. silly pun, excuse me, but it sure is funny looking at me typing on this here keyboard with one arm raised).

I have always wondered what it would be like to travel all the way to... say, Kelantan, everytime there is a public holiday which requires my presence among loved ones (loved ones meaning my family... not my cat). I am imagining the car ride from here to Kelantan (6 hours probably) and right now I am thinking absolutely not.... There is no way I can be in the car for that long for every single holiday that I will be taking. Nope.

For those of you who actually go back to you really far hometown, I salute you guys because it really takes a lot of patience to travel back and forth for holidays. I really do. I probably feel like hurling if I think about all those trips.

So from now until Monday, the roads are probably going to be pretty much deserted (at least around the KL/PJ border, that is, Bukit Damansara, Taman Tun, Section 16, etc). So I am going to enjoy this jam-less state as much as I can and take a relaxed\, leisure drive down the road home. See you in my next blog. Rozana out.