by-election day in permatang pauh -- massive jam in penang island!!!

today i reached my office at exactly 9.26am (that's the precise time shown after i scanned my tag to enter the premise) due to an unexpected massive jam. it was very considerate of my colleague to call me at 8.05am to warn me about the jam, when i was just about to turn into the junction that will lead me to the starting point of the jam. unfortunately, even after trying to use another alternative route, i still could not escape the jam.
it was everywhere!!! arrgghh…!!!
you see, whenever there’s a traffic jam leading to where we work, almost everybody would be receiving the same warning from their friends and colleagues to avoid certain routes. the smart you may have already guessed it, that is why they say smart ass think alike; in order not to join the already known jammed-route, everybody would end up taking the same alternative route, and eventually the supposedly-to-be-free alternative routes would end up having massive jam as well. thus, yours truly was innocently stucked in the jam for an annoying 1.5 hours (normally, i would take about 20-25 mins to reach my workplace). i got really mad because i left my house a little late today since I anticipated that the traffic would be clear as it was supposed to be a public holiday! no school and not many factories/companies were working today! I was hoping that instead of taking 20-25 mins to reach, I would probably only need less than 20mins to reach my office, park at my favourite spot, take my own sweet time to come into the office and enter a good trade or two with much enthusiasm.

whilst in the car, i really felt like turning my steering over and headed back home instead of wasting time getting stuck in that stupid jam. however, heading home would mean that i would need to take a day's off today and taking a day’s off would also mean that i was gonna be taking, nay wasting my precious leave unnecessarily. do i have to sacrifice my precious annual leave simply because I wanted to avoid the jam? moreover, it didn’t sound so practical as I was already wasting 1 hour of my lifetime getting stucked there and my workplace is oh, so near yet so far away. in addition to that i haven't got much annual leaves to spare (i mean carried forward leaves from year 07, I haven’t touched this year’s leave, yippie!!) and now we're only in the month of August. 4 more months before year end and I just cannot afford to simply waste my leave. Finally after some battle of the thoughts, i reached my office, parked far far away from the entrance and had a lots of sun bathing while rushing to get into the premise.

I was feeling sweaty all over…yucks!!!