Out of Home Ground

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After fun, exciting, laughters and stomach filling days in home ground; it was time to head back to my in-law's place in Taiping. We headed 1st to my Godfather's cottage to visit him. The boys were happy to see birds in the house and a fish which is much older than Adam that was a present to him years before I got married.

Then we headed towards the Penang ferry - something Adam calls it "Ferry Boat". It was Danial's 1st actual ferry ride and was he afraid at first due to loud low bass sound the ferry makes. Adam on the other hand was very impatient to get onto the ferry and waiting in line wasn't just his way. Luckily, its the holiday season and people are still celebrating thus making it faster for us to get on the ferry boat. Once the cars are parked, everyone went out of the car enjoying the view and all were excited. Lucky for the boys, the weather was on our side and were they overjoyed to see a big "swimming pool" infront of them. They were very very happy and once back in the car they slept almost instantly! Ha ha... Owh, due to the over joyness, we even missed a turn that we nearly took the old road to Taiping. Wifey said turn back coz she knew my taste for cornering was unforgiving... he he.

But somehow I really hate this... everytime its a festive season, the ammount of accident just rises up and about 1km before the toll gate there was this massive jam due to a car that spun its way. Hey, the sign said 90 and from the outrage I believe they were going at least 140 - look I have nothing againts people who drive fast its just that if they can't hold the steering right just move with the crowd.

(Somehow in Malaysia there are a lot of people who loves to watch F1 races, rallies and all other sorts of car racing there is. But the fact is they DO NOT learn from it. They brake even when the car infront of them is about 1km away - worse even they brake for no apparent reason. They also like to brake during cornering where you should be doing it before the corner itself. They also love to BREAK 1ST SO HARD 1KM AWAY BEFORE LIGHTING UP THE SIGNAL LIGHTS indicating they're going to turn left or right. They also leave the top gear during corners when its a rule even during the driving test to drop the gear before you hit the corner. And they really like to hog the right lane by either driving right on the speed limit making others over taking them from other lanes. And the best they drive even slower than the speed limit and hang around at the most right of the lane and when someone like me flashes them, they dare to hit their high beams as if they were right when I get the chance to overtake them making me for no apparent reason to jam my brakes and let them realize how long the que they made - they haven't met my road rage - no wonder God wouldn't let me get that WRC car I've always wanted coz I'll just go berzerk with Malaysian drivers. Its just plain simple rule - IF YOU CAN'T DRIVE IT THAN MOVE ASIDE, NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU ARE IF SOMEONE CAN DRIVE UP TO 2 INCHES NEAR TO YOUR CAR EVEN DURING CORNERING MOVE ASIDE, YOU'VE LOST).

Enough said (actually not!) about Malaysian drivers (this comes from a life of Mat Rempit who sees the best of both world, I've done just about everything there is needed on the road... Rempit on 2 stroke at 190km/h, back wheel riding on a chopper at Semanthan corner, convoying at minimum off 200km/h on superbikes, u-turn by drifting on a rear wheel car, drifting at round-a-bouts ahhh it just goes on even my boys sometimes request Daddy to drive fast while doing corners in racing line), majority of them just wanted their driving license without thinking about other drivers!

Back to my story... The highways of Malaysia have (in my point of view) some of the breath taking views (sometimes it makes me really wanting to stop at the side and just hit the shutter button - but that's even more dangerous). So with all the breath taking views, wifey is given the responsibility to fondle with my shutter button to capture the views and indeed she needs more tutorial on my cam. She now uses the TV mode in which she still needs to learn more on how to use the TV mode. She did however got some great shots that really amazed me. Her expertise is really for the tripod type with slow shutter and still life and to that I lay my hands down. But she only needs to learn the camera. As for composition, hands on she far better - so people if you need your product to be showcased, please call her, I will only do the light reading for which settings are best to be made.

That nite, Adam was very happy to meet up with his cousin that he slammed the door into Danial's pinkie finger and it went flat. Rushed to the hospital and at the same time traffic increased at Taiping due to bus accident somewhere near. Luckily, nothing serious happened.

The next day, we went to Aloq Setaq where I got to drive my father in-law's manual car. Wifey saw the lights in my face... heh heh heh. I just hear the word manual on vehicals these days. I just can't... heh heh heh...

-R-