This trip back to ipoh is probably the most tiring of all trips. Papa picked me and HDY from my workplace on Friday evening. Taking into account the afterwork traffic, I estimated we would reach Ipoh by 12mn, latest. Traffic to the causeway was relatively smooth. We managed to clear customs and immigration in a shorter time than the last trip! Little did we expect a terrible massive jam in the heart of JB! We were stuck for 2 hours before we managed to hit the highway. It was 8:30pm by then.
Not long after that, we were hit by torrential rain!! It was so heavy you could barely see what's ahead of you. It doesn't help that the highway is not lit. By then I had taken over driving duties because papa had been driving for 4 hours and he's not exactly young anymore. Honestly I doubted whether I could keep my family safe in such driving conditions. I threaded at 70 kmh for the next half hour. It was an excruciating drive. I channelled what's left of my energy for the day to concentrating on the road. I could barely last for 2 hours and my father took reins of the wheels again while I slept..ZzzzZz..
We finally arrived at Ipoh at 2am and headed straight for kum poh for dinner / supper / breakfast. Papa woke us up at 6:30am and we made our way to the cemetary for tombsweeping. It was an extremely tiring trip but it's good to see everyone again.
Have a happy week ahead :)
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