Raya Hangover

Raya Hangover

I have been back in the office since yesterday when the official holiday for Hari Raya ended, and boy, have I been struggling to find the motivation to do any useful work in the office. Heck, I didn’t even have any drive to write anything for the blog yesterday. The office was as good as empty, apart from 2-3 of my colleagues who chose to come back from the holiday early. All the bosses won’t be around till next Monday, and as the saying goes in Malay, when the cat’s not around the mouses come out to dance. Hmm.. I think that’s how the saying sounds like anyway...

I just got back from a morning coffee break with wifey just now at San Francisco Coffee House. Needed to have something to jumpstart my day, since I’ve been on the verge of power failure since yesterday. And boy do I feel better (albeit a little) after a dose of cafe mocha, hence this entry I guess. To be honest, I’m still very much in a holiday mood, and while my seemingly ever-horizontal-growing body is here, my mind is very much elsewhere. The problem is I have no more leave to take, after all the holiday galore I’ve had throughout the year todate. Am itching to go and catch the movies in the cinema. Top movies on my prioroty list at the moment are The Grudge and The Incredibles...

Raya this time was a cross country adventure. My parents celebrate Raya in their hometown in Johor, while my parents-in-law celebrate it at the other end of the Malaysian peninsula in Perak and Kedah. My wife and I covered a distance of no less than 1,000 km throughout the period between the eve of Raya on Saturday and Tuesday. Traffic on the highways during the festive season could be a nightmare however. I was told that up to 2.5 million cars had left KL during the Deepa Raya celebration. The worse of the traffic I encountered was on the return trip to KL from Ipoh on Tuesday night, when we took almost 5 hours to complete a journey which would usually have taken 2 hours under normal circumstances. Lucky I had the best of company with me throughout the journey however... :-)

The drive to the office today and yesterday was a breeze. It took us only 20 minutes to get to work from home. Kalau lah driving kat KL camnih hari2... kan ke baguih. The stress level throughout KL can be reduced as a result. I can only dream for that to happen though...

Oh yeah, and to my blog visitors, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir Batin. And thank you for coming to visit... :-).