Tales of Two Women

It has been raining non-stop for the past 4 days. It spoilt our weekends as we had to stay at home on last saturday and sunday. We are having a hard time trying to get our laundry done. You could not imagine how we hung our clothings everywhere in the house and let them dry under the fan! Yet, it is still raining heavily when I am writing this post now.

I woke up as early as 6.30am and left the house at 7.30am. It was 40 minutes earlier compared to the usual time when I left the house for work. As soon as we came out to the main road, we got ourselves stuck in a terrible jam! Some parts of the road were flooded so the cars could not pass. Then it was the traffic light that was not working!  The usual 2 lanes became 7 lanes and everyone was trying to cut the queue and this made the jam worse!

I was stuck in the jam for 2 hours before I could arrive at my work place. I was an hour late! When I reached my workplace, the rain was still pouring. One of my colleagues arrived at 12 noon! She said many places were flooded especially the low land kampung houses. It took me another 2.5 hours to reach home. The journey to and back from work today took me 4.5 hours in total!
When I read the news, it said it was “once in a 100 years” phenomenon. The bad news is that there is going to be more rain. May be I should sing  “Rain rain go away, come again some other day….”