Going Places

Aiyoh, so much happening around here! Noi noted pithily as I very narrowly avoided running down a pedestrian who for some obscure reason best known to himself was strolling across the slip road from a highway joining another highway, even though there was no where at all for pedestrians to walk along in the vicinity for a good half a mile. It didn't help that the slip road was barely illuminated - despite the fact that major roadworks were taking place all along it. That's a typical feature of KL roads, by the way: you think you are driving on a major highway when it suddenly turns strangely minor, as if you've lost your way, when you're simply been following the only way to go.

But I must say, despite all the complaining above, this evening saw something of a minor triumph for us regarding journeying across the sprawling Malaysian capital. For the first time ever we were able to follow the directions of our GPS without once going wrong, taking us from our abode on Bukit Antarabangsa to the big IKEA outlet in Damansara. The feeling of actually knowing what we were doing and where we were going was pleasantly unfamiliar. Must try this more often.