Last night was a different kind of Saturday night. A rather quiet Saturday night, and you would have probably guess by now what I am driving at if you have been following this blog. Yes, the mats and minahs rempit were missing! Usually the siren from the inept cops come first, followed by the roar of their exhaust. Somehow, I choose not to believe that this has got anything to do with the Wimbledon Ladies Final at The Championships; that is simply not possible. The peace and quiet was too good to true, felt kind of eerie. It must be the immediate effect of petrol price increase!
On one hand, it is good that the increase has effectively curbed this not so healthy activity; on the other hand, it is scary because of the speed with which we have been hit by the adverse effect of the petrol price increase. Where we used to have up to three groups of mat rempits on a Saturday night, there were none last night! Anyway, that was a pleasant change and I am not complaining, especially so when one could hear the line calls with clarity (I mean the tennis game).
Clarity! Yes, it has become very clear that we are staring bad times in the face! It is now possible for one to start driving from Tanjung Bungah at about 10.30 am to Butterworth, make a U-turn at the end of the bridge and be back where you started before noon (within regulated speed, on a Sunday). This was proven last Sunday when some of the guys, expecting a good south wind, decided to pack their windsurf equipments and headed to Butterworth. On the main span of the bridge, they saw the windsock indicating the wind from the north! So they made a u-turn and headed back to the Club.
They are going to do it again today (going to Butterworth, it is the south wind season now) and I wish them luck.
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