Saturday 24 March 2007

Amazing grace* - LeAnn Rimes

"Why dun i drive back in the nite?", i thot to meself!

Excellent idea! i save money by not having to pay for the hostel that nite, and on top of that, it would be a most pleasant drive back!!! Nice cool nite, the highway to meself, stress-free! Brilliant!

How wrong could i have been!!!!!!

It poured like mad that nite. It was a storm - cats and dogs and rats and whatever else!!!!! At certain parts of the highway, the rain was falling at such an angle towards my direction that i could not see the road at all! Visibility down to zero! I had to strain real hard to see thru the wet windscreen which made which was made so much harder due to the fact i had astigmatism - those who have that would understand.

And the highway was packed wif vehicles!!!!! What's goin on???? Maybe it was common to have that many vehicles on the road after dark in M'sia. Maybe it was cuz of the rain and cars were travelling slower. But it was so stressful! Large lorries on the slow lane crawling at a tortoise's pace while vehicles travelling on the fast lane (this includes a few huge express busses) think they are Michael Schumacher!!!!

All that just made me even more tired - i was oredi exhausted from traipsing around the island the whole day, most of the time, under the blazing sun. Thinking back, it was really scary - it felt so unreal, like i was half asleep most of the time. I prolly went to sleep wif me eyes opened a couple of times.

When me mate heard about that, he reprimanded me for being crazy. He said that driving in heavy rain at night is really dangerous - he has done it a few times in the past and it was only by God's grace that he went thru those incidents unhurt.

I could only nod quietly in agreement and offer a silent prayer of thanksgiving...

*This well-loved Christian hymn by John Newton was done in an acapella version by Ms Rimes in her You light up my life: Inspirational Songs album

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