This happened on my way to dinner, house at point (4) represented by that purple box (sloppy map yeah i know, would you prefer your road directions in words instead? :P)
I came through point (1) and by then i was already stuck fast in traffic, as i saw the stationary vehicles, initially i thought some accident happened at point (2), where most of the attention was at (there were people out and about). Typical Malaysians, out and about though it had NOTHING to do with them. They were'nt even paying respects, just bumming and watching...
Then it dawned on me, today is Wesak day and surely enough, a procession with kids, a brass band and loadsa floats came from the temple [point (3), green box], passing point (2) and heading towards (5).
As usual, i guess the traffic control people were busy eating/smoking/sleeping or something cause they could have showed us some sign that the road would be occupied by the event. We (The many who were stuck in the jam, caught by suprise) were even instructed to make a U-turn.
But luckily for me, as things seemed bleak, the procession part of the event had lessened (most of it was already past (2), enabling me to progress through my usual route, (2), (3) and then (4). But as usual i had to worry that the people were heading for (5), then (4), and back to the temple at (3). They went to town i think, and probably took a while before actually following my aforementioned path, so yeah it was all clear after dinner and i didn't have to go through another mini-road-frustration episode.
I was stalled for about 45 minutes + (which NEVER happens in Taiping, hence this post). And yeah, a lot of people would compare my situation with theirs and say that this is nothing. But they don't live in a small town ;-)
Ideally the red line would be the best path, according to physics and vectors and trigonometry and God knows what else, but unfortunately a Daihatsu Charade doesn't fly.
;-)
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