Chaotic Labour Day 2012

Last night I went to dreamland quite early so that I could recover from the sleepless hours due to the black out early this morning.

I also wanted to sleep in a bit since today is a public holiday. But unfortunately I woke up after 6a.m. I wanted to go back to dreamland again but to no avail.

I decided to wake up to have brekky. I should have told mum last night we would be going out for brekky/brunch cos by the time I went downstairs, mum was having her brekky already.

I cooked some noodles for brekky.

At about 10a.m., mum and I went to Servay Hypermarket, Plaza Juta for our monthly grocery shopping. We saw quite a number of policemen leading to the hypermarket. I was thinking there must be a fugitive who had escaped from the prison and the police are tracking him down.

I also saw some policemen using ropes to bar drivers from entering Jalan Saga.

There were a lot of people doing their shopping already.

After our shopping, as I left Plaza Juta to go to Tuaran Road and after to the roundabout outside Likas Plaza, I was redirected to go straight along Tuaran Road. I went a big round to SMC and used the road outside SMC to go to Lintas Highway. As I was about to do a U-turn at LIntas Highway to go to the BDC/Khidmat Road, cars were queuing up at the junction but none was moving to the other side. That was when I realised we had to wait for some vehicles to pass by before we could move.

And the cars at the BDC/Khidmat Road were at a stand still as well with policemen making sure none of the cars were moving.

 

 After waiting for about half an hour, policemen inside cars and motorbikes led the first batch of cyclists for the Tour de Borneo event passed by. 

Then some more police cars passed by followed by the second batch of cyclists. After that traffic was back to normal.

In my opinion, I think the Tour de Borneo had been poorly organised. There should be plenty of announcements/advertisements to alert the public of this event so that none would be inconvenient by it. I am pretty sure some people would have missed their or important appointments due to the standstill.

After being stuck in the standstill for more than half an hour, mum and I had lunch at Mee Sup Pipin behind Khidmat Supermarket. The first outlet started at a house in Penampang and that one is still operating. This new one started at the beginning of the month and their off day is on Monday.

There were so many people having their lunch when Mum and I arrived. We found a table inside the shop.

Mum had the following – the lot.

I was not gamed enough. I preferred to be on the conventional side. I had the pork balls mixed with squid and pork roll. The soup tasted very clear/light and it was quite refreshing to have a tasty lunch minus the heavy stuff.

I do not mind to go back to this shop to eat again.