Traffic Jams and Olympics

Rain and jam goes hand in hand.

The mechanics of a traffic jam escapes me. Sure, its usually a case of a particular time of day, versus the amount of people on the road at that time. So its quite normal that jams normally occur at mainly used roads and in the morning and afternoon (times when people go to work and go home from work). The funny thing is though, when jams occur on highways, everything goes whacked. Firstly, the speed lane is not supposed to be the slowest lane. Heck, its called the speed lane for something. Instead, what I notice is that its either the slowest lane or it just plain not moving. And then you go through the decision of whether to change lanes or not and wondering if you just wait for a while and hope that it will move back to speed soon. The worst is when you do make the decision to change lanes and just after you do that, the new lane that you are in stops and the lane that you just vacated from, moves. Secondly, there's something of an invisible line. This invisible line marks the spot where the jam magically is gone. There's no explaining it. At one moment you are grumbling because its so slow and suddenly cars are speeding off in front of you and there isn't a jam no more. ITS MAGIC I TELL YOU!

Ah its that time again. The time where athletes from around the world compete with each other to see who owns who. Sure, you get the global friend thing but in the end, its just a case of seeing who are the better athletes and which records are going to be broken. As usual, Malaysia is chock full of positive reports even before the event starts. Although I do hope that it doesn't end in our usual manner. Usually what happens is our athletes fail to garner medals that were targeted and the usual finger pointing ensues. Nevermind the highly positive views and articles the day before. Personally though, I think this year we will bag more medals but I digress. What can be sure of though, is that our attitude of being an 'emtpy can' is highly expected of us (Concerning our news reports before the games).