Big Difference – 5 or 25 minutes?

This afternoon there was another downpour but this time only for a short while. If the rain had continued to come down bucketsful like yesterday, I would have left work at 4.45p.m. to avoid the traffic congestion and flooding. Instead, I stayed and did overtime until 6p.m.

The drive home was a smooth one as compared to yesterday. I was home within 5 minutes as compared to 25 minutes yesterday. There were not many cars on the road. I think probably a lot of people decided to go home early so as to avoid a repetition of yesterday.

Today I also paid the house rates of assessment for the first quarter of this year since my office boy had to make some payments to Kota Kinabalu City Hall. Besides bill like this one, he also helps me to pay telephone, electricity, water, credit card and renewing road tax. Since I work 5.5 days per week, I do not have the liberty to go and pay all these bills. And therefore I am always thankful to my office boy for doing all these for me. Nothing comes free in this world so I would give him some cash or some food in return for the favours done for me.