I've got an invitation to a wedding of my friend's son in Rantau, Negeri Sembilan. Previously, when I was actively doing wedding photography, being at a wedding event is a norm for me. But today, I am attending wedding as a guest. The best thing of being a guest is that you can have your own sweet time enjoying the event and the food of course. :D
To go to Rantau, Negeri Sembilan from my place is quite a distance. So with a friend of mine, we started our journey as early as 1140am. Supposed to be 1130am but I need to make a stop at my office as I forgot to bring the invitation card along. Why the invitation card is important? Because I do not know the address of the event and the map is in the card.
We set our GPS to the said address and the GPS took us to the old interstate road. The traffic was smooth but the roads were narrow. It took us about 1 hour before we reached at our set destination. The wedding was held inside a medium size Community Hall. The deco was great and the food was okay.
The Groom & Bride in purple theme.
One of the deco that I think was being well prepared. The Carved Fruit Basket at the main dine table.After having our meal and as we're not planning to go anywhere else, we drove back to Melaka. But this time, we're not going to rely on our GPS instead we planned to use the PLUS Highway back to Melaka as the old interstate road that we took earlier was narrow and making it difficult to maintained speed.
So, we drove towards Pedas Tol Exit and headed to Ayer Keroh. Just before Simpang Ampat Exit, the traffic was getting slow and crawling. After we passed Simpang Ampat, it became worst. Vehicles on the highway moving slower than a snail I should say. Now, we're really regret on our decision to use the highway, interstate road should be much-much way better.
Instead of 1 hour, the journey took us almost 2 hours. I guess now the time that PLUS should seriously look upon Melaka toll exit. The Chief Minister of Melaka did told PLUS to upgrade the toll exit of Ayer Keroh early this year but nothing happens. What we can see now at the Ayer Keroh Exit is some construction is going on but we don't think it is for adding more toll booth and widening the exit lane. I hope PLUS will act on this issue at the immediate as Melaka is one of the top tourist destination here in Peninsular Malaysia. This traffic issue might jeopardize the tourism industry in Melaka if people started to think that going holiday to Melaka will stress them especially during peak season.
So, we drove towards Pedas Tol Exit and headed to Ayer Keroh. Just before Simpang Ampat Exit, the traffic was getting slow and crawling. After we passed Simpang Ampat, it became worst. Vehicles on the highway moving slower than a snail I should say. Now, we're really regret on our decision to use the highway, interstate road should be much-much way better.
Instead of 1 hour, the journey took us almost 2 hours. I guess now the time that PLUS should seriously look upon Melaka toll exit. The Chief Minister of Melaka did told PLUS to upgrade the toll exit of Ayer Keroh early this year but nothing happens. What we can see now at the Ayer Keroh Exit is some construction is going on but we don't think it is for adding more toll booth and widening the exit lane. I hope PLUS will act on this issue at the immediate as Melaka is one of the top tourist destination here in Peninsular Malaysia. This traffic issue might jeopardize the tourism industry in Melaka if people started to think that going holiday to Melaka will stress them especially during peak season.
Lucky we're on Smart Tag even. If not, we will be facing 'looonngg' queue started 10km back from Ayer Keroh Exit.
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