Oh what a day, never thought it could happen to me, but it did. I was looking forward to the photoshoot at Bukit Tinggi, Bentong. The Model was Jenny Foh,. It will be my second shooting session with her. Since my eldest son was back for his holiday,he volunteer to drive me there.We got up at 4.30am to get ready and by 5.00am we left our home as I estimate the journey will take us 2 1/2 to 3 hours. I was to meet the organiser and the rest of the photographers at the Gombak toll at 8.00am .I had never been there before and most of the people I spoke to told me that is the time it will take to reach there. With the address key into my Gps , we were on our way, when all of a sudden, the Gps hang. I tried to switch off and on again, but still could not get it to function.After a few attempt I had no choice but to switch to another software. I was using Papapo ,after trying Mapking, which I found not reliable, I attempt to use Garmin and it was working fine until it took us to the Bukit Tinggi villiage instead of the Japanese Garden.where the photoshoot was to take place. We stop by some shop and asked for direction and based of the information gathered .make our way to our destination and after driving for a while we sensed that it was not the right direction and so stoped by a Petrol station to make some enquiry and sure enough we had over shot. So it was back on the highway again and trying to make it to the meeting place.As time was ticking away. Finally we reached the Gombak toll. I called the organiser to find out if they had arrived, to which he responsed afirmatively. To my horor I discovered we were on the wrong side of the road. We were heading towards Kuala Lumpur when it should have been to Genting . Don't asked me how it happen, but it did and all because we were so confident of the Gps. So we make a quick detour , one thing about the highway, you have to drive quite a distance before you could make a u-turn. and we drove at a safe speed of course and try to catch up ,but they have already left since it was already past the time set for the meet up. We had no choice but to go on our own and now totally relied on the Gps and while trying to rush and also the instruction given by the gps (garmin instead of papago)
was not clear or make sense,we override it and try to make our own judgement and by so doing we overshot again and so we had to make another u turn and it was back to the toll , and back again towards genting and
by this time I lost my head and started blaming my son, though it was no fault of his. To show my displeasure I even told him , forget about it let's head for home and with that I shut down the gps. However my son was so nice and told me he wanted to try again , knowing full well how I wanted to be there so badly .So I told him to go ahead and this time we follow the sign that says bejaya ,and what a relief when we saw the signboard that shows japanese garden and we knew we were now on the right track. We make it half an hour past nine. The photo shooting session was already in progress. This was the first time I was late for such an event and also a first time , it took three atempt to reach a destination.
Anway I am glad my son took the intiative to drive me there and did not give up on me, otherwise I would not be able to share some of the photos here.
