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National Day is all Malaysian’s favourite day especially when it falls on Friday! That would mean a promising long holiday for all if you know how to avoid the crowd and seriously congested PLUS highway. Still, some people never learn… just like me. I ended up stuck in few hours jam on Merdeka eve and crowded between seas of human along the roadside to Paya Indah wetland, just to catch a glimpse of the marvelous Malaysia International Fireworks Competition in Putrajaya.


I reached there at 10pm and waited 2 hours watching KLIA express passed by in front of us every 20 minutes. We secured our tripod just behind a family with children making noise, ‘picnic’ in front of us and right behind, couples sitting along the roadside fence, families with children screaming wanted to go home or requesting for toilet trip… oh I forgot to mention about the nasty mosquitoes…

The firework started at 12am and last for 25mins. The crowd kept cheering at the magnificent work of Japanese team and at the end everyone gave a loud and long applause before disappeared to their vehicle in very rapid motion. At the time I finished packing up my tripod, the surrounding had cleared up and everyone got stuck in jam one more time. I reached home at 2am plus…