by Ganesh, via email
I refer to Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar's apology with regards to
the massive traffic jams caused yesterday.
What Syed Albar does not realise is that, not only were
people late in reaching their offices and thus productivity was affected, many
people also missed important examinations.
Monday was the first day of the Certificate of Legal Practice (CLP) examinations
held in University Malaysia (UM). As the examination was 9am, many left much
earlier from their houses. As for me, I left 7am from my house located in Subang
Jaya. Usually by 7.30am, I would be passing EPF.
However, to my shock and horror, I only reached UM at 10.30am, by that time, it
was too late to sit for that particular paper. I was crawling in a standstill
jam all the way on the Federal Highway. It was too late for me to turn and use
any alternatives as it was a bottleneck jam everywhere and impossible to use any
other alternatives.
Many people sitting this examination were either late or just failed to turn up
because as one knows, reaching late to the examination hall, one would be barred
from entering the hall.
And the CLP examination is such, that if you miss just one paper, you might as
well resit the whole examination the next year as you would clearly fail the
whole examination having not sat one paper completely.
The shocking thing is that, this is the last year of the examination before it
is scrapped for good. So, how is one going to sit for the examination again?
To make matters worse, there were no protest at all. Even if there were
protests, we have had many other protests before, and it was all peaceful
protests. So why were there virtually every other road being blocked in KL
causing a massive gridlock in the whole Klang Valley?
Some were aware of the roadblocks but many were not aware of the roadblocks as
the public were not for–warned about the roadblocks much earlier
As Datuk Syed Albar was a previous lawyer, I am sure he understands this
predicament of those aspiring to be lawyers. As this is the last CLP
examination, many are stuck now, not knowing what to do. Many have sat this
examination several times, hoping they would pass this last attempt before it is
abolished next year.