I refer to Home Minister 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 at 9am, many left much earlier from their houses. As for me, I left at 7am from my house located in Subang Jaya. Usually by 7.30 am, I would be passing the EPF building along the Federal Highway..

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 alternative routes as it was a bottleneck jam everywhere and impossible to use any other way.

Many people sitting for this examination were either late or just failed to turn up because as one knows, when 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 re-sit the whole examination the next year as you would clearly fail the whole examination having not sat for 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 street protests or demonstrations at all as claimed by the authorities. Even if there were protests (we have had many other protests before), they would have been peaceful protests.

So why was virtually every other road being blocked in KL causing a massive gridlock in the whole of the Klang Valley? Many were not aware of the roadblocks as the public was not forewarned about them much earlier

As Syed Albar was previously 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 for this examination several times, hoping they would pass this last attempt before it is abolished next year.