About an hour ago, my colleague asked whether the oil price is going to be increased again since someone called her that the gas stations are now full with cars queueing up to fill their tanks! Another colleague whose husband is working as gas stations’ technician, called up her husband to inquiry about this. The husband said that only ESSO/Shell stations will be closed for a week, but Petronas stations will continue its operation. Half an hour later, my Mom called up to ask me if I heard the news of ALL petrol stations going on strike! I happily told her about the news I got from that colleague’s husband!
Now, about 2 hours later, it’s now 4.15 P.M, my boss called up the drivers and asked them to go fill up the tanks for the company lorries and motorcycle. The nephew who used to work with SHELL told us that ALL petrol stations will go on strike for 3 days!!! Geeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!! No wonder there are such long queue at the gas stations, EVERYWHERE, in Kota Kinabalu! According to my significant other, the same goes in Sandakan. A friend who is in Keningau said the same thing. Must be the same for rest of the state too??? Is this true?
Updated 7:15 P.M:
The big boss let me get off work early today so that I could go and filled up my car’s gas tank. Thank you, Boss!!! I left work at 4.45 P.M. instead of 5.30, boy the traffic jam was terrible! Went past by Kobusak Shell Station and this was what I saw…
Shell Kobusak jammed with cars – long queue going towards the station
Then went past by Petronas Towering… jammed too!
Click on the photo for larger view, take note of my side mirror – long queue
Went past by Petronas Donggongon, same case but I didn’t get to take the photo as the traffic light was green. 
Got to my last stop, Shell Donggonggon… boy oh boy! How long do I have to queue to get my petrol?? – That’s what I thought anyway…
The long queue from the other side of the road…
More cars coming from the round about…
A policeman came just as I reached the round about, and signaled me to move away from the queue. I did but I was lucky, I saw some room in between the cars in front of the gas station and slipped in to join the queue *evil grin*. People were switching off and on their engines because of the long wait, trying to save up on the gas!
The view as I was nearing the Shell station… people were trying to squeeze at the junction to go into the station
A car beside me was blocking the main road, so the policeman came and asked him to move away, not politely I may add! When the guy refused, the policeman got angry and took away the key from the switch… he returned the key and said something angrily, pointing at the long queue behind… I heard bits of pieces as I have my window winded up, something like going back to the long queue behind! But hey, he was the one who asked us to drive away from the queue at the back, when we were trying to join in the queue to the side of the road going to the station in the first place! Poor guy had to drive away … I wanted to take a photo of that incident, but didn’t dare to in case I’d get myself into trouble.
Half an hour later, I got to the pump and tried to use my credit card! Geez! No credit cards allowed at that time … the system for the credit card slot at the pump does not work! To my avail, I only had RM20 cash in my purse at the moment… so I thought.. “ah, isi ja la! RM20 pun RM20 lah…” Luckily the tank was still half full since I filled it up before I went for the holiday. I didn’t drive my car much since I got home, except for work and to that wedding reception at Promenade Hotel. With that RM20, it was almost full again, so I hope it’s enough for it to last for the next 3 days if the stations goes on strike!
P.S: Excuse the quality of the photos.. it was not easy trying to capture the scenes using such a slim Samsung U600 phone, while trying to drive at the same time! Hehehe…
Updated 11:15 P.M:
Got the following text message from Maxis at about 3:30 P.M. earlier
<TheStar>Officials from Shell Malaysia and Sabah Petroleum Dealers Assoc stressed that there is no truth to the rumours of petrol kiosks closing for 3 days.
I didn’t get that sort of text message from the other two mobile operators here in Malaysia though. I was in the queue for about half an hour, but it took me another half an hour to reach home due to the bad traffic jam. I was somewhat spared, but I too fell for the rumour. Who were the irresponsible parties that started this rumour and caused such havoc? Such panic among the people… watched the evening news on TV3 and TV1, I pity those people who didn’t know the truth by then and was still queuing to fill their vehicles with petrol/diesel.
Hi Mel..
Aduii.. my sister and my mom called dari bandar. Teruk gila the jam oh!! Sudah lah full tank bikin bankrap. But if you don’t fill it up, how are you going to get around for the next 3 days?? I just hope all of this chaos will end.. like immediately!!
hi there! first time here.. oh yeah, traffic jam everywhere! Donggongon jangan cakap lah, susah mau keluar nie. 3 days without fuel? Oh man.. that’s bad. Hope the bosses don’t get mad if we don’t turn up at work.. *grin*
Hiya Mel,
Uhm, I have no idea pulak about the strike. Nobody text me about it at all.. probably coz I’m in the jungle and driving around was the last thing I plan to do.
Btw, nice blog! Very pweety!
Wah…. rumours can cause havoc lah…
eh..the last photo.
looks like the right car knock viva from behind.
or was it my eyes yg rabun? wahahahaha…
The rumour caused such panic among the people… caused such inconvenience to the rest of us! Luckily I only had to que for a while for I jumped the queue accidently – thanks to the policeman… what a chaos, only to know that it was a joke by some irresponsible people!
Hahaha you were hoping that you’ll run out of gas so that you don’t have to turn up for work eh?? I’ve been thinking about that too…. and I filled up the gas at Donggongon Shell Station … geez…. I know how bad it was! Anyway.. too bad, you HAVE to go for work now.. it was a bad joke by some idiots!
You’ve been spared cuz it was a rumour! You’re still in kampung ah? Wah so best oh….
Thanks for the compliment, gotta give credit to the names at the bottom of the page, especially NoktahHitam who helped me “personalised” this blog a bit… and coming from you, awww… so nice, cuz you have the pretty pretty blogs around!
Yup… rumours such as this will definitely cause havoc! Darn the one who started it…!
The car didn’t knocked the viva …. it’s just that the cars was so close to each other, it looked that way
or probably, memang your eyes rabun.. go get your eyes checked! 
there’s a Shell bah near our house.. tidak jauh lah. It just takes about 4-5 mins to get to our house. My sis and my mom were stuck since 4.30 pm, sampai rumah dekat jam 7pm. Jam gila I tell you. My mom did talk to the Shell owner, dia cakap, tiada maahh.. tidak mogok punyaa! At least, unlike some proprietors, he had the decency to tell the truth.
Melampau betul lah.. really teruk lah these people..
It’s not just in Sabah dear…In Kch we had similar rumours…but probably not so bad as there lah…I didn’t have to worry abt fuel since I don’t drive but my bro made sure he was not gonna worry unnecessarily. He still had half a tank when he fetched me and he said, “Nah, just rumours. Besides, the strike (if there is one) is only 8hrs” LOL!
Talk about a hoax! Everyone kena? The power of rumors!
I agree!!! Kin panas ja .. panat sia ikut tu traffic jam….
At least what you heard there was just 8 hours.. I wouldn’t have gone to fill the tank if that was the case… but as I said in my post, and if you watched the evening news at TV3 or other stations last night, it was rumoured for 3 days… even if I didn’t go to the petrol kiosk, I’d still be stuck in the horrible jam anyway .. hehehe … as I said, it didn’t take me that long to get my turn at the kiosk yesterday… quite lucky huh?
Yes, zoie… everyone kena.. you can watch the TV3′s evening news at the online archive..
we are even sure whether it is a rumour or not.. lol.. probably after it leaked out.. then ok fine, it is a rumour. while they are making deals behind closed doors. haha!
haihhhhhhh bong… you know what I went through yesterday anyway.. gila-gila punya jem!
I chose not to believe the rumours *LOL* Glad that I didn’t cos I did read at star.com.my bout the rumours yesterday evening when my parents called.
kekekeke.. aduiii… why our sabahan ppl so panic about the fuel price hike… not only our state affected bah.. the whole malaysia will kena also… and if you fill it today, you only can save for a week.. after that, you have to fill at petrol station with the increased price…
Btw, i heard the petrol station already stopped the credit card services cos of the service charge on them… so… itu saja.. lol!!!
Lucky you, ahlost.. hehehe that Maxis sent out the message quite late, but as I said, I was lucky cuz I didn’t have to wait for long to get my turn at the kiosk hihihihi
Chi, yesterday wasn’t about fuel price hike bah.. it was rumoured about the petrol kiosks/operators going on strike – not selling for 3 days…! Didn’t you watch the evening news last night? Heheheh .. you can laugh at others, but maybe you should go to bongkersz.com and read his view on this.. for your information, during the price hike, I didn’t join in the queue
As for the credit card at petrol stations, yes, they stopped… I experienced the inconvenience of that decision already.. that too, you can read at bongkersz.com