Hibernating

Yes yes,it's that time of year again, hibernating beneath mounts of books, papers, notes. You're in a race with time, and the sand watch infront of you just seems to be slowing down as if there's a barrier that keeps those tiny sand particles from falling smoothly. I keep shaking it..yet it sticks out its tongue to me and moves as slowly as it can possibly be.

Sunbathing

Sunbathing is a right for every creature, and not just human beings. Plus Animals have bones too that needs the sun's vitamin D to activate their calcium uptake.oh oh, I drifted a bit into the scientific blah blah. Ah well, Enjoy your sunbath little kitty :), while I enjoy mine watching you , lay here with no troubles to worry about, while we lay here, to forget the troubles we have to be worrying about.

The Park

The usually deserted park that was the scene of my previous journal post.
That's the path were the tiny feet of Jojo and Ibrahim ran over for about a hundred times or so :)
Most of the time it is vacant as such, I don't know why, even though it's surrounded by vibrant working & studying institutes to where thousands of people go to daily.
Apparently people prefere spending their luch breaks in doors .

An Hour in the Park

Had another gap and went to a small park by the university, not the one previously mentioned by the sea. It was 2pm and I have never seen that much people there. It’s usually deserted, I don’t know why but people here either don’t seem to enjoy nature or don’t want to give themselves some relaxing time.
When I went, there was a woman pushing a baby boy in a stroll accompanied by another woman “probably her mother” and a little girl “the boys sister” who was around 3 years or 4. She looked like a baby doll actually; she was so small and walking in this unbalanced funny way. Her granny was walking around her trying to feed her and she’d called her “Jojo”!! They kept walking around the circumference of the area.
There was a man reading a newspaper, another napping under a tree with his hat covering his face, a couple of college students who were in deep conversation, and a girl reading.
After a while came a mother with a kid of almost the same age as that of Jojo and the same size, and they walked in an opposite direction facing Jojo’s family, when the 2 kids finally met, it was the spark!! They started poking each other as if each is experimenting the nature of the other, a human, a toy?? Then they recognized each other to be of the same species and started running around the place like maniacs. People would stumble at them, one tall guy in particular who could have mistaken them with a cat perhaps from their minute size, stumbled over & leaned and was about to fall but caught the little boy for support, wonder how though! Almost everyone in the place started following them with their eyes, as if you’ve turned the family channel ON. With kids roaming around, Granny trying to locate Jojo let alone her moth to stuff food in there, the mother was trying not to lose track of the boy & the mother pushing the baby in the stroll observing it all and laughing. You could tell from the look on the people’s faces they were really amused. I myself found that I was smiling without realizing I was doing so..
Then came a family, mother & father ,a boy & a girls of around 13 to15 with their school uniforms and bags, and had a seat for a while , probably were waiting for something, for after a while the kids left, then the father left, then the father came, then the mother left, then she came then both parents left. In amidst that Jojo’s family was leaving, turns out they had to go to the bank nearby, and were just waiting for certain timing to go there.
Then a woman came to the boy’s mother took her and they left. That’s when I knew he was called “Ibrahim”
And then I left, leaving behind me the still napping man, the 2 college students, the girl reading some papers, and some men probably going to one of the banks nearby.
It was a nice gap, I left with still a smile on my face, ah well a good way to go back to the routine day that lay ahead.

Fish Fish all in a dish

My dad doesn't usually go fishing, not as much as many people do anyway whom spend their morning or even entire day fishing. But he did go for a couple of hours, and that was his catch!!

The one with silver fish is obviously the fresh catch, the other is after being fried. Looking at them now, I wonder how come after they've been fried, they've shrunken in number?? hmm the mystery of the lost fish :p

Make a wish?!

They looked like 2 shooting stars to many people who saw this picture. Some didn't even notice that there where 2 white thread-like lines in amidst the sky.

But what they really are, is merely 2 airplanes, that strangely enough were flying that close to each other, or atleast it appears that close from down here.

so, to those who thought they were shooting stars, sorry guys, can't make a wish upon airplanes :D

I wonder though, could shooting stars appear any time & not just at night when the sky is pitch black?!!

I saw a shooting star twice in my life till now, one was around 8:00 pm and one was after midnight...

On the Pathway of joggers (3)

Humid weather, lots of perspiration, oh it’s going to be a sticky summer!!
Weather is fluctuating at a high rate these days, ah seasonal changes what can we do but try to adopt.
Not a single wave in the sea, greenish at parts, and transparent at parts showing the rocks covered in green slimy algae beneath.
The sun was hiding for most of the morning behind the mass of puffy white clouds, which is always a good thing, for me at least J
There weren’t a lot of people exercising today, because of the stiff weather? It’s not even June yet, because it’s a working day in the middle of the week? I don’t think so, most of these people exercise daily.
I started off by passing by Mr. Navy Motivator…, with his sunglasses on, & marching as if he’s after something & wants to reach he’s destination. There was also Mr. Chewing gum-shaky hands, but he’s lagging friend wasn’t with him today, maybe he needed a break…
I just noticed that most of the exercisers are middle aged, I hardly ever see 20s or less, so I kept a mental note to make a statistical analysis on the group ages and genders that are keen to exercise!!
On my way back I saw The $ bag lady going to work, today she had 2 heavy bags with her, apart from her dollar-sign bag, and she was dressed in jeans, but the same format of a skirt, top & jacket, but all in jeans. She looked tired, and making a great effort with that load & that weather. I smiled at her encouragingly. It’s a great thing that weather changes don’t prevent her from walking to work.
When I was at school, I used to sometimes walk to school in the morning, which took 1hr 15 minutes!! I always live far from wherever I study, no matter the times we’ve moved in. Anyway, so in winter it was always great, even in the rain, I’d wear my water proof jacket over my backpack & cover my head, & smell the clean fresh air. In summer, well, at first I’d reach school sweaty, so I thought I wouldn’t walk in the summer, but then I missed those morning walks & the people I used to meet opening their shops & send their greetings to everyone they know or don’t know. So I decided that no weather will stop me doing my relaxing habit, & started taking a spare shirt with me, & simply changing my shirt when I reach school, as simple as that.
Back to today, to finish it off, near the end when I was about to reach home, there was a car accident!! A woman in a car hit a pedestrian, he was lying in the middle of the street on his back, but no sign of blood “Thank God”, and the road was jammed with people around him & people calming the frantic lady driver. They told her, he had a broken leg, and that’s probably it –considering that he could’ve been dead, it was a relief to her-. What a sight to start off the day with, it kept haunting me the entire day!!

Cemetery

It’s always a scene that makes me think a lot. Not about a specific thing but life in general. It’s weird though that when I look at the graveyards, I never think about death, but my thoughts wonder about life, the life these people have left behind, the life of their families without them, my life now, my life in years to come..