Mashed Potatoes

That day not too long ago I saw a guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

I had just left school on my bike, cycling merrily down the road. At the traffic light I stopped behind a guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

The guy was riding a bicycle with no seat.

He just stood with his legs on the ground and waited patiently for the light to turn green. Then as soon as it was green he started pedaling, without seating down. I stared, awestruck by the guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

I just followed behind him, watching his legs go round and round. He never sat, never looked tired, and accelerated faster than me. I had to cycle quickly to catch up, then he turned right. That was the last I saw the guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

As I rode home (on a bicycle with a seat), I contemplated the meaning of life. I pondered upon how insignificant our lives are, smaller than a speck of dust in the scale of the universe. I also thought that the guy riding a bicycle with no seat was awesome.

Back from Limbo:

It’s been a long time since I last posted in the blog regularly. It’s strange you know… I thought that going to the UK would inspire me to talk about lots and lots of random things, like describing the new places I go to and showing off the interesting things which happen, but rather, the opposite happened and I became lazy. Too lazy to type a word about my life. It’s with great effort that I even got the will to type this post, but at least I’ve started, and my experience tells me that 99% of the work is just getting the will to start it.

So, yeah, I officially resurrect this blog from Limbo. I hope…

Stuck in Limbo:

I think everyone in the world knows about this by now:

It was the last wish of the Icelandic economy that its ashes be spread over Europe.

Iceland goes bankrupt, then it manages to set itself on fire. This has insurance scam written all over it.

Patron: Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!
*Waiter pours volcanic ash into the soup*
Patron: What are you doing?!
Waiter: Creating a no-fly zone, sir.

It’s a bit early for Iceland volcano jokes. We should wait awhile for the dust to settle.

My holiday should have ended last week, but two flight delays later, I’m finally flying back to school now. As I sit here in the departure hall, I can look back at a wonderful holiday spent with family, friends and Raina :) Thanks everyone for the great time while
I was home… and I’ll be back soon for even more fun times!

One rainy day, taxi ride, train stop and aeroplane flight later, I arrived home. And home is bliss :)

I’m going to thoroughly enjoy my 2 weeks back in Malaysia. I didn’t realize how busy I was in Cambridge until today when I spent the last 9 hours of my life doing absolutely nothing productive. I miss doing that.

One thing about Cambridge; the weather is unpredictable.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010. I leave the house to go to school.

Note the snow (click to enlarge)

10 seconds later, I turn the corner.

Snowfall; it's pretty.

Then

THE SNOW POURED DOWN
IMAGINE A RAINSTORM
BUT ALL THE RAIN TURNED INTO SNOW ON THE WAY DOWN
AND THEN IT HITS YOU IN THE FACE

I had to take out my umbrella and shield myself. Two minutes have passed since the last photo.

This is the same road as the previous picture, but further in front.

Looking back.

So I walk, umbrella shielding me, for 10 minutes until I reach the Abbey College building on Station Road. I ask the receptionist for an envelope addressed to me, but apparently it hasn’t arrived.* So I leave the building and head to Regent’s Terrace, where my first class is.

Well that was fast.

*shrug*

Cambridge, where snow can come and go in 15 minutes.

*The envelope was there, it turns out the receptionist filed it wrongly. I collected it about 4 hours later.