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Friday, Feb 10, 2006 - 00:19 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Little Things

Having to wait for a discussion room to get freed up was the best thing to happen to me for some time. It led me to a corridor window, where I rediscovered how enthralling even a normal sky can be. I keep my head down too much of the time, and too seldom recall Oscar Wilde. "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"

It was a cloudy day, to be sure, but the clouds were cotton white, fluffy and large lower down, wispy in the high heavens. No, I shall not pretend to have memorized their scientific names offhand. And they aren't idle; In minutes they can traverse the limits of one's sight, though not at the same velocity. A nephoscope would come in handy.

But more fascinating was the homogeneous layer of white extending from the horizon and fading gradually into the foreground. It made for a terrific counterpoint to the independent character of the larger, distinct clumps. Nature everywhere is art.

I must look upwards again.

Then there are the small irritating facets of life. For one, I somehow dislike people walking slowly, at the sort of pace that implies disinterest in his destination. Relaxation, smelling the flowers, my two feet. Either sit and bide, or move with purpose. Too frequently I have been trapped behind a pair or group on a crowded path, who shuffle along just quickly enough to make overtaking tricky, and clog up traffic while intent on conversation.

And if there are only the two of them, they invariably maintain just enough distance between them so that no one can nip through the gap. Yes, I realise it is the product of the intersection of typical personal space, but that does not make it any less aggravating.

Top gripe though has to go to squeaky buses, and to a smaller extent MRT trains. I dread the trips where I draw the short end of the stick and board one of the offending vehicles. Being treated to half an hour of a stop-start rendition of Fingernails Scratching a Blackboard No. 3 is enough to make one go mad. I do not believe the drivers have failed to notice it. Maybe they have already stoically gotten used to having their hairs stand up and stretch?


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3 comments

qwergopot said...
eh one thing i found kind of irritating. next time u going to link some webpages can make them appear in a new window? cos i lazy to right click and click open in new window leh. and everytime i click the link i would forget what that link was about in the first placew/o refering to the blog. yay


Feburary 10, 2006 - 17:41 SGT     
gilbert said...
Hmm this one got split opinion, some people I know don't like pop-ups in any form. Time to implement cookie options liao!


Feburary 10, 2006 - 21:19 SGT     
wenhoo said...
i think u suay
the natural frequency of the vehicle vibration during deceleration to v=0 just nice match some natural frequency in your nervous system
never found it that irritating.


Feburary 12, 2006 - 18:08 SGT     

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