Author: lioneltan

Skidding off the runway

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The landing was done in the midst of a brewing storm that was fast approaching. It was made all the more dangerous because we had to wait for this irresponsible couple who totally disobeyed the plane boarding time and we had to wait a long time for them to get on board.

I suppose the plane either didn’t have both wheels make full contact with the runway or a strong gust of wind blew it off track. In a flash, the plane had run off the runway and just stopped short of a ditch! In this picture, you can see that the wheels had sunk into the sand.

Milk carton explosion

Add this to the list of stupid things I did in Primary School. Not sure if its still going on now, but when I was young, there was this drive to drink milk in Primary School. What happened was that we (or rather our parents) would place orders for the milk and some of us would go and collect the milk cartons in a box for distribution.

It happened one day that me and my friends were discussing about the strength of those milk cartons and I decided to run a little experiment. I laid the carton flat on the table and karate-chopped it. Needless to say, there was a strawberry milk explosion as the carton expelled its contents on both ends of the packet. Since I was the “karate-chopper”, I didn’t get much milk on me. The only ones who cried over spilt milk were the people to my left and right…

L-A: Hello World!

While I was prepared to be a parent, the impact of being one didn’t hit me until L-A was actually in my arms and both Esh and I had to care for her.

I always wondered why people bothered to have children especially since they seemed to be so much trouble, but now I know that it will never be possible to understand the love that a parent has for a child until a person has a child of his/her own…

VCD Spree

There was this VCD rental shop across the road from my faculty where I signed up as a member and borrowed quite a lot of VCDs while I was still schooling. (DVDs and DVD players were still quite expensive at that time and the DVD rental market was virtually non-existent)

Think I watched the most number of VCDs while I was in my final year as I had quite a bit of time to spare, but sad to say, once I started work, I have never visited the place again and I’m not even sure if it still exists now…