All in a Day... III

This was a special day in history. The shortform of it reads 060606 or the even shorter form 666. In many christian literature, these 3 numbers represents a demonic origin.

Yet, a record number of people chose to get married on this day. Interesting eh? from an average of 50/day, it rose to over 300 as reported in ST.

I was driving from the east to west and it was a sunny weather all the way until I turned out at Jurong, as I entered the gates of my school, I was greeted by a drizzle, after a right turn 500m after the gate the drizzle became a strong rain, 50m into the turn, the rain was pouring down so strong that I had to drive very slowly to navigate the wet, bendy road filled with road humps. I was going at 3rd gear with the wiper going at FULL speed, still I could hardly see 10m infront of me. Good thing that the traffic was light around me.

I tried getting into the nearest carpark to my lab which requires the insertion of the cashcard into the reader to grant access. The tiny-mini shelter to shield the machine from the rain was hardly effective in this weather, after lowering the window to insert my cashcard, the rain was pouring into my window as well. it took a while for the machine to read the card and in this time, I had a hard time trying to decide if i should raise the windows while waiting to reduce the amount of rain that is getting in or just wait since my windows are not exactly moving at lighning speeds....

I chose to wait it out. Strangely, after spitting my card out partially (I had to dig into that tiny crack to get a good grip of the card to pull it out, of course I'm not very amused by this ordeal for having to stick my hand out even MORE in this wet weather to get my card.) the gentry did not move up to allow my car to get through!!!!!

GRHHHHHHH!! I tried reversing my car and repeating the "I-just-arrive-stick-cashcard-into-tiny crack-routine" and it din work!!!!

I got so super doper WEt and my car cant even get into the carpark! Sway I tell you!

Best is.... all this time while I was driving in and out of the carpark entrance... I noticed a white motorbike parked in the bus stop bay about 100m away, there was a campus security who was standing in the bus stop watching my car getting in and out of the entrance the whole time! Was the rain too heavy for him to see me? If I can see his bike.... its tough to acknowledge that he cannot see my car which is so much bigger... he might have noticed the "problem" with the car park gantry and might have chosen not to come over to do anything about it..... if that was the case, why in the first place be a campus security?

So I headed for another carpark about 500m away with longer walking distance to my lab in totally unsheltered walkway... and guess what? my whole entire bermudas was WET! good thing I use a back pack to shield rain coming down my back. The only dry part of me would be..... let me see......... my hair.... cos my face was already wet from the cashcard episode.

yes. the rain is super heavy!

see the pouring rain from the roof gutters? like an unstoppable tap! check out the white white background made of RAIN!

Its raining so hard that it felt like the skies are trying to say something. We are suppose to be experiencing a hot hot heat wave in this time of the year yet, the rain is pouring down heavier than it did in Dec. It poured soildly for almost 3hrs and guess what? my expt plants are swimming in rain... the drains are flooded!


We were so worried about our experiments, hope they dun get washed away in the rain......

thankfully the rain slowed down by midday and just continued to drizzle for the rest of the day. Which leads to a super cold lab! my berms were wet remember? So my only other choice instead of sitting on a wet bump is to change into my shorts meant for outdoor work on the grass..... and so my beautiful long legs get the full effect of the cold air and the cold aircon! Grrrhhh.... so cold!

Still, it felt as if the heavy downpour was to tell us something. Something which I din quite understand till late that night.

Had some conversations with a few friends and each arrive at their own conclusions with some unsettling parts, it reminded me of the same unsettling feeling I had earlier in the day when it rained and rained and rained. The good thing that came out of the rain.... all my grass were extra CLEaN the next day! ha ha ha...