I stared incredulously at the dull yellow glow of my headlights reflecting off the aluminum garage door. They looked like two fireflies. I stepped out and walked in front of the vehicle for the first time. They were like fireflies alright. This was unbelievable! Then the light outside the garage door came on. I got back into the van ...
We had started the homeward bound journey early in the morning and after traveling by land, sea and air hauling our heavy baggage through jetties and airports, were quite exhausted. The usual ticketing troubles caused by the reservation errors and many other mishaps that we are destined to have on our return journeys, just to take the thrill of ...
PANIC ATTACK! 30th Aug 2013 2200Hrs The flight EY0279 (call sign ETD279) has just disappeared from the live flight radar screen. All of us had watched this AIRBUS A320 taking off at 2025hrs from Malé International Airport and climbing at 2000fpm on the live flight radar on the laptop screen. Once the aircraft gained 40000ft, we disconnected the data ...
PANIC ATTACK! 30th Aug 2013 2200Hrs The flight EY0279 (call sign ETD279) has just disappeared from the flight radar screen. All of us had watched this AIRBUS A320 taking off at 2025hrs from Malé International Airport and climbing at 2000fpm on the live flight radar on the laptop screen. Once the aircraft gained 40000ft, we disconnected the data connection ...
I was hanging around at the airport to meet my daughter's plane. A terrible pain and a loneliness swept over me when I saw this lonely luggage trolly, someone left at the end of the airport jetty. I kept snapping away with my camera, feeling a lump in my throat and my sight slightly blurred for some unknown reason. Maybe ...
How many tasks can you do at the same time. Well, I guess I know what you think. That depends on what kind of tasks they are, right? Okay, let's put it this way. How many books can you read at a time? Please don't misunderstand this as having several books open in front of you and reading at ...
“So the captain grits his teeth and wrestles the bird to a grinding halt, with brakes screeching and tires burning, with the flaps fully deployed. Then he says to his co-pilot, “This must be the shortest ****ing runway we’ve ever landed in!” The co-pilot looked over his shoulder out of the side window and said, “And the ****ing widest!”IF ...
Carlos arrived at the rear port side landing gear precisely at the same moment as the crew got the control tower clearance for takeoff. The huge wheels began to roll. He felt the blast of the big jet engines hanging from the giant wings just a few feet away to his left. He ran between two rear wheels and grabbed ...
Dude, Please Don't Try It.From: henryblogwalker Dear Carlos, Dude, I’m writing this to ask you not to do what you are about to do. Maybe we‘ve never met. Maybe we are just Facebook friends. Yeah, I got to know you through the first comment you made to one of my posts in my blog HeyDude. What was that post? ...
The jet is soaring high. I am in a window seat, my favorite place in any mode of transport. I glance at the LCD display on the back of the front seat. It says 37000ft. and -37˚C. I look out of the porthole at the wing that is shuddering in the turbulence. Anyone out there on the wing, even ...
I’m not a businessman. I’m not a doctor. Still as a layperson, there are a lot of business ideas I could give to a businessman and novel ideas even to a doctor to excel in their professions. These are not learned at any Business School or Medical College, but at the University of Life. This goes beyond the two ...
Because words and fonts are not enough to say what I want to say, I'd say it in Times New Roman,VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY & MANY MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY, Deepa!P.S And thanks for putting up with me.henryblogwalker the Dude.
Every time I pass this downhill slope at Bollagala, on Biyagama Road and I pass Bollagala town, there is this familiar landmark that has etched deep into my mind, now, for several decades.We get memories etched into out minds for different reasons.They maybe for both good and bad.I have never met the person who lived in this house who I ...
I swung the wheel to the left to avoid the water-logged potholes on the causeway. Suddenly, without warning, the offside of the van tilted wildly and sank into the earth with a tremendous crash and a thud and explosion. Everyone screamed. When I stepped out, I realized the driver's side was unnaturally higher than normal and the front wheel ...
It was one bright Saturday morning. I thought of doing some gardening which I always enjoyed. I started sweeping the compound, as it was covered with leaves gathered over the week. We rarely had time for this kind of work on the week days. Weekend actually meant more work around the house, which I truly enjoyed.My small car had no ...
Don’t you always hear the fairytale that the new generation is cleverer and smarter than previous? Well, I won’t be much popular when I say this, but in my long years of being with children, I was always wondering where this smartness, that they warn us to be prepared for, even at teachers’ seminars, exist. Maybe you see a ...
