Thursday, September 22, 2005
On a Thursday morning, I’m here slacking, preparing to mug for maths tomorrow. When I switched on my television, I was “treated” to 2 breaking news.
First, hurricane Rita is reaching Texas soon and it is upgrading itself to a more powerful storm. The destructing effect will be almost the same as Katrina. It’s like
一波未平,
一波又起. Really hope when Rita reaches land during the weekend, the destruction would be minimum. At least most people are evacuated and the American government has learnt its lesson from Katrina, they are making the necessary arrangements. May god bless them…
Second, CNA was showing a live footage of an Airbus 320 plane landing. I was thinking of why are they showing, and thought along the line of hijackers. Fortunately, it was only the plane having some technical difficulties and had to make an emergency landing. The plane was carrying 145 passengers and crew members and bound for New York. Then they discovered something horrible when air-borne, their nose landing gear was screwed up. The front wheel was not properly aligned. It was aligned perpendicularly to the flight direction. So as I was watching, the big “live” words at the corner of the screen scared me. Cause I saw the plane slowly descend, clearly showing the screwed wheel, and it slowy touched down. Then the back wheels made contact with the tarmac of the runway, and the nose came down too. And the screwed wheel touched down too. The wheel can’t rotate and the friction due to the movement created smoke. The wheel started to disintegrate as the plane “glided” along the runway. At last the plane came to a halt with the nose wheel fully deflated and the plane was displaced downwards. Luckily nothing very bad happened, no casualties, and importantly no explosions or whatsoever, like those in the movies.
Are these bad omens? Too many unlucky things have been happening to America… hmmm…
Once again, lucks to everyone!! No more late-sleeping for you soon… haha!!
Jim popped a can of Jolly Shandy @ 10:15 AM
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