A Night without Electricity

It has been some times since the last blackout in Malaysia home. It was quite common last time when I was still young, but now, we rarely have a blackout already.

It was around 11pm+ and I was bathing when the light went out suddenly ha. It was pitch black.

Anyway, other than the many inconvenient caused by the lack of electricity, I realize I was rather enjoying the short moment of the blackout. There is one thing that I would definitely do when there is no electricity AT NIGHT. Blackout night = star gazing night~

When there is total zero light pollution in the town, it's when all the stars in the sky become more visible. Stars that are easily visible under normal night become brighter, and uncountable invisible stars (because of the town light), start to get visible.

It is January. Orion constellation appears just right above. With Sirius shining very brightly quite nearby. It looks like this ---> (picture below)


But of course, in Kota Tinggi, I never see the Orion as bright as it is shown in this picture. But everyone is able to recognize this constellation easily. They are very obvious in the sky.

Remind me of the moment in Australia, when I saw the faint tail of milky way. I was taking the midnight bus along the road which has no street light. That was the best sky I have ever seen. I stared at the sky for don't know how long XD. The sky looks something like this.

New year

Chinese New Year is coming soon, just one month away. Never realize it until today when neighbor gave us a box of pineapple tart, and I asked her why XD. Kind of looking forward to it, looking forward for the 'rather' long holiday, looking forward for the days that I can "don't" come back to Singapore for awhile.

Feeling the need to slack at home for couple of days. With just 2 days per week at home, I have a lot of 'home stuff' pending to do. Lots of stuff that I always plan to do at home, but always ended up wasting time doing some 'unexpected' stuff (eg, playing game or read novel whole day, old habit hard to change XD).

I realize I forever cleaning my bed room. My rate of messy-ing the room seems abit faster than the rate of cleaning it. And of course the many cactus that needs to be tended soon. One cactus transplant has already dead when I checked it yesterday. Not to mention the piano room and the TV room that I always want to tidy up, but never get to really do it ha.

Scarlatti Sonata in B minor K27

Sherlock Holmes

Finally, I bought the books that I have been always wanted to buy, The Complete Sherlock Holmes. 4 novels + 56 short stories, in 2 volumes. It was a long long time since I started reading Holmes................

Back in secondary school Form 1 I think. Started to read this novel because of CK. That time I was just borrowing from school library, and I don't know what I'm reading too, here read abit, there read abit. But I remember one of the 4 long novels, The Hound of the Baskerville. I think it's the best. I read that particular novel for so many times that I couldn't remember already.

And then, I went to buy The Complete Sherlock Holmes, in chinese version. Ya. That time, I couldn't read english well enough to understand a novel ha. And I spent more than one year to finish reading all the 4 novels and 56 short stories. On and off, on and off, that's why took forever to finish them.

And so it was during my STPM and NUS period when I started to read novels again, in English version, and since then I wanted to buy Sherlock Holmes to read again, but in the original english version. Translated version always got some problems. The characters name is so hard to remember.

So last week, when I went to Vivo City to watch New Moon, I found several edition of Sherlock Holmes in the book shop there, but they are all so expensive. SGD70+. Very tempted to buy though, but I didn't. Luckily I didn't. Yesterday I went to Malaysia City Square popular, and I found it. Cost less than RM50 for two volumes, and it's hard cover, and the cover is even better than the SG version which costs 70 dollars.

I think most people know who is Sherlock Holmes. Anyway, he is a fictional character created by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and published in UK magazine back in 1880+ until 1910+ if I'm not wrong. It's about detective stories.

There is a Holmes movie coming soon this month, and the actor who acts Holmes is the Iron Man, ha. From the trailer, this version of Holmes movie looks more like those funny funny movie. So, don't know how original is this movie to the original novels. Anyway, it's the movie that I will not miss this year. Looking forward~

Scarlatti Sonata in D Major K491

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