Traffic

Every big city, has the traffic curse, no matter how wide the lanes are there will be a traffic jam. Never mind the highways that are five lanes wide and has a decent speed limit of 120KpH, you will get stuck in traffic. I do understand the traffic we get in my city, you get stuck on U turn because the cars are rushing doing the road. I’m used to it, and somehow it defines the city. Plus you do move just an inch ever minute and half.

In a neighboring city, roads are of 2 lanes and most of the time there is construction going on, so it not only a tight drive but a bumpy one too. A thing I totally despise about that city is every few miles there is a roundabout, I hate them! First they are huge they are big enough to build a villa on top of them. Then the lanes are never lined up properly. Then there is the ugly factor, I never seen an uglier road!

I used to have a very short commute to university, it took 1 min to get out of the garage and into the parking lot of the campus. I was one of few blessed people in that campus, I never had to deal with traffic on the main roads early in the morning. Sadly as we all know good fortune do not last long thou I liked to think I’ve been always blessed, as even when I was at high school it was only a 5 min drive. Now the commute have drastically changed, I have to drive in an extremely busy high way on the outskirts of the city, which well take more than ½ hr to reach the new remote campus, it basically in the middle of the desert, the closest living thing is a 10 min drive away at least. I can no more return home to sleep off my 3 hrs break, nor can we go to the fast food drive thru to grab lunch.

Now wouldn’t it be pretty if the roads look just as the road in the picture in day time too, this is a picture of the street in front of our place at 2:00 am. Pretty huh.

The WiseOne say
“Never count your blessings, as you’ll eventually reach a sum”

My Car Wash story

Recently I was under a hazy lazy spell, a whole week worth of day time sleeping and night time relaxing and TV watching. So being the wise person I am , I decide to start the day early and do something useful.
I headed for university at 9:30 and it turns out that I was early, so I felt good about that; I decided to reward myself I bought myself a café latte which woke up every cell in my body. So at 10 o’clock I was assigned a job for the next term helping out the IT department. So far so fab.
I decide to take it a step further so I went to supermarket, and bought car wash supplies, a duster, window wiper, sponge and some cloth to dry out the car. When I reached home, the front gate was closed so I went to the back entrance. I got out of the car unlocked the front gate, drove out the house and around it to get to the front gate.
To my delight there was an airlines car parked by the front gate, so here I thought they’ve dropped the maid, which meant she’ll help out in washing my car or do it all. Getting out of the car, the airline driver asks me if there ia a person at this house who has a flight to catch.In misery I answer no u got the wrong house.
I open the gates wide, thinking we should get the gate to open electronically like the back gate, so I drive in the house, my uncle teases us about it and calls it the white house, the pavement is full off dust and the grass turned yellow, and being my all heroic self I got out of the car and started pilling out my supplies to only discover that I didn’t buy any soap. Being the smart person I am I got to the laundry room and got some fabric detergent.
Now I had to find the water hose, I recognize 5 water taps, all linked to different hoses, so thinking to my self I say this should be easy I’ll chose the longest one, which was a yellow hose; only I can not turn on the tap its tight and connected to a generator so I leave it alone and look at the other four. Two were those black strong plastic that had holes in it and it drips water all around the garden, so that wont work. I look at my last 2 resources the 2 green hoses, those too were connected to a water spout; the one that has three openings and like splash the water all around the green. So I tell my self I will deal.
I get my lime green bucket and turn the hose thing on its head down in the bucket then i turn on the water. Water starts to splash all out of the bucket and over me, my shirt is soaking wet my jeans turned heavy and my sun glasses got wet like a swimmer goggles. Eventually I almost half filled the bucket up. I carried the bucket and I wondered how to best use it, here I am thinking this is the simplest thing ever. Before I splatter the water I decide to dust the car off so when the water pours down it doesn’t turn the dust to mud. But the more I dusted the dirtier it got, so I decide its time for the water.
splashing the water on the car turns out to not be enough. I figures that that much water is only enough for a door and half. Now orange metal is glittering under the sun with fresh water dripping of it, so i smile and start taking the trip to the water tap all over again, I did that 7 times to wet the whole car and in the process I myself got completely soaked. I stood back to admire my splashy work and to my dismay I notice the streaks of dirt covering the car! At least before washing it was dust and barely visible; now its very obvious how dirty it is. Not to panic I decide some soap and sponge would do the trick, but only to find that soapy water is worst than clear water! The car is covered in dried soap now!
Its noon and I’m standing under Dubai’s sun in mid august while the temperature is above 40 Celsius, how smart am I. Before I start getting a heat stroke I leave it and decide to take it to the car wash later in the day!

the WiseOne says
“to be wise, is to recognize ones own faults”

Standing By

What are we doing in this life other than stand by and lie to ourselves. Through my 20 years on this earth I’ve been told I had great potentials, when has having potentials is good enough, we need kinetic energy to fill our lives with energy. We are always told each got their own purpose in life, what is good our purposes if they do not serve humanity, and only serve an individual. Are wee moving in any direction at all or are we swept by the flow of life, do we write our destinies by the choice we make, or is destiny already written and our lives are set and planned our and we are merely setting it in motion, do we in fact direct it or even stir our life.
We are here alive, we move with a flow not set by me nor by you, we chose yet it turns out all to be the same, we stand by when all falls, we stand by when all is glory, we stand by alone or in groups, whatever the manner is wherever we are we are standing by.
Can we in fact take a stand? Can we make our life? Can we change what’s written?
Would we ever stop the lie in which we are greater than we are, we have done are doing great things. In which every one is standing by watching us.
Would the lie ever cease?

The Wise one Says
”We Die Before we are Born”