Another Red Moon

I've probably seen a million red moons and of course I've seen the moon everyday for the past 21 years.... Nevertheless, when I see the moon again, I fail not to be mesmerised by its beauty.

Last tuesday, a day before CS3240 Midterm exam, I saw a half red moon rising just above Raffles Hall's Block 5 Roof. It looked as if the moon was half asleep, with his eye lids closed.. and he simply didn't seem to want to rise up - and wake up ! Just the simple beauty of this sight made me experience a genuine happiness with no apparent rationale or reason - something that I haven't felt in many many months. The experience brought a smile to my face and the though that as long as life has such simple pleasures, I am always going to be happy, wherever I am, whatever I am pursuing !

Hail the Queen !

I am referring to none other than Venus herself !

Heading from buona vista mrt station towards the bus stop nearby, I spotted  Venus glowing radiantly in the west sky in backdrop of blueish hues, right in the middle of a "storm" of sparse black clouds... all behind a couple of sky scrapers in construction. It seemed to me that Venus was in the limelight for a reason the ancient skies ecstatic about !

It was as if Venus was gloating about something that did not make sense to me then...Googling now revealed that the proud lady is occulting both Jupiter and Saturn this thursday - the first since 0401BC !!  Awesome ...ain't it ? :D

The Incredible Orion

The incredible view of the Orion from Raffles Hall ! My favourite constellation :)

Starry cake :D

Where the heart lies ...

When I took up Computer Engineering rather than pursuing my dreams of the space, the sky, the universe, I thought my dream would be a bygone history. But I don't think it will ever become buried or become history to me. Rather it is what seems to drive me many a day when I don't feel like working, makes what I've been desperately been trying to achieve through other means possible eventually. If I try to wake up early morning for the sake of working or studying I never do get out of bed... but if I decide to wake up to have a peek at the sky, I wake up even before the alarm rings and I seem to be so happy and cheerful the whole day !! Yesterday the same phenomenon recurred... As I looked at the applications for the SURF programmes yesterday and realised that they all involved astrophysics, I was totally going gaga. I experienced an interest, an excitation, a happiness that I know I haven't shown in anything for a long time.

When I look the orion, I feel a sense of belonging. I am able to recognise the stars and planets just by looking at them, their shimmering, their magnitude and position in the sky, even without looking at their neighbours... Recognising humans seems like a more difficult task. I do not understand this strange connection with the sky, the space and the universe... But I feel, as I look at the cloudy white sky raining drops of water that a life connected to them will provide me with a peace and happiness. I feel my destiny is somehow ties to them... Why else would they and they alone be able to kindle and conjure up expressions in me that is equable to none ?