GARGANTUAN steps
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
all play and no work
Fon and me
It was practically impossible to get to hospital except going on my own two legs. And that was ten miles long. I spent most of Monday morning waiting to see if transportation would ease up and once it was past lunch, I decided not to waste anymore time waiting and I went into Central London to take the day off instead.
Tuesday wasn't any better. Transport was slightly better, but I decided instead to enjoy my birthday and a little of my lost childhood by going to Hyde Park and "stomp on some snow", as Ben Loh put it. He enticed me to go early in the morning and I was thinking, I might as well do something fun and memorable on my birthday instead of trying to bash my way into hospital! That wouldn't have been memorable!
I was joined by dear friends Ben Loh, Ben Goh, Hocks and Fon for an afternoon of snow fights and snow man building! We starting rolling a huge gigantic snow ball that took all of us to push in the end! After about 1 metre cube of snow has been rolled, it gets almost impossible to continue rolling it by yourself. This snow ball that we made was as tall as Fon, and we couldn't lift the torso onto it, so we decided to build a fallen snowman, which was much more morbid. But it was all good fun in the end!
Fon and our first snow man!
Ben Goh, Ben Loh, Hocks and Fon building the fallen snow man
Rest in peace
Fon and me
Praying over our fallen comrade, T
Meanwhile, it has been an enforced weekend, which was thoroughly enjoyable! Haven't had so much fun in ages. Snow brings out the uncivilised yet social nature of people. You start getting into snow fights with random strangers, yet everyone is smiling and laughing away. It's been an awesome birthday, and to top it off, an awesome present!
My new Liverpool jersey
Labels: Birthday, Liverpool Football Club, London, Snow
