08. Lucky number Eight?
Had a hard time waking up this morning. I slept pretty late, and I was quite tired. Since I had several things to do, I pushed myself to stay awake to do it last night, or should I say, early this morning.
The morning was so dark that I did not notice the time. I suppose I am genuinely tired. The curtain windows were drawn so the light didn’t come throught all that well. A dark room makes it nice and sleepy.
I did rush, and passed the toll gates with a little problem, my MyKad did not work for the Touch’n'Go… for some reason. I thought it would have saved me time, but it made it worse. Sorry to those lining up behind me, not my fault, blame it on their system. I still have money in my MyKad.
Just a little off-side rambling:- I still can’t believe how many drivers out there who either don’t know or care about safe distance. In case you didn’t know, the safe distance between 2 cars is 2-seconds.
Yes, if you are travelling at 36km/h, you’ll travel 10m/s (10 meters per seconds). A car going at 72km/h (20m/s) will cover 40 meters in 2 seconds.
36km/h = 36,000m/60×60s
= 10m/s
(every second of travel at 36km/h will cover 10 meters)
If there was a need for an emergency immediate braking, then the time to lift your foot from the brake is still counted… And these guys are going at 110km/h and less than 5 meters from my car. Stay away from me!
Sigh…
Got to work and started really great. Lunch was fast and I managed to eat cheaply. That’s important. Then Mum called and the bed has arrived. I sure like to see it soon. I hope they fix it up nicely. I wonder if my cousin Sean would understand that the bed is not to be slept/sat/touched until it has been rolled on by a young ‘virgin’ boy of the family. Looks like I have to place a “Please Do Not Touch” sign on the bed before he arrives.
Suk Keong is due to arrive on Monday afternoon. I’ll go pick him up.
Now to go back to my work.