What a treat!!

Our microbiology lab has been pushed forward, and boy am I glad to get out school earlier :) Tuesday is usually the longest day, finishing close to 6pm. Checked my mobile for messages. Sis has gone home early, needn't pick her up. Bro messaged to say he's cooking dinner.

Perfect!! I shall escape reality for a while. While walking to the car, in my head was figuring out which old haunt to visit. Desperately need to clear my congested head.

Back then when I was still living further south of the river, it was one of the things in life that I enjoyed. There is heaps of places to have a stroll. Walking in the cool of the evening just makes a person feel alive.

There were moments where stifling happenings in the world didn't matter anymore (albeit for a while), moments where pressing questions in life were being thought through, moments where it was just me and God, moments where it was just so quiet that you could hear yourself think, moments that you paused and witnessed life in action and of course there were also moments that anger needed to be exhausted to avoid manifestation of it :p

I haven't do so for a very long time. Life runs like a clockwork everyday. School. Work. School. Work. When end of the day meant having to figure out what to cook for dinner or what assignments to rush, the desire to walk had diminised to nil.

The evening air was cool but not too chilly (the thick clouds above were like insulation blankets). Sunset meant feeding time for the critters out there. The pelican swam alone as usual, gliding along the river bank and ducking its head in water at intervals. Walking side by side to it, I was waiting to see fishies wriggling in its pouch like beak (just like the cartoons). Seems like it's not having any luck with dinner tonight or maybe it had swallowed so fast that I didn't get to see it?

Tailing it for quite a distance, I started to head back as the skylight dimmed a fair bit. Time to head back to reality.

Wait a minute!! What is that?? Something was bobbing in the water. Something that resembled a fin. It was a dolphin!!!

For a moment I wanted to shout to the passerbys that there is a dolphin in the water (so suaku!). In the end I just kept the excitement to myself, coz they'd probably think I am lunatic. Spandex psychos cycled past, joggers ran past, but nobody seemed to notice that there is this live animal in the water. Or maybe they see this everyday till it doesn't seem to bother them anymore.

Of course it is not the first time I've seen a dolphin, but but but but but ............ I have never seen one that swam so close to the river banks!!! It was so close, I could literally touch it (had it been stationary). In the remnants of the daylight, I could see it cut through the water like a blade (about 5/6 foot long). Occassionally surfacing to catch a breath, which sounded like humans gasping for air (really!!). I wished I had a camera with me, but maybe it is better that I didn't coz I would be too distracted snapping away than watching the real thing.

After 5 minutes or so, it swam off tangent and headed towards the city skyline. Watched till I could see its fin no more. Wow, what a sight!! What a treat!!

Definitely should do this more often. Definitely!!