Too Many Melons But One
I am not really a fruit eater and I can live a day or days without eating fruits. This is even true with hubby. When we are doing the grocery, we don’t stay long at the fruit and vegetable section. Sometimes we just pretend to like some like banana or apple but these would only get rotten in the fruit bowl. The only fruit we always thought of buying is orange but we don’t eat it. We press three or four of them to have fresh orange juice instead. We both like tropical fruits though but eating one a day is absolutely out of the question.
Speaking of tropical fruits, it so happened along time ago we both had this unusual liking for a melon. We took one sort from the different melons in the section. Back home, we sat and grab piece by piece of that melon while having a conversation. Then we kept quiet, stared at the melon and started talking again. Until I could no longer help it but said that it tasted like acetone. He agreed to me and he said again that it tasted like acetone. And how the hell we said it tasted like acetone as if we really have tasted an acetone. Eeeh! Who would want to try to get a drop of acetone in the mouth! But that was how our tongue interpreted the taste of the melon.
cantaloupe or muskmelon...this is the one!
A few days ago, I was tempted by the different kinds of melons in the fruit section so I thought of buying one. But I could not seem to remember which one tastes like acetone as it was years ago when we had it. Without hesitation, I took the one above. But the moment I smell it after cutting, I realized it was the one that tasted like acetone. Even hubby said, “that’s the one” when he got a bit in his mouth. After searching, I learned that it’s a cantaloupe or muskmelon. I thought cantaloupes are those small round with yellow skin melons. I don’t like watermelons with red flesh but the one with yellow flesh tastes better to me. It’s just that I was hopeless to differentiate between the muskmelon and the water melon with yellow flesh. Now I know…
image from: fyffes.ie
Too many melons. All tastes good but one taste like acetone. Which one?
Volcanic Ash Free Airspace?
Imagine an airport without aeroplanes taking-off and landing on the runway and without people rushing to and from the departure and arrival areas. Many cities in Europe have been affected by enormous cancelled flights because of the volcanic ash spreading in the air caused by the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. It has been said that volcanic ash would cause damage to the planes. I watched a documentary film the other night about a British Boeing that lost its four engines and was near to crash before the pilots, after several try, successfully made the engines work again. It was learned later that the damage was overwhelming and that it was caused by the volcanic ash when it flew over Indonesia. As precautions, some airports in Europe ”closed” the airspace for incoming and outgoing flights and remained so for more than a week. But a few days ago, the airport here has been back to business despite the continuous outrage of the volcano and warning for more ash in the air.
It seemed not a normal weekday when hubby drove me to work one morning when the roads were not traffic jammed. I had come to realize that maybe a quarter of the city’s population were travellers and that they were causing much traffic on the roads as well as in the air. Ugh! Life on earth is a traffic either on the land or in the air. Even though it’s not yet a hundred percent volcanic ash free-airspace the travel and airline companies are persistent to fly to, you know, survive economically. And maybe my student who was travelling to Egypt with her family would come home now after missing school for two weeks.
Munich, Germany Airport
Munich Airport
In this situation, it is strange that aeroplanes would depend on clean and clear air to fly considering how much they pollute the air. Rather volcanic ash free than pollution free – air. Hahaa!
The Making Of The Wheel
More and more cities want this big wheel to spin in the midst of the masses. It was not quite long when the City of Gothenburg decided to build the famous Ferris Wheel to be added to the list of attractions the city could offer to both locals and tourists. When I saw the Roue de Paris, I thought it was the biggest wheel I’d ever seen. But it was not, until I saw another one in Singapore. I haven’t taken some photos though. The Singapore Flyer is the tallest Ferris Wheel so far. And neither of these wheels have I ridden so far, too. Maybe now that I am going to see this wheel everyday here in the city and the pressure of friends might let me forget that I have fear of heights.
The making of the wheel started a few weeks ago. Hubby got the chance to take some pictures of it before it was finally done. Geezz, the workers were like assembling a big toy. Here it is – the Gothenburg Wheel!
Gothenburg Wheel almost done
The gondolas placed
The VIP-gondola is in place
Ready for the test ride!
The Gothenburg Wheel
Premiere Day: May 22, 2010
Height: 60 meter
Weight: 275 ton
No. of Gondolas: 42 (41-white, 1-black VIP)
No. of seats: 8 for each gondola
Spin time: 12-15 minutes
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