26 December 2006

Near miss

There must still be many things I and a busload of people were meant to do in this world. That's why I am still here in this world, along with all of them...

For our big day out last week, our all-work X-mas lunch, we travelled on this bus....to our destination – a bowling club.




After the fun and all that, when we were returning, the bus we were seated in, being a double-decker and far too tall for this sort of fun and games, ploughed through the power/phone cables. And caused a wooden pole to snap off and do this.....





...and this...




No one was hurt except the car and the pole that snapped right off to fall on the car.

And we learnt later that the only reason that all the people in the car and the bus walked away unscathed was that it was the phone cable that had snapped off and fallen on both the vehicles (assumption). Had it been the power cable, we were told, we would have been totally fried....or something similar.

As I said before, there are many things I still haven't finished doing in this world. There is a purpose and reason I still haven’t fulfilled - that is why I still haven't shed this mortal coil.

Too often, we long for adventure in our mundane humdrum lives. Probably have to exclude adventures of this sort. Getting far too old for all this.

In the meanwhile, here's wishing you all a very happy new year. I've got to run - Boxing Day sales on everywhere and I still have to pick up many things - don't quite know where I'll fit them all in the house....
And sparing a thought for all the Boxing Day tsunami victims on this second anniversary....
Cheers, everybody...

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. Glad nothing worse than that happened! So tell me, do you feel a new respect for life? Any urge to do good unto others whether they want it or not? :)

Castor aka Kiwilax said...

Shyam: oh yes, i do feel a new respect. but his happens to me after every earthquake we have here too.
the urge to do good - well, the most i can say about some people is that i use my max willpower not to do bad to them;-) i still haven't become a saint, as u can see

hari said...

Hi L,

It is these incidents that makes us value life much better and fill it with love and affection that would do a world of good to everybody connected to us.

But then rationally why should we wait for such incidents to happen?

And L, u don't need to be a saint to do good, anyways nowadays it is the saints who do more bad than anybody.

WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

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LAK said...

oooh, narrow squeak!Happy New Year!

Castor aka Kiwilax said...

Hari & Lak:
Yup, it was a narrow squeak, I must admit it rattled me a bit - delayed effect. Happy new year to both too.

Sunil Parashar said...

Wish you a very Happy New Year!.-Maybe a belated one but.....:)

EYE said...

started the New Year with a bang eh?

Castor aka Kiwilax said...

Sunil: Thanks and welcome.
And wish you more of the same.

Me: Yes, but I would have preferred a quieter start. Happy New yr to you too.