The One About The Elusive Moon
One of the unusual assignments I have is to keep a moon observation book. It isn't supposed to be a book filled with romantic musings or eloquent scribblings about the moon; it's really just an observation log, into which we write what shape and colour the moon is on the nights that we observe it. Well, it certainly didn't sound like a tough assignment, until I actually had to do it!
Back in Singapore, the moon was always there. I just had to look up and, if it was not a cloudy night, it would be there. So last Saturday, I armed myself with my camera and trotted out into the night with a bounce in my step. As the night wore on and the moon was nowhere in sight, the bounce slowly died. I simply couldn't find the moon! Can you imagine? I walked everywhere with my eyes lifted upwards all the time, looking out desperately for the moon.
So began my fruitless and increasingly desperate search for the elusive moon. This went on for the next 6 days, during which I haunted the area near my place every night, my feet pounding the pavements and my eyes searching the black sky intensely. I even went into Starbucks to ask if they had seen the moon!
You can imagine how the passersby must have stared at me. It was quite hilarious, really, because some people actually stopped me to ask me what I was looking at! And after I told them, they also started looking up to find the moon! Isn't that just amazing? So thanks to my assignment, I had more people talking to me in those 6 days than I had in the past few weeks! There was this interesting elderly gentleman who even allowed me to go to the rooftop of the Fine Arts Museum to try to find the moon! So this became my novel way of making friends!
Well, when I attended class on Friday (that's when we're supposed to report our moonwatch), I had the shock of my life when most of my classmates said that they had seen the moon! They could even describe its colour and TEXTURE!!! AARRGGHH!!!! All that I could think of was how the moon had been hiding from me! When it came to my turn, I truthfully reported that I had NOT seen the moon, and my anguish must have shown, because one classmate kindly told me where I could see it.
But did I think I would finally get a glimpse of Ms Temperamental Moon? Of course not! It's called Flossie's Luck!
Then, the unimaginable happened.
The moon, the one Shakespeare termed the "inconstant moon", decided to appear in its full glory that evening to poor little me.
As I was walking with Esther and Christine to dinner, there it hung on the darkening sky, small but clearly distinguishable!
I was so excited that I whipped out my camera and started shooting photos of it! People must have found it strange that I was in Boston taking photos of the moon and not the landmarks!
And as an added bonus, the moon again showed itself when I came out after dinner! So in one night, I saw the moon at TWO separate times! Hahaha!
Well, the next night, the moon was there again, this time more brilliant and benign than ever!
So now I can write proudly in my log:
On both 29 Sep and 30 Sep, I saw the moon. It was shaped like a bloated crescent, slightly tilted towards the right. And it was simply beautiful.
Yay!!
Back in Singapore, the moon was always there. I just had to look up and, if it was not a cloudy night, it would be there. So last Saturday, I armed myself with my camera and trotted out into the night with a bounce in my step. As the night wore on and the moon was nowhere in sight, the bounce slowly died. I simply couldn't find the moon! Can you imagine? I walked everywhere with my eyes lifted upwards all the time, looking out desperately for the moon.
So began my fruitless and increasingly desperate search for the elusive moon. This went on for the next 6 days, during which I haunted the area near my place every night, my feet pounding the pavements and my eyes searching the black sky intensely. I even went into Starbucks to ask if they had seen the moon!
You can imagine how the passersby must have stared at me. It was quite hilarious, really, because some people actually stopped me to ask me what I was looking at! And after I told them, they also started looking up to find the moon! Isn't that just amazing? So thanks to my assignment, I had more people talking to me in those 6 days than I had in the past few weeks! There was this interesting elderly gentleman who even allowed me to go to the rooftop of the Fine Arts Museum to try to find the moon! So this became my novel way of making friends!
Well, when I attended class on Friday (that's when we're supposed to report our moonwatch), I had the shock of my life when most of my classmates said that they had seen the moon! They could even describe its colour and TEXTURE!!! AARRGGHH!!!! All that I could think of was how the moon had been hiding from me! When it came to my turn, I truthfully reported that I had NOT seen the moon, and my anguish must have shown, because one classmate kindly told me where I could see it.
But did I think I would finally get a glimpse of Ms Temperamental Moon? Of course not! It's called Flossie's Luck!
Then, the unimaginable happened.
The moon, the one Shakespeare termed the "inconstant moon", decided to appear in its full glory that evening to poor little me.
As I was walking with Esther and Christine to dinner, there it hung on the darkening sky, small but clearly distinguishable!
I was so excited that I whipped out my camera and started shooting photos of it! People must have found it strange that I was in Boston taking photos of the moon and not the landmarks!And as an added bonus, the moon again showed itself when I came out after dinner! So in one night, I saw the moon at TWO separate times! Hahaha!
Well, the next night, the moon was there again, this time more brilliant and benign than ever!
So now I can write proudly in my log:
On both 29 Sep and 30 Sep, I saw the moon. It was shaped like a bloated crescent, slightly tilted towards the right. And it was simply beautiful.
Yay!!
hey! It's as if you are playing hide and seek with the moon!! Haha...
Posted by
June |
12:27 AM
hey! It's as if you are playing hide and seek with the moon!! Haha...
Posted by
June |
12:27 AM