Because of some long working hours last week, I had a day of today. It is amazing how much you can appreciate a day of, when you know that you have it. Yesterday evening I was filled with ideas how to spend this day and what to do.Now the day is nearly gone, and what have I in fact done?
Nada!
Yesterdy i went early to bed to be well rested for this day and I got up at 6 AM like usual to have breakfast with Catriona -poor her, she had to go to work- and then as she left and I could start the long lovely day on my own, I felt I needed a little rest on the coach, well I still had an ocean of time to do all the stuff I'd planned.
Oh, I could watch the news on the telly for a while, and then get going!
It turned out to be a long while, because of all the options this long free day gave me, I wasn't able to make a choice rather than flick around between old outworn movies and (bad) News Channels from four continents.
Honestly that is quite interesting, I mean the thing with the News Channels from four continents. It's like a mirror or a window you can look through and get a little view of the society and culture
On our telly here in Tai Wan Village, we can see the following News Channels: Deutsche Welle (German) Sky News (British or English rather) and their sister channel from the US which is CBS -I think- then there is Fox News(US), Al Jazeera English (UAE and all over the world), Australian Network, CCTV International (China) and then a South Korean or Japanese one, which I not quite certain of.
It is interesting to see the breaking news and major issues being told from the different perspectives or view points from around the globe, and some times you really can't tell if it is the same event they are talking about, and some of the things they focus on on Sky News for instance, often seems to be so local, regional and out of proportions, compared with events that has an effect on the whole wide world. But then again, of corse they are (regional) because News is rather of a local character to be interesting for the people living in the region (country), they are made for. And yhen again, telly is only a mirror of something that could be real, and looking at to much and to many, may just disguise the real world out side the window and make it blurred.
So I was thinking about all that -again- for a couple of hours, and then it was noon and the most of my precious time was wasted, and I started to go in panic, because how on earth should I manage also to do the dishes and go shopping and prepare dinner, which was the least I could do when I got a day of.
So and now it is late in the evening and finally I've got time to sit here and reflect over my day of and how much I enjoyed it.
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