The moon smiles tonight.
I was strolling back to the apartment after getting my dinner around 8.30pm, all fuzzy woozy inside after my nap. At the foot of the stairs leading to Vista B tower's carpark, I turned and saw the most beautiful moon ever.
It was a perfect arch, a slender soft glow in the sky.
The waxing crescent was facing upwards to form a 下弦月.
It was beautiful. The most amazing thing was there were two stars above the moon arch. The star on the left was exceptionally large and shining very very brightly. So much so for a while there the little skeptic in me frowned at it sternly, doubting its authenticity as a star- I thought it must be a satellite or lights from a passing airplane. The star on right was more demure- smaller and with a paler, gentler glow.
I stood gazing for a while. They were just about at the height of the apartment roof. And so close that if I run a bit I would reach them.
When I looked out my room window later, the moon arch and stars have moved away. They are high up in the sky now.
Later, Tmt told me it was the moon goddess' smile.
And so tonight the moon goddess smiled at me and I smiled back. :)
ps: I goggled the phenomena and found out it was indeed a celestial treat to have 2 celestial objects converging so closely together, and cozying up to the moon too! The too large and shiny to be authentic star was unauthentic after all- it was the planet Venus, and the other Jupiter.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081125-venus-jupiter-conjunction.html
The celestial tête-à-tête party looked something like that:
3 comments:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm gonna die of laughter...
from the picture!
I can see that your art teachers did a good job in teaching you =PPP
ps: sorry la dear I know it's difficult to draw using the comp..=) but this pic right after your very lam punya post was really a lil out of place =P
aiyo I never thought of it the picture as funny la. Since I couldn't get a decent picture from the net so I had to draw one lo. I purposely coordinated the background as black and used glowy pale yellow to draw some more.. Spent quite some time drawing and erasing here and there le.
Have a look at this:
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3019/img8501tn9.jpg
(credits to paul tan @ http://paultan.org)
It looked like that. But I think what I saw was much more beautiful. The stars were closer to the moon than in the pic. And oh everything was so much bigger and prettier.
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