My Day
Monday, 23. February 2009, 16:32:27
Alrighty - so I'm sitting at home drinking coffee and wondering what I should do today; and it comes to me. I'm going to do absolutely nothing. Sure I might read the news or maybe finish off a book, but other than that - I'm not going to break out a sweat over anything.
The phone is turned off, e-mail shut down and if I really feel the need I'll turn off the computers as well. You see, I've been working way too hard lately, long hours of research, longer hours writing and ever more hours developing the training materials I need.
Yes - today is my day.
A 13-year-old boy apparently hot-wired a public bus and took it on a joyride in downtown Beijing. It sure won't be his day when his parents get a hold of him.
Xinhua News Agency says the student jumped into the driver's seat of city bus No. 404 while it was parked at a terminal, apparently started the bus without keys, and sped off while the driver was in the bathroom.
He zigzagged through Sunday morning traffic in Beijing's eastern Chaoyang district, first hitting a car and a minibus. When the driver of the car got out to talk to him, the teen reversed and crashed the bus into 10 parked vehicles, sending one crashing through the front of a clinic. He also knocked down two power poles.
"It was like watching a blockbuster movie when I saw the bus crashing into cars like a bulldozer," said Liu, a man who runs a shoe-repair stand near the scene of the crash. Liu was having breakfast when he said the bus came charging toward him like a "dancing dragon".
Never saw a dragon dance - but what the hell.
So how's your day going?
The phone is turned off, e-mail shut down and if I really feel the need I'll turn off the computers as well. You see, I've been working way too hard lately, long hours of research, longer hours writing and ever more hours developing the training materials I need.
Yes - today is my day.
A 13-year-old boy apparently hot-wired a public bus and took it on a joyride in downtown Beijing. It sure won't be his day when his parents get a hold of him.Xinhua News Agency says the student jumped into the driver's seat of city bus No. 404 while it was parked at a terminal, apparently started the bus without keys, and sped off while the driver was in the bathroom.
He zigzagged through Sunday morning traffic in Beijing's eastern Chaoyang district, first hitting a car and a minibus. When the driver of the car got out to talk to him, the teen reversed and crashed the bus into 10 parked vehicles, sending one crashing through the front of a clinic. He also knocked down two power poles.
"It was like watching a blockbuster movie when I saw the bus crashing into cars like a bulldozer," said Liu, a man who runs a shoe-repair stand near the scene of the crash. Liu was having breakfast when he said the bus came charging toward him like a "dancing dragon".
Never saw a dragon dance - but what the hell.
So how's your day going?
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