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April 22, 2006
Woke up this morning in the new flat at 10 am with something that resembled sunshine creeping through the blinds. Woke up to find that my eyes weren’t lying to me. There was actual sunshine hiding behind those curtains.
And there is one thing to say or think in London when you are blessed with this rare miracle. THANK GOD or Allah or whomever is responsible.
Seriously. It is like having lived through a full blown war. Called the winter…
When you are blessed with some sun it is the best thing you have ever felt on you face, on your body, on your soul.
London sun is one of the most expensive suns in the world. And I’m not even talking about in monetary tones, but the mental expense that it takes on ones soul to get to where we are today.
And the thing is… when it hits. It is like the grand fucking orgasm of a thousand hungry virgins…
Sunshine in London is a precious comodity.
Beautiful. Sunshine. Amazing.
Puts a smile on those typically cynical London faces.
And that, my friend, is fucking priceless.
Now just pray for a few more blissful days like todayl
the first pimms of the season
Horaayy..there are 6 comment(s) for me so far ;)
You should try living in Manchester sometime, we have far less sunny days. Most of the time in the winter it just rains for days on end. Thankfully, while the London marathon was suffering dreadful conditions for spectators this weekend, Manchester was basking in sunshine.
That said…I’m glad to be moving to California soon.
I am a Chinese girl, in beijing now,
happen to your blog.
sunshine season is my most favorite day.hoo
can you read chinese,there is a poem :
花褪残红，青杏小，燕子飞时，绿水人家绕
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http://spaces.msn.com/vivianlee84/PersonalSpace.aspx
sun seashine season is my favorite day
can you read chinese,there is
花褪残红，青杏小，燕子飞时，绿水人家绕
my msn space;
http://spaces.msn.com/vivianlee84/PersonalSpace.aspx
Lack of sunlight for prolonged periods does adversely affect mood, humans and most animals, too. Given that we evolved with mostly regular sunlight as animals over half a billion years since sex, and alot longer as light sensitive bacteria, we just need that fix to feel right.
How to get it in dreary old London? Soft coral reef tank lighting! No shite! Your cognitive mind will know it’s artifical lighting, but your rat brain will be fooled by it, thereby affecting your overall mood. You know that the sun is gone most all winter, and alot of the summer, too, but your higher mind can’t control your crappy feeling about it.
“Actinic Day” flourescent tubes burn at nearly all the exact wavelengths as the sun does, for about 6 months. Soft corals bitch about the spectrum shift after that, but you could probably use them for a year and not notice it. They come in 2′ 20 watt and 4′ 40 watt sizes just like regualr flourescent tubes, so you only need a cheapy flourescent fixture, and the bulbs are about $15 a pop. You’ll wanna hide them behind a chair or face them to the wall or ceiling, because they are too damn bright to look at. There’s also much smaller “power compact” flourescent tubes available now, but the fixtures are way expensive as they’re still proprietary to reef tanks, not home or shop use yet. even just a single bulb fixture is close to $100, and duals are $150+.
On topic, but of no use here, is metal halide lighting. Hard corals demand it, but we don’t and soft corals can live without. They’re hella expensive all the way around, and burn hotter than hell so they can only hang freely in metal reflectors.
I know, I know, TMI today, but no work and I’m bored
Oh, and here’s some online translators if you wanna read vivi’s poem, or just wanna read another language. They’re machine translators, so they crap out sometimes and be prepared for reading broken English….hehe…but they do the job:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/free_translation.shtml
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/websites/url_translator.html
vivi’s poem:
The flower sheds the fallen flowers, the blue apricot is small, when the swallow flies, green water others circle