Don't kill infidels, kill your ego.

Airspeed, Airspeed and Airspeed

Last week I had the good fortune of being on holiday at Vienna, and serendipitiously came across a pamphlet tempting me with a photography exhibit of Vienna’s grande dame of Austrian photography - Elfriede Mejchar (1924 - 2020)….

…Elfriede Mejchar seemed to have this urge to ask what does “this old building look like from the side?” then to go and snap it.

It takes only 30 minute to make this.

no I didn't include the recipe, it's too easy

Curious: when do I estimate I can get my PPL, minding for pre-requisited exams and weather.

As of this day (October 2023) I have been under instruction for approximately 14 hours so far, and would still have the following to come. To note, the hours required and lessons needed are completely based on my guesswork and likely to be far from the actual:

Circuit, probably 2 hours more to be confident ← 2 lessons

Solo Circuit, probably 1 hr ← 1 lesson……..

So I injured my knee playing badminton from an awkward landing. I could still take off but will struggle to balance a turn on a left hand circuit.

How the injury occur is obviously not due to an Arrow…….

Wrote this piece to process my grief of losing grandfather.

“… Supposedly it’s the only apt way to go.

It did not rain.

Not when it happened.

Not during the 5 days of rituals….

Nor was it overcast when the prayer cloth was wrapped atop.

There were bangs, when the coffin was nailed shut, but no thunder.

It did not rain.”

Did 3 TOs today, first one was very rusty.

Thankfully the rust was quickly worked out, by the second landing it feels so good to have NO BUMPS, i could feel the wheels roll and….

Wrote about passing 9th and final Theorectical exam.

Just a screenshot of my exam results

this is soooo cool!

G-BAXU under inspection

I was flying abroad - long haul economy - and had a sudden burst of emotion, and had to write this to help process it.

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches or feeling and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on…..”

…..a strong summation of the protagonists journey.

Shantaram is a long novel about his (fictionised dramatised) exile in India, written by Gregory David Roberts