Colourful summer

Summer shade
at Ben Yehuda
pedestrian Mall

So the big news is the SIA plane and the emergency landing and the fire on its engines. Rather than focus on the fire .... newspapers should be focussing on the fact that NO ONE died, all passengers and crew were saved. That is the fact.

For a second day there were riots in the Al Aqsa Compound in the morning. The Israeli police had allowed jewish visitors into the compound, igniting religious sensitivities from the numerous muslims there fasting on Ramadan. This Friday will be the last Friday of Ramadan and things will get explosive if the police do not make some decisions .... which will be unpopular.

The weather is still hot ... though there is a cool breeze blowing once in a while. I am still feeling too weak and the thought of walking up 1km in the heat to work simply gets the worse of me. I had a sleep marathon yesterday as I did not want to go out in the heat. Slept through 15 hours. My tired body and mind just switched off.

Agapanthus and Canna lilies in bloom

Today I'm feeling better but my stomach is still not good. Instant diarrhea with anything I eat. I mean anything. So I've been starving / fasting to avoid complications when I'm working. Perhaps that's why I feel weak.

Well there're another 3 months of summer to go ... I hope to pull through.