tabula rasa - blank state

just got back from skiing, which was packed with food, skiing, nkf spoofs, spasticated jokes and most importantly, cute french and israeli guys... (!!! not that i'm interested in guys, but gals out there you may wanna check them out when you go on tour the next time round...) okie the grading of the slopes are as such: green, blue, red, black... and we skiied down the red slope on the 1st day of lessons... i think we were abit garang after our first official skiing lesson in the day... we took the gondola up to the peak in the afternoon and wanted to ski down the blue slope, but some stupid guy told us that the blue slope had a steep part and asked us to ski down the red one instead, and we actually believed him... so here we went, skiing down the red slope, based on faith... thank god for his journey mercies and the fog... fortunately, we didn't ski off the edge of the mountain, and the fog made visibility low, so that we wouldn't fear the steepness of the slope... thank god too for nice people to save us (the stragglers), they guided us down the red slope by encouraging us to slowly ski down... thankfully, we made it back to ground level safely... cleared 600m altitude in 1.5hrs which was kind of long, but at least we made down safely... as much as i enjoyed the company of the other skiiers, especially the indian london doctors and the israelis, i guess the mountain has taught me several important lessons... first of all was to conquer my fear of heights, although i'm still very fearful of heights, but i'm not that afraid not... and the tenacity of the human spirit is also tested during the most critical points in time... my mind was in a state of tabula rasa... it was totally blank, we just concentrated in getting down safely, rather than fearing the steepness of the slope...

anyway, the kids are so cute on their skis and they are really pro in skiing man... i guess i'll prolly send my kid for skiing lessons next time...