meteor shower

view from top of the hill

last tuesday, A informed me that there will be meteor showers happening starting from 9 august till 13 august. so, we planned to have a picnic at the top of precint 11 hill. it's the only place i can think about. i picked A up on about 9pm. we bought food for 'sahur'(eventhough i'm not fasting yet). after that, we surveyed the place or location. just after i parked my car, a security guard came and asked us what were we doing there quite late at night. the hill is also a place for jogging. we just told him that we were just admiring the view while taking some photograps. he still insist that we shouldn't be there and warned us af the danger that could happen including warning us that there we even phython there. we just brushed it off(not in arrogant sorf of way, a nice kind of brushing off) and said that we would be fine. tired of our stubborness, he rode away (he's riding a motorcycle). after satisfied by the spot chosen, we went back to my sister house and get some sleep.

we woke up the next morning at about 4am. i even borrowed my sister's picnic mat. we brought our foods, drinks and camera. alhamdulliah, it wasn't raining anymore. last night, when we surveyed the place, it was drizzling. so, we spread the mat and prepared our 'sahur.' all done, we were about to lay down and looking at the clear sky, a group of people came. at first i thought it was the park worker coming to work early. but it turned out to be a group of policemen. they asked the same question as the security guard before. so, we told them the same answer. they were not easily 'removed' as the security guard, so me and A start babbling about scientific facts so that they'll be bored by our conversation and just would just move away. our tactic worked successfully, hehe...

so, with no more disturbance, we lay down and started to watch the sky. at first, we just saw a few stars. we tried to identify them and the only star that we could identify is the north star (easy, 'cos it's the brightest) and the orion (again easy, 'cos they are 3 in rows). so, to keep ourselves from not falling asleep, we talked and talked on different topic. so, suddenly one of the topic steered us to patriotic songs. we sang a few a them out loud, hoping that nobody would heard us. then, out of the sudden 'cheeeewww', we saw one meteor. we clapped happily. btw, i'm quite certain that the meteor shower doesn't made sound such as 'cheeewww'.it's just my expression. so, we waited and waited and we saw another one. hooray! we were quite satisfied. at least our picnic early in the morning is fruitful. then, A saw one that i didn't. later, i saw one that A didn't. so total meteor we saw that night is four altogether. and we planned to do it again this friday a.k.a saturday morning. hoping to see more this time!