When I was young, I ocassionally hear the expression, 'Go fly kite la!!'. The expression is used to tell someone to go away and to leave you alone. Surely there are plenty of ways to tell someone the same thing. Why not tell them to go peel oranges with a short blunt knife, or go tidy up the house (and if they do it, it's an added bonus for you). But after last weekend, I finally know why that if someone wants you out of the way for a long long time, they ask you to go fly a kite.
Gaz and I went to visit a farmer's market last Saturday at a local park. After getting some beautifully creamy risoni carbonara (ready cooked and vacumm packed) and a pack of gourmet chicken, spinach and pine nut sausages, we decided to take advantage of the wind power on that day and fly our kite. Gaz bought a new two string kits on e-Bay 1/2 year ago and we have been trying to fly it ever since. With no success. Every time the kite lifts a little, it crashes instantly to the ground. Sometimes it does a double crash. It lifts off, crashes one way then seemed to find some momentum in this and crashes in the opposite direction.
So last weekend when Gaz FINALLY got the winds to embrace the kite, I was relieved. It means I won't have to run around chasing the kite and able to admire the way it's flapping happily in the sky. Like what kites should be doing. Our kite had some learning development problems (so did we) but it was a happy day that we finally got it off the ground. So I guess, when someone wants you to go away and leave them alone, it usually means to leave them for around 6 months.
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