A Tardy Timed Wednesday
As the clock finished the tenth hour (i.e. nine fifties, post ten) the silvery silence overhead enveloped and entrenched the Bangkok skies the morning after the Red’s Blood Ritual was now seemingly foreshadowing storm in the horizon. Having endured a late morning, mid week traffic jam on Rama IV road demanding better part of an hour, I was anxious to fulfill my task to attend Publicity and Publication class.
The thunder was roaring overhead as I arrived to the University bus stop near Kluay Naam Thai intersection. Skipping hurriedly into the University Soi, past food stalls, premature pellets of rain smashed towards my cheeks.
The problem with these split lecture – lab one hour class sessions is there’s not much tardy leeway an instructor can give you. It was comfortably past 10.20 by the time I summated the fourth flight of stairs of building three. Few students lounged outside the two classrooms.
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