THE NEXT ACT

One good habit that I want to keep at lunch time is spending time reading or meeting up with Claire at the library which is a few walks from the council.   The frequent meeting place is at the library, outdoor in the library garden whenever there is wonderful warm day or indoor on a not so warm day yet occupying a good spot by the huge window overlooking the garden.   Sometimes Claire wouldn’t make it but I keep the habit.   Another habit that I want a keep is to bring a mug of mocha chino which Claire and I enjoy.   Reading by the window is so much amusing yet it becomes more amusing when a glance through the window captures my attention to what’s going on outside in the garden: some colleagues jogging which makes me wonder if I should do the same, a friend who is a mum who takes walk with her baby in a stroller, fellow engineers fixing the rivers, young skateboarders having fish and chips, the yellow leaves in autumn which prompts Claire to ask me to take photos ...

Copyright@2013 Jonathan Santos Let there be light and there was light The sky, the sun, the stars, the sea. The air we breathe, the creatures on sight You reign in all seen and unseen Yet after all Your Wondrous Deeds And Your Name all great men heed. Chorus: More than anything else You love us so dearly. You gave us Your mercy. More than anything else You suffered and died From sins, we are free. On the wedding at Cana, You gave them wine You fed the many with fish and bread. You cured the sick, the crippled, the blind At your command you rose up the dead. Yet after all Your Wondrous Deeds And Your Name all great men heed. (Repeat Chorus) On bended knee, on high I stare I call Your Name and You are there. (Repeat Chorus)

We’ve discussed about fish passage in river controlling structures in the meeting.   This one of the free flow permitted activity conditions one should look at in installing dams, culverts and weirs in the river.   As a river management engineer fish passage is one of those I almost neglect in the designing river controlling structures. I am more on the flood control scheme, managing flows, improving hydraulic efficiency, decreasing roughness of the channel. And then I was given a task to come up with public information to be published region wide and online about the awareness of fish passage.   I was given a task to enlighten the community about something I need to be enlightened about as well.   On the brighter side, I begin to know better.   The migration of fish is part of their life cycle.   Culverts, dams and weirs that are not designed the right way would disrupt the life cycle and become hazards to the whole ecology.   I am imagining that ...