Tonight's the only night in 60 thousand years where you can see Mars when you look up into the sky. My students were the ones who told me about it and they said it would be beside the moon. Somehow I was given the impression that it would look as big as the moon. It all sounded so exciting!

I was so happy that he actually made plans to go planet-gazing with me tonight. We had dinner and then went to east coast to catch Mars. He said that we should look out for something bright and red and that got me even more excited..can you imagine!? Something as big as the moon, very bright and red in colour somemore!! Woo hoo!! I was all prepared to catch this phenomenon that will only happen again in 284 years.

You should have seen the sheer size of that planet in the sky. It was awesome. So awesome that it took us a couple of seconds to decide and conclude that we were looking at the right thing. Man...was I disappointed....it was bright - yes, it was red - yes, but it was so insignificantly tiny! (as compared to what I was prepared to feast my eyes on...) Anyway, he took out his camera and we used the super zoom lens to get a clearer look at the planet. Then it wasn't so bad cos it looked better on zoom because I could see the round shape. It looks like red peanut.

We sat there for awhile just star-gazing and spying on the ships out at East Coast with the zoom. Then this group of guys came along and walked pass us. The first thing one of the guys said when he looked up at Mars was "So small ah!!??" and that really tickled us. I guess everyone's expecting some special planet show or something...the newspapers might have played it up a little too much...cheat my feelings!

Nevertheless, I had a great time tonight. I love him.