The Stagnant Bird

I was on the way to Klang through Kesas Highway with my family, excluding my eldest sister, to have dinner with my grandmother. As usual, in the evening, the traffic was smooth all the way except at the exit to Klang where it was a bit of a jam. So while the car was at a crawl around 100m from the traffic lights, I looked out of the window from where I sat [I usually sat on the left side and I cannot do things in car or I"ll get car sick] and saw this particular bird flying in mid-air.

Flying in mid-air? I wasn't sure at first but after a full minute or so, I was sure the bird was not moving an inch forward, downward or up.It was just hanging in mid-air as if it was a fake. I quickly called my mother who was doing her "daily Sudoku" to look out the window. She stared at it for a while and said, " That's just some high tech stuff or maybe it's the electromagnetic field around the area which is affecting the flight of the bird."

Yes, there were a few electrical cables but I don't think any electro-magnetic field can freeze anything in mid-air just like that. My elder sister was driving [ and she couldn't care less about was I said ] while my dad was reading the newspaper.

So, I called out to my younger brother who was playing his hand phone.  He looked at it for awhile, said something like, "We can earn a lot if we record it and sell it to some television station or something." and continued his game.  Well, that was what a 12 year old boy can say.  I wasn't sure why no one was interested as I was.  The bird even flapped its wings a few times but it just can't seem to go anywhere.  The whole thing lasted for a few 10 minutes before the car finally turned to a right and I looked back once more before I lost sight of the bird.

An experience written by Tai Yi-Minn , a student in Sunway College