Saturday, September 02, 2006

the weather was so good ytd that i could wear shorts and my pubcrawl tshirt to the market. its not windy its not too sunny its not too gloomy its just niceee. good weather peps me up. the sky here is really much bluer than the sky in singapore and there's no clouds which really makes the whole sky closer to you as though u can embrace it. one good thing about seasonal countries is that you can always look forward to good weather and the weather will always surprise you. like in the middle of winter you will keep on pining for September to come(where its officially spring), unlike in singapore we don't go like wah the weather is horrible today so hot i wish a certain date will come soon so that the weather is better. or like you will not be very thankful to nature for having one single day of perfect weather and you just let it pass by, otherwise here, we will be so delighted by a single good sunny day in the middle of winter that the rugby balls come out and plans for a late noon picnic arise because it is such a nice surprise.

which comes to the moral of the story that we will never cherish things that are in abundance, which is a bad habit. my local classmates were so excited bout our four seasons of summer you think they have a skin cancer death wish. and lets digress to my local classmates who are very perturbed why singapore ban chewing gum. we told them we came from singapore and they weren't like oh thats the very economically efficient country, or oh thats the country with the no1 airport. they were like oh! thts the country which banned chewing gum how stupid is that. and they laugh themselves crazy when they found out its about this joker who stuck chewing gum in the mrt and the govt was pissed. they ask us to vote for other govt who can take jokes :X

these guys love their gum and they asked us whether we stuffed ourselves silly when we were here. funny thing is, i only ate chewing gum thrice here. why, i don't know. i used to love chewing and bubba gum when i was younger and my mum risk everything to get it from malaysia until she got caught once with a whole backpack of bubba gum worth like 80 ringgit then the immigration officers scare her too much she learnt her lesson and from then on we nv brought chewing gum back again.

i used to whine and whine about winter but i guess i never realise winter will eventually end and nicer seasons will come. just like ups and downs of life. winter's not gg to last forever like in alaska. soo i think i like seasonal stuff. seasonal means variety which means more chances and excuses and reasons to get clothes and the thought of finally baring the back of your knees to the sunshine after like 3mths of jeans jeans jeans is really nice. and you get seasonal fruits and strawberries are in the season now. yippieyay. wish you guys were here to do choc strawberry dips with me.

oops i actually yakked so much about the weather. if i were to go back singapore for good, like many others, the weather will be the only one i miss. and the flowers. and the really-meant-it-sales and discounts. like if some pants or skirt gg for $3, its really 3, no strings attached.

the block of townhouses where i stayed in has like ropes in between for those creeping plants to grow up to. and when the flowers of those plants bloom, its so pretty! shall upload it when my internet quota comes back. ya i hate internet quotas. s.l.o.w