Panas...

I suppose at some point during this charming blog-versation that we’re having, we’ll have to talk about the weather. It may as well be today.

If you live in PJ/KL vicinity, you would’ve noticed that there is some sort of drought/heatwave going on. Except for the two strange 5-minute downpours last week, which I suspect to be some cloud-seeding exercise going awry, it probably hasn’t rained in the past 10-15 days! (If I remember correctly that is, cos it feels like a hundred to me anyway).

Weather in Malaysia is extreme. When it rains, it pours. And when it’s hot, well..it’s really hot. The sun blinds and scorches. You feel headache-y and in need of a cold shower to literally wash the heat out of your hair and under your skin. Stay indoors? The circulating air from the fan doesn’t reach you, but gets trapped somewhere within the layers of hot air between the fan and where you’re sitting. You feel baked and somewhat muffled like you’re stuck inside a thick roll of cotton.

But I like rainy days in Malaysia. It really rains – an ominous, thunderous warning followed by a drenching affair with real pelting raindrops and heat steaming up from the roads after. Everything is washed, cooled and renewed. I used to get depressed with the rain in Sydney; grey skies, half-hearted thunder like polite burps and flyaway raindrops which lasts for hours. Once on the way home in such weather, I looked up and said to the sky “Can’t you even rain properly? Such a p#ssy way to do it!”

Anyhow, our much bitched about Malaysian weather has its highlights, I think. Hot days are for Ribena and longans in syrup, rainy days are for Soupy Snax with salted crackers. Sup kambing is a great option too.

It ain’t four seasons and a white Christmas...but it’s ours. Think I'll go make me a ribena now :)