buhops na ulan, please? ;-)

 Our refrigerator contains not just lots and lots of ice, bottles of water, pitchers of either iced tea or juice (yes lots of fluid!), and food – on the shelf were bottles and tubes of shower gels, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, cologne and facial moisturizer. Yes, the good ole’ ref has become an extension of the toiletry basket.
 And that is our very own, cheap way of beating the summer heat.
We do not have air conditioning – just 3 industrial fans all in all. Our shower doesn’t have any special hot or cold feature – so if we want a hot bath, we boil water. And we want a cold pulsating shower, we fill our huge blue container with ice!
People who visit find it strange, and yet marvel at our creativity, and resourcefulness. My house mates and i often joke about how our little two-bedroom abode is like a mini-spa, what with all our refrigerated toiletries that sure gives us that fresh-from-the-spa feeling.

After 3 consecutive days of rain showers last week, we thought we’d all finally have peaceful, restful nights sleeping like babies. But no, since the elections, we’d all seem to be dosing off before midnight but waking every two hours because it was just so damn hot, and that’s a not-in-a-good way kind of hot. That’s despite setting the fans to its maximum fanning speed (or whatever that’s called. Sorry, the heat has caused my brain to atrophy) and sleeping way comfy cotton clothes (tank tops and shorts or undies). We’re all girls, and we thought of sleeping in the buff, but i guess we’re just not that brazen yet

i wonder when will the rainy season officially, kick in, so we can enjoy cold, drizzly nights snuggled under the covers?