Singapore Weather in the Nutshell

Well, it's been a couple of days since my last post. There hasn't been a whole lot going on lately since the show is over and I've been coming home every day after school at 4. It's a little weird, but last night I went to bed at 10:30 so I am not complaining at all!

Anyways, Singapore has had its fair share of rubbish weather. It's been cool for the past week or so by Singapore standards, and definitely less humid. We haven't seen the sun in its full tropical glory for a while now, and its been raining/drizzling a lot. Oddly enough, I've been wanting to wear sweatshirts and long pants all the time. Evidently my blood has gotten thin-- and I'm not too pleased with myself as a result. In MA, anything above 50 F is shorts weather (if you are a teenage girl, that is).

Well, the crappy grey weather has got me thinking about Singapore weather overall. There are a few types for sure worth mentioning.

1. It's so hot you want to die
2. Steamy like a sauna
3. Crappy and overcast (relatively rare)
4. Windy and cool (occasional evenings)
5. Rain Varieties
1. It's drizzling... generally means that soon it will be....
1. Pouring
2. Deluge
3. Impossible to see because of the rain
4. So heavy you can probably swim to wherever you want to go
6. Thundering
1. In the distance
2. So loud you think the storm is right over you
3. Like the cloud is personally above your head
4. Ready to burst your eardrums
7. Lightning
1. Lighting up the sky in the distance
2. All cool looking
3. Too close for comfort
4. Hitting a lightning rod/building near you

Yup! Seems accurate :D

Sleepy Dormouse and Other Things

I think I'm becoming my character in Alice. See, I'm the dormouse, which basically means I sleep at every opportunity possible. Thankfully I don't snore or hibernate because that would be pretty inconvenient. Anyways, show week is always incredibly tiring. I'm stressed and life has taken a backseat to dance, which isn't too bad except I'm really sore. Also, I showed my dance teacher my audition piece for IASAS dance (which is basically our varsity team), which was nerve-racking. The other day I performed for little children, and thought that was scary. Nope! An empty studio, an iPod that has a mind of its own, and a dance teacher is a much scarier situation. It worked out though, and I know the thing will work out at the end of the day.

I've noticed a couple of weird things about living here lately. The first is that Singapore's cool-and-muggy temperature might actually be more miserable the blazing heat. See, humidity is nasty, while heat is avoidable. Second, bugs. There was a cockroach in the dressing room yesterday (there was lots of screaming), indicating that people were bringing food down there. Bugs are out to get you and your belongings here. Don't hide snacks in your desk or you'll get ants. Throw everything in plastic bags, seal everything off, and be careful about things being left out. The third thing I've really noticed is that there is a rhyme and reason as to when people are in shopping centres, but I still haven't figured out exactly why. I go to Great World City a lot after school, and there always seem to be various families, old people and business people there. Sundays are family days, Saturday is shopping day, Sunday any time at Tanglin is pregnant women day, and the weekdays are seemingly more random. Yup, sounds like Singapore.

*yawn* I'm tired. Time for Tea!

MAY!

May is the very best, and absolute worst, season every year. Mostly the best season.

In the US, May is pollen month. I spend the whole month sneezing and coughing with red eyes and a runny nose. Here in Singapore, it's hotter-and-more-humid-than-usual month. Not certain why it's so hot and steamy, but that's May. Apparently it snowed yesterday in the Midwestern USA. When I turned 6, it snowed the morning of my birthday party. I suppose May is a little unpredictable, like me.

May is also the very best month because it's my birthday month! My birthday is halfway through the month, and though I'm sure I've mentioned it somewhere on this blog, I'm not going to today. Regardless, I'm turning the same age as the title of the ever-popular Seventeen Magazine, which is pretty cool because now I can "officially" read it.

I'm also getting inducted into Thespian Honor's Society, which is pretty interesting because I always assumed I would be a dance honoree rather than a Thespian. Considering I'm going to try next year to act, dance and tech as well as take 4 APs, maybe I need these Honor Societies to get me into a US college.

The best part about this whole Honor Society thing is getting to be out of uniform and a little dressed up tomorrow. I'm wearing a 50's inspired dress I got in the cold streets of London in February that's black and white, with little heels. I'm also sitting around writing this in pin curls, hoping for some volume in the morning. This could be very interesting... I hope it looks nice in the end.


Here's to MAY!