The weather here is crazy beyond imagination. Coming from someone who has only experienced SG's dull and predictable weather for the past 22 years. Yesterday when I left school it started to drizzle. Within seconds the rain grew into a full-fledged storm of sorts, complete with lightning. (and thunder? I was too busy navigating the swimming pools to notice) The rain was so heavy and the droplets were so big that my brolly offered little refuge. Only my head was left dry. My shoes and socks were completely soaked, as well as my jeans up to my thighs and my jacket sleeve and back. And my bag. What a tragic, demoralizing night to the eve of an exam. I tried to air my footwear to no avail at macs. Worst thing is, after getting to macs the rain lightened to a little drizzle and stopped for the night, leaving us to wallow in its cold and damp aftermath.
And today, sensing the sky getting darker, I chionged out of the house for my paper and when I got downstairs it was drizzling. 5 minutes later, there was a hailstorm. Practically small stones falling from the sky. Of course I was busy trying not to get my jeans, bag and shoes ruined before the exam. Practically ran the rest of the way to school. And when I got into the hospital lobby the sky immediately became clear of rain again. Can you imagine how suay it felt? I'm fine with hail, just not coupled with rain. Lucky this time my shoes and socks weren't soaked though and my jeans dried faster. After the exam and 2 periods of lessons, I walked out of school to a clear, beautiful day with only little puddles left on an otherwise dry ground with no other hint that it had rained so heavily just a few hours before. Torrential? Totally. So I trotted home happily to clear skies, a 40kmph cool breeze, sunshine and falling petals. The fact that that stupid perv we're planning to castrate was absent from the bus-stop made the day an even better one :) In good spirits though I'm so tired from the bad night, headache and fitful sleep. 1 paper to go! Before our long-awaited month-and-a-half-long hiatus :)) (Which of course encompasses alot of other shit in non-exam forms but shall be worried about that when the time comes)
It's funny how the last time I got caught in such heavy rain and experienced a hailstorm was in Virginia 2 years ago. At that time my shoes, socks and bag were soaked through too but at least I had the hotel and hostel heater to roast them dry on. Today I was astonished to find that my bag was still wet from yesterday's rain. I miss having the sun in my backyard to bake my stuff in!
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