Of Summer

I'm glad now it's summer.

Though sometimes some days are those rainy days, still I appreciate the warm of summer. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I would think is to do laundry. I really love it when I manage to get wet clothes dry up under the hot sun in very quick time when during winter laundry takes at least 2 days to dry up inside the house as I don't have electrical dryer and worry whether the humidity from the washed clothes would cause mould to grow!

Then summer means you can get out from the house without having to bundle yourself in layers of clothes. It's the time to wear sandals, ballerina, slippers, pumps, stilettos....(ok, I only have two pairs of summer shoes, although I wish I could have more summer shoes...hehehe).

Summer also makes me start again with my morning walk. In winter, I gave excuses to myself that it was too cold to be outside, the road are slippery because of the snow or frost, I didn't have the right shoes to have a long walk in that weather...bla..bla..bla. But now, I force myself to start walk again, an hour a day!

The negative part of summer on the other hand...well, not many I could think of but I now keep fighting with the flies. They are absolutely non-exist, not even one you manage to find during the winter but as it hot now, they come happily flying around the house, making the buzz sounds which is so annoying to my ears. And I have to make sure that all the food are properly covered, if not it would be the feast for the flies. We have this electrical insect repellent, it resembles a tennis/badminton racket and I would be running around the house with this device, hunting the flies. I guess I use this device much better than I use the badminton racket :))

Food also easily get rotten under this weather. Recently I had to throw away half of a bread loaf because there were fungus growing on it even though the expiry date was still long way to go. Rice from the dinner the night before could also easily get rotten the day after. So I have to be alert when buying groceries. For me, buying extra load is not a good thing during this season.

The thing is, what I notice, living in a four-season land, makes you appreciate what you could have in each season.

But I guess I would probably not missing summer as we have 'Summer Forever' in Malaysia.