RAIN...

It had been raining constantly these past few days. I think it is probably the time of the year. Since this is the equator, so we don’t (never actually) have any snow or anything. The closest thing – in terms of temperature that is, is the raining season. Or maybe it is known as the monsoon season? I’m just not sure.

Well anyway I love the rain. I think it is one of those lovely moments that actually make your day. It is kind of weird, right? I know. You’re not to be blamed. I mean rains can only bring troubles, rather than making up your day.

In the real world, that is. Not in my world.

In the real world, or probably in Malaysia, rain can only mean one thing. Traffic congestion. It is like one of the thing that defines Malaysia. If let say you travel by car one day and the road is super clear, it can only mean one thing:

1)    1) You’re dreaming. You are still asleep!

2)    2) It is a major public holiday

3)    3) It is a major public holiday and you’re driving in the city. News flash! People moves from the city to their home town elsewhere in holidays

4)    4) You’re driving in some closed area that you’re not informed of

5)    5) You’re bind. Why the hell you get behind the wheels?

6)    6) All of the above. Somehow.

Yes. Although I know it’s pretty stupid to be driving when you’re blind. Or maybe it that cases in which people become blind suddenly. If I’m not mistaken it is caused by a high dosage of mercury. They must’ve eaten a thermometer by accident. Poor thing…

Another bad thing that a rain can possibly bring to human being, especially in Malaysia, is car accident. It is like the most common thing after traffic congestion. It is bound to happen somehow, but the rain just act as a catalyst and make things happen even faster. I mean regardless whether the driver do change their tires regularly enough or not, it is going to happen.

The best thing is that accidents don’t just happen when it rains, it also happens like in normal weather. I really find kind of offensive and stupid to blame the rain for any accidents that happen. We all know it is the driver’s fault that causes the accident. Yet, they still believe that the weather, the nagging girlfriend, the phone, Twitter, BBM, cause these accidents. Really, guys?  Ugh…

Another bad thing about rain is that it can damage your phone. Take my phone for example. My beautiful Nokia X3-02. The rain totally spoilt the phone. I’d just finished my guitar lesson, and walking out of Summit USJ, I noticed that it was raining, like crazy. It is raining that nothing like ‘raining cat and dog’ can come up to.

So, anyway, it was raining like crazy. And I don’t plan to waste my time. The only way I know I’m going to make it is by determination. And of course, some music. So I took out my dearest Nokia X3-02, plugged in my earphones, and tuned to my most favourite radio station.

Raining? Huh, with my radio and determination, nothing can stop me now!

Of course, the rain was really bad. Not only that I had to run, the running was really hard because my jeans was all soaked the moment I stepped out of the last place of shade (more like I ran out of the place), the wind was so strong that I could hardly run. Imagine running in a swimming pool. Stupid, isn’t it? That was exactly how I felt all the while I was running back.

When I reached my casa, I found peace. And by peace I mean no harsh wind and water coming down on you like your having your third bath for the day. I took out my phone, and I finally realized just how stupid I can be.

There I stand, with my guitar lesson notebook (which caused me RM10.00) and my leather pouch (I think so) on my right hand, my left hand with my phone. Nokia X3-02. Touch and type. Just that now it can only be type and not type since the rain had managed to infiltrate my dearest.

DAMN!

I totally forgot that my jean wasn’t water-resistant and that I should have put my phone in my leather pouch so that the water can’t damage it! Stupid stupid stupid! Only that there’s nothing I can do to change it. I quickly went back to my unit, and take a bath. What do you expect me to do? Dry my phone? Hello, ever heard ‘yourself comes first, others second’? At a time like this I should really come first.

So after my relaxing bath, I checked my phone again. Yup, the water really did wonders to my phone. I went to the kitchen, stripped my phone to the bone (Read: I took of the back cover, the battery, the SIM card and the memory card), and shoved the phone into the rice container. Which contains rice. Uncooked rice that is. Don’t shove your already-damaged phone into a pot of cooked rice, okay?

Lucky me, I’ve learned through the Internet of ways how to do a first-aid for water-damaged phone. Although to my defense, I never really know if it really going to work. This explains why after the next 7 hours my phone was still broken. Every time I touched the screen, this vapour like thing comes out and that scares the crap out of me.

As quick as the fox who jumped over the moon, I went to my room, found my old shoe box (2 months old) and, lucky enough, found two packets of anhydrous. I took my phone, put it into a pot, took some rice and buried it with it, open the packets of anhydrous, and mixed them together. And I left it to dry for until the next morning.

My dearest survived.

Well, so that is the bad thing about rain. The fact is that I actually really do like rain. I’m in love with rain actually. I really do love rain. It is like the best time of the day. You know how rain can really make the hot, scorching sun, feel something more or less like a light bulb. Shines, but sucked in a whole lot of ways. Rain can actually make a really hot day, a very soothing one. And a hell lot cooler.

So it is a wonder when my friend told me that rain makes she moody and gloomy and all sort of loser. Well, then again, who cares? It all goes back to how you really see it. And by the way that I am looking at it, rain brings nothing but happiness.

But then again, every good thing always have a shadow, so does rain, even after all those elaborate stuff I told you about Malaysian traffic. With rain, comes flash flood. With flash flood, there is always a money outburst happening. Car parts broken, house interiors damaged, everything ruined. My house was sadly ruined by flash flood, twice, once on my birthday and another one a week later. Talk about a ‘good’ day!

With rain also comes sickness. Which I really hate. Last week alone I spent at least 5 days down with a fever. With fever, comes headache, and I for one dreaded headache. It is like the only thing about the head that naturally happening that I hate. Seriously. Not to mention my nose, gosh! It is like an open faucet on my face, the thing won’t stop flowing! Luckily it is not those yucky-hideous-ugly-green snot thingy, it is the clear one. Sigh…

Well, that pretty much sums it up! I love rain, regardless of all the bad thing that it brings cause love is blind and blind people can’t see (duhh) and people incapable of seeing really don’t care what other people sees. That come out a lot better than what I had in mind! Bravo~