Unfortunately, I mean that literally.

Today, I went back to the city after first attending my sister’s graduation yesterday then spent the night at our family home. I almost fainted inside the cab, or at least that’s how I felt, because of the extreme afternoon heat. It felt like I was inside an infrared heater, and my sisters were complaining as well so it’s not just me.

I don’t know how long this hot weather will last, but I’m really hoping for some rains—not cyclones, please—as soon as possible. We could use some reprieve from this scorching heat.

Just another random thought. I feel like I haven’t experienced rain in a while (not that I’ll actually get to experience rain since I’m working at home most of the time!), except for that few minutes of heavy downpour while we were in Singapore about two weeks ago. Today I decided to work on our apartment’s rooftop again and as I look at the clear skies—and the airplanes flying by—all I can think of is that I want to travel again, locally this time. I have pretty images of the beach in my mind right now.

Then boom! I realized I am here because I am swamped with work and rather … no make that very late with my work schedule. This work thing will be my biggest foe again, not that I’m complaining, even if I don’t have an office or any equivalent to nurses uniforms to show for it.

I bought a planner for this year, and despite my sister’s ogling I wrote my name on it and started writing weekly and monthly to-do lists and even a to-accomplish-by-the-end-of-the-year list. Then I took on as many job assignments as I can get and before I know it, it’s now the third month and I’m nowhere near accomplishing half of my January goals.

The good news for me is, I’m counting down the days before our big trip next week.  I’m taking five days off so yay me! Maybe this will give me a good chance to refresh and have a clearer perspective of where I’m going next. Not exactly my next trip, although I wouldn’t say no to a chance to stay in luxury new york city hotels someday, but more on building a clearer life plan than just working my butt off every single day while waiting for other (good) things to happen. Let’s see what a few days without having all these manuscripts to think about can do for me.

I heard that the temperature  in Baguio drops to the low .20 deg these days. Brrr… I can’t imagine being there right now. I’ll surely need layers and layers of clothes and jackets and some Cheap Hats to cover up as much as I could.

But I’m not there, and where I’m at it’s “turn on your AC unit or sleep in a pool of your own sweat.” Not a lovely thought, I know. While Australia and Brazil and some parts of the Philippines are being flooded, my city remains dry and uncomfortably warm. I’m not complaining, though. I’m just wondering when exactly did the Earth’s weather become so unpredictable and, frankly, scary. It didn’t use to be this way, we all know that. Some people I know have a perfect explanation for this – but let’s not go there because despite a spirited debate it may elicit, I’m not really into thinking about the last days of earth.

So, I’m just going to suck it up and adapt. What else can I do, anyway? (move to Alaska?)

It’s a Sunday again! One thing about working from home, and this is something you would expect, is that I sometimes lose track of the days and dates. And that’s when my laptop calendar and planner are just a click and a browse away! Well, today is a special day because I’ll be meeting my friends for lunch. I find now that I want them to plan as many breakfast, lunch, dinner, or coffee get-together as they can just so I can join them and enjoy their company. Unfortunately, from the very start, we don’t do that often. Now that I’ll soon be officially an office outsider, I’ll soon have to rely on  special occasions and spur-of-the moment getaways. But I won’t think about that now. I’m just excited to see them (and their kids!) Then, if I’ll have enough time, I’ll probably go window shopping or buy some groceries; I might even have time to search the drugstores if they have hoodia gordonii in stock.