Rational Insanity
Beating the rainy season
This season is an obvious manifestation of how twisted the Pinoy's sense of scheduling is. I have always wondered why our school season coincides with the rain and typhoon season in the country when there are other months when to schedule classes and not put our young pupils and students at risk? On the other hand, since I was born to this kind of scheduling, I might as well just live with it and help other pupils and students deal with this weird anomaly. Don't get me wrong here, I love the rain, but hey, people who love the rain are an endangered species.
Here are ten things to get us through the rainy season without having to grapple with whatever equates gloom and depression with this "wet period."
1. Stay away from those flood waters. At the rate industrialization and commercialization is going flood waters would definitely be a cocktail of leptospirosis and amoeba. Bathing in these flood waters or simply walking through them can put us all at grave risk especially when we have open wounds. Now, if there is such a thing as "leptospirosis and amoeba " free" flood waters nowadays, we still run the risk of getting skin allergies or minor skin infections.
2. Have some teabags ready all the time. The low temperatures of the rainy months can dramatically slow our metabolism. Tea can help our digestive systems function more effectively. Aside from this, a hot cup of tea in some cozy sweats and a heartwarming movie can really warm you up.
3. Stay away from soft drinks, if not for good, at least for this season only. Drink lots of fruit juice especially citrus juice drinks to stock up on vitamin C. Vitamin C can help strengthen our immune system and keep us away from the bugs of the season like influenza, flu, and pneumonia.
4. Don't buy black or drab colored rain coats or jackets especially if you are a walker. Bright colored rain wear can help motorists see you more clearly through the visual impairment caused by heavy rain.
5. Check the treads of your shoes and make sure they have not worn out considerably over the summer months. This season we will need all the friction we can get. Wet floors and tread-less shoes is a definite recipe for disaster. If you need to bus new shoes, go for the ones that have finer treads and deeper grooves. Test their friction power by rubbing them over those little mirrors that shoe stores install so you could see how you look in them.
6. Always bring along with you a small face towel or hand towel. This comes really handy when there are small muddy emergencies. When you wear eye glasses, take with you more of those little cloths that the optometrist gives you when you have lenses upgraded or your glasses repaired, when it rains, the droplets on your eyeglasses make it really difficult to see. By the way, bring along with you extra underwear also (try sitting through a movie when you just got into the mall from a heavy downpour and you will know why).
7. Protect your investment. Buy a waterproof bag or pouch for your cellular phone, you PDA, your lap top, or any other electronic device you have with you. Do the same for your USB drives, unless you want to loose the precious data you have stored there.
8. This is the time when those seemingly useless plastic envelopes really become a necessity especially when you are out taking care of paper work or just simply want to make sure that a thesis or reaction paper is free of creases and, more importantly, dry.
9. Wear sun block. The rainy weather can deceive us into thinking that we are already safe from the sun's ultraviolet rays, well, bad news boys and girls, we're not.
10. Make sure those umbrellas of yours are rust free, unless of course you want to get tough, stubborn stains on you clothes without your knowledge and blame it all on the rain.
Well, there you go folks! Those ten things are surefire ways to get you all through the rainy days; that is of course assuming that you've already saved up!
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