Having come from a tropical country, I have grown accustomed to year-long summer heat. The summer never fades, it never really goes away. The sun may tire of getting angsty--thus making the heat bearable from October to late January--but nevertheless,it is always there, in all its hot and fiery splendor.

Enter Minnesota, that vast desolate land up in the American Midwest. It's summer and you'd expect bearable weather but, no. The weather is simply schizophrenic. One moment there's sun, the next the clouds have turned green, there's hale! There's storm! A tornado touchdown is expected! And.. in a few minutes time, it has passed and we all get back to business. What storm?!

Now, me? Tropical girl. Me lovey the sunny. Not too much sunny, just a bit. Me lovey the coldee too but not when it's trying to give me frost bite! But circumstances handed me this strange twist of fate: "Tropical girl, go to desolate white, mountainous tundra.. Don't bring jacket, weather very good. Sweat, no more!" (Yeah, so MY fate is half-Japanese with bad English! What do you care?) I liked the prospect of non-perspiration. Rumor has it, Secret deodorant gives you dark underarms... plus, sweating just gives you more oily skin. So off to dry tundra I come.

It is almost the end of summer now. And Tropical girl is freezing! In 60 degree weather, no less! Puh-leeze! This is ridiculous. I loved the cool temps of Baguio, but this here, it's not even that cold. But I'm so cold today. The temp in my relatively warmer room says 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Outside, it's probably in the 50s. But I was not blessed with a leather exterior. Consider this: I NEED to wear a jacket whenever I watch a movie in a theater in the Philippines! Or when I go to a mall there! So you see, I have this inexplicable condition. Well, nothing I've been told of anyways. And to think that come winter, this could go to minus whatever degrees! Oh Mercy!

I would like to snuggle into something warm but then I am an intense animal lover, so no furry friend slash coat for me. Faux fur, perhaps... I'll be the only one wearing fur in friggin' Autumn! Ha! That's a sight for sore eyes...

*Disclaimer: Minnesota isn't exactly desolate, and it's not really a tundra. There's probably ice under the soil but there's lotsa trees and animal life here than just lichens. It's more of a taiga, but tundra just sounds way more dramatic. For those of you who "forgot" what that meant, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary,
tun·dra Pronunciation: 'tun-drah noun Etymology: Russian, of Lappish origin. A level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs; also : a similar region confined to mountainous areas above timberline
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YAKKED SOMEWHERE. My favorite line in the movie, A Series of Unfortunate Events? "Ga!" Uttered by cute little Sunny... by the way, Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep are amazing in this film, go see it! And let's talk about it in my tagboard!