happy when it rains...

it's a holiday today... and it's raining so hard outside. what a way to spend a holiday. it reminds me of alanis morissettes's song "ironic."

but truth is, there's always something about rain that makes me cheerful. maybe it reminds me of my childhood. or my life from where i came from i general. in my country we get a lot of rains. moonsoon rains, typhoons, and along with it, flood. when i was child or even when i was already an adult, i loved "bathing" in the rain. it was fun, very child-like, and subconsciuosly, it was like being one with nature. being free. floods are messy and annoying. but we always had many ways of having fun at home or out in the waters.

added to that, during heavy rains (flood or no flood)), classes were sometimes suspended. my peers would go straight to a moviehouse or to somebody's house.

there's only one thing i dont appreciate about rains in bangkok. traffic jam. it stars to rain, even lightly, and you get annoying traffic jams... and flooded streets. especially if you happen to be wearing office clothes.

come to think of it... it's only april and it's starting to rain. strange. could this be another effect of global warming?