Shitty Weather

Free of haze with clear view of the hill!

The hill has disappeared! 

Stay indoors Klang Valley folks!

Surviving the Heat Wave

We are currently experiencing a severe heat wave. I think the heat can truly melt our flesh off our bones.

*picture taken from Malaysia Meteorological Department website

38C!

I have been overwhelmed by the heat so badly that I blew out a gunk of blood from my nose. It's not time to fall ill yet. It's only March. And the haze has been ever present too!

To combat the heat, I've been doing a few things very religiously.

1. Drink TONS and TONS of water 

2. Drink lots of soup

3. Shower to Cool Down

4. Eat More Fruits & Vegetable

5. Sweat It Out

6. Hide in the AirCon Room

7. Drink Coconut Water

*all Keep Calm pictures taken from KeepCalmAndPosters.com

Do share if you have any other ways to survive this heatwave!

The El Nino Heat Wave Effect

The weather everyday has been like an oven on fire. We had a heat index of 45C last week. Hot is truly an understatement. 

*Minions picture taken from HERE

**For those of you who do not understand what 'Goreng Pisang' means, it is "DEEP FRIED BANANA!"

The Glorious Heavens - Part 24

Third Season in Malaysia!

The awful haze is back!

*picture taken from HERE

Haze.....

Sigh...

And now we have severe thunderstorms.

The Glorious Heavens - Part 23

Full moon!

An angel!

'The sun is new every day.' - Heraclitus

Haze, Heat & H2O Disruption!

The heat is so awful and yet we've been told that El Nino isn't here yet! We'll be roasted ALIVE! On the average, it's 36C.

The haze was bad last week. And then it got blown away.

Clear skies again!!!!!

And then there was massive disruptions due to over consumption of water due to the extremely, freaking hot weather. All the huge containers were taken out again. But we were lucky. We had low pressure. Many did not have water.

Some places have had their water back, but some still do not have. This water problem is far from over...

The Bloody Haze is Back!

The acrid burning smell is in the air again. With the heat wave and El Nino combined, we have been baking in an oven everyday.

On some days, it reaches to 40C! Such heat triggers lots of peat fire and fires.

Scorching hot weather is truly an understatement. And the haze is back.

Sometimes the things that people do during the haze really do make me wonder...

1. Parents bring kids to the playground as the children 'need to exercise'.
I heard this parent exclaim this to the child as they were walking past my house on their way to the playground to 'exercise'. And the parent was talking in a very loud voice which even the deaf could hear. I could hear them behind my closed doors!!

2. Men, women, old men, and old women exercising and chatting in the haze.
Really????! It's a wonder their lungs didn't turn black and expired on the spot.

3. Families in a car with all windows wound down.
Excuse me, this isn't the Genting Highlands or Cameron Highlands where that 'misty-looking-air' is REALLY mist. And the child was poking his head out of the window 'enjoying-his-super-duper-fresh-air'.

4. People hang their laundry (EVEN the bedsheets and RUGS) out in the HAZE!
I know not everyone has dryers. But one can get the octopus laundry hangers to hang them indoors. The heat will dry them. If you hang them outdoors, the dust particles from the haze will stick to your clothes and they smell of SMOKE when you keep them.

5. People use their palms to cover their face when outdoors...

6. People open their windows to 'air' their house during the haze.

Coming up next: What's In The Haze???!!!

Some Respite

The weather suddenly changed and we've been having freak storms everyday to the point the road in front of me is a blur when I am driving.

The mother-of-all-storms!

Hot clear skies!

Before the storms!

Such clear skies after the storms! What a difference.

And then the wind blew the haze back.

So it's been a see-saw. Clear skies, hazy-and-smoggy skies. Clear skies, hazy skies. And most of the time, even though the skies are blue and clear, the acrid burning smell is still ever present in the air. The haze is caused by peat fire breaking out everywhere, rampant open burning and our own pollution. In other words, it is 'home-grown' pollution...

This morning's skies!

I had to seal/taped shut Joel's bathroom window as the acrid burning smell was just awful seeping into his bathroom and bedroom. It smelt like a smoker's room!

Water rationing is still on. And there hasn't been rain at the water dams or catchment areas. Do pray for rain at those areas. Pray till it fills up to the brim! Thank you!

The Hazardous Hazard!

It is currently very shitty and stressful to be living in the Klang Valley at the moment. The weather has been so dry that the temperature soared to 40+C early this week. And some of the dams (especially the one that our water comes from) has reached a critical level of only 40% water. It hasn't rained at the dams for god-knows-how-long.

And the haze has been so bloody persistent, vicious, and has such a tenacious grip on our airspace that we are suffocating beyond words.

The two pictures below were taken by a friend of mine who lives not far away from my place:

This ain't the mist, it's the bloody haze!

This was taken by my parents. This was yesterday's situation.

This is today. 

You can see how we are suffering, what more with the water rationing and the heat.

Joel's school had shut-down today. So are some of other schools. I think the government should just shut everything down until this gets blown away. This is so detrimental to everyone's health.

Just take a look at the ash. It's everywhere, and everyday affair. And there's no water to wash this away. 

This was all over the porch, plants, car ... EVERYWHERE after a severe burning, acrid smell episode.

How I miss clear skies like this......

Please pray for us. Pray for rain clouds to unleash all its fury at the dams and to wash away all this smog that is killing us slowly but surely...