The Day Hair Freezes Over
it's getting so cold here, it gets hard waking up in the mornings. Leaving behind the warmth of the blanket must be the most wretched part of the day.
anyway, yesterday my radio alarm blasted and woke me up with the weather forecast and they said it was 5 celsius out there. 5 celsius is good news by the way, relative to the bitterly cold below 0 celsius mornings we've been getting.
so i ran out my apartment in my usual morning dash and i saw my car covered in ice, much to my dismay.
i don't know whether i prefer driving in summer or winter. In summer it gets so hot the car is like an oven. which really isn't so bad cos i can wind down my windows. but the steering wheel absolutely burns up and driving using two fingers isn't much fun. Usually i'll have pieces of tissue paper everywhere to use as gloves. In winter, the cold isn't the problem. the ice is. especially in mornings when i simply do not have time to wait for the stupid ice to melt.
so this was another morning when my car was covered in ice. *groan*. no biggie, just have to do what i usually do and scrape the ice off. i unlocked the car door and yanked the handle. it didn't budge.
shit, of all days my lock fails me now. so i yanked and yanked and it still wouldn't budge. i went to the passenger side and that wouldn't budge too.
i sort of figured the ice had something to do with it but i'm not sure which part froze up, was it the lock or the door or what. and if i poured water would i just create more ice. or maybe my lock jammed on me and i have to call the mechanic. damn.
the best solution was, to wait till the ice melted and then try again. which meant i go to work after lunch. :)
that didn't happen.
I ran into the house because my hands were freezing up and it damn sure wasn't 5 celsius. i checked the weather channel and it was -2.5 celsius. 5 celsius was the high for the day!
after 15 min i went out to yank at my doors again and a lady nearby told me she had the same problem. Just get some hot water and pour it along the door cracks and it'll pop right open.
so i got to work 45 min late but at least not after lunch.
my colleagues were flabbergasted.
"you were planning to come AFTER LUNCH because your car doors froze? Just get some hot water!"
"i didn't know that's the solution! i come from a country where it's summer all year! we don't get problems like frozen cars! well it's a good thing i didn't call the boss and said i'm coming after lunch cos my car doors froze. it sounds very lame."
even though i came here during winter last year, i didn't have a car then so this winter is the first time i'm driving in winter and getting all these funky car problems. i've just learnt how to defrost my windscreen properly.
for the record, the hot water i poured on my car door froze up while it was flowing down the window. that's how cold it was. and for another record, i was stupid enough to use the windscreen liquid and flip my wipers to try and clear up the windscreen. the liquid froze up creating more frost than there originally was.
if i had taken a morning shower, i bet my hair would have frozen up too.
so that was the day, that hair could have frozen over.
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MJ and i decided to find a juggling nick for ourselves, after MJ said he knows a breakdancer called Physics.
"Physics? he's called Physics? got surname or not. like Physics Tan?"
"don't know. i only know Physics."
"i'll call myself Spelling! exclaimation mark included. 'Hi, I'm Spelling!'"
"what about Compre...."
"haha....Compre & Compo. that sounds pretty snazzy too"
"Chendol sounds guyish...and Malay..."
"Chng Tng?"
"Chng Tng too cheena! but it does sound girly!"
"Attap Chee...Kampung...."
"they all sound quite cool actually....but cai dao kuei is a bit pushing it...."
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it's time to update the Festival of Dreams !
(to MJ)
"the question is: do you want to take the normal path, which might not be bad at all, or do you want to veer away from it, and possibly have the time of your life, but also possibly end up with nothing at all?"
(from Cher)
"Find out what you most want to do, and then do it."
it's getting so cold here, it gets hard waking up in the mornings. Leaving behind the warmth of the blanket must be the most wretched part of the day.
anyway, yesterday my radio alarm blasted and woke me up with the weather forecast and they said it was 5 celsius out there. 5 celsius is good news by the way, relative to the bitterly cold below 0 celsius mornings we've been getting.
so i ran out my apartment in my usual morning dash and i saw my car covered in ice, much to my dismay.
i don't know whether i prefer driving in summer or winter. In summer it gets so hot the car is like an oven. which really isn't so bad cos i can wind down my windows. but the steering wheel absolutely burns up and driving using two fingers isn't much fun. Usually i'll have pieces of tissue paper everywhere to use as gloves. In winter, the cold isn't the problem. the ice is. especially in mornings when i simply do not have time to wait for the stupid ice to melt.
so this was another morning when my car was covered in ice. *groan*. no biggie, just have to do what i usually do and scrape the ice off. i unlocked the car door and yanked the handle. it didn't budge.
shit, of all days my lock fails me now. so i yanked and yanked and it still wouldn't budge. i went to the passenger side and that wouldn't budge too.
i sort of figured the ice had something to do with it but i'm not sure which part froze up, was it the lock or the door or what. and if i poured water would i just create more ice. or maybe my lock jammed on me and i have to call the mechanic. damn.
the best solution was, to wait till the ice melted and then try again. which meant i go to work after lunch. :)
that didn't happen.
I ran into the house because my hands were freezing up and it damn sure wasn't 5 celsius. i checked the weather channel and it was -2.5 celsius. 5 celsius was the high for the day!
after 15 min i went out to yank at my doors again and a lady nearby told me she had the same problem. Just get some hot water and pour it along the door cracks and it'll pop right open.
so i got to work 45 min late but at least not after lunch.
my colleagues were flabbergasted.
"you were planning to come AFTER LUNCH because your car doors froze? Just get some hot water!"
"i didn't know that's the solution! i come from a country where it's summer all year! we don't get problems like frozen cars! well it's a good thing i didn't call the boss and said i'm coming after lunch cos my car doors froze. it sounds very lame."
even though i came here during winter last year, i didn't have a car then so this winter is the first time i'm driving in winter and getting all these funky car problems. i've just learnt how to defrost my windscreen properly.
for the record, the hot water i poured on my car door froze up while it was flowing down the window. that's how cold it was. and for another record, i was stupid enough to use the windscreen liquid and flip my wipers to try and clear up the windscreen. the liquid froze up creating more frost than there originally was.
if i had taken a morning shower, i bet my hair would have frozen up too.
so that was the day, that hair could have frozen over.
---------------------------------------------------------------
MJ and i decided to find a juggling nick for ourselves, after MJ said he knows a breakdancer called Physics.
"Physics? he's called Physics? got surname or not. like Physics Tan?"
"don't know. i only know Physics."
"i'll call myself Spelling! exclaimation mark included. 'Hi, I'm Spelling!'"
"what about Compre...."
"haha....Compre & Compo. that sounds pretty snazzy too"
"Chendol sounds guyish...and Malay..."
"Chng Tng?"
"Chng Tng too cheena! but it does sound girly!"
"Attap Chee...Kampung...."
"they all sound quite cool actually....but cai dao kuei is a bit pushing it...."
---------------------------------------
it's time to update the Festival of Dreams !
(to MJ)
"the question is: do you want to take the normal path, which might not be bad at all, or do you want to veer away from it, and possibly have the time of your life, but also possibly end up with nothing at all?"
(from Cher)
"Find out what you most want to do, and then do it."
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