My space.

I dont know exactly how to define the seasons in Malaysia. Do they fall into the same categories of Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall, Autumn (not in that order) ? for now I guess i'll just call the present season midsummer.

But to be sure, since coming here 8 months ago, the difference in seasons have been few, if any.All around it maintains that stifling hot and humid temperature and if there weren't those few little changes, I think it would be fair to say that the seasons in Malaysia never change.

I think, to people living here, it would be easier to define the Malaysian seasons as :

Fruit Season

Rainy Season

Hot Season

Because that is all that it seems there is.

Presently it is the fruit season. Trees all around are laden with fruit, and the markets overflow with all types of fruits at ridiculously cheap prices.

As I sit here, I listen to the chirp of birds up in the rambutan tree, and the crowing of a rooster announcing to the world that he has attained yet another wife (did anyone know that in the Arab world a rooster is most known for his mating abilities? I found out in Yemen,how tasteless), and the chattering of squirrels who insist on arguing over that particular fruit, even though the trees are laden with them. Something like quarrelsome siblings I suppose, they just love to fight for no apparent reason but for the fun of it.

From time to time I hear the goats from next door make conversation, it makes my skin crawl at times to hear them cry out in almost humanlike voices. A few years ago the lowing of cows would have been included in all this background noise, but ever since the new road down the hill was built and the padi fields destroyed to make way for it, the cows pass thru here no more.

And as the sun rises higher, along comes with it the heat. Oh, the heat.

It has come to the point that I can no longer rest comfortable if I have less than 3 baths a day. And with cold water, no more of those water heaters for me! but I guess it's all good anyway, since bathing regularly in cold water is supposed to keep you looking younger (?) anyway.

But overall it is good, no use complaining is there? Allah made it this way, and anyway, humans just love to complain about everything, just to hear the bleat of their voices.

But before the fruit season is over; Rambutan anyone?