alright. so, it's been awhile. as mentioned by caroline, i am no longer a new yorker. i am now a... jakarta-ER? well, you get the picture. in case you've never been to jakarta. it's HOT. like HOT hot. well, maybe not sahara desert hot. but pretty hot. at 12 to 4 pm, the heat crawls under your skin and creeps into your brain, then slowly shuts it down completely. that's why on holidays like this (yesyes, i have a 2-week holiday now) i prefer staying home, shut my curtains, turn on the A/C on full-power mode, and watch some asian stuff or read manga until my eyes are blinded by the light waves from my laptop screen. i like to exaggerate, have you noticed?
anywho, i'd just like to list some odd stuff 'cause i'm not too sure what to talk about.
1. Anywho is not a word. um yeah, i just noticed that like 60 seconds ago. well, it's only an assumption because when i wrote "anywho" on the beginning of this paragraph, it has the red underline which indicates that the word is misspelled, or if the word, well, doesn't exists. i'm too lazy to google it up. you google it.
2. Did you know, that in 2005 the temperature in Lut Desert, Iran reached 70.7 degrees Celsius? For those living in places that use Fahrenheit (a.k.a. the US), it's 159.26 degrees F. OMG. in new york, i'll be screaming my lungs out when it gets high 90s/low 100s. add another 50 degrees, ill probably be chugging kilos of ice cubes.
Have you ever wondered why the US uses Fahrenheit? well, they're different alright.
okay. i just re-googled that highest temperature fact: total bullshit. According to http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalextremes.html the highest temperature ever recorded is 57.8 degrees Celsius (136 degrees F) on September 13th, 1922 (!) in Libya.
as for the lowest temperature, don't be surprised: is -89.2 degrees Celsius (-128.6 degrees F) in Antarctica. oh my. my last winter in new york was already hell-like.
Antarctica is said to have only about 6 months of sunlight. and the rest there is none. during the summer, there could even be a 24-hour sunlight for several months. have you ever wished that the day would never be over? well, you found just the right place. or maybe that the night would never end? well, there you go again. during the winter, there would be no sunlight at all for several months. welcome to the dark side.
that's hard to imagine. there would probably be no use in having a watch. 12 am is the same as 12 pm. 5 am is the same as 5 pm. imagine going to school in the winter, you'd be going to school in the dark (yes, this is only an imagination. i dont think anyone can live with the weather down there).
i remember watching... BALTO (i had amnesia for a second). a (true) story about a sled dog who helped transport medicines for a disease break-out in a small city in Alaska. in the animation movie, they had scenes portraying auroras. and i've wished to see one since, well preferably before i die.
a snippet about aurora:
Auroras, sometimes called the northern and southern (polar) lights or aurorae (singular: aurora), are natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the polar regions. They typically occur in the ionosphere. They are also referred to as polar auroras. In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas by Pierre Gassendi in 1621.[1] The aurora borealis is also called the northern polar lights, as it is only visible in the sky from the Northern Hemisphere, the chance of visibility increasing with proximity to the North Magnetic Pole, which is currently in the arctic islands of northern Canada. Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from further away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis most often occurs near the equinoxes; from September to October and from March to April.
just to increase our knowledge on auroras:
The phenomenon of aurora is an interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and solar wind
(info taken from wikipedia.com)
pretty, eh?
beauty of nature.
love,
n
p.s. for caroline: let's revive this blog.
