Rainy Days is Here again

It started to rain yesterday. Thank God. I can't endure this very hot weather specially now that I have no airconditioner installed in my house.

I heard from the news that the rainy season will start a little earlier than it used to. I know that it is not something to be happy about because it only means one thing - floods, calamities, etc, which comes during rainy season.

This morning when I woke up, it was a change waking up in a delight of cool morning breeze. Actually. I hate rainy season when I moved here in the metro. Maybe because I know that when it rains, it floods and it just irritates me that this problem hasn't been solved after 10 years of stay here.

As a child growing up in Ilocos, I loved rainy season. It's the time to eat the dried local plum (duhat) hatched last summer season. It is the start of schooling which you may find odd when I say I love it because once again, I will be able to mingle and see my classmates and friends.

When me and my siblings were still growing up, I fondly recall us sitting together in our old sofa while singing songs. A nice feeling when your voice is echoing at night specially when there is no electricity and all you hear is the tick of the rain water while it descend to the pales because of the holes in our roof. It was funny, because I think, even though our life is that simple compared to what we have now, we were more close to each other. We were always complete - a rare oppurtunity, now that we are all grown ups.

I remember as a child, there are a lot of activities you can do in the province. You can go the mountains and hatch local delicacies.You can go to the farm and take some vegetables which only grows during rainy season. You can catch edible frogs and deeply fries it - makes it a perfect dish or catch some edible insects, cook it and serves as an additional food in the table.

When the rain stops for a while, you can go out and play in a small pool of rain water while your friends and cousins are running around like there is no tomorrow.

Once you go home, you see your parents and other elders in a group talking things and laughing to certain matters while you sit beside your mother and she wraps around her arms around you - such a nice thing to show a mother's love to her child.

Ah. I miss those days.