Shock And Aww
Singapore’s extreme humidity is generally a bad thing for me.
The eczema I’d had my entire life here disappeared completely for the 4 years I was in England, only to return with a vengeance almost as soon as I returned.
I trekked happily through Turkish desert heat with no problems, but every time I perspire here I break out in heat rash.
In England my hair is capable of being fairly attractive. In Singapore it is an unmanageable mess of frizzy curls unless regularly and expensively fried to within an inch of its life.
When I was giving my flat in London the final massive clean before moving out, I spent days surrounded by dust-thick air with not a single adverse reaction. In Singapore the mere act of sweeping or vacuuming renders me snot-nosed (or more accurately, sdot-dosed) for the next hour.
By now I bet you think this is another of my pointless I-hate-Singapore rants and are beginning to think that this blog has seriously jumped the shark.
HOWEVER!
None of the above is the point of this post at all. It is all merely prelude to my referring you to this discussion on static electricity and the stroking of cats, which has given me the first reason ever to be grateful for humidity.
Yay humidity. Yay fingers and faces buried in warm fur, yay little damp noses on smile-plumped cheeks, yay purring shock-free footrests. Sparks fly daily between my family and this beauty, but they’re all metaphorical.
How adorable… our cat appears to pine after electricity, though. She sleeps on the CPU and gets ghastly bald patches thereafter.
he looks like an exotic striped fish! which is ironic of course, heh.
i get static electricity shocks all the time here in new york, bah. especially during the cold winter when i have to wear a synthetic puffy coat – every time i put it on or take it off i get shocks when i touch a metallic thing afterwards.
meanwhile my friend’s american domestic shorthair gets static shocks when he runs around the room and jumps on/brushes past something metallic. poor feller! can u imagine going through life like that, where 4 months of the year you have to endure getting little an electrical frisson every half hour or so??
sorry, last bit should read ‘a little electrical frisson’. i really should preview my comments before i post them!
Awwww….your cat is stunning! Wow! Now that I am a Pet Owner too, awww…!!
“When I was giving my flat in London the final massive clean before moving out, I spent days surrounded by dust-thick air with not a single adverse reaction. In Singapore the mere act of sweeping or vacuuming renders me snot-nosed (or more accurately, sdot-dosed) for the next hour.”
Yeah! What’s up with Singapore’s dust??!! I lived with 2 cats for 1.5 yrs in SF and NEVER had problems with allergies. Coming back to Singapore, I’ve gotten a bad case of asthma and perpetual sinus. Why? Why? Why?
Yish: There’s a terrible joke I could say about your cat’s bald patches but you probably know what it is already so I won’t bother. Poor kitty though. :(
notchy: I didn’t suffer too badly from static in England, it was mostly more comic relief than anything uncomfortable. You mean you get it worse in NY? I’d say poor kitty too about your friend’s cat except that it sounds kinda funny.
Kelly: Aw, you’re too kind. I’d pass on your compliment to Casey except that she’s pooing at the moment. Maybe later.