Another year has passed and alas! A treasure trove of things have we all learned, some welcome, some not, some invited, some forced upon us (think Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall). I must say I've quite a few discoveries myself, for example:
1. It was early Autumn when the temperature had only just started to dive that I found myself nursing a growing headache early in the morning as I was tripping along hopping and humming on my merry way to the VHS and as such found myself automatically trying to characterize the maturing cephalalgia when to my surprise I realized that the pain was radiating from the fleshy lateral extensions attached to my head. My EARS were FROZEN. You see the thing is, I had never had my ears frozen before. How was I supposed to know that sort of thing gives you a headache?
2. Never fall on the snooo on your face--accidentally or otherwise (say for example you were curious etc)--take note ice is a different thing, in which case it would be like ramming your face against concrete below freezing point. It hurts like crazy, snooo, similar to being punched in the face by a really huge fist the size of your head. Don't ask me how I know. Let me just say I'm not curious anymore.
3. When it's really cold, your face will lose most if not all of its tactile senses therefore making it possible for snot to do what snot usually does that is escape the confines of your nose and enjoy the fresh air without you knowing it.
4. Walking in snow is no joke. It's like ploughing through thick layers of snow. Right. It's bit difficult trying to explain this. Imagine it like this, before when I saw scenes in movies set somewhere snowy (like Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring) and I saw people walking in say ankle deep snow, nothing really much registers but the fact that snow is white, powdery, and cold--the cold part more imagined than actual. It's cold. I put my hand in the frige, that's cold. But that's just it, I take my hand away, of course, do you think I'm crazy to stick my hand in there for longer than a second? Anyway, that's as far as my experience of cold went, but now... I know cold. I look at the snowy scene and I shudder.
5. Now it gets funny. I've seen wintry settings so often I can honestly say I do not find its strange--but I have never FELT how it felt to be somewhere cold--now that is new. The tactile part are all so peculiar, unfelt before, strange... like cold feet. The secret to keeping warm, I am told, is all in the feet. I was wrapped up like lumpia once and I was still shaking to my bones. I was barefoot. What? I thought it was all about the important organs, brain, heart, liver, kidneys... you know, the fleshy ones that always play key roles in drama being shot, stabbed, eaten, squished and squashed...
6. The Sun. It does not go up to the zenith--seriously, this is creepy. I was taking a walk once thinking it was 4 pm and wondering what the hell I had doing all morning because obviously it was already half of the day and I had not only wasted half the day, I had no memory about how I wasted it at all--but alas! It was 10 in the morning. Tricky tricky. I've a feeling a sun dial might be a little difficult to make here.
7. Going out with wet hair. I've never done this--some pretty good advice from my sister.
...and the list goes on... I just mentioned the more important ones. Life lessons like how to detect a toddler fleeing the scene of a crime can be left unmentioned.
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