The Heat Is On!

We have had record heat for the past three days here in Olongapo City, Philippines. I don't even need to consult any weather statistics to know it. All I have to do is listen to the Filipinos in my neighborhood. If they're suffering, how much more do you think I'm suffering? I'm a white guy from the US who spent the last umpteen years living with air conditioning, at home and at work. I've been doing without air conditioning for many months now but this is the worst it has been. I feel like I'm stuck in a sauna without an off switch, even at night.

All this heat makes me envy the females who can get away with wearing thong bikinis (also commonly referred to as "butt floss"). Take a look:

And it's just going to get hotter! I just pulled this up. It's the forecast for this area, starting today:

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jillian on 2007-04-18 at 5:44 am (Reply)

… I just don't know if I could survive without AC. I hate being hot, I mean I absolutely can't stand it, it makes my blood pressure rise and my asthma increase and I am just miserable when I am hot.

It gets to 110 ° F in my state in the summer… that's what… *thinks really hard* like 44 ° Celsius, right?
Nathan Drach on 2007-04-18 at 5:45 am (Reply)

A humid heat is the worst!
jillian on 2007-04-18 at 5:46 am (Reply)

Didn't get to finish that comment, I was interrupted by a coworker — I was going to say, I bet it probably gets warmer than that eventually over there, doesn't it?

And as a side note, a courier coming through the office looked over my shoulder at my monitor at just the right moment and saw the images you posted with this entry, and boy-oh-boy, did that grab his attention! LMAO!
Comedy Plus on 2007-04-18 at 6:18 am (Reply)

RT - With eye candy like that what have you got to bitch about? There isn't one red-blooded guy around that will show you any sympathy
goldcoaster on 2007-04-18 at 7:21 am (Reply)

Some bikini pics to boost the clicks

I notice your top post about downloading isn't on the top100 list??

http://goldcoaster.wordpress.com
Peter on 2007-04-18 at 10:00 am (Reply)

we are sitting a high of 4C but I like your pictures better
RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2007-04-18 at 12:35 pm (Reply)

36 C/97 F is about a hot as it gets here, but it isn't the heat that gets me because I used to live in Phoenix. It's the humidity. Way too high.

Jillian, your courier sounds like 100% pure hetero.
RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2007-04-18 at 1:34 pm (Reply)

Goldcoaster, that post isn't there because I reduced it's page views to 10 (but I don't know what it is right now). The numbers were way too high — it would be there forever.
James on 2007-04-18 at 4:20 pm (Reply)

Weather in Hawaii is pretty similar, although it usually doesn't go any higher than 90F during the summer. It's the humidity that makes it unbearable.
RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2007-04-18 at 4:24 pm (Reply)

It took me a year to get used to the Hawaii weather when I was a teen. I'm in my 40s now and getting used to the humidity is going to take much, much longer.
coach on 2007-04-18 at 5:28 pm (Reply)

Holy snapping butt cheeks batman! This post is the kindest on the optic nerve that I have read here RT.

I commiserate on the weather - we had a summer very similar but I wish we had the rain to go with it. If we have another summer without rain we will run out of drinking water. Not something I would have thought possible a few years ago in an Australian city with 1.5 million people.

I'll pray to the god of weather (we call him huey here for some reason)for a cool change for you.
Edward Wolf on 2007-04-18 at 11:08 pm (Reply)

Maybe it's not the temperature that's making you hot. Maybe it's just staring at the butt cheeks.

So why don't you have air conditioning? Isn't AC common in the PI? It was common in Thailand thirty years ago.
RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2007-04-18 at 11:17 pm (Reply)

#1, I don't have any AC units and don't have the cash to buy any.

#2, I have other priorities right now on my fixed income.
Justin on 2007-04-23 at 1:27 pm (Reply)

RT I think I need to be where you are at buddy!!