Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Even though it’s September here in the Philippines…the start of the “ber” months…which is also the start of the Christmas season…it’s still raining cats and dogs. Hey, American comedian Richard Lewis didn’t call the Philippines “Typhoon Country” for nothing.
In my dream this morning, it was raining cats and dogs as well. In fact it was raining so hard, we went to a hotel to stay the night (presumably because the roof is leaking at home as it is in real life). The hotel that we stayed in looked like a dump. You’d think the roof would leak there as well. But when we arrived, it wasn’t raining yet. As we waited for the rain to come, I’d look out the window where we’d see dark clouds in the horizon. But they weren’t any ordinary dark clouds. These clouds would take on some really, dare I say, “artsy” appearance.
At one point, the clouds look like a tornado. But this tornado looked like some sort of curio painting...the wind looked like blue brushstrokes dancing in the distance. Later, the cloud would look menacingly black…but in such a way that looked like someone poured dark chocolate into a glass filled with water.
Eventually, the rain came and yep, the roof leaked like crazy. In fact, it leaked worse than it did at home in real life. Thankfully, there were three buckets at the ready. But it didn’t matter because it was raining so hard the buckets would fill up quickly and I had to dump all the rainwater in the bathroom. The floor was almost flodded.
And as the rain poured down, I looked out the window and saw a group of twentysomethings on the roof of a nearby hotel. They were drenched and at one point, they stripped down to their bathing suits and acted as if they were in that movie “Beach Blanket Bingo”.
In my dream this morning, it was raining cats and dogs as well. In fact it was raining so hard, we went to a hotel to stay the night (presumably because the roof is leaking at home as it is in real life). The hotel that we stayed in looked like a dump. You’d think the roof would leak there as well. But when we arrived, it wasn’t raining yet. As we waited for the rain to come, I’d look out the window where we’d see dark clouds in the horizon. But they weren’t any ordinary dark clouds. These clouds would take on some really, dare I say, “artsy” appearance.
At one point, the clouds look like a tornado. But this tornado looked like some sort of curio painting...the wind looked like blue brushstrokes dancing in the distance. Later, the cloud would look menacingly black…but in such a way that looked like someone poured dark chocolate into a glass filled with water.
Eventually, the rain came and yep, the roof leaked like crazy. In fact, it leaked worse than it did at home in real life. Thankfully, there were three buckets at the ready. But it didn’t matter because it was raining so hard the buckets would fill up quickly and I had to dump all the rainwater in the bathroom. The floor was almost flodded.
And as the rain poured down, I looked out the window and saw a group of twentysomethings on the roof of a nearby hotel. They were drenched and at one point, they stripped down to their bathing suits and acted as if they were in that movie “Beach Blanket Bingo”.
