One good thing about Facebook: I can ask my friends all sorts of questions and they will happily answer. Here’s my query this weekend: “what do you love to do when it’s cold and raining?” (it’s not what you think
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Nina: burrowing under the covers and sleeping in. Then getting up and eating hot and very sour bowl of sinigang and tuyo
Vicky: i just love watching the raindrops fall on my porch, observing the surroundings get moist and damp and watching the water flow into the drain….
Tess: Cuddle up with someone special
Awww…but I just remembered, I’ve got no one right now
Stephanie: Sleep and/or cuddle with the kids and a good read-aloud book that has to do with water or the sea or storms — like Black Ships Before Troy.
Karla: I love to make a cup of hot chocolate (preferably the native sort) and wrap myself in a thick blanket and read a feel-good book.
Noemi: I love to wrap myself in my silk comforter and just sleep. Pitter patter of the rain is soothing to the nerves.
This has been a year when rain in the Philippines has been few and far between. Am actually missing the rain though I don’t actually miss the kind of rain (and wind!) that Milenyo brought last year which was downright scary. I do envy the answers of my friends who have the luxury of snuggling between the sheets when they feel like it. My pathetic life demands that I have to get up and work at certain hours of the day, even during holidays. But I do share in Karla’s answer that a warm cup of hot chocolate is enough to chase the blues away, since some people actually feel depressed when it rains.
It was actually a joy discovering this local chain of coffeeshops recently which specializes in preparing hot chocolate the old-fashioned way. The name is Tsoko.Nut Batirol and “batirol” as you know is the native wooden stirrer our old folks used in whipping up the drink. It brings back childhood memories and bygone days when everything was prepared from scratch. These days, kids like mine just have to reach the cupboard for instant hot drinks like Milo, Swiss Miss and Cadbury’s Choco.










