So how's the weirder today?

Today is March 25.  In olden times, this date would mean summer is already ablaze.

But when I woke up this morning, the smell of still damp earth, from a night and a day of rainfall, is melted by the warm rays of the sun peering from the still greyish clouds.  It felt like it was already late May, with summer already on the wane.  This following a week of cold weather usually reserved for December and January.

Welcome to the start of weirder, I mean weird weather.

And it's not only me that is confused.  Even nature itself is bewildered.

My bees are showing signs of swarming, a phenomenon that happens from November to January.  Which means half of a colony will leave its home to start a new one.  Which in this stage of the year is bad because I should already be harvesting honey, not starting new hives.

Years ago, once the perennial (plants that flower only once a year) Sanggumay orchid bloomed it was a sure sign that it was already May. It has been that way for as long as I can remember.  But no longer so in the last couple of years.

Today, some of our Sanggumay's flowers are already close to falling off, its fragrance almost gone, merging with the smell of summer and rainy days that have been carried away by the wind to cling to some distant memory.

Some however are not fooled by the changing times, sprouting pods of flowers just now and right in time for its once regular May pageantry.

I need summer now.

I setup a zipline in El Grande here in Lipa City, atop its wave pool and crossing over to another pool with octopus tentacle slides.  It should be exciting.  But not if it rains frequently, as is happening now. Or God forbid, December weather envelopes Lipa in summer.

Who would think about going to resorts for a refreshing splash.  Or come to think of it, who would care for a halo-halo?  Or an out-of-town trip with the family?

I hope that this climate change thing does not alter the Filipino way of life totally and drastically.  Can you imagine telling your kids, "You know what, when we were young, we used to go to the beach during summer?"  And your young one responds, "What's summer?"

Times really are a-changing.

Last night I caught a glimpse of scantily clad, buxomy girls playing billiards.  And this is an actual competition, a made for TV special with pool legends Efren Reyes and Ronnie Alcano playing hands on coach for each opposing side.

Years ago, these things -- sexy girls playing billiards with their butt (only covered by a bikini) protruding, and oversized mammary glands (barely cupped by beach bras) jingling and jangling here and there -- happen only in the imagination of DOMs and hormonally charged teenagers, or just about any true-blooded male who happens to see a shapely woman playing billiards.  But even then, girls had decent clothes on them.

Everything is now possible.

Have San Miguel as your sponsor, get jingly-jangly girls willing to whip their sticks before an ogling crowd, shove cameras down their asses, and you have a made-for-TV spectacular.

Times are indeed a-changing.

So how's your weirder today?


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