Its Summer!!

Summer in China is just like any other day in Malaysia, well, with the different only in humidity. It is not that humid here in China. Yes, it is dry and hot. One can compare steam bath to sauna with Malaysia to China. But one fact remain the same, you still get sweat all over.

It has been very warm here, since summer started. Once, it reaches 38 degrees C. This is way hotter than in Malaysia. And there has been some prediction that the mercury will soar up to 40 degrees C this year. All because we had the biggest snow fall back in Jan 208, mother nature needs to bring up a few degrees C to balance back the climate. Well, I don't know if this is true, but I do hope that it is not. The weather is increasingly becoming unbearable warm, even to a Malaysian.

But the warm weather has awaken the others. It has awaken those that has sleep through the winter and the spring, and it is now time to reactivated and reproduce. Yes, unfortunately, summer is the time where insects, bugs, those small little critters comes to roam the earth. Just like the movie, "The day of the living dead" but it is the "day of the critters" instead.

A lot of movies, and MTVs that depict summer will have the familiar sound made by the cicada. And I have always thought that it was purposely amplified to portray the hot summer. Until recently, I finally heard the sound, the loud sound made by the cicada. Back in Malaysia, you do not hear such sound in the city or at home. You only hear this kind of sound in a park or jungle. But here, it is so difference, I am in a industrial park, and I am still hearing this, and amazingly very very very loud.

The cicada

This remind me of my last trip to the States, I was also in some sort of industrial area, and there were rabbits or hare in the field. Simply amazed me. But thats that, not related to today's story. :P

Little research from the Internet, can yield lots of information about a cicada. Most, actually all of the cicada species needs to spend year after year underground sipping nutrient from root of a tree to mature. A species of cicada from the states needs to go through 17 years of maturity underground, before it can become a cicada. And with all that years spend, they will only live for a week; reproduce and die. Maybe that is why they sing so loud, singing the best part of their life with their sweetest sound for that short period of time, and then died without regret.

I guess, living in a 4 seasons, living things value life much more. Maybe they know that warm weather is short, so they really grap those short time to do what ever they need. Looking back at human being, human being are famous of wasting their time and their life. And only to regrets when all is too late.

Maybe sometimes, we should learn from this insect instead, the purpose of life.

I did my best, and I have no regrets
--William Hung, American Idols