06
Oct
Asthmatics look out!
Time for you to break into those long-unused particulate face masks! The smoke from the Indonesian fires are making their way again, this time engulfing the entire Singapore in its smokey embrace.
After I posted the last entry, I took out my running shoes, and ran for the first time in 2 weeks. Whether my inactivity had anything to do with the wheezing was immaterial because I could see the translucent fog diluting the colours of the surroundings. I didn’t want to imagine the smoke making its way into my lungs.
The haze covered practically everything, including all my usual target markers on my run. Which made it hard to concentrate. The lesson on the need to have a clear goal struck me, and I nearly scored an internal injury as I tried to stop laughing while wheezing in a particulate covered environment.
Mother was worried when I returned from the run.
“Why are you running in such a hazy weather?”
“Does it matter? I am not asthmatic, and it is not so bad that I’ll kiss a lampost along the way.”
“Now’s not the time. If you want to (lose weight), eat less for dinner.”
Now, mum is not known to spew forth unsound advice, so it got me wondering if the haze conks up the brain. Perhaps it has to do with all the fart that we are receiving from Indonesia? Talk about eating their dust!
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