Chipmunks

Just another random saturday afternoon in disney world walking through malls shopping for a friend's birthday present.

It's quite funny how the shops display autumn/ winter collections; winter coats, scarves, boots and all. During winter, the temperature tends to hover around the mid 20's, so hardly the weather to wear winter woolies. I know, stop complaining i hear you say! The sun shines 360 days of the year and the weather is t-shirt weather most of the year with no more than 7 days of rain throughout the year.

However, I think this is the reason why time absolutely flies when you live here. 6 months here feels the equivalent to 1 month in the normal world. There are no seasons to puncuate the year. The year passes by like one constant hum of tireless uneventful nothingness. The years are marked by New Year - for obvious reasons. Then, July and August are particularly noticeable as the weather is f*ckin hot where the mercury seeps over 50c. Followed by Ramadaan, the city slows down a little here, then before you know it, you're panicking about New Year.

Back to shopping malls; most of the shops you venture into tend to have instrumental soundtracks, 80's or tracks covered by a Philipino bands - this is probably because the retail outlets are too tight to pay for the license of new original music. Philipino's are gifted with beautiful voices which is why you'll tend to see them as the live entertainment in some hotels. BUT please, please don't sing cover's of Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" or any Whitney or Mariah songs. It's just WRONG! So do be prepared to shop whilst listening to greatest kareoke moments by the Chipmunk Allstars!