It’s humid. It’s humid. It’s really humid. It’s humid all year round. Your hair is forever frizzy.

I’ve lived in Singapore all my life. I’m not really well travelled unfortunately so far, only been to nearby Asian countries. But I must say, Singapore is the humid-est of all!

It means that the moment you step out of the house, you perspire. It means perspiration creeps out of my pores when taking the lift down from the apartment and walking a 50 metre distance to the train station. The lowest temperature I ever truly felt was 22 degrees, and that was considered a freak temperature by our standards. It felt really cooling. It was still humid by the way.

On a normal day, the weather app tells you it feels like 36 degrees celsius out there when it is 29 degrees.

I’m an OL, so it means that I step out from the aircon room in my house, into the heat, onto the train with air-conditioning and then into the heat, and then into the office. In the office, since the air-con is on, the air is pretty drying. The air-conditioning is centralized, so you have no control over the temperature. Depending on where you sit, it could be really cold, or normal. It’s the worst when you get blasts of cold air on you and it cause you to fall sick easily. I know of people who wore winter jackets and have blankets in office.

Once I reach home, I turn on the air-con, cos it’s really too hot in ‘ere.  The building traps the heat of the day time and the room just feels really hot and stuffy. I sleep in air-con all the time cos I don’t like to wake up being drenched in sweat. Maybe “drenched” is being too exaggerated, but surely my back will be wet, because I have to sleep with a blanket. And it’s really too hot to sleep without the air-con.

I guess you can say that my skin goes through some changes in temperature every day even though we don’t have the 4 seasons. It’s perpetually summer all year round! I do understand why my skin could be dehydrated though, since I’m in air-conditioning all day long.

My scalp will feel itchy if I don’t wash it everyday. This is another aspect of skincare I will have to take care of.