A lovely day, isn’t it?

We were often greeted, “Hello, a lovely day today, isn’t it? Or today is a beautiful day. Or we should be in the office instead wasting a beautiful day”, when we first came and settled in this country. Whenever we get a call from an Aussie friend, he or she will be sure to ask “How is the weather over there, mate?

Often at dinner time, we cannot but help discussed about the Aussies’ fascination over the weather and laughed over it. But after a while we quickly catch on, on why this obsession over the weather. The unpredictable Melbourne is the cause of this obsession.

Every evening, we never fail to catch weather report on the news and before we leave for work every morning, we will catch the latest weather report again. The weather report will determine what we will wear for the day but we never leave home without a jumper or a coat. Melbourne weather can be so unpredictable; it can have 4 seasons in a day. The unpredictable weather also make Melbourne so interesting.

Now if you ever catch me in KL and me greeting you, “Hello, what a lovely sunny day today”, please do not look at me as though I am mad. It will out of habit like you would be greeting me, “Lei Hoe, Sek Paw Mei? Or Apa Khabar, sudah makan,lah?

So how is the weather over your side of the world, mate?

Note:

Today, tomorrow, and the day after, the temperature will hover at 36ºC before dropping down to cooler or cold days after a wintry Thursday and Friday last week.