It's hot today. It's been hot for days now. And it's all downhill from now on -the rainy season starts officially this week and nature, as though mocking human weathermonging arrogance, has been lashing at us by sending forth hordes of humidity and stifling heat. And yet it is but a small taste of what is to come, or so it has been repeatedly advertised to me by more than one anxious-looking Nihonjin. As I write, the mighty whoosh of my newly-bought fan gales against my face at full blast. I have reason to believe that this scenario will be repeating itself pretty often.
