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They say it takes more muscle to frown than to smile .. so it’s better to smile (my parents said so too). Besides, a genuine smile will make other people happy too .. somewhat. I know everytime I see my 2-years-old Goddaughter’s smile, all my problems seem to go away immediately .. she has such an innocent smile, pure and genuine .. no pretending, she just smiles.

And from time to time, I’d say it’s even better to turn a smile into a good laugh, because according to this article:

What may surprise you even more is the fact that researchers estimate that laughing 100 times is equal to 10 minutes on the rowing machine or 15 minutes on an exercise bike. Laughing can be a total body workout! Blood pressure is lowered, and there is an increase in vascular blood flow and in oxygenation of the blood, which further assists healing. Laughter also gives your diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg and back muscles a workout. That’s why you often feel exhausted after a long bout of laughter — you’ve just had an aerobic workout!

A workout! From laughing … that’s just neat.

So maybe we should smile and laugh more. Heh .. even this barbary ape knows it (LOL):

We’ve been having a heat wave here in Toronto. At some point this week, I saw on my Weather Eye thingy that it felt like 41C. In the evening news, they said that it was still hot at 28C at 11pm. Now, coming from a country with only two seasons: rainy (a.k.a. hot) and dry (a.k.a. hotter), I thought to myself “What do you mean hot? 28C is just nice!”. LOL! Yeeesss, it’s all relative.

But during the day, the temperature could get HOTTER than the hotter season in my country. And sometimes the TTC subway trains don’t have a good air circulation, so it’s stuffy and bleah in there. But that’s another story.

These barbary apes have a great idea to help themselves to stay cool: stay out of the sun. They walk in the sun for a bit (afterall, the sun has vitamin D which is good for us! ), and walk back into the shades. And stay very still (although one of them looks sleepy. Hehe). Another one (not in picture) plays with water, we could do that too (I mean in a swimming pool — some are open very late, I heard … please don’t jump into the apes’ area and play with their water, they might kick your butt out).

But if you really want to play in the sun, don’t forget that hat (and sun screen). My mom always told me to wear my hat outside when I was little (“biar nggak pusing” — “so you don’t get headache” she said) .. I could even hear her now asking where my hat is when I’m outside without any hat .. hehe.
Besides, you don’t want to get sunburn on your head … it might hurt.

And that’s my weather post for now …