Wednesday Walk Under The Blazing Sun

According to @justineparke, the admin of @asean.hive community is expecting my thought about Beating the Heat and here is my story.

I came here since April 1998 so I know well the climate and environment. And not only the environment but also the culture and traditions. What I never know before about the religion Islam with two different sects, The Sunni and the Shia.

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How To Beat The Heat?

In my own theory and understanding, the wearing of satin black long sleeve dress as we called it Abaya is the old and new fashion of beating the heat. It popped up in my mind that it is not only to cover their body languages to avoid attraction by male intruders when they are outside. It is also a way to protect us from the direct heat of the sun rays to our skin. Would you believe that covering my whole body including my face made me comfortable and easy to walk compared in walking without abaya in public? Sometimes, when the day is too hot, I preferred wearing abaya in my garden. The cloth being used in making abaya are mostly made up of like the umbrella or satin for the daily used going out to a public place. It protecs me from heat and rain during rainy days. The rain water will not absorb easily inside, just like the hot sun rays could not penetrate into my skin. Abaya is one way of beating the direct heat of the sun.

My Version of Beating the Heat

Everytime, I walked for my remittances, I kept my umbrella as my companion to protect me. It was a funny moment for the Arabian people when they saw me using umbrella for the first time walking g along the busy street. I was gracefully walking like a model along the road side but they bashed and shouted at me laughing and said, "Hey, you look so funny using umbrella without rain."

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Instead of getting mad, I answered them that , in my country, umbrella is a multipurpose protection both from rain and sunny days. From now on, no one laughed at me. But still, I am the only person using umbrella while walking during sunny days iny workplace.Until now,no one dare to walk with umbrella in this city and even Filipinos are not using it. There's no one except me beating the heat of the sun by using umbrella. Maybe, even the Filipinos feel ashamed and shy doing it but me, it's my choice. It protects me while walking and I love to feel that I became the center of attraction on the busy street going to the bank.

Serious way to beat the heat

We need to have more water to drinks, eat juice fruits and of course,people here cannot live without aircon. Every room has an aircon and eventhe kitchen or stock room. The big sala has a centralized air- conditioning too.

For your information, I dare myself taking the screenshot about the hottest temperature record here in Saudi Arabia, and I credit it to the >Wekipedia
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That is the record according to the internet that I screenshot. And today, at 10:18 in the morning, I woke up with 35°c. I am not yet going outside and our room is cold now with the aircon opened since last night.

Special Information

During g the day of fasting, when you are not drinking liquids or water or eating foods, you are not sweating even if you are doing your job and it is proven to myself. And when a saliva in our mouth produces, spit it out and you will never get hungry or thirsty. That is just my observation to myself. This is also my one way of beating the heat. Sweating causes heat to my body though it is necessarily needed to us to remove toxin from our body but if the temperature is to hot, I do this most especially when I want to walk for one hou. When I arrived home, I drink water and start sweating a lot.

That's all for today and stay safe from the heatstroke. The temperature is vulnerable to cause this problem.

Thank you #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay, #hiveph and to @asean.hive admin and community members support.

HIVE ON!

@OLIVIA08



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one needs to be sensible inthe heat, who cares if people laugh at you using an umbrella, in my head i laugh at them for not seeign how sensible it is

Thanks for joining the Wednesday Walk :)
Have a great day :)

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Agree with you and I even laughed them back. What I knew it protect me. Thank you my friend.

!BEER

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Thanks for posting in the ASEAN Hive Community.

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Even over here, people use umbrellas from the rain. But it's your body you are protecting, who cares.

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Its true, I just ignored them. The more I swayed my umbrella when they laughed at me.

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So funny, people from other countries think that umbrellas were made only for the rain when in fact it has many uses not just for the rain and the sun, it can also be a cane, can be a defense weapon as well, you can even use it for picking fruits as the catcher.... Haha. So many uses really it's up to the imagination of the user.

Wearing Abaya's are really a perfect protection from the heat of the sun. No wonder Arab women and other muslim women have beautiful white skin because they are protected with this clothing.
No need to drink glutathione or go to a beauty clinic. Abaya lang pala!

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Hahaha, I am sleepy but its gone reading your comment🤣🤣🤣. Thank you for dropping by.

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I can imagine why the abiya is good for protecting from the sun and heat, but black would appear to be a very hot color on a sunny day. It does appear though this the most common color, I assume because of religious or cultural reasons, but I would think a yellow or any light color would be much cooler. Can you please explain why black is the most common color?

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As farvas asa I knew, it is chosen because they don't want to be attractive in public. They can wear colorful dresses when they are all female in a venue lime any party. But infront of the public and male figure, colorful attire is a big no. The female can only show colorful attire when they are in a private place like the husband and wife🤗🤗🤗. Even infront of a male siblings, they are not showing attractive dresses with colors. It must be in dark and the best is black when going outside.😊😊😊 @justinparke

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This is what I always assumed, but was never sure. Thanks for clarifying.

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Thank you for asking too to clarity about it.

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Yes, we have the same thinking Ate with the Abaya. Though, I just observe Muslim women here in our country, I can tell that one of the great purpose of wearing it is to protect from heat. Though I never touch one, it feels like it is comfortable wear. As for yhe umbrella, as long as they won't jail us by using it without rains, we can use utilize it. Maybe, that is what they should learn from us. Because umbrella for me is also one of the great things that human invented. Thanks for sharing those long experienceS at the middle east and also with the fasting.

Just today, Cebu city recorded a 40'degree . We survived the heat though our workplace doesn't have an Aircon. It is uncomfortable, yet manageable.

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On my God! Unbearable at Cebu napaka crowded na rin.. Tubig!

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