Thursday, November 22, 2007
Freezing and Boiling in A Day
As I sat in my 10-minute 100-degree sauna bath today, I realized that five years ago, I was sitting in a sauna in Manila with a sign warning me that I should: (a) Move out of the sauna after five minutes and (b) The temperature should never be above 40 degrees. According to the sign, I will die if I fail to comply. Okay, maybe they said I will have a heart failure not exactly die. However, I am still alive and last time I checked I still have a pulse. Was the sign just a hoax or are Finnish people weird or maybe Finns have superpowers? I would vote for the sign being a hoax because a nation of 5-million people which have survived the ironically comforting sauna could not be wrong.
I think what makes a Sauna good is because for those few minutes, your blood is literally at boiling point AND you know what they say about repressed anger (that it kills you at some point, haha). So sauna provides a way to release that negative emotion.
Okay, maybe my theory is off-the-mark. In any case, sauna is good especially when it is almost 0 degrees (the freezing point) outside. Imagine that, being boiled and frozen the very same day! All I can say is that this is part of the joy of being in Finland. :)
2 comments:
LOL! :)
I was laughing like nothing when I read this posting! Go girl! Sauna rules! Soon I'll be there and we'll have more than enough sauna evenings. Miss you... but most importantly: I miss sauna!
-Tomi from the less than 40 degrees Colombo (means I wouldn't necessarily have to leave and I'd still survive)
PS. For whatever the reason Azri doesn't let me blog anymore... Have you heard someone else having similar problems with myaiesec.net?
Hi Tomi!
I think you need to contact one of the Musketeers. I had a problem with the blog last year and they helped me. But you know that aiesec.net is getting an overhaul so it might be that as well...
Miss you too!
Cheers,
Erica
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