Brain Freeze!

La Trinidad, the capital of Benguet Province has a relatively cool climate compared to other parts of the Philippines. This is where I grew up. Aside from staying in a place with a relatively low temperature, I wasn't so fond of drinking cold beverages.

Things changed when I went to Los Baños for my undergraduate. Everything was so hot, even water coming from the tap was so hot. During my first weeks of stay, I bought ice and added it to the water for bathing to make it more tolerable. And because of the very hot weather I started drinking very cold drinks. Slurpee anyone??? :)  And that's when I experienced and learned the phrase 'Brain Freeze'.

"I'm having brain freeze!" Oh no, not the kind one experiences when drinking or eating very cold stuff.

My brain just froze and stopped working! I've been trying, since December, to write a paper that my professor told me to write but I still haven't finished it. 아직도 안 끝났어요! Initially I say to myself that I can't concentrate because of the cold weather. It's my first time to experience winter afterall.

I guess, just like any metabolic process in plants like photosynthesis and respiration that slows down with low temperature, my brain also slowed down. So slow that I fear it might have stopped altogether. Especially when it comes to thinking how to put all the things I've read into a paper that could be published in a scientific journal.

I hope it will 'thaw' by this weekend. I only have a week or two left before the extension given by my professor ends. :(

First snow... November 18, 2013