It’s been hot and humid these few days. What is worse is the fact that it’s been two weeks since I fell sick and I am “still” recovering. I think I can safely say that the air around my house is so polluted.

Living a stone’s throw away from the main road, dust and carbon monoxide are no stranger to me. These few months, my neighbours were inconsiderate enough to add to the pollution. They’d burn their rubbish (which sometimes include rubber) almost everyday.

I guess the burning of rubbish caused my cough to linger longer than it should. I really felt like installing a loud speaker on top of my roof and coughing into it to at least hint to my inconsiderate neighbours that some of us are actually suffering from the unclean air.

A friendlier approach of course would be to buy lots of fans and place them outside my house so that when the wind blows toward my house, the fans would blow the smoke into another direction. Well, that would cost me a lot! As it is now, we’re switching on both air-conds just so that the air would be slightly cleaner. Our electricity bill went up about RM30 last month.