Rachel's Memories: Hendry Weather

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Hendry Weather

What IS a Hendry Weather?

On June 30th, just 2 days before our trip to Kinabalu, Hendry wrote us an email ...

Dear Team,

I've checked the wheather forecast of KK for this whole week and it'll be having thunderstorm for one whole week. So be prepare for the rain~!!

Cheers

Hendry

And he DARED sign off with the word "cheers"

There I was, trying to tell myself that it's gonna rain a lot BEFORE the climb and not at all DURING the climb when I received this email.

We prayed so much harder after reading that email. I, for one, was worried that it might rain during the climb and the weather up there would be super cold like last year's. The thought of climbing in the rain didn't sit too well with me either.

It was clear blue skies with a temperature of 32C when we arrived at Kota Kinabalu in the late morning. It didn't last long, though.

Dark clouds started forming even when we were on our way to Kundasang.

In the van, someone remembered the email which Hendry wrote only 2 days earlier. And thus, all the blame went to him. Soon, it became apparent that it was going to pour and we "accused" Hendry even more.

We decided to give a name to this gloomy weather and "The Hendry Weather" came into mind. To cheer our disheartened mood, we decided to do a forecast on what a Hendry Weather was going to be like.

Someone mentioned that a Hendry Weather means rain everyday

Another person decided to put a positive note on it by saying that it will rain on the 1st day, but from the 2nd - 4th day, it will be blue skies and sunny weather while on the 5th day, it would rain again.

And so, the definitions as to what a "Hendry Weather" would be like began ... while poor Hendry couldn't get a chance to defend himself.

Well, by the end of our journey, the Hendry Weather was defined as :-