the heat and the humidity defeats everything. fresh out of the shower, and already you can't tell water from sweat. lipsticks melt away into glistening putties when pressed against lips, and here at 4 in the morning i am spritzing myself with cold water and fighting down the feeling of suffocating in a belljar. has singapore got hotter, or am i just imagining it? i would like the crisp white heat of charlottesville, not this red, all-enveloping swelter.