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My SuperHeroes

The air here is unbelievable! Everything was fine throughout the day, for most parts of the day, that is, until towards the evening when the smoke got really heavy. REALLY Heavy as in it is creeping under the door, past walls, over roofs, into homes, into nose, into lungs and tries to make you pass out just from the anxiety itself.

Thankfully (me being pretty smart this time round), I ran out on Sunday and grabbed two air filters and purifiers for the homes. I was thinking it was for the rooms but during the day, I put it in the living room in hope of clearing the living room would also minimize the risk of having to inhale putrid air in the rooms.

Anyway, the air purifiers are real life savers. In the evening when it was obvious that the smoky air was penetrating the home, it picked things up a notch and cleared much of the smoke that was coming in!

Who would've known that such a device would be necessary in Malaysia, huh? And we all thought air was free. Nope, not here right now, not during this season every year. I deeply wish that there is something we can do to make air free in Malaysia around this time of the year.

Frankly, I am sleepy and don't really know what I am writing about right now. HAHAHA.

At this moment, I can smell a little bit of smoke in the room and there is a Level 1 warning on the air filter in my room right now. It's doing its job.

Let me introduce you to my heroes.



XOXO,
Appreciate the fresh air that you are breathing right now, wherever you are,
Marsha

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