Singapore has some fantastic storms. Booming thunder, lightning, torrential downpours...the whole works. Love it (especially for the cooling effect). Right now I am waiting out such a storm. Normally they pass within an hour or so. I don't want to attempt to walk to the bus while the rain is still coming down, so instead I am hanging out in one of covered outdoor walkways between buildings and getting caught up on internet and such. The buildings here are architecturally designed to be as "open air" as possible. Thank God, because it actually gets soooo cold in the classrooms where the AC is pumping that I would rather put up with a little heat than freeze to death.