Every morning I wake up to a red sun as I get ready for work; watching it rise slowly during the 3 minute walk to school. And every evening I walk home to a red sun beneath the thin clouds before hiding behind the 7/11 at the entryway to my apartment complex.

This isn't my view of the sun, but we do have a bridge just like this in Bangkok.

There's an old rhyme I learned in science class during my middle school home-school days that goes something like this: "Red skies in morning, sailors take warning; red skies at night, sailors delight." This makes me wonder, does the sky look ominous in the morning, and thus make people paranoid about what the day's events may hold? And seeing the red sky at night lead people to believe they will have sweet dreams? Regardless, what does it mean when I see a red sun in the morning and at night?? I'll have bad days but good nights? All things considered, if I had a choice I'd like to have good days and unremembered nights. But I guess we can't have it all.

Through the smog of Bangkok, I see the fury of the red sun. I feel it every day. The moment I step outside my door I am hit with a wall of heat and the sweat that accompanies it.