A first taste of the rainy season

It's thursday evening, 8 o'clock PM and I'm still at the office... I wanna go hooooome, but it's raining like h**l outside, so I have no other choice but to wait... and wait... This reminds me of last year when I arrived to Cambodia. There were so many evenings that I had to spend at the office, waiting for the rain to stop and for the level of water on the flooded streets to sink to a level low enough for me to drive my motorbike all the way home without the engine dying half way... After some time, I learned how to read the signs in the sky that would tell me wheather there would be rain soon or not. And I got familiar with the regularity of the rainfalls; in the beginning of the rainy season there would usually be a heavy rainfall around 6 or 7 in the evening. Later in the rainy season, there would be an additional shower around 2 in the afternoon. And as I got more used to it, I had to spend less evenings at the office. But now, this evening, as we haven't had rainfall since October, this rain caught me completely off-guard, so now I'm stuck. However, the rainy season shouldn't start for another month or so, so I guess that this is just a very first taste of the rainy season. But I'd better be prepared for it. So I don't have to spend any more evenings at the office than necessary...