Friday, August 14, 2009

When you’re Hot, You’re Hot

Hong Kong Weather Report:

Yesterday: hot and humid
Today: hot and humid
Tomorrow: hot and humid
Day after: hot and humid

See a pattern? Hong Kong is actually in the tropics. I’m told the weather will break in November. Thank heavens for air conditioning. Almost every building is air-conditioned in HK. But never with central air. It seems as if almost every window in HK –or at least in our section of the New Territories- has an air-conditioning unit mounted in it.

One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to is the contrast between the hot and muggy outside and the cool inside. You can be walking down the street a huffin’ and a sweating. Three minutes later you can be in a store shivering and wishing you’d taken your wife’s advice to bring a sweat shirt.

-Jack

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