Lo and behold!

So, somewhere things work oh so finely! Yesterday I told about my broken laptop. Well, yesterday afternoon I received a call from HP Repair Centre that I can pick it up already. It took them two days to get it fixed, and one of them was Sunday. Sheer amazement.

And to those who are interested: they replaced the motherboard, but everything else was left the same.

Other than that, everything is pretty much the same here.

Many people have been asking me about weather so I might as well say a few words about it here. First and foremost it's getting colder every week. Like I've said before, winter can be rather cold here. It's not cold as Finland, of course, but it's still cold. This morning, for example, it was just 17 degrees when I left home so not really a t-shirt weather anymore. I don't mind, I can wear a jacket, and you all know how I like to wear jackets.

Below 7-day weather forecast:


You can see how the weather is changing. This a real-life climate change. In a month or so I will need to see about getting a radiator to my apartment. Especially bedroom will require heating up. Not very nice to wake up when the room is just 14-15 degrees.

The best part about the weather changing is seeing the cute little Hongkongese turning into little Eskimos. I mean, imagine a Finnish person in a -30 degrees. Now imagine the Finn's clothing worn by a Hongkongese person, in +15, on a sunny day. And the Hongkongese person still looks like being cold. Then imagine me, wearing a t-shirt, standing next to the Hongkongese person and pointing my finger and laughing... And then I stop and apologize to Chi.

Ok, the above never happened but the clothes thing is true. The people here dress up for nuclear winter and the weather hardly goes below +10 degrees Celsius at any given time (except for a few nights during the winter). It's funny. Today I saw a girl who was already wearing a woolen cap and all sorts of thick and warm clothing. I should take some pictures at some point of the people here.

Well, I shouldn't make fun of them. It's their way of life and if they don't deal with cold so very well, it's not their fault as such. I can't place the blame on these cute little critters, who so zealously strive through their daily lives. No, I blame the communist conspiracy and climate change!

Now contemplate on old Chinese poetry:

"The round soul's climbing into the cold void,
They say it is the same in all four seas.
How can one know a thousand miles away,
If they do not have rain and wind?" - Li Qiao

"Trees shed leaves, and geese are flying south;
The north wind blows, here on the river it's cold.
My home is at the bend of the waters of Xiang,
Far beyond the edge of the clouds of Chu.
Travelling, I've exhausted my tears for home,
I watch a lone sail at the heavens' end.
The ferry's gone- who can I ask where?
Darkness falls beside the level sea." - Meng Haoran