WET

Wet as in drench in your own sweat! That's how hot and humid Macau was today. I took a ferry across; man, busy! Darn, end of Summer school holiday. Everything was pack. Immigration, ferry ticket booths, line-ups. Everything! Walked out to the taxi stand at the Macau Ferry Terminal and there was no taxi but line-up! So I walked back to the apartment. Normally, it was quite easy. But today, with the sun and humidity. Yikes. As I walked toward my destination, my body reacted. Sweat started pouring from every pore on my body! I stopped at a supermarket for a bottle of water. Only had HKD on me. I did not know that Macau people did not accept HKD2 coins. Good thing I had paper money. MOP2.20 and a 750mL of water later, I was refreshed and moved on. Most than 1/2 way home. More sweat. I felt my Patagonia shirt sticking to me now. Felt heavy. More water. More water! Home at last after walking six floors of stairs. Drip, drip, drip.... I was drenched from my sweat! from socks, underwear, shorts and shirts. (As I am typing this blog, I look over to my shorts lying on the couch. White stink from the sweat! Twice over!) Just standing at the bus stop for 10 minutes for my return trip to Macau Ferry Terminal, I started sweating! Some breeze but oven hot!

I didn't pack much clothes as I expected to pick up some replace stuff at Patagonia. Unfortunately, the mentality of the clothing merchants is: Winter stuff!!!! Yes, Winter stuff even when we are still under a heat wave and at least 2 more months of heat! And seriously, how much winter stuff does one need living in HK? With all those smog trapping the heat and all? I could not get anything! I visited other stores, same thing! Change of season! Agh... And I only have one pair of shorts! Let see how tomorrow will do. Good thing Sogo is just a 5-minute walk.

Speaking of Sogo, had Mochi ice-cream. So yummy. A perfect end to a perfect vegetarian dinner tonight. The cost was HKD 13 each. I had a green tea and a honey cranberry. Don't want to make a regular event though.

O yeah, back to the Patagonia stuff. I was wearing a Patagonia shirt. Good thing. I had to change it out to have it dried so that I could wear it back to HK. With the special treatment applied to the shirt, it felt like a clean shirt for me when I put it back on before leaving Macau.