Sweatin' to the Oldies

Chinese New Year/Spring Festival is over, and in proper form, the weather has followed suit and begun to warm up a bit. in fact it's been 75 for the last three days! This sounds delightful right? Well sort of. Having temperatures at night about 41 is always nice, but the turn in weather has reminded us once again why there are palm trees about: humidity. Much like southern Florida, the humidity is now in the upper 80's. This is all fine and good except for the curious matter of physics occurring in many apartments around the city. We had been told legends of the "sweat out" but had never laid witness to it. The concrete-heavy nature of construction here has left buildings' interiors cool, and relatively dry after 2 weeks straight of 40-50 degree, somewhat dry weather. The sudden increase of temperature and humidity has the buildings literally sweating out this temperature adjustment, and the results for all those inside are rather annoying. One: Nothing will dry, and if it was already dry, it feels like it needs another 20 in the dryer. So that's kind of gross, and the floors are quite slippery as they are covered in a light mist, and the mirrors and windows? well I've posted a picture below for reference. Complaining you say? Sure why not, but it's pretty damn interesting as well. I cannot decry the shoddy construction methods, or curse the Chinese like many an expat do out here, because I am neither engineer nor meteorologist, and do not understand how construction works in these kinds of climates. Cool? sure Annoying? you betcha



PS: I've gained some movement back in my little finger, but mostly because it's the knuckle that was affected the most. black and blue pics are coming soon. sweeeet.