Glacial.
It is the word one of my European colleagues used to describe the temperature setting of the Singapore office air con. Crazy cold for Singaporeans. They are sitting around in their desks rugged up in 87 layers of jumpers and jackets.
Cold conditioning is me. I can survive the office air con (which cannot be adjusted floor by floor or suite by suite), but I admit to looking forward to going outdoors when work ends.
On Friday after work I sauntered into Chinatown before my return commute. I pulled out my phone to take some photos only to discover it was so cold it immediately became drenched in condensation. No matter how much I wiped it away I couldn't get an unfoggy photo.
That's how cold....
Just like our big stained glass window every winter.... dripping with condensation every night.
ReplyDeleteKeep your Singapore photos coming. I am enjoying your time there vicariously.
Can't you get secondary glazing or something? We have a grade II listed house that Mr B's daughter lives in and we couldn't (legally) double glaze the windows, but we discovered that secondary glazing could be fitted without breaching any regs. It was cheaper than double glazing would have been, and it actually looks really chique (old secondary glazing used to be really heath robinson, but this is both effective and neat.)
DeleteI hope your phone has recovered now;-)
ReplyDeleteIt recovered quite quickly. Photos from Chinatown later this week.
DeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteThat is NOT good. For phones or bodies... YAMxx
No worse that sauna and snow I guess - it is just the other way around.
DeleteI love that Chinatown photo.
ReplyDeleteI have better ones.
DeleteNot only does that show how cold. It shows how humid as well.
ReplyDeleteI don’t do humid. I can’t breath and it makes my hair go curly lol
Nothing (but nothing) makes my hair curl - not even perms. I've only tried to have my hair curled twice in my life and both attempts were expensive abject failures.
DeleteI’m with Angela on the curly hair - I expect it up in Darwin but it happens even up in Bowen ( a fair way below the equator but still humid at times)
ReplyDeleteI’m enjoying your travelogue ….there’s a bit of lobbying going on here at the moment…..he’s taking a bit of persuading so I’m taking a softly softly approach.
my hair is the same way, curling it with permanent waves makes it frizzy and ugly, not curly. I have school photos of it. my mother wanted curls on me and put a perm in my hair at age 3... that is really cold to make it do that. we suffer the fog up stuff here because the stores we shop in or COLD and when I come out my glassess fog over. also with our high humidity, on days the temps are colder out than in, the windows all steam and the windows of the car do. humidity is the thing I dislike more than cold or heat. can't wait to see China Town pics.
ReplyDeleteYup in Winter some of the windows in my house have condensation but I think the underfloor insulation has helped reduce it.
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