Kent Ninomiya - Hong Kong.
You can place no price on a cool breeze in Hong Kong on sweltering June day. This is especially true if you are foolish enough to walk the streets wearing a suit. Yet that is the situation I found myself in as I looked for a tailor I read about in a guide book. The book said you should wear a suit that fit you well when you visited so they can see what you want made. For a bargain price they promise a custom made suit in less than a week. I always wanted a custom made Hong Kong suit and figured this was my chance. An unfortunate series of events gave me a taste of what hell must be like. The oppressive heat was just the first problem. Triple digit temperatures plus with triple digit humidity equals triple digit suffering. I was dying of thirst but couldn't buy a drink because it happened to be a holiday. I don't know what holiday it was but everything was closed. Then I got lost. Really lost. I ended up marching back and forth through the same park four times trying to find the address. I felt like an ant beneath a magnifying glass. I dubbed it the "park of eternal torment." By then I was delirious and screaming at the sky. I just wanted to go back to my hotel but of course I couldn't find it. It's amazing how all those Chinese symbols all look the same. So I sat there in the park of eternal torment pondering my impending doom from heat exhaustion when a cool breeze blew by. I smiled and laughed off my ordeal. You can't put a price on a cool breeze in Hong Kong.
Kent Ninomiya
You can place no price on a cool breeze in Hong Kong on sweltering June day. This is especially true if you are foolish enough to walk the streets wearing a suit. Yet that is the situation I found myself in as I looked for a tailor I read about in a guide book. The book said you should wear a suit that fit you well when you visited so they can see what you want made. For a bargain price they promise a custom made suit in less than a week. I always wanted a custom made Hong Kong suit and figured this was my chance. An unfortunate series of events gave me a taste of what hell must be like. The oppressive heat was just the first problem. Triple digit temperatures plus with triple digit humidity equals triple digit suffering. I was dying of thirst but couldn't buy a drink because it happened to be a holiday. I don't know what holiday it was but everything was closed. Then I got lost. Really lost. I ended up marching back and forth through the same park four times trying to find the address. I felt like an ant beneath a magnifying glass. I dubbed it the "park of eternal torment." By then I was delirious and screaming at the sky. I just wanted to go back to my hotel but of course I couldn't find it. It's amazing how all those Chinese symbols all look the same. So I sat there in the park of eternal torment pondering my impending doom from heat exhaustion when a cool breeze blew by. I smiled and laughed off my ordeal. You can't put a price on a cool breeze in Hong Kong.
Kent Ninomiya
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