Thursday, June 30, 2011

Laundry Day




I’m taking advantage of the dry weather to do some laundry. It’s not an easy thing to do during typhoon season. Washing is easy, but everything takes forever to dry when there is 300% humidity. Rain is not so much of an issue since our laundry balcony is covered. As long as the rain falls downward, our clothes are protected. Typhoons, however, bring every kind of rain there is – little bitty stinging rain, big old fat rain, rain that flies in sideways and even rain that seems to come up from underneath. Or whatever Forrest said.

And yes, that is a Hello Kitty towel.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Korea Typhoon

The last storm that I talked about just kept going straight eastward toward Korea. The experts say that is unusual since typhoons usually turn north or south before slamming into land. This one just took a straight and steady course. Hitting Korea is also unusual. They weren’t as prepared for it as Hong Kong or Japan and now there are some reports of damage and a few people died.

Korea is mostly protected by Japan the way Hong Kong is protected by the Philippines and Taiwan. A typhoon has to work hard to get to either of us. Unfortunately for the people of Korea, this one was a hard worker.

Friday, June 24, 2011

China Typhoon

The latest typhoon hit China yesterday. There isn’t much damage reported since it wasn’t all that big. It missed Hong Kong by a long shot. It wasn’t even really a typhoon. It was upgraded again before it hit and then downgraded again just after.

A different storm came up from the Philippines while all this was going on. It’s expected to head east to Japan.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Philippines Typhoon

Another typhoon is coming up from the Philippines. This has really not been their year. The experts keep changing this one every day. One day it is upgraded and the next day it is downgraded. They think it might head toward Hong Kong, but they’re not really sure. Even if it does, they don’t know if it will be a typhoon or just a tropical storm.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Just Another Rainy Day

The typhoon that was supposed to hit us actually did. Usually they move around a lot. Sometimes they go the exact opposite way of what the experts predict. This one landed straight into Hong Kong. But it pretty much died at the last minute and wasn’t even a typhoon when it hit us. It really just seemed like any other rainy day to me.

It might seem strange that I’m looking forward to a typhoon. I should probably point out that I am not looking forward to loss of life and property. Hong Kong is well built. Most of the larger buildings were specifically designed to withstand the heaviest typhoons possible, and the smallest buildings are generally wedged between the largest. Unlike the Philippines and Taiwan, Hong Kong is protected geographically – mainly by the Philippines and Taiwan. While typhoons slam straight into those countries from the middle of the ocean, they have to work their way to us. I don’t want to experience death and destruction. I want to experience nature.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Another Typhoon

There’s another typhoon coming at us from the Philippines. They’re saying it should slam straight into Hong Kong, but it’s not a full fledged typhoon yet. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Too Weak to be a Typhoon

The latest typhoon wasn’t even a typhoon. It never got big enough to go above tropical storm status. I suppose that’s no small comfort to the dozen or so people it killed in China.

It landed pretty close to here, but I didn’t hear about any damage in Hong Kong. There was a lot of rain, but there’s been a lot of that lately anyway.

Friday, June 10, 2011

More Typhoons

There’s another typhoon headed toward Hong Kong. This one came out of the Philippines and is barreling straight to us. Sometimes they veer off and change course, but they’re saying this one really doesn’t have anywhere else to go – unless it does a 90 and heads to Thailand.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Ryan + Me + ?

Ryan reminded me about our little threeway talk last week. I was mostly asleep when it happened so I really didn’t remember much. This time he caught me while I was wide awake.

I could tell he’s been thinking about it for a while because he came prepared. He anticipated what I was going to say and had the answers already worked out in his head.

When I said that we are in a committed relationship, he said it would only strengthen our bond. When I pointed out that he doesn’t like to share, he said this would be different since it’s what he really, really, extra super really wants to do. When I brought up the whole jealously thing, he said he’d work extra hard to make sure I know that I’m more important to him. But when I pointed out that he might get jealous, he wasn’t sure how to react. This brought up the biggest problem.

Ryan is a guy. Like all guys, he wants to have sex with two girls at the same time. I’m a non-lesbian girl. I’m not interested in having sex with another girl. Of course, Ryan is fundamentally against two guys & one girl. The more I mentioned 2M/1F, the hotter it sounded – and the more annoyed Ryan got. He’s old fashioned. He likes his threeways the traditional 1M/2F. This would mean he gets to have sex with two girls while we only have sex with him. I don’t see myself going down on a girl any time soon. At least with two guys, everyone’s paying attention to me. It’s still unfair since there’s no way in hell Ryan’s doing another guy, but at least it skewers toward me.

So now we’re at a threeway impasse. It’s still his lifelong dream, as of a couple weeks ago, but now he’s not sure how to make it a reality.


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Typhoonish

There was talk of a typhoon coming toward Hong Kong, but it looks like it’s not going to make it. They’ve decided it’s not even strong enough to be called a typhoon. I’m still waiting for my first typhoon, but everything seems to either be a super typhoon that goes somewhere else, or a tiny typhoon that fizzles out before it hits us.