Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:49, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Y'all know nothing of what's really hot. I grew up in Malaysia, where the
> humidity is >90% every single day, the *average* temperature is 32C (about
> 90F by my rough estimate), for TWELVE months a year. We have no concept of
> "winter"; every day is summer. :-) Plus, there is only one air-conditioned
> room in my house, and it's not my room... You don't know what's "real"
> heat until you see people walking around with umbrellas on a clear day,
> just so they don't catch fire. :-)
>
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> T
True.  I was born in Anguganak, Torricelli Mountains, West Sepik, PNG, 5
degrees south of the Equator.

Took me ages to figure out what the heck people were talking about with
"Spring", "Summer", "Autumn" and "Winter", let alone how these things were
supposed to relate to common festivals like Christmas - midwinter holiday to
hearten the faint-hearted with the thought that winter has reached its
half-way point, etc.

And then, since my parents were citizens of one of the southern settler
states of the Commonwealth - NZ - May was a winter month, and all the fiction
I had to read was set in the Northern Hemisphere, where May was a summer
month.

Peculiar, and to think us humans _set_ _out_ _deliberately_ for the chilly
Arctic (and Antarctic) regions!  When, oh when will we ever learn?

Wesley Parish
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."