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25th Day of 2016

A couple more days till we fly off to HK.

The island territory has been hit by a cold snap causing close to freezing temperatures (!) last weekend.  It is slowly turning warmer and forecast to be fairly normal when we arrive, i.e. 15-20 degrees Celsius, so hopefully the weather service does not get it wrong.  But just in case they do screw up again like they did over the weekend, we'll have a set of heat tech clothing.  Thank you uniqlo for your fine invention.

Looking forward to meeting my tai kah jeh again. She's probably going to have a good laugh at my terrible Cantonese and i'll cringe at her attempts at lahs and lohs.

Also looking forward to all the fantastic tasting food and shopping... CNY sales please.




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