Donner Und Blitzen Kebab

Drowning in weather!

I got up at 5 having slept very little due to the absolutely wild weather that shook my house all night. Apparently the lightning had struck Lantau Island 3,000 times out of 3,007 for Hong Kong in total. But not a word about staying indoors and no transport suspended, unlike last week when two raindrops and a five-minute mild breeze sent government officials into a hysterical frenzy of “for your own safety” lockdown. I’m glad I had my large and sturdy cockroach umbrella (see above) when I dragged the extremely reluctant dogs out at 5:45

The wetlands were lakes, the roads rivers.

Did you know that the Chinese word for ‘electricity’, 電，(din) also, or originally, means ‘lightning’?
Think about that next time you turn on your computer 電腦,(din lou – electric brain). That modern invention is named after what must surely be one of the oldest words around.

Phone: 電話 (din wah – electric speech)
TV 電視 (din see – electric vision)
Lift： 電梯 (din tai – electric ladder)
Tram: 電車 (din che – electric car, although in HK it’s normally called 叮叮 deng deng)

OK! I’m rolling across the border to Shenzhen and losing ‘wai-fai’. Take my course! You’ll like it.