it's just not logical

One of the most amazing, puzzling things that I can encounter here sometimes is the attire of some locals.

I've already grown accustomed to the fact that most Hong Kong people dress up pretty well, on a daily basis. For both women and men.

I would think there's many explanations, though it's hard to distinguish if which creates the causal effect of either force.

1. The four seasons (though it really is a 'pseudo' one, as everyone calls it) allow for experimenting of various materials, designs and styles
2. People here are exposed to the variety of ways to dress up and are actually willing to try
3. Designers see it as opportunity to bring in more designs and more fashion-forward pieces, to suit all four seasons

And basically that's it, that's where you get this bunch of people wearing sometimes the most outrageous, the most gorgeous or one of the most refreshing change of fashion tastes.

On the other hand, Singapore is just hot, warm, wet and the same. And it doesn't help that we are all (okay, most) are in a very pragmatic environment, breeding us as practical people.

So you see, spags, shorts, bermudas and slippers are really the staples of our all-year round dressing.

You can really understand why our fashion industry has a steeper gradient to go against. Designers have to find even more ways to turn summer clothes exciting, for every 'season'. Such a challenge! Or could be our bane.

But back to the point, one of the things that still puzzle me, is that some locals would be decked in berms, slippers and a thin cotton T-shirt with THIS weather.

Okay definitely body's not used to the cold, but even at single digit weather - is that even possible?! That's testing the body's tolerance not to just turn your toes purple and drop them off into the South China Sea.

They are impressive, but no, thank you, I won't want to try that out.

Most of you know that I can kiiiinda tolerate cold (okay, maybe it's the hereditary hair coat) but it's hot-humid that i donnn't really fancy. Thus, the many convenient wears of spag, shorts, skirts.

Well, I have no idea what I am going to do with all the warm-inducing-containing stuff I have now.

• Long-sleeved tops (mostly cotton though)
• Opaque black tights (NEVER in my mind would I ever thought of wearing them back in SGP, it's JUST too warm and impractical!)
• Knee-high socks (seriously, I don't even wear closed-toed shoes back in SGP)
• Jackets (sigh, okay fine, cold lecture theatres)

I mean, I can always find ways to wear the knee-high boots, so that's not really a problem at all :)

Have a good weekend all! :)

P.S. The marketing stint has been cancelled cos they got caught up with other stuff and didn't have anything planned for me sooooo I am back in the news production team, occasionally helping Multimedia and being teased about how Singaporeans get canned if we ate chewing gum. Terrible right! Tsk! Haha

Edit (on Saturday, 12.47am): Internet's quite konky, but let me say this quick and only once - DAD! Guess what my friend (who is also on overseas attachment, in Philippines) placed on her blog!

"pps. i could really use some of huitze’s dad’s serious strepsils now."

It's one of your quotable quotes now! :)