Comments on: More seasons than a spice rack

By: kathryn baskerville

kathryn baskerville — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:08:31 +0000

Answering on a blog commonly isnt my thing, but i have surfed an hour on your weblog, so thanks for the good infos .

By: Woaizhongguo

Woaizhongguo — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:16:09 +0000

Oh I would pay good money to see Jason’s expression come January!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:23:40 +0000

My godmother lives in Suzhou, and I visited for a summer back in college(and am going back this fall FINALLY), and I remember this season exactly. I was so confused when it became overcast after weeks of a hot, humid haze (in the weather, and in my mind), and I could suddenly walk outside the house and not immediately drown in my own sweat. It was such a relief. Then the biggest thunderstorm I’ve ever seen hit (fish in the streets, football stadium a swimming pool…), and afterwards the weather broke, and going back to Cali and 80F temps seemed like such a happy thing…

God I miss it there. I’m bookmarking your site now, for the good memories.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:52:00 +0000

@Rick: Done! @Jason: I ate mine.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:31:33 +0000

Oh god, it’s coming back? I thought it was going away…
SH blows when it’s humid too because the amount of people here increases the ‘somebody shoot me’ factor to a ‘I will kill you all’ factor.
I still don’t believe the winters here can possibly be THAT cold…(yeah…I have been told I will eat those words)

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:52:09 +0000

Does your bike have a name yet?

If not, I hereby christen it “The Egg Beater”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:16:35 +0000

@Another Laowai: YBS is when I arrived last year – mid-end August… deadly hot. I promise to feel guilty as I order take-away.

@Jeremy: I image that the south is much the same if not worse for humidity and all that. It just blows me away that this area of China is crap for weather near all the time. It’s always too hot or too cold with the exception of one or two months… it’s a good thing Suzhou as a city rocks!

@WAZG: You’re nutz. It might disturb you all that now that I work out of my home, I spend most days working in my gitch.

By: Woaizhongguo

Woaizhongguo — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:30:33 +0000

To quote a good friend of ours: if you don’t like it go back to your own country!

Yes indeed, we don’t get many nice days in London but when it is nice, it is NIIIICE! Shanghai on the other hand just has two extremes – bloody hot and bloody cold, with a rainy season somewhere thrown in for good measure. I’ve given up wearing the jacket part of my suit to the office. I did all last summer but either Shanghai has become hotter or my tolerance has lowered. Plus I got fed up of the stares from baffled locals seeing me walk around in 90 degrees with my suit on.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:40:24 +0000

Ryan,

Though it is undoubtedly hot here during the summer, I don’t think it is as bad overall as Shenzhen or Guangzhou. The worst days here are about the same as the worst days there (although I’d say more humid even on the worst days down South), but the thing is Summer is about six months of the year down there – hot & humid the whole time.

So… it could be worse.

Singapore is like this year round, but Singapore is clean, so it’s not quite the fair comparison. Southern China is more on target.

By: Another Laowai

Another Laowai — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:02:12 +0000

Just wait till August 15th then you will feel Suzhou’s worst season known as YBS season literally “Your Balls Swimming” season. The season where it’s so hot your balls are now swimming in their own sweat.
Enjoy