Life in HK (6)

So this week my roomie's family is here, so he's migrated to a 5-star hotel, while im still (in the words of my school's placement officer) here in the slum area at Prince Edward. It was like my 1st day in Hong Kong many weeks ago, expect that this time i went to sleep alone in the room, such that when i woke up i felt that adrenaline to get up and going to work - like after my 1st night here. Of course, from the 2nd night onward, it was back to normal, where i woke up dreary and sleepy.
Been plagued by gastric, such that a visit to the doc didnt really help, and the Bismag pills my mum gave me is quickly thinning down. I just want it lost soon.



I still really cant decide if i want Hong Kong to be polluted or not. You see, when Hong Kong is polluted, the pollutants is so dense that no sunlight gets through, and though polluted with particles, the sun does not beat down on us hapless beings. However, on days without pollution with clear blue skies (so far, in my 4.5 weeks, only 3 days - last fri, sat, sun) , the sun beats down on the land, resulting in me sweating by the time i get to the MTR station, and i really hate heat (There's a deeper story, and i'll go at it another time).

So you must be thinking, of course we can do without the pollution! OK, i admit i was worried. I'm a person who well knowingly or unknowingly, swallow my mucus when its stuck deep in my nostrils. So this random thought came to my head, with so much "pi sai" in HK, and if the particles seep through, wont it land in my mucus? And then if i swallow my mucus, wont the pollutants enter my system, and then, wont the pollutants like cause me to have cancer or something? So i went to do some research, and guess what i found!

As the nasal conchae cause air to swirl in the nasal cavity, the mucus moistens the air and traps any bacteria or particles of air pollution. The cilia wave back and forth in rhythmic movement, and pieces of mucus with their trapped particles are swept along to the throat. The mucus is then either spat out or (more often) swallowed. Any bacteria present in the swallowed mucus is destroyed by the hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice of the stomach.
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That said, it doesnt mean that you go sniffing in all the pollutants, and hope that the hydrochloric acid in your stomach works at 100% efficiency. Therefore, i conclude that, i really still dont know if i like it polluted and less hot or vice versa.



Typhoon Fengshen is approaching close to Hong Kong, and the Typhoon No. 3 signal is hoisted. Well when the signal 8 is hoisted, it means that we dont have to work! Well the beauty of living overseas is you get to experience things like that, with pounding rain and a bloody typhoon! That said, after im done with this post, i'm going down to experience the wind produced by Fengshen, because it supposedly will hit Hong Kong hardest around midnight.