Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Hong Kong is forcing me to do too much math

Obviously, when you travel anywhere outside the country you're going to be doing a lot of converting. It's bad enough that I have to convert currency between HKD and USD which ranges anywhere between 7.10 - 7.8 for each USD. Dividing in multiples of 7 or 8 is not as fun or easy as British pounds.

Why couldn't the US just get on board with the metric system, seriously? I weighed myself in the gym today, which looks awesome in kg, but not so awesome in lbs.! Every morning when I check the weather I have to convert celsius into farenheit. Again, why do we have to be so difficult?

Well, if working here isn't keep my brain active, converting sure is!

OK, the US does know what's best when it comes to currency. Stop with the freaking coins already, Hong Kong! Hong Kong currency is like British pounds in that they have paper dollars and coins that are the same amount. Honestly, who wants to lug around heavy coins? Just get rid of it already!

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