Denim shorts or Lycra pants

The heat is maddening. You would think people would flock to the underpass to cross the street, if only for the temporary respite from the heat. But what do you know? Even in the most scorching of scorching days, Taipeians stick to the blacktop, marching briskly along the white stripes.

Heat can be debilitating. There is no clarity of mind, everything is muddled, distorted by a wavering mirage. The more you try to concentrate, the more exhausted you become.

Which is more sexually arousing? A pair of denim hot shorts, or Lycra pants? It's completely irrelevant, but it's also the only thing you can manage to work in your brains sitting at the barely sheltered outdoor coffee stand.

The only good thing perhaps, about summer in the city, is you get to appreciate every possible variation of lovely female legs.