The temperature in Kowloon Financial's head office had risen steadily through the day, from a comfortable twenty degrees at opening to its current sweat-inducing thirty degrees. James would have opened the window to create a draft, but with the temperature outside several degrees higher than this, and not even the least wind blowing in off the bay, it seemed that the only thing to do was suffer through this heatwave, or find whoever was responsible for fixing the air conditioner.

Learning Cantonese? Our lesson today is based on a truism that anyone who has worked in a major office should recognize: that sometimes it isn't the heat that's bothering you so much as your co-workers.
 said on
October 3, 2012
Is there a lesson somewhere explaining some of these final particles?
 said on
November 23, 2012
Very useful lesson.

Looking forward for new lessons!
 said on
December 29, 2012
@darkstar94 Try out this webpage on final particles http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/cantonese_particles.htm
 said on
December 29, 2012
You can also say 零下四十度 ling4 ha6 sei3 sap6 dou6 (minus 40 degrees) to indicate temperature below zero.

Sentence structure: 零下(number)度, lit. zero below (number) degree.