Hello Internet!! I’ve been offline so much since I flew home for the holidays it seems like I barely know you anymore!
I’ll be back. Until then, Happy Christmas to all. Have a happy New Year while you’re at it; 2010 will hopefully be a good one for all of us.
I’ve emerged from the non-Internet [...]
I haven’t blogged in a month, which is pretty poor even by my own shoddy standards. Of course, the golden rule of blogging dictates that talking about yourself is boring. So, rather than bore everyone with my time at sea battling pirates and writing the next great American novel only to have the [...]
Taipei Zoo cares about its English speaking patrons.
Cultural difference can be a crazy thing. I’ve been having a ball since I got back to Taiwan, but today was really a day I could have done without. Admittedly, staying up until five in the morning just to see Liverpool lose did not help.
I couldn’t face speaking Chinese and eating the food [...]
Wow. So, it turns out that rooting through newspaper articles in a language you’re not great with is tiring. I’m getting a bit worried, the quality of the articles isn’t fantastic. I mean visual quality of course, not the writing! It’s a bit faint in bits and pieces, so I’ll have [...]
I completely failed to post something last Friday because my neighbour’s dogs were driving me crazy. I came home to relax and do a bit of reading, but the little monsters barked non-stop from 5pm until 10:30pm, with a couple of encores after midnight. Thanks, guys.
I have since fired off a few phone [...]
Starbucks, Linkou
Yes, Starbucks.
So, last night I got together with some fellow graduates from SEAS. This proved a lot of fun, not least because I had an excuse to go to 45, a bar I spent more than my fair share of time in when I lived here, mainly because it’s more or less adjacent [...]
Mo!relax Café, Taipei
Ok. Things are getting nice and busy now. I just spent four or five hours trawling through Chinese language library database entries under the heading ‘baseball.’ It was a lot of fun.
Thankfully I’m in one of the old haunts now. I’m meeting my friend Ana and her boyfriend for [...]
Seven Scholars Bar, Taipei
I’ve been very flaky with Internet use since last Wednesday, hence the lack of posts. I’m currently in the bar of the hotel in which I am still staying, because they have free wireless. There is no wireless of any description in the room.
Ok, so, since Wednesday….. well, we travelled Business Class [...]