What I am currently missing from Taiwan…

It’s called a wax apple! I found out the English name for 蓮霧 when I visited the super-fancy supermarket on one of the underground floors of Taipei 101, that sells mostly imported and otherwise expensive foods and had English labels on their produce. I’ve liked them since I was little, but I’ve never really valued [...]

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Hai Hai Puffy Amiyumi Go (?)!

Seems like something Nick would enjoy watching…
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“It’s called Jet Lag, the brother of Jet Li”
and yeah, I’m up again. Jet Lag today is doing a bit better than yesterday though. I’m looking at apartments on craigslist because it’s fun, relatively. After looking at lots of random ads I’m further convinced that the word [...]

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Oh yeah and I’m back….I’m in Seattle

I just got to my temporarly housing 9 hours ago. It’s 2:33 am and I can’t sleep because I fell asleep at 6 pm and when I woke up an hour ago I thought it was 5 am because my cell phone said it was 5…pm Taiwan time. There’s no food or water in this [...]

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The Alishan song

see sally has heard of the Alishan song too. I’m not crazy…..maybe just a little bit…..
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Jay Chou version at 4:03 According to one of the comments in youtube “they remind me of the scene in Austin Powers where Dr. Evil and Mini Me are singing in jail.” I don’t remember that part of [...]

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snow in new york last week

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I’m going to Alishan tomorrow

I’m taking the train at 8 in the morning. :)

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This is so hilarious (facebook group)

Name:

Bei-JINGR

Type:

Common Interest – Travel

Description:

Global group for anyone who has done ANY or ALL of the following:
You’ve (not) gotten sick eating Yangrou Chuanr- tasty street meat so cheap you can’t afford NOT to eat it.
You’ve drunk beer from a plastic bag. With or without the straw.
You’ve munched on scorpion on a stick.
You’ve known the torment [...]

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From the facebook group “Diamond Bar is my hometown baby!”

(actually the title is in all caps) Which I considered joining but decided against, because, Kaohsiung is my hometown really, or Taipei, or Diamond Bar…
it’s so funny, because…it’s so true, especially the super into groceries part. Oh and the In-N-Out part (why DB rocks!)
top ten reasons why diamond bar SHOULD suck, compared to New York [...]

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I’m staying here now

here Apparently in the area known as “ambassador row” because it’s right next to all the embassies (and the sultans’ houses). The unit is right in front of the swimming pool featured on the website, with full view of the swimming pool and surrounding areas. It’s incredible how the swimming pool really looks like that [...]

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This was just playing on TV

When it was playing on TV it had Chinese subtitles on it although the VJ spoke English (also with Chinese subtititle). I thought it looked interesting. It took me a while to find because I didn’t know what language he was singing in and I assumed it was Malay and I thought the text on [...]

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