What walks down stairs, alone or in pairsAnd looks like a space-aged goo?It's great for a snack, and addictive like crackEveryone knows it's tofu...Yet another trip to the night market tonight and another night of snacki…
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly In Taiwan... The GoodWas taken to Long-Shan temple tonight, the oldest and most visited Buddhist Temple in Taiwan. It was a very cool experience walking in, leaving food gifts for the Gods…
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat,…
So I took my books to my friend who has a used book business here in Taiwan (which is a very rare thing). I took him the five I have read, but he only took three. I was kinda shocked when he didn't take The Invisible M…
They don't have Cadbury Creme Eggs in Taiwan at all.This isn't right.I'd have thought twice about moving here if I had known.I miss that gooey, sticky sugar bomb...
So, I underpacked for this trip. I was so afraid of my luggage being overweight, I actually came in way underweight. I thought for sure the books I brought would weigh me down, but I only brought a few, thinking I woul…
Sometimes certain Bob Dylan songs play over in your head when you are having a conversation. Maybe they are there to give you the right thing to say, and sometimes just to make the conversation easier.My playlist from …
WORK IN PROGRESS...I am lost within these places, looking through the foreign facesHoping for the mirror images of meLips still move the same, but my ears they bleed in veinBecause I'm lost within this weird, exotic seaA…
It's 4:45am and you can still hear the Mahjongg players mixing the pieces up on the tables in the neighborhood. It will go on for days in some places. Random fireworks have been going off since about 6pm yesterday and …
Having a freezing cold Slushie with the kids I tutored tonight, added to the still partially paralyzed, and very sensitive nerve in my right eye, created what I would like to call...PRISON YARD BRAINFREEZEWhy 'Prison Yar…
I don't know if it's a good thing that I found out about the extra stations on my TV. For a while all I had to watch in English was six movie channels, three sports stations (no hockey) and two music stations... but now…
Ten years ago next week I had to go to the hospital in Sudbury due to severe headaches like I had never suffered before. They released me telling me it was 'stress headaches' due to being in my first year university. T…
Little corners in Danshui...
Someone asked me if the women here are beautiful. Actually, everyone seems to want to know about the whole Asian women thing. I can't lie... there are beautiful women everywhere here. I was actually just walking arou…
An evening just hanging out in Danshui... More to come...
It's winter vacation right now. Two and half weeks off for the kids before another week and a bit off for Chinese New Year. The school is still open for the kids who want to come. Most classes are pooled together and …
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