....umm, hello?
So!
Still in Taipei, and all I can really add to my list of Taipei is that it's hot, and umm, it's hot, and uhh, did I mention that it's hot? And that the AC is broken in the room that the three of us (me, auntie, and grandma) are sharing is mildly depressing.
Routine is: wake up around 5:30, read book until 9:30, shower, eat breakfast, sweat for a while and dream about AC, eat lunch, sweat for a while, go do something fun that involves AC, eat dinner until you drop, go back to dinky little room and drown in a puddle of sweat until you sleep...which of course doesn't solve the sweating problem but makes it much less noticeable. =)
Other than the heat, the only vice I have is...
...umm, hello? I'm 22!
When I say I'm full, I'm not playing some cute Chinese politeness game or being a bratty I-hate-your-food kid. I'm FULL, dammit. AND I can serve myself. AND feed myself. Has this thing to do with motor control, yanno? Same thing with being able to walk across the street. Or knowing that hey, lookit, my entire party is standing up to get off the bus, there's no need to tug at me and tell me four or five times that the next stop is ours. AND, if you're gonna make me walk for 20 minutes in blazing noon-day heat with 100% humidity, YES, I'm going to get the complexion of a boiled lobster. NO, this doesn't mean I'm sunburned and need to wear more sunscreen. NO, that doesn't mean I should've worn a hat. NO, I'm not going to fall over and have a heart-attack. And lastly, NO, being overheated does NOT make me hungry!!! Sorry if I seem a bit peeved, but being treated like a febrile five-year-old is starting to grate on me.
Well, other than that. I got to see a museum that sported tons of priceless Chinese artifacts that the capitalists took with them to Taiwan when they fled China. I bet mainland China loved that. And I also got to see the tallest building in the world, that has a mall in the first few floors - a Name-brand Label, empty your pocket dry, shiny mall. Just now, I got back from a Japanese style sauna. Very nice place, if you ask me. Even if I didn't get to see the inside saunas. Thank you very much, but naked sauna-ing with other naked ladies totally not my thing. Especially when those ladies are my relatives. The outdoor pools require swimsuits and I was more than happy to oblige, thus I got to spend a nice long afternoon roasting in some of the pools. Why we did this on such a hot day is beyond me, but it worked kinda. It made the day seem less hot when you got out of the 43C water. It made me kinda sad though. 43C was the hottest pool they had, and the next hottest water was around 37C...which felt nearly as hot as the water I usually use shower in. Perhaps I should get a user picture of a baby fire drake. =)
Dinner tonight was at the sauna place, which is actually more of a hot-springs resort that Auntie Shirly was treating us too. Yet more unidentifiable food! Of course, all of it was quite tasty, in a Chinese-pretending-to-be-Japanese way. Never thought I'd get to have food like that! At least they do a better job of it than Pittsburghers do of Mexican food. =P
Well, I'm running out of things to complain about, so this is me, signing off, yet again, to go sweat in a tiny little room with no AC. Somebody get me an air conditioner before I nail my hand to my forehead. =)
Still in Taipei, and all I can really add to my list of Taipei is that it's hot, and umm, it's hot, and uhh, did I mention that it's hot? And that the AC is broken in the room that the three of us (me, auntie, and grandma) are sharing is mildly depressing.
Routine is: wake up around 5:30, read book until 9:30, shower, eat breakfast, sweat for a while and dream about AC, eat lunch, sweat for a while, go do something fun that involves AC, eat dinner until you drop, go back to dinky little room and drown in a puddle of sweat until you sleep...which of course doesn't solve the sweating problem but makes it much less noticeable. =)
Other than the heat, the only vice I have is...
...umm, hello? I'm 22!
When I say I'm full, I'm not playing some cute Chinese politeness game or being a bratty I-hate-your-food kid. I'm FULL, dammit. AND I can serve myself. AND feed myself. Has this thing to do with motor control, yanno? Same thing with being able to walk across the street. Or knowing that hey, lookit, my entire party is standing up to get off the bus, there's no need to tug at me and tell me four or five times that the next stop is ours. AND, if you're gonna make me walk for 20 minutes in blazing noon-day heat with 100% humidity, YES, I'm going to get the complexion of a boiled lobster. NO, this doesn't mean I'm sunburned and need to wear more sunscreen. NO, that doesn't mean I should've worn a hat. NO, I'm not going to fall over and have a heart-attack. And lastly, NO, being overheated does NOT make me hungry!!! Sorry if I seem a bit peeved, but being treated like a febrile five-year-old is starting to grate on me.
Well, other than that. I got to see a museum that sported tons of priceless Chinese artifacts that the capitalists took with them to Taiwan when they fled China. I bet mainland China loved that. And I also got to see the tallest building in the world, that has a mall in the first few floors - a Name-brand Label, empty your pocket dry, shiny mall. Just now, I got back from a Japanese style sauna. Very nice place, if you ask me. Even if I didn't get to see the inside saunas. Thank you very much, but naked sauna-ing with other naked ladies totally not my thing. Especially when those ladies are my relatives. The outdoor pools require swimsuits and I was more than happy to oblige, thus I got to spend a nice long afternoon roasting in some of the pools. Why we did this on such a hot day is beyond me, but it worked kinda. It made the day seem less hot when you got out of the 43C water. It made me kinda sad though. 43C was the hottest pool they had, and the next hottest water was around 37C...which felt nearly as hot as the water I usually use shower in. Perhaps I should get a user picture of a baby fire drake. =)
Dinner tonight was at the sauna place, which is actually more of a hot-springs resort that Auntie Shirly was treating us too. Yet more unidentifiable food! Of course, all of it was quite tasty, in a Chinese-pretending-to-be-Japanese way. Never thought I'd get to have food like that! At least they do a better job of it than Pittsburghers do of Mexican food. =P
Well, I'm running out of things to complain about, so this is me, signing off, yet again, to go sweat in a tiny little room with no AC. Somebody get me an air conditioner before I nail my hand to my forehead. =)