Mrs. Higgins: However did you learn good manners with my son around ( Read more... )

If anyone has ever thought that I am too proud and unwilling to admit to any mistakes, however minor, I can tell you now with utter conviction, unequivocally, that I inherited this trait from my parents and they are a thousand times worse than I am ( Read more... )

Because seriously, how can I not be angry when my fucking dad credits my brother with my fucking idea? That's just called blatant fucking chauvinism. Ohhhhh, my brother is so great, because he does this. Ooohhhh, he's so awesome because he does that, why can't you be more like your brother? Why don't you be just as taciturn and boring and have ( Read more... )

I'm finally back in Taiwan! The weather is atrociously -- let me find my thesaurus here -- swelteringly hot; blazing; scorching; steaming; uncomfortably and disgusting humid and (here's a new one)febrile, that as I described to a friend once in a letter ( Read more... )

So here's an example of what I go through at home ( Read more... )

I called it. The first thing my mom said when she saw me was a comment on how fat I am. That's what she said last time I came off the plane, and I knew, after seeing the hordes of painfully skinny girls walking past me, that it'd be her first observation ( Read more... )

I love listening to the wind howl and whistle at night; reminds me of home in Hsin-Chu, lying awake in my bed at midnight.

I called my parents at roughly 1130 PM GST +8:00 (Taiwan time), and I hadn't realized how much I miss home. I spent a good hour or so talking to them, and when I hung up, I started crying. I didn't think that I would be so vulnerable after being on my own after five months. You never really know how much you do love your parents until you have to ( Read more... )

Well, Friday was a bit of a shock, and it also proves that to all seniors, April is the worst month of the year ( Read more... )

Taiwanese presidential election was yesterday, and the DPP won by a margin of little more over 20 000 votes. The KMT is now challenging that vote as well as several factors that might've influenced the outcome, such as the alleged shooting of President Chen on 3/19. So right now, the government is recounting the votes and searching for possible ( Read more... )