Well, i am alive, i just don't have much to say. I have been busy with work. Friday i was especially busy because we were under attack from a hacker and one part of my job as internet police is trying to mitigate that. So it was a high stress day. I bought a can of beer after work as a treat, and it is a treat since past couple months i kinda ( Read more... )

I was hoping to make another food post today, but things didn't turn out that way ( Read more... )

It's the first day of my holiday, so i am going to spend it writing about my butt ( Read more... )

Today is start of 端午節 Dragon Boat Festival. It's one of the Chinese holidays which i still don't really get what the point of it is. I mean, seriously, just go read the Wikipedia page and see if you can figure it out. It's all like "well it might commemorate this poet, or maybe that one, also it's almost summer, and something about insects and ( Read more... )

So, the typhoon never hit us. We didn't even really get much of a rain band when it passed ( Read more... )

This week has been bitterly cold in Taipei. I know that sounds kind of ridiculous to my North American friends under 4 feet of snow, or whatever, but i am supposed to be living on a Pacific island and goddamnit i should be able to wear flip-flops all year round ( Read more... )

Since i hardly ever hang out with other people, especially not other people who take photos of me, i rarely get a glimpse of how i look to them. I don't even think much about how i look to me. I do take the occasional selfie, but that's more for the benefit of my friends and family, to let them know i'm alive, happy and generally in good health. On ( Read more... )

This time tomorrow i hope i will be at the airport, which is likely to be an absolute shitshow. Chinese New Year is just as big of a deal here as it is in China, which is to say for the past week or so you can sense that everything has been winding down. Shops are open, but they're missing product, i guess because people are buying in bulk, or the ( Read more... )

I read this article earlier this week and i really wanted to share it here on LJ because i find it fascinating how another immigrant to Taiwan writes about the place ( Read more... )

Now that i am working full-time again, i am also an alcoholic again. I'm not quite at the drinking-every-day stage, but i get blackout drunk every Friday night and usually at least one other night during the week i get drunk enough that the next day i know i'm not at 100% performance. It's depressing. I waste half my weekend being hungover, and the ( Read more... )