It is crunch time in school at the moment. In the meantime, click on something in “Look at These”.
Note: My inspiration for calling my links section “Look at These” comes from this woman who used to tailor my mother’s clothes. Her name was Mrs. Babcock and she lived by the old brick factory. My stepfather and I went over to pick up some stuff my mother had dropped off and she answered the door with these two gigantic apples in her hands, shouting, “Look at these!”. We were startled.
Posted by Administrator on 06.13.2007 at 10:29 pm// Tagged: False Childhood Memories //
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The room with square panels thing–did Rain get it from Whitney or did Whitney get it from Rain?
Posted by Administrator on 05.19.2007 at 10:37 am// Tagged: Oops //
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The weather was so lovely yesterday afternoon–it was a perfect day to be stalked at the Taipei Train Station. I stopped by the train station after attending a correspondents’ club event nearby to check out the high-speed rail schedule before heading home. My stalker, a nasty looking, early 40s weirdo toting a giant fake Burberry tote bag, followed me from the bathroom and around the station. He was so enamored with me he even ran after me into the 310 bus which I caught as it was just about to pull out. Now that really freaked me out and I jumped off at the next stop and just took the subway home.
This event reminded me why I hate the Taipei Train Station in the first place. The place has become so gross and grimy. When I was there a burst water pipe was raining all over the floor near the ticket area. The TRA really needs to clean up its trains and stations. And now the station is going to be taken over by the Breeze Center. We’ll see how that works.Â
Posted by Administrator on 05.02.2007 at 1:06 pm// Tagged: The City //
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In the World of Walmart, tiny Taiwan is bigger than Africa or Australia.
Posted by Administrator on 04.18.2007 at 11:34 pm// Tagged: The Island //
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I am not too sure about its other restaurants, but the coffee shop at the Regent really seems to be sliding. Noisy, crowded, uncomfortable atmosphere; terrible food, including salad that’s obviously been sitting out for hours. This is a Four Season’s property?
Posted by Administrator on 04.16.2007 at 8:49 am// Tagged: False Childhood Memories //
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Do you hate the long immigration lines at Peach Orchard International Airport? Well, don’t complain about it or you could be kicked out of Taiwan for five years–even if you are married to a Taiwanese.
Posted by Administrator on 04.15.2007 at 3:54 pm// Tagged: False Childhood Memories //
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I just have to shake my head in disbelief at this article about an American woman living in Hualien being fined NTD 6,000 (about US$181) for telling someone to frig off. See Rank’s breakdown about this–and “Don’t think that Taiwanese judges don’t understand English”!
I love this bit:
The accompanying story explains that the defendant had had the misfortune of running into Judge Zheng Pei-ting who “studies English assiduously with a private foreign tutor and plans to do graduate work in the US.” Zheng, whose English was “excellent” in school, had her doubts about the usage and asked her undoubtedly illegal private tutor whether the usage ‘Forget you’ was correct. Her tutor confirmed that ‘forget you’ is not a valid English construction.
Posted by Administrator on 04.12.2007 at 12:21 am// Tagged: False Childhood Memories //
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Our secret spies have been at it again, and this time they’ve caught an interesting way to sell U.S. beef. (And corn-fed beef–see the corn!) Not really sure if that cow is sporting a uni-udder or needs a ballbra. And that’s about all we are going to say about this–we don’t want to have to be dragged down to some courthouse in Texas like they did to Oprah.
Posted by Administrator on 04.06.2007 at 10:21 pm// Tagged: Weird Photos //
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The Players:
A: Late-40s, tired, bald, white, North American, ex-military-type-or-high-school-coach-looking dad
B and C: Dad’s two teenage Eurasian kids; perhaps the family is here visiting relatives?
The Setting: Walking around behind the Shin Kong Tower area, the teens start to argue with dad.
B (the son): “Dad, you’re not making any sense.”
A: (Stops to turn around and violently grab son by the arm and push him against a column) “Don’t tell me what my sense is!”
Posted by Administrator on 04.04.2007 at 9:52 pm// Tagged: The City //
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…tried to keep my hands on the table.
Quick! Get out your Grease 8-track tapes, your Xanadu videocassettes (hopefully in betamax) and put on your leg warmers—Olivia Newton-John is coming to Taipei! Now this we would actually go see, as long as the show is more Physical and Magic and not the 90s new age earth-mother crap.
Posted by Administrator on 03.21.2007 at 8:11 pm// Tagged: Pop Muzik //
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