It was my first Friday night in Taichung and the stress of preparing for my first teaching demonstration the afternoon before had melted away. Initially I’d tried to ask the night shift hotel reception girl if she could recommend anywhere nearby but she said she didn’t know. Either I’d massively misjudged her age or she’d [...]
You’ll have to bear with me as my food ordering at the moment is extremely limited. Eating weirder stuff might come later as I slowly learn what’s what here and overcome my ‘eating food = 10 minutes of ordering negotiation’ phobia. Not knowing anyone here and currently living in a smaller town means my current [...]
My first shower in Taiwan left me feeling like I’d done something massively wrong. I’m led to believe that most Taiwanese people just have the one shower in the evening before bed. I’m don’t quite understand the logic in this, other then perhaps wanting to keep your bed clean? I guess it’s probably something along [...]
Thinking of myself as somewhat mildly intuitive of being able to distinguish visually between people of different Asian origin, I have since learnt it’s not just about how they look but how they behave. Using looks to determine where someone comes from in Taiwan is about as relevant as English at night market.
I’ve been living out of a suitcase this past week as I’ve made my way around Taiwan. Luckily I’ve had the luxury of a relatively stable internet connection so although blogging frequency has slipped I’ve still been able to keep things somewhat updated around here. Over the next week or so (could be two weeks) [...]
I’ve always liked having pets around. For me the attraction has always been in the company. Pets are always around, they’re always happy to see you and they’re happy doing whatever you’re doing (and if you’re not careful, eating what you’re eating). Still I’ve always tried to be a responsible pet owner and despite maybe [...]
Scenario 1: Jack goes rabbit shooting before school, pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack. 1959 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s rifle, goes to his car and gets his rifle & chats with Jack about guns. 2009 – School goes into lock down, Star Force called, Jack hauled off [...]
Some newspapers and some news organisations will not adapt to the digital realities and they will fail. – Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp I know charging Australian’s for news won’t work and you know that it won’t work. Surely I can’t be the only one who is over the sabre rattling that has been [...]
Most of the time when I hear stupid things coming out of Britain about Australia Germaine Greer is to blame. This time however I’ve got a bone to pick with the UK general public. I don’t know about you lot but I don’t recall having ever set foot in a third world country and seen [...]