Sunrise Hot Spring Hotel Hsinchu

... sit down and write for the next hour and a half. I walk back to the hall and the presentation is over. Irene’s professor said it was excellent and we head to lunch.

Lunch is a Taiwanese attempt at foreign food. I try the cheese sausage – which is basically a big hot dog with flecks of cheese in it. Irene order’s green tea toast. It is sort of strange to eat tea on toast, but it tastes pretty ...

... then had some wonderful hot showers to heat our bones up again. I made scrambled hot sauce eggs with onion and green peppers. We heated up this baguette we bought at Carrefour and had some sweet cakes as well. The bakery section there was just absolutely amazing and we had had a hard time narrowing down the items that we actually wanted to buy. Some 1-2 hours later I think we hit the absolute worst patch of the Typhoon. You couldn't see two feet in front of you ...

... mom. >_> Damage to right elbow since coming to Taiwan: - bruise on right side from hitting the business class and coach divider while getting off plane (loud "smack," ugly mark, but not much pain) - bruise and blood blister on left side from hitting sofa at the nursing home (got it right on the bone, hurt like hell the rest of the day) - scratch apparently from fainting today (couple inches, red, and painful)

... Downtown - Four Eyes Well, Matzu Temple, and night market; make sure you have some black-sugar shaved ice!! * Magong - Fugue, Beach in Shale and Shanshui, Ancient Oat Tree Path, River Crossing Bridge, and Guanin Park Summary: This is a small and relaxing city. There isn't a lot of traffic, hence, no a lot of public transportation. Most people ride motorcycles/scooters.

... park with a building and garden with hot water pools. The place is really beautiful, at least at the early time without any people. I look over the fence to see the facilities. A man tells me that they will only open at 9:00 am ( till 20:30 pm). He also confirms that they do not have a place to stay for the night. I won't have time to enjoy the hot spring, so I leave and continue my walk up to Taiping Shan. The first few cars and buses go up. They honk ...

... though, which put a bit of a dampener on things (hahaha, i'm a comic genius). The most interesting bit was walking through an old tunnel kiln - basically what it says it is. Instead of different kilns, the pots rolled through the tunnel to preheat, bake and cool. It was rather eerie - very long and very narrow, with lots of tiny alcoves everywhere. And obviously, it emerged into a shop! The shops was especially tatty ...

... did take the time to explain to me what my project for the PR dept this summer will be. The PR office is located directly above the showroom where guests are taken to see all the technological innovations of ITRI. My project is to take a look at how the English version of this presentation is being given, make edits to make it more understandable for foreign guests (this means researching all the technology mentioned!), and then working with the ...

I had a great time in Korea. Lots of sightseeing, eating and drinking...good times! I went to Korea to visit a good friend of mine, Dave Nuss. It's like Party at Nuss's again. He's far away from home and misses Mexican food like a mofo. The first night i got to Gimhae, we went to the International Music Festival at INJE University and hung out with Dave's friends and co-workers. We had some Korean food (Oden ...

As this is a travelblog I thought I should wait before continuing with my new travels for a second and write a little about my previous travel experience. Here are a few comments on my travels in the East. Arriving on Feb 13th 2005,the sky was gry,it was freezing and the place was ugly. No monks in the mountain,chanting and hitting their big gong-things every hour whilst a a stream flows peacefully by the other monks on their knees praying and working the ground to fulfill the ...

... The night eventually ended around 5.30, with me finding myself walking back to the P&W where I had for some reason left my scooter. After a few hours of much needed shut eye, I met up with Nancy to take trip up into the mountains around Jutung. We had hoped for a big group of people to turn up, but as is often the case, hangovers often mean Saturday is a bit of a right off for a lot of people. We did meet up with Brian O and so the three of us set off for the mountains ...