United Hotel Taipei

Today, I tried to wake up early as I felt I'm missing out on too much by sleeping in - so much for "I'll sleep when I'm on holidays". As I write this, it's 1:30am so it's better as the previous night's I've been sleeping at 3ish. I skipped breakfast thinking I'll just get something along the way, but instead I finally remembered that I needed to change money so I stopped by the HSBC. In hindsight, I probably should have chosen a Taiwanese bank as ...

... of measurement? Such scenarios seem absurd, but form the premises of many Hollywood movies of the past decade, The Matrix trilogy possibly being the best example. Like the best conspiracy theories, none of it can be disproved, and that's the beauty of it, and the danger. By the same token, the most successful scientific theory ever, quantum mechanics, is totally foreign to common sense, and it has been proven over and over and over ...

... bawling once I got to sit down and read them. Which unfortunately was while I was waiting for the plane to leave and I was sitting next to the Chinese Pilots. Although I might not understand Chinese, I can tell they were either shocked that I could read Japanese, or laughing at me for crying so much >.< Takato's letter was full of comedians and even pictures of his favourite foods, Akari's on the other ...

... president when the Republic of China (ROC) was founded in 1912 and later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT) where he served as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered in both Mainland China and in Taiwan."

... that surrounded us and could live of this breeze of adrenalin till Sunday. I had a very special late night talk with Luke about life, magic, music and love - just incredible. I wish I would have any contact details still, but somehow we missed to change any information. Well maybe it was meant to leave all these life questions alone like that. Meeting Steve was pretty special too, he is a film ...

... formed because of volcanic action due to the big fault line running close to the coast (there's a line of islands all the way from the Philippines to Japan to Kamchatka in Russia, following this fault line), and is still rising out of the sea. Not much mind you, but enough to have caused an amazing array of erosion to the rock on this tiny spit of land. The area is covered in many different kinds of rock formations ...

This morning I couldn't stand waiting around in my hotel any longer, so I excitedly took a cab to the airport to wait there....hahaha. After much napping in many different places of the airport I finally boarded the flight for the first leg of my journey home - Bangkok to Taipei. I arrived in Taiwan at 9:30pm local time and have 2 hours to kill here until my flight to SFO takes off. I love that I ...

... small train to get there) we are greeted by a woman who works for the Resort. Her name is Stefanie and Wallace teaches her English in Wulai. She invites us to the Resort for a free cable car ride. We take some photos in the car and enjoy the great view. Stefanie shows us around the whole park, which is really a very natural and beautiful place. It has been an old small fun park, but most of the facilities have been removed as it is not anymore allowed to build ...

... thieves throw up nets and airplanes take their toll. That's why only a fortunate few survive, let alone win. It takes four to seven hours to fly 200 to 350 kilometers. Thousands of birds are released and in bad weather, about half come back. Of 200,000 pigeons that begin training, just 200 tough racers remain at the end of a normal seven-race season. ] Then two bus loads of tourists arrive and spread out. One man offers me Bin Lang ( betel nuts ...

... at 2:30 in the morning with no plans, reservations, or clues about how to navigate Taipei. We soon learned from some maps that Cheng Kai Shek International Airport is no where near the city of Taipei itself. Or anything for that matter. We dodged a shady offer from a taxi driver. (I just don't trust a woman who grooms the thick tuft of grey hairs protruding from her chin mole. Especially when she demands $1200 up front). Of course, we had no concept of how much ...