It’s Chinese New Year, and you wouldn’t believe the things I eat! I couldn’t in all honesty say much of what I have eaten in the past five days has approached anything close to health food. More’s the pity. So what’s wrong with the Chinese New Year Diet! Well, high in fats, high in salts,…
Wishing my readers all and one a happy and prosperous year of the tiger! It starts on Sunday! We’ll likely be in Sanshia for the weekend, but the weather is predicted to be just awful! Oh, well! Likely we’ll eat too much, watch too much TV, and try to stay warm!
Image-nokia382, originally uploaded by obblogatory. Yes, it’s that time of the year again, and Chinese New Year is coming soon… Very soon! We went to a local temple near Dasi, in Taoyuen County. A lot of people were busy praying. However, I noted this unusual statuary. Anyone know what this is called in English?
This is the holiday calendar for 2010. Sorry, I couldn’t find the Chinese one yet. Get your 2010 Calendar
I’ve been abroad for quite a while, but despite living in a non-English speaking country and learning something of the language, I still prefer to use English on my PCs… it’s just faster to learn and use. So whenever I need something from Google in English, I always set the cookie to the default using…
Let’s dig in !, originally uploaded by EndlessSupra. Endless Supra took this wonderful picture of Sushi. It’s a particular favorite of mine. The vendor on our street stopped selling it just after Chinese New Year. 🙁
It’s approaching Chinese New Year now, and it’s the year of the Ox. And this is one of my first pictures of a Cow, taken in Taipei Eslite Building yesterday. It’s a green cow. No word on who the artist is.
Taiwanese are to be given new vouchers worth about NT$3600 (or about US$200) by the government to encourage them to go out shopping. It seems the government is keen to get everyone here shopping again. According to the Premier, people will be able to buy anything with consumer vouchers the government will issue next Jan….
As we tidied up yesterday, I had an attempt at stripping parts from a PC that was no longer required. In fact, it had been in service for over 7 years, and was now approaching the EOL. I stripped out the CD rom, which was seldom used, the hard-disk to get at the contents, and…