We’re living in a rather large building in a rather large community in Taipei County. I’m not sure exactly how many people live in the building… but it’s 22 floors times 4-6 apartments per floor. So there could be over 300 people living in our building. Unfortunately, noise in such a large building is inevitable…
And I’m not going to follow ‘poop’ anytime soon… Who knows I might even follow it to the bathroom!
With summer coming up, the weather here in Taiwan has turned warmer (finally). Apart from spending three weekends painting our room, we’re beginning to enjoy the warmer weather and getting out more. The last couple of weekends have seen nicer weather. Christine has even renovated her old bike and cycled from where we live to…
A little Earth God statue. Some more nice flowers… Wish I took biology lessons. Sunset over Guanyin Mountain. The Sakura are finally blossoming all over our area. It’s going to be a pretty spring.
Well, Christmas is just a few days away now, and it seems that many people are holding off Christmas shopping until just before and even (perhaps!) after the festive holiday. Why? Because they are all out looking for a best buy or great deal that they can save big on. And this season, with retailers’…
Movie-going is still popular in Taiwan amongst students and young people, but it’s been quite a while since I went and sat in a movie-theater. Though, about six months ago, we went to see the 3D version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The screen was huge (as befits IMAX), the sound…
Enjoy! I had fun taking this picture… in fact, this is the best one we discovered in a walk down by the river. I’m going to feature this in my flower calendar soon, so check back!
Seth’s Blog The danger in celebrity worship is that it can persuade you not to bother trying. After all, the thinking goes, our organization is so thoroughly screwed up that we’ve never got a chance to be like them, so why bother? In fact, organizations like Apple struggled for years, and continue to struggle… it’s…
Truthfully, we’ve been in business for more than six years, and I’ve been finding the last few months TOUGH! To summarize, we thought we had made a breakthrough a few months, but! we have just fallen back to the way things were last year. Our business has a lot of repeat and long-term customers, who…