Well, it turns out the Sex Pistols not only asked God to Save The Queen, but they inadvertently saved my efforts at jogging. That, and a stop watch which I could add time to quickly. With the idea of jogging a measured distance/step count, I would alternate with equal amounts. But I tried distance measuring,…
I’m adding a few tweaks to my 80kg plan to help me get there. No major prizes for guessing what they are. None of these is particularly new: I’ve done them all at separate times but this is the first time I’m attempting to do all of them together with the rest of what I’m…
I know it’s not practice for a 4km… but anyways that’s what I did today. I went to buy some running shoes but to be honest, not only did I not know what I was looking for… I didn’t even look for a pair. Sigh! Tim Ho Wan: Dinner Still we ended up at Tim…
It is true. The ingredients are always well hard to find, usually inane, and much of the text redundant. Thanks @google SEO!
We strive to be fair to all people. It’s part of human nature. But in some cases, fairness for some involves unfairness for others: if you are raised as a girl, your gender is female but you have a high testosterone level … is that fair to the other participants who aren’t as lucky? Is…
It’s hard to get stoneground flour in Taiwan, at least in the bigger shops. I found this. Damn it makes good bread, that plus I’ve been adding a lot more water. The result is that it makes really soft sandwich bread, which is great for our purposes. For 400g of flour, my recipe used to…
We visited this gallery last week to check out what was going on. The paintings are huge, intricate and complex. As a non-Buddhist, it is hard for me to appreciate the metaphysical meanings of the images. So I’m just going to say: Enjoy the images at Ruomu Gallery.
It’s also sadly untrue. Since the end of the American soldiers in Taipei, the sex industry has shrivelled somewhat in Taiwan. The old Combat Zone has been regenerated several times over since then, though you can still find the ‘seedy’ side of Taipei if you look hard enough. Taipei’s money trees are now firmly planted…
I’m not sure ‘cleanest’ is something I prize above all else at an airport. Mind you, Edinburgh Airport would have to rank as close to the worst airport I’ve ever been through. I have to say it is ‘mostly’ efficient, but ‘classy’, ‘pleasant’ and ‘clean’ wouldn’t be the first, second or third adjectives that I’d…