So for the full 10K run I’m anticipating doing in April, I’m beginning preparation. I quit the Kinmen race because of many reasons, one of which I wasn’t ready. Sure I can run 10K, but it takes me 2 hours max. Which is quite slow. No shit, Holmes? I’m setting a target of 8.5m/k for…
I knew that it could destroy your liver if you overdosed, but inducing risk-taking behavior is something disturbing. Alain R. There are way too many caveats for this article’s claims to be understood as 100% proven (which is why I’m not advertising the article’s sensationalist title. It is merely indicative research, and the paper highlights…
I make good soup and sandwiches regularly anyway. Why would I need to pay through the nose for substandard equivalents. That’s the weird thing about eating out here. So many restaurants don’t even meet the price/quality targets of the convenience stores yet seem to think it’s quite okay to charge 3 or even 4 times…
Forgot which forum. Probably FB Group. One member tried to assert that the East Coast’s population was only a few hundred thousand or so. That didn’t make sense. So I added up the entire east coast of Taiwan: Yilan, Hualien, and Taitung. Technically speaking, parts of New Taipei City and PingTung are also on the…
I lived here a while. This is quite rare, esp. a woman, in a store but more common around some areas of Taipei. While some posters highlight medical issues, they may be right. But I suspect that it is alcohol addiction that may be the issue at heart. Addiction takes away ones dignity, ones self-respect,…
Chiang Kai Shek’s religiosity is probably one of the reasons that Christianity took off here. It surprises many that he was in fact christian in his beliefs (at least later in life). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17535650902900364 CKS was in fact a methodist. But the deaths attributed to him number in the millions: https://www.cbgr1971.org/index.php/genocide/what-is-genocide/2-r-j-rummel-on-genocide Of course, his crimes against…
I forgot to add some notes: It’s hard to run after biking! But one of the weird things is that avg heart rates on bike are so low. I think there’s a measurement issue. I’m also much faster on a bike, all things considered. My body seems to work slower, though. I don’t get it….
There are lots of things that are noisy in Taipei: fireworks at all hours, revving scooters with illegal exhausts, souped-up cars with loud engines/exhausts, temple shows at all hours, loud KTVs and quasi-KTVs in the parks with awful singing, Mahjong games that go on all night, … it seems to me that when people make…
I’m going to suggest quite the contrary. If you’re already selling, you have an audience and word of mouth reputation. This is 1000x better than anything FB or IG will give you. Why? Let me outline some reasons: with FB, IG it’s pay to play these days: you pay for your audience, and you pay…