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I'm back in California for five days until I have to move back to Ohio
and start my second year. A part of me actually looks foward to
going back to school because I miss studying and I miss the
stability. The other part of me calls me a fool for wanting to go
back.
Anyways, my last post of photos with captions. Some things for
you guys should look for is the lack of partying pictures along with
the constant reoccurance of a particular person who was my partner in
crime for passing the nights away without alcohol. My liver
thanks her.
Awww, how cute, a big panda with a steering wheel coming out of its neck....
I might as well ride that big boy
Nicole with her giant koala. The koala isn't as cute as the panda, actually it looks scared.
Ferris wheel on top of Miramar Mall. I spent five days convincing
Nicole to go with me. She says she's scared of heights but loves
rollar coasters. That doesn't make sense to me, I think she was
just avoiding me.
Inside the ferris wheel. The view isn't that great because the
mall is actually outside of taipei so you can't really see downtown
very well.
"Look, its one of my friends!!!" So apparently this model is a
family friend of Nicole's and every so often they hang out. She's
like the top model in Taiwan. Here's the conversation with Nicole
when she saw the picture (with my thoughts)
Nicole: (pointing at the ad) "Do you know who that is?"
Me: "um.... no" <I really did know who that was because I've seen
pictures of her online but I didn't want to seem like some horny
pervered loser who knows about hot asian models>
Nicole: "She's Lin Zhi Ling, she's actually one of my family friends from a while ago"
Me: "What? You should bring her out next time we hang out"
Nicole: "She's too busy. Maybe I can get you an autographed
picture. Her mom always brings us autographed pictures and we
have too many so we usually just give them away to people"
Anyways, yes Nicole, I did know who she was. Sorry for the tiny white lie.
I told Nicole to jump over the fence and ride the carousel but instead
she just tried to grab for it. Good enough to make it into my
xanga.
Nicole and her friend Lina on our "double date." She said she
didn't want to be a third wheel, but then both her friend Lina and the
other guy, Russ, had significant others. Not sure how you can be
a third wheel unless its like a cheaters date.
Us waiting at the Subway station for her friend, Jenny, for a whole
hour. Notice the total fobby dress that Nicole wears to work then
for hanging out later. Look what living in taiwan does to you.
Looks like the artsy-fartsy picture Brian takes of alcohol.
Real sky or painting on the ceiling at starbucks? I love starbucks in
taiwan except the whole ordering thing. When i ask for coffee,
they think I mean a Latte or capacino. You have to say black
color coffee. But half the time you ask for that, they give you
an americano.
My cell at 'bucks
Taipei street at night
I got bored so I took a picture of my famous "line of moles" on my left
hand. Three of them line up perfectly. I got a massage here
and the girl said that moles like that is a sign of someone who is
smart.
Ben, Ryan, and me. Notice around Ryan's head, it looks like
theres a halo of light. No idea where that came from, but maybe
he's really an angel or something.
Me and Doris. One of the nicest local girls I met here. Her
english is barely better then my chinese and she never got frustrated
while talking to me in our broken Chingrish conversations.
No idea whats going on here, but its Eric, Eric, and Ben
Eric looking for more songs while Doris sings
Doris, Alice, and Ben
Alice and Ben. Awww!!! so cute together
Ben is singing Dragon Ash's "Grateful Days".
Loveboat Tina and me
Me and Nicole
Lastly a slideshow on "The Divergent Evolution of Two Drunkards"
"Already Drunk" Me: After many shots of whiskey. Eric: After many shots of Vodka and Whiskey
"A Second Wind after Beers" Me: Fobby Drunk. Eric: Rocker Drunk
"Ready to end the night with...." Eric: Love Making. Me: a Fight
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A piece of yellow poo nicole gave me. It looks so darn happy.
Another picture update. You know what i've noticed when i'm
browsing through other people's xanga? People for the most part are
boring. All they do is just write about their lives on their
xanga. They write about their emotions, current events, their
favorite food.
Wait, am i missing something here? Is xanga suppose to be a place where
i can really express myself, to show everyone who I really am? Can I
start to make public the poetry and prose questioning the existence of
life and the meaning of friendship that I've written in my cute pink
diary right before I go to sleep? Maybe I'm the one who's wrong
here. Well with that said, off to the pictures of drunkeness and
art museum.
"The storm is coming" - R. Kelly
"After the storm comes a calm" - Matthew Henry (I googled "after the
storm - quote", if only i put this much effort into my studies)
The clear blue sky of taipei. (Well outside taipei. Apparently a
lot of people call it taipie-shen, which i took to mean outside of
downtown. I needed 10 locals to explain to me that
taipei-shen is taipei county. I was close enough. See my
chinese is hen-how)
My artistic touch for a photo of some artsy sculpture in front of the
Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Actually i call my photos artistic when
I accidently get the sun or its rays in the picture. Art at its
finest.
The sculpture without my own artistic influence. Well thats all
the pics for the msuseum because you can't take pics inside. I
still tried, but the lighting was horrible (no sun-rays).
My grandma's 77th birthday. Happy B-DAY GRANDMA! I better get some eprops from her this time.
My Ah-Ma (grandma in taiwanese) and me. Its weird, but I would
think that my grandma looks at my hair and thinks to herself that she
use to style her hair like mine when she was my age.
Some taiwanese girl, another taiwanese girl, nicole, me, and some
japanese girl. So one night Nicole tells me that her family is
hosting a japanese girl from some tour group and that group of japanese
kids wanted to go clubbing. First they had to go to a night
market where its hot and humid because the taiwanese parents thought it
would be a good cultural experience. Anyways, Nicole convinces me
that it'll be fun so I show up waiting to get my drink on. After
two hours of walking in the humidity and the discovery of a
miscommunication that no one in fact wanted to go clubbing, I sadly
walked my sweaty ass back home. A very memorable night.
David visiting taipei from gao-shang. Its just like old times in love boat, well without girls.
Oh wait, here's one. We picked her up right in front of her high
school. Just kidding, thats Kiki and it was "uniform night" at
Room 18. This was at a karoke place after 18. Why we're
dancing on the couch in a karoke room, your guess is good as
mine. My guess? alcohol.
David with Kiki and Tina.
David, Kiki, me, Jeff, and Ben. Why is Kiki in so many of our
pictures you ask? Well she's so damn fun. That and the
school-girl uniform.
David chugging some red wine with apple soda drink from the tea-pot.
Alice and Ben. Awww, don't they look so cute together.
Me and Tina. Too badIi look like an idiot. Can someone crop out
my face and put in a picture of me not smiling like a kid in a candy
store?
More shrimping with Nicole and David. Notice the total disgust on Nicole's face.
Me teaching one of my Cupertino-boys Andrew how to smoke hooka.
Last but not least. They sit the same way, they have the same nose,
the same eyes, the same smile... OMG its the Lee sisters: Crystal and Selena.
Notice how Crystal looks more pale then her little
sister. She works in Shanghai where tan is not in.
One quick story.
In the middle of making this entry (it takes almost 2 hours to resize
pics, then put them online, then make hilarious captions) I went to the
hospital cafeteria to eat dinner. Nothing exciting until i took
my last bite and bit on something hard, which i thought was a
bone. I spit it out and it seriously looks like the biggest
thickest yellow toe-nail ever. I almost puked in my mouth.
Its been an hour since dinner and I'm still considering forcing myself
to puke. Karma at its best.
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| The last update wasn't suppose to be a real update. It was a test
picture run, then i tried to update a real entry, but then firefox
decided to blow-up and i was too lazy to rewrite my entry. Since
i got a whopping 3 comments asking "wtf are you holding?" i might as
well explain thats its a Sony mp3 player. Now that i think of it, it
kind of does look like a mini-vibrator, but its my brothers, not
mine. I had to borrow his mp3 player for my trip because i've
broken 2 ipods and i'd feel guilty giving apple any more of my money.
Anyways, here's some pictures from taiwan. I actually haven't taken a
lot because i don't really go touring and i'm usually hanging out with
older guys. I'd feel like a girl if i busted out my camera and
started taking all these pics. Plus we frequent establishments
where i'm not quite sure if i'm allowed to take pictures.
Clubbing is definetely different from the last time i was in taiwan
with love boat. Now i only roll with 6-10 people, mostly
guys. But all the people i go with are older, so somehow we avoid
paying for cover which is a positive. Anyways, off to the pics.
NIGHTLIFE:
Drinking red wine with gloria at a jazz club. A freakn JAZZ CLUB in taipei. I actually saw a black guy there.
Clubbing at Room 18 with gloria. For those loveboaters, Room 18
actually moved across the corner. Its bigger now and apparently
the place to be, which kind of sucks because the club is completely
packed. Like so ridiculously packed that you're going to punch
the next person who touches your ass. (We thought there was black
guy there, so gloria asked him if he was black. Apparently he was
just a real dark taiwanese dude. Our bad.)
Gloria as a tree hugger outside 18.
Pic with Gloria and her bro, Henry, at Party World (KTV) after 18.
Gloria stealing the spotlight
Glo with Henry and her cousin Patrick (aka P.Diddy, aka St. Patty)
Gloria stealing Patrick's thunder
Its a family thing: Gloria, her cousin Patrick, her other cousin Eric, and her bro Henry.
Gloria and Eric at Bar Code watching the World Cup. I was telling
Glo that Eric looks familar and she says he looks like James (aka
Vamos). I kinda agree. So at this bar, during halftime,
these scantly dressed bar girls start dancing and glo's only reaction
was, "wow, i really like her hair." Sorry i meant to take pics of
the girls, but was too slow. They were grinding too fast for my
camera.
Me and Glo at bar code. If you look closely, you can see some of
my nose hairs. SEXY. Also check out the sweat stains under
the bill of my cap. DOUBLE SEXY. Its my favorite hat.
Outside bar code. Actually i really don't know the bar is
called. I know we meant to go to bar code, but it might not have
been. Anyways, i'm calling it bar code.
Picture with Nicole and Patrick before he left for China. Patrick
is definetely the man. Best tour guide ever. The guy showed
me the ins-and-outs of taipei. He introduced me to all his
friends, who i'm now friends with. He definetely made taipei a
total experience. When i first got here i was worried about going
out because a lot of my friends who i thought would be here couldn't
make it to taipei. But this guy made sure i had fun. Can't
say enough about this guy. So thanks to Glo for introducing me to
her family and thanks to Patrick for making the past three weeks
memorable (well from at least what i can remember, i actually don't
remember much.)
SHRIMPING:
Nicole and Patrick at the shrimping place. Apparently its one of
those "true local taiwanese things." Its like compound with a
huge dirty pool, dining area, and grill area. So you pay like 10
bucks and shrimp all you want using a rod and hook. Then whatever
you catch, you cook right away and eat. Its actually really
fun. Apparently Nicole and Patrick forgot to send me the memo
that we're suppose to wear aqua blue shirts to match with the
chairs.
Patrick with his first of six shrimp. He was the big
winner. But he got braces that day and couldn't eat alot.
So he might have caught the most, but also ate the least. That
makes me the big winner: minimal input, maximal output.
My hand on my rod. The shrimping pool.
Me with my first catch. Notice two things. My favorite cap
and what gloria likes to call "the ugliest shirt I've ever seen."
Oh yeah, look how oily my face is, the place wasn't air-conditioned
that well, actually it wasn't air-conditioned at all. Good ol'
local-taiwanese fun (at my pores' expense)
Nicole with her first catch. She's a true trooper. St.
Patty and me could tell she wasn't having fun, you know being a girl
and having to catch your own food then cooking it yourself. OMG
even worst you have to touch the shrimp, can't we just hire people to
do that for us?
The ever so clear water where my dinner awaits.
Patrick cleaning our catch. I think in total we caught 11 shrimps
in almost 3 hours. The owner gave us like six extra shrimp
because he felt bad for us.
The shrimp ready for the grill. Notice the high grade sanitation.
Shrimp on the barbie
MY ROOM:
A corner of my room during dusk. I'm actually rarely in my room
at that time because i'm either working or off to taipei to
eat/drink. But I took the day off because I was a little too hung
over from the day before. Its just almost impossible to go to
work at 8am when you don't get back to your room until 5am.
Another corner of my room with my bunk bed.
And with that, ends my first picture of Taiwan. Hopefully i can
take pictures that include other people so you guys believe that i
actually do go out.
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