Results of the elections were great ! Fantastic victory for the KMT and Ma Ying Jeou. Now, reasonableness will be the way forward for Taiwan.
Category: Taipei
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Law & Order Original
I was rocking through the Mesmo TV FB app and got curious about the latest status of the show. A couple of blogs were saying that it’s not doing well and may be cancelled soon due to low ratings….. Of course, the changes in the show are mind boggling.
Rocked through it on L&O and Star Trek… unbelievable how addictive FB is 🙁
What’s the deal?
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Taipei New Year’s Eve
Really counting down now… 1 hour and 50 mins and counting down. B- and I are at her friend’s 8th floor apt which over looks 101. We can hear the festivities outside and watch from the TV. Invited a few friends, Malaysians, Singaporeans, Taiwanese and myself. Good simple celebration …. pizza, TGIF chicken wings, lots of wine and the obligatory mahjong table 🙂
I’m of course… on-line !
Hoping you guys have a great New Year’s Eve and a safe one…
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Xmas in HK
B- and I are headed to HK to celebrate Christmas HK style. Not exactly the same as NYC but pretty good alternative. We used Hotel Travel.com to book our accomodations at Cosmopolitan Hotel @ Wan Chai. Sitting in Taoyuan International Airport now typing this, using my CHT HSPDA modem to get online.
Been quite a month/week/day. Pooped out is more like it. I got hooked onto facebook despite my best efforts to resist. But then B- got into it with the cities thing and it was over. I spent way too much time jazzing up my facebook page despite the fact that putting bad stuff on there could ruin your career (as posted in various newspapers recently). This past week was so full of meetings. I facilitated on Thursday a workshop on strategy and then Friday immediately flew to Seoul (on CI) for another meeting. Just came back to TPE in the afternoon and waited in the airport for B- so we can then fly to HK this evening via CX.
Looking forward to some QT with B- in HK… she’s been great through this whole few months with the changes in BAT which has made me uncommonly busy. Looking forward to the challenges in 2008 but it’s quite daunting so hopefully the days off from now until Jan 2nd will help me recover, re-energize, and renew myself toward the projects ahead.
I’m reminded again what blessings B- and I have had during 2007, both personally and professionally. The good friends, church, and colleagues who have helped make Taiwan much more like home.
So wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas!
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Taipei Taiwan Turkey Day Wishes
Hi folks,
Wishing you all a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving Day back stateside. B- and I had our dinner at Les Champs, a French style restaurant and are now really stuffed.
Winter has set but still comfortably cool. A few more weeks and then 2008. Wow.
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Precious time — sleeping
Tired last night…. came back from the IPMF2007 workshop in Taipei and crashed in bed. Didn’t even bother to eat dinner. Woke up briefly to say hi to B- and take a bio break but that’s it. Now back to the IPMF Conference for some more project management learning and PDU capturing.
Was a rough week of travel that did me in…. Seoul Korea on Tuesday, then Malaysia on Thursday. To make it happen, Wednesday was all fly-day, then Thursday meeting then fly back and arrive Taipei at 1am Friday morning.
I’m getting old….
And winter is upon is. I had to break out my leather jacket for Taipei as it’s 20 degrees Celsius and slightly wet.
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On the road jack!
I’m back at it again. Transiting through Taoyuan, Taipei, Taiwan….. Just came back from a 2 day excursion to Korea, Jeju Island. What a fantastic little island that has great vacation to-dos. I went there for a team building with my new colleagues from Korea. Great Korea food that busted the gut, too much Jinro soju (F C should know this pretty well ;)) and lots of good learnings and discussions.
We did ATV and live round shooting. I scored a 75 out of 120 on the pistol (used a HK issue 9mm) but rocked on the rifle shooting with a 119 out of 120. First round missed the mark pretty wide. I’ve a future as a Marine sharpshooter if this tech thing doesn’t work out…. haha. I’m going to put them up on my office walls :). First time doing it and I gotta say, it was a rush. Almost like how I read about shooting. You’re supposed to gently squeeze the trigger, not yank it otherwise the recoil will make your shot go all over the place. You breath slowly and squeeze the trigger and bam bam bam, pretty much hits the place you’re aiming at. Way cool!
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A dash of Tabasco sauce please…..
You’re an Oyster!
You don’t have a ton of complexity or identity on your own, so you’ve made an effort to focus on making a nice and sturdy house. It gives you the appearance of being interesting as well as a good place to hide from your critics and those who might expose your secrets. At least you can remind us all of what humble beginnings we’ve all come from. People associate you with really good crackers.
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at the Blue Pyramid.So I’m back on the road again. This past week, one day trip to HK for a meeting. Then flying off to HK again this weekend. Next week to Korea’s Jeju Island for some team building exercises. Jeju island apparently is the honeymoon getaway for many Korean newlyweds. We’ll see how it is…. excited for my first Korea visit!
Mixed views of the added travels for Sept. More HK and Beijing as well before a week long holiday with the B-‘s family end of the month.
Fun stuff….
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Confused-HH
You’re Siddhartha!
by Hermann Hesse
You simply don’t know what to believe, but you’re willing to try
anything once. Western values, Eastern values, hedonism and minimalism, you’ve spent
some time in every camp. But you still don’t have any idea what camp you belong in.
This makes you an individualist of the highest order, but also really lonely. It’s
time to chill out under a tree. And realize that at least you believe in
ferries.
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at the Blue Pyramid.Also getting the second typhoon of the season, Sepat
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Checking in
Been awhile, just so busy with stuff at work, I’d forgotten to check back here. Time has just went a big “whooooooooooooosssshhhhh” :o! Anyways, what prompted me to blab was I caught some old AsianAvenue.com spam mail and found “AngryAsianMan.com” tie-in with AA. I’m like WTF?! Unbelievable, I guess things just don’t ever change, but people in their old age move on and get on with the more important things in life.
Will be an interesting summer…. lots of work stuff coming down the pike. I’ve got my seat belt buckle on.
Keep cool folks!