Archive for January, 2009

1984

Fun Fact: There are speakers on the lamp posts in the back alleys like for sirens during bad weather, but the government makes announcements on them like “Happy Chinese New Year!” or “Don’t forget that trash won’t be picked up until after the holidays.” It’s all very Big-Brother-y and very weird[ READ MORE ]

Pung!

I received a lot of red envelopes this Chinese New Year, so I treated us to a mahjong table and chairs for our newly inducted weekly mahjong/poker night. It’s going to happen or else Jen and I will turn into hermits for the next six months. I spent 14 hours playing mahjong with Jim’s (my [ READ MORE ]

新年快樂!

We went to Nine Percent last night. It was a pretty classy place, but there was no one there on a Saturday night. That’s because the entire city of Taipei has migrated home to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families. It seems like that a majority of people come to the big city to [ READ MORE ]

The Making of History

We celebrated Inauguration Day at the Brass Monkey, which also happened to be $1NT ($0.03 US) beer night from 9-10pm. The pub was full, we met some new people, and we got to see Obama on the big screen. We also probably found our new local watering hole. Happy Obama Day![ READ MORE ]

Mass

Today we had science day in my 5th grade class. We talked about matter and mass and volume for about an hour, and then I let them loose to work on the chapter assessment in groups. Five minutes into it.. Edison: “Teacher, what is mass?” “Look in the book, Edison. We just talked about it.” [ READ MORE ]