Archive for August, 2009

TW -> HK -> LA -> DFW -> Nashville

Four connecting flights and 27 hours later, I’m back in Nashville. My mom picked me up at the airport. She looked so tiny standing at the exit. My parents moved last December, so it was a bit strange driving home. I had no idea where we were going. The new house is big and lovely [ READ MORE ]

Ghost Stories

Asians are very superstitious when it comes to spirits and souls and ghosts. Just based on movies alone, one can see how much they believe in ghosts here and how often they see them in their daily lives. There are even TV shows consisting of people giving personal accounts of their encounters with ghosts, much [ READ MORE ]

Cell Phones, Smell Phones

Fun Fact: A lot of people in Taiwan here own multiple phones. (I am now one of them.) They carry one from every phone service carrier so they can talk for free in-network with friends who are in the same network. It doesn’t cost very much per carrier every month, and it all adds up [ READ MORE ]

Fruit!

You know you live in a subtropical country when you can get five different kinds of yummy fruits, precut, on any given night, all for the low low price of $200 NT ($6 USD). Clockwise from top left: Papaya, dragon fruit, Asian pear, pineapple, honeydew[ READ MORE ]

Hualien 花蓮

We flew out to Hualien on Friday at 12:30pm. We were going to take a train, but everything was booked, and driving was out of the question since the road there is mountainous and cliffside and a little bit dangerous especially after recent landslides. So we flew, and it only took 40 minutes. We got [ READ MORE ]