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Location | Taipei

Today I fed a swarm of giant goldfish (koi), saw peacocks, rode deer and got attacked by a pack of stray dogs.

Let me go into detail…

So we all went out into the garden to film for our video and so the garden of the NPM has big ponds with giant goldfish (koi), swans, ducks and probably other miscellaneous things. Anyway, we fed swarms of goldfish. It was as if they were starving to death. Then they also have peasants, chickens and peacocks. They looked so cool! So sad though, their cages are small…

Joe-Jay, Joey and myself

Then afterwards, Alan, Angel and I went down to the aborigine park and took pictures around there… including a picture of Angel sliding down a stone slide and scraping all the dirt off the slide to create a much cleaner slide… also, me cupping an aborigine’s private parts =_=;; and also riding deer. Oh yes, the riding deer part was the best. We wanted it on automatic timer, but there’s a pack of stray dogs in there… so me and Angel got on the smaller deer and Alan set the time and ran toward the big deer… this movement threatened the stray dogs and they started growling and barking and moving toward us… oh before we even got to the deer this big dog came by and sat down in the middle of the deer and started to lick its balls.

Riding some deer

Anyway…………..

We took pictures on the deer and got attacked by those stray dogs… and then we came back to the National Palace Museum and here I am typing this up.

The End.

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Location | Taipei

My legpit has a mosquito bite. Legpit is like armpit, but where your knees are.

I need to buy new clothes. I want a black swishie skirt. I also want other cheap clothes… SO NICE TO HAVE CHEAP CLOTHES!! I LOVE CLOTHESSS!!!

Ok, my clothing spending budget has now been bumped to $4000. I can spend that much… So far: $1000 + 700 + other random things…

Still need: shoes (there’s a pair for $1500 that I want…), bags… (iono yet) and probably fob shorts and fob shirts.

Ok!!!! Time to go eat.

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Location | Taipei

I am bored.
I have 1.5 more hours of work.
Is Tony coming?
Today I’m going to Shilin.
I am tired.
I want to nap.
Goodnight.

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Location | Taipei

Its getting sweltering out there. *sigh. I’m bored right now. Let me talk about this weekend though…

I went to Bashen Water Park in Bali on Saturday. Dave got us free tickets!! Thank you Dave :). Anyway, it was tons of fun and I hope that all of us can go again soon. I want to go on August 6th or 7th. Clear your calendars everyone!! Let’s go!!!

Doris and I at Shabu-Shabu after the Waterpark

Anyway, I’m really hungry right now, so I’m gonna go and die of hunger.

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Location | Taipei

Words to describe today: humid, Danshui, mini turtle, fishball soup, stir fried noodles, beetles, high voices, bubble tea, cute little kids.

What happened today:
So, as usual, work. A bunch of really little kids came to visit the museum today and Doris and I went into the exhibit to take a look. They were so adorable!!! Doris even petted a head… lol! Like they were animals in a petting zoo. Later a lunch, Doris, Joe-Jay, Joey, Jean, Andrew and I were all on the bus going to Burger King. Well Jean was going to Shilin, which is a few stops after the Burger King stop. We get to the BK stop and Andrew and I get off and we look behind us and the bus is driving off, yet Joey, Joe-Jay and Doris are all… STILL ON THE BUS!!! We see the bus driving further… until it stops and the three of them come clamoring off. Other than that, the day was pretty uneventful.

After work, we (Andrew, Joey, Alan, Angel, Doris, Doris’ friend Kingston, and Joe-Jay) went to Danshui. Joey’s cousin, Candice, went with us too. First Andrew, Joey, Angel, Alan, Candice and I went to dinner, since Doris had to go get Kingston and wait for Joe-Jay. Afterwards we did a lot of walking around and sightseeing. We really like playing the claw game!!! The only thing we won was a mini turtle though.

We walked around for a really long time, just checking out things and chillin’. The guys took home huge “Taiwan Beer” blow-up plastic thingies. We all chilled in Starbucks for awhile… without getting anything at all. I guess it saved us money. I really wanted to eat the bird eggs though. They’re so good!! Maybe I will go to Danshui for dinner tomorrow too!

Overall, it was tons of fun and I’m glad that everyone had a good time.

Oh and Joe-Jay sat down and fell backwards into a pile of trash. Joey spent a long time trying to understand what “girl issues” were. “Why would a girl not be able to go into water?” Doris ate a penis chocolate and didn’t understand why we were all giggling like little girls. The condom shop has some really explicit photos… hehehe.

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Location | Taipei

Welcome newest members to my evergrowing family: Angel (a mei mei), Doris (a jie jie) and Joey (a di di!). All I need to do is start collecting husbands. Theresa already collected 2!! I’m jealous. Teehee.

Ok, let’s see, the weather has been pretty bad lately… well just cloudy, humid, rainy, etc. Stinks. At least its supposed to get a lot better this weekend. I think I’m gonna go see F.I.R on Friday, OR I will go to Danshui with a bunch of people. On Saturday I’m probably going to go to this Nokia snowboarding event and then go to this waterpark in Bali wit some umich friends. Sunday is the group 9 reunion. I’m not quite sure what we’re doing, but it looks like we’re going to Dingtaifung again. I’ve already gone 3 times.

Angel and I completed a lot of the scrapbook we made for Stella. Yay. At least that’s done for the most part. Its really cute!! I think I’ll make one for myself eventually.

Oh lately I’ve been listening a lot to the Postal Service. They’re really good!! I need some more music!! Please send me music! I’m gonna buy a 60gb iPod soon. I’m going to wait until September to see if they announce the creation of an iPod that plays video.

Other things on my mind: there’s this one person I really like a lot here. I think that I’m doing a really bad job of showing my interest because I must be giving off mixed messages. Its ok though, I guess if nothing happens this summer, then when I go back I can concentrate more on school, but I’d really like to have a relationship again.

Anyway, I should be researching for my paper.

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Location | Taipei

Today I don’t have work because of the typhoon. The wind is going WOOOSSSHHH and the road is flooding and its raining and today there’s supposed to be lots of thunderstorms and more rain rain rain!!!!

The Danshui River (aka the delta to the ocean) is looking quite nice. Probably not as bad as the east side of Taiwan, but still, it’s the ocean. (Quite nice = really wavy water good for surfing … in a river)

Today I have many things to do:
[ ] Finish HP6
[ ] Read Sugar Magazine
[ ] Start writing my report
[ ] Watch “Shall We Dance”
[ ] Read Newsweek Magazine
[ ] Blog some more

YAAAYYYY!!! GOOD DAYYYY!!!

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Location | Taipei

I’m at the museum right now “researching.” I’ve already decided on my paper topic. I’m going to write about museums and how a museum can prove to be aesthetically appealling. Most of all, in my genius essay, I’m going to write about how the NPM can definately improve… cuz seriously, its hella boring.

I’m really tired. I wanna go take a nap. Tonight I think at least Angel and I are gonna go to DingTaiFong and then to Bing Guan. We’re also going to shop around Gongguan. I really hope that the Hsinchu people can join us. I’m glad that Taiwan is so fun thusfar tho. I’ve gained a new di di (Joey) and a new mei mei (Angel). YAAAYYYY!!! We are one happy family. Doris can be my jie jie. 😀

Dorkiness has overcome me. Let me sort out my thoughts:

Hotel: Chaussie, Fung-Lin, Bernice, Dave, Jonny, Angel, Joanna
Possibles: Andrew and… ?

Club: Chaussie, Fung-Lin, Bernice, Dave, Jonny, Angel, Joanna, Johnny Lin, Johnny Liu, Eric?, Alex?, Justin, James?, Will?, Andrew, Chris, etc etc etc

More people, cannot think of who.

*headache

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Location | Taipei

HOLA! Joey is sitting next to me. Joey is cool. In reality though, we just think Joey is really cute. KAWAAIII DESU YO!!!

Angel is on my other side. Angel is super cool! I’m not talking about Angel from the show Angel though, I’m talking about… a person I know named Angel… but not the Angel I know from UCSD. She’s cool too, but not the topic of conversation.

I’m bored.

Please feed me more cereal.

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Location | Taipei

Today I walked from Zhongxiao Dunhua to Taipei City Hall… on accident. After work, Angel, Andrew, Joey and I went to Angel’s uncle’s publishing company to hear a pitch about a new book and become participants. Then Angel and I split with Andrew and Joey and we went to Zhongxiao Dunhua station to wait for Eric. We waited for 5 trains to go by, then we went to about where Eric lived. Then Alex (Eric’s local friend) pointed us in the direction of a night market. So we walk… and walk… and walk… and walk… and… walk. We finally see Taipei 101… cuz we were totally walking for 10 or more blocks.

So I ate at Taipei 101 for the second time in 2 days… it’s almost my home away from home. I never want to walk there ever again.

Hmm… besides seeing construction out my window, I can also see… the Danshui river. *sigh.. such contrast. Go away construction.

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