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Life In Taiwan
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 15th 2008 by range
I’m adapting to life in Taiwan again. Getting around is pretty easy on Old Nancy. I came back to Taiwan on Saturday night. For a few days afterwards, I had a little fever in the evenings. I used some Ibuprofen to keep it under control. I’ read more
Speed Demon
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 13th 2008 by range
I’ve driven over 50K on Old Nancy. Who’s Old Nancy? Our old scooter. She just keeps on trucking. In the past two years, I’ve driven her 9000 km. My wife hadn’t driven her at all nor had she started the engine periodically. Thi read more
Wild China captures a vanishing world
Automated Daydream | May 11th 2008 by Trilby
Given the global meanderings of Attenborough and his ilk, you would imagine that there can be few parts of the planet that haven't heard the gentle footfalls of a BBC Natural History Unit camera crew. BBC Bristol, where the production arm is based, m read more
Taming the Great Bear
Automated Daydream | May 11th 2008 by Trilby
A journey across Russia for BBC2 brought Jonathan Dimbleby face to face with shamans, Cossacks – and an amorous female welder. Andrew Pettie meets him...Jonathan Dimbleby and Russia go way back. The writer and broadcaster, 63, visited Moscow in the read more
Taiwanese Bureaucratic BS
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 11th 2008 by range
I find it hilarious that five minutes into my stay in Taiwan, things already got bullshitty. I was trying to change my Canadian dollars into NT. I handed over my money to some bureaucrat at the Bank of Taiwan. He looked at my bills and started phonin read more
China Airlines
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 10th 2008 by range
So I arrived in Hong Kong at about 1PM on Saturday. I wasn’t too tired but my next flight to Taipei was at 7:20PM. I wanted to try and get an earlier flight. I was handed a standby ticket stub and told to wait at gate D13 until they called my n read more
In Hong Kong
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 10th 2008 by range
I’ve arrived as planned in Hong Kong today at about 1PM. I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to catch an earlier flight to Taipei. There are a lot of people waiting to get to Taipei. At least I’ve got a confirmed seat on the 7:20PM flig read more
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow…
Student Nurse 050249 | May 9th 2008 by Christian
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. That day we were headed for San Miguel Central Elementary School, a medium-sized school across Luisita Park. It was our same “Thursday, Friday, Saturday” read more
4:48AM
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 9th 2008 by range
Well, I’m up. I didn’t sleep much on purpose so that I’d be able to snooze away on the plane most of the way. I’ve got a 6:35AM plane to Toronto. Then I’ve got a 9:40AM plane from Pearson to Hong Kong. I arrive Saturda read more
Connaught Building
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 8th 2008 by range
When I walked by Ottawa’s eyesore, the US embassy, I saw this beautiful building. It’s the Connaught Building. The Connaught Building is a historic office building. It’s on Sussex Drive, near the Fairmont Château Laurier. Today it read more
Fairmont Chateau Laurier
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 8th 2008 by range
The Fairmont Château Laurier is a landmark hotel in Canada’s capital region, Ottawa. It’s located on the intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive. It’s very close to Parliament Hill and has been used as a meeting place for ma read more
Ottawa’s Eyesore
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 8th 2008 by range
The architectural eyesore that many people from Ottawa like to talk about is the US embassy on Sussex Dr. The design reminds me of the Supreme Court of Canada building. Ominous. Looming. During the first two years of its existence, there was a bar read more
Sleepless In Ottawa
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 8th 2008 by range
On Tuesday night, I packed my lunch. I had bought bus tickets to get to Ottawa earlier that day. I had planned on either arriving early and then meeting up with someone from Couchsurfing, or leaving as late as possible and managing until 9AM when the read more
My Trip to Goa: Day 4
Visceral Observations | May 8th 2008 by Poonam
This is last post in my Goa Trip series. I am posting this after a long gap of posting Day 3 experiences at Goa. So back to Day 3 in Goa, we spent day exploring beaches on our Kinetic. Before evening, we realized that we hadn’t yet booked ours read more
An Aussie Adventure
Little Aussie Cynic | May 7th 2008 by kesa
As promised I have started my travelogue…. Sitting here thinking should I pick up where I left off last time Montezuma Falls? or start at the beginning of my Journey.. ? I think perhaps the best idea is at the beginning. This way you can s read more
National Gallery Of Canada
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 6th 2008 by range
I’m planning of going to the National Gallery of Canada (GMaps). I have a keen interest in modern art and the wife reminded me that the National Gallery has a great section on it. I remember that I went to the National Gallery in 2002 the last read more
Heading To Ottawa
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 6th 2008 by range
I’m heading to Ottawa to get my visa for Taiwan tonight. I’ll arrive during the night and I’ll have a few hours to kill before the TECO office opens at 9AM. I’ve got all my papers sorted out, it should be very quick and fast. read more
Taiwan Here I Come
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 5th 2008 by range
My flights are booked and I arrive on Saturday in Taiwan. It’s going to be a hectic few days in order to prepare everything, but I’m already almost set. I’m not sure if I will try out couchsurfing or not. I’ve tried contacting read more
Upcoming Virtual Book Tour With Paul Kilduff
Blissful Travel | May 5th 2008 by Erica Johansson
“Paul Kilduff is excited to bring his first nonfiction work, entitled Ruinair, on a virtual book tour. Paul’s book is a witty travelogue which sees him get his own back on the airline that overcharged him and significantly delayed him on read more
[Travelogue] Israel Travelogue X (The Negev, Masada, Atlit, The G…
Tales of a Wandering Nomad | May 3rd 2008 by Matan Ar'ye Schwartz
The Negev Starting our trip to the Negev we found ourselves with a bit of a problem, this had been a trip that everyone on the Ulpan had been looking forward to with great expectations…and our bus was a few seats short due to an error on the pa read more
Gran Canaria The Six Second Pour
The Ramblings of a Long Time Procrastinator | May 3rd 2008 by Stirlyn
Do you know what a six second pour is? If you don’t then perhaps you should go on a cheap Gran Canaria holiday and watch the bar staff. They pour large measures there, but that not the only reason to visit the beautiful islands off the north co read more
Numerical Linear Algebra Assignment
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | May 1st 2008 by range
I’m almost done. I’d say about 70%. It’s due on Friday. I spent 6 hours coding with Matlab. I watched the final project presentations of the guys finishing this year. I took some photos. read more
Semester Coming To An End
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | April 28th 2008 by range
It’s most probably my last week in Quebec. I’m getting ready to go back to Taiwan for the summer. I’ll be back in Quebec in late August. After the killer week I had last week, I needed the weekend to sleep. I must have slept more th read more
Purnography on the lake - trip to Ashtabula county, put-in-bay
Pointy Haired Dilbert | April 28th 2008
A bunch of us went to Ashtabula county and Put-in-bay island over the weekend; beautiful lake Erie beach locations on the northern side of Ohio. We started off from Columbus on Saturday early morning, the weather wasn’t perfect as it started r read more
Camelbak Care Package
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | April 27th 2008 by range
After I posted this story on my blog, I got this response from Camelbak. I was actually very surprised by its content. The marketing department didn’t give me a lot of details. I got four Camelbak Better Bottles. A 1L which replaces my lost on read more
Visa Or No Visa
Ten-Forty | April 26th 2008 by Deb
A couple of weeks ago there was a big hoo-ha in my office and everyone forgot to work for a while - one of my colleagues was preparing for a business trip to China and she received conflicting advice; someone said, You don't need a visa because your read more
Antarctica Frozen Wave Pictures
Little Aussie Cynic | April 26th 2008 by kesa
A friend of mine just Emailed me these Photos. I believe these were taken a few days ago. From her mail this is what happened: Antarctica Frozen Wave Pix - Nature is amazing! The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That’ read more
Friday: Semester Almost Complete Four Exams Done
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | April 25th 2008 by range
My semester is almost over. I’ve got one last homework to complete for next week. I plan on attending the final research project presentations next week. Exams went well. Out of four, three went well. The last one was a bit hard. I don’t read more
Wednesday End Of Term Four More To Go
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | April 23rd 2008 by range
I’ve been studying intensely for the last few days. I’ve been concentrating on Numerical Analysis, the class in which I had the most work. Things are progressing well. Tomorrow I have two exams. One in Analysis I and one in Numerical Line read more
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