On my third and final day on my own, as per the Twins suggestion, I decided to visit the port city of Danshui at the end of the Red Line ( Read more... )

Had a very busy day today on "On my own" Day#2. =)

After breakfast, I went out for a 40 minute walk/jog around a local park, then walked up the 11 flights of stairs to the Twins apartment for further exercise.

I gathered all my stuff for a day trip: tote bag, coat, scarf, gloves, umbrella, map, snack, etc and headed out around 10:30 am for the ( Read more... )

The 24th here was the first day I was left on my own since both of the twins have to work for the next couple of days. I was left with a set of keys, a map and a cell phone to contact them in case I got lost. It was also the first day since I've been here that its been overcast and raining strongly for most of the day ( Read more... )

The Twins' girlfriend, E, came over this morning and we went out for breakfast at around 10:00 am at an eatery at the local "open market" down the street. On side of the building has these small eateries along the wall. The one we went to is frequented by the Often and the proprietress quickly started chatting with them as we quickly took over ( Read more... )

It's Sun, Dec. 23rd at roughly 5:30 am local time and I am clearly wide awake. Drat, I forgot to figure out which way to go to get over this whole jet lag business. I wake up really early per the local time and then am tuckered out by 7:00 pm here. Guess I should push myself to "stay up late" so I can reset my clock. *argh ( Read more... )

Stepped out in the late morning yesterday, Fri, 12/21/07, with Twin#1 to visit Taipei 101, with it's 101 floors it is currently the world's Tallest occupied building ( Read more... )

Twin#1 took the day off of work today to hang out with me and recover from her recent flu. We walked around town in the morning getting fruits (bananas, oranges, and a local fruit that has the consistency of styrofoam but is juicy and crisp tasting) and groceries for the week ( Read more... )

I started my journey at 7:30 am on Dec. 18th, 2007 when I left for the Sacramento Airport. I arrived at 8:00 am only to find that the flights from Sac to San Francisco had been canceled and a bunch of us on International flights leaving from San Francisco were piled on a Super Shuttle ( Read more... )

good on them for making a stand now ( Read more... )

After a grueling 3 week rotation in Southern CA, I'm off visiting with a good college friend in Georgia. I get to have a week of hanging out with my friend, slayerivy, catching up, watching movies and sleeping in before heading back to Northern CA for a month in Emergency Medicine ( Read more... )