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How Gay Was Your Weekend, Part Twosies
Pictures, so the cliche goes, speak a thousand words, or, in Peter case, squeal a thousand squeals. Or for Mavis, steal a thousand granules of my finest instant decaf. But I digest...
So, just to prove how gay the weekend in Sun Moon Lake was, ta da - visual evidence. Exhibits Gay though Z:
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Jou Ma Se Pagoda
Well if this weekend wasn't The World's Gayest Roadtrip, then broccoli quiche isn't an entree. In the history of Gay Roadtrips, nothing short of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert could have gone down gayer ( Read more... ) -
Chicken Feet At The Bioscope
The Taiwanese are an odd bunch. No doubt it comes from being thoroughly Taiwanese (well, how else would you explain it ( Read more... ) -
Hi, I'm Jared And I'm A Compulsive Impulse Buyer
Saturday, after much hilarity ensuing (well I thought so, Justin didn't) in trying to get to the Lin Family Gardens in Banciao, I went a-hunting through the RT Mart in search of a mini-step machine. You know, one of those non-electronic jobbies where you stand on the two pedals and pedal away furiously while watching Today's Exciting Installment of ( Read more... ) -
The All-You-Can-Eat, All-You-Can-Tour, All-Singing But Little Dancing, Travelling Jared Show
Whewweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, have I been touring up a storm over the last few weeks! Two weekends ago, I crossed not one, but two cities off my list of places to visit - Hsinchu and Ilan, or technically Ilan County, which is like the townships. Only not ( Read more... ) -
A Thoroughly Taiwanesian Experience
What could be more Taiwanesian than playing the Taiwanese version of mahjong on tiles bought at a Taiwanesian night market with genuine Taiwanesians (plus a few Sefricans thrown in for good measure), while drinking Taiwan Beer and listening to aboriginal Taiwanese music ( Read more... ) -
How Green Was My Island
So, just how green, eh? Well, if you consider that I am an English teacher and that this could very well be a joke disguised as a pun (or 'punne' if you're terribly old-fashioned and use words like 'terribly' to mean 'very' or 'seemingly large quantity'), then the answer is twofold ( Read more... ) -
How To Bake A Yamingshan Pie
Ingredients:- 1 x Joburg Jew named Jared (awesome alliteration, neh?)
- 1 x non-Joburg non-Jew named Justin (less auspicious alliteration)
- 2 x Capetonians, washed, peeled & grated
- 1 x stroppy American, drawn & quartered
- 1 x MRT pamphlet on tourist hotspots in Taipei, clearly designed by Taiwanese (ie brimming with subterfuge)
- 3 x plastic wrapping (ie ( Read more... )
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Siem Reap Day 3: All Templed Out With No Place To Go
It's a strange thing this temple-whoring. After a while, you start to realise that you've seen so many temples (and actually many aren't even temples, but it's a generic word, like tupperware or anti-disestablishmentarianism, used to describe all manner of big fuck-off old buildings) that you get feelings of deva vu at a temple site you KNOW you ( Read more... ) -
Siem Reap Day 2: Temple Whoring Off The Beaten Path
As I had exhausted all the options for majorly touristy things to do, I decided that it was now time for something completely different. I enlisted the aid of a Kim (finally, a driver with an intelligible name), whose modus operandi is a tuk-tuk, thusly named because it sounds cute to foreigners. A tuk-tuk is kinda like a cross between a rickshaw ( Read more... )