Had the strangest hamburger for breakfast today. right near the ASIAA offices, a busy little street vendor made us hamburgers with eggs, canadian bacon, AMERICAN bacon, i think a meat patty, and some interesting vegetables with some sauce i can't remember. good, though. lunch today was at a Thai restaurant, though served in the seemingly typical asian manner; all the ingredients separately served on one platter. Had the chicken and yellow curry. And all for under 3 dollars! I'll take that over Ayuthaya's in Hilo anyday.
After work Dr. Sun-Kun King, Kotaro's supervisor on the TAOS project, invited the two of us and Yi-Hung out for some beers at a Belgium pub. Interesting guy, relaxed atmosphere, hearty beer.
On the way back to the dormitory Kotaro wanted to try some bubble tea. I don't know what that is but I grabbed some milk tea, tapioca pudding, and some other ingredient all mixed together. It's a wet, wild ride of a drink.
I've always been frugal with my money (some may call me a cheap bastard), but when it comes to food I can't help but try everything that comes my way, especially when I can convince myself everything is cheaper here.
Tomorrow marks the weekend so I'm sure we'll go out adventuring, I'll try to find some time to upload some pictures and stories on here.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Rejuvenation
The asians know how to travel. The ten hour flight between Honolulu and Taipei was bearable only through the service of the (rather cute) flight crew aboard China Airlines. Complementary breakfast, snacks/bevarages, and lunch were great, not to mention the free wine.
After landing, I had to find my way from the international airport to downtown(ish) Taipei some 25 miles away. A bus ride, taxi ride, and a walk through the rain found me my destination, the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA).
They've shacked me in a dormitory on a different campus location not far away from the offices. Four of us will share a six person room. I crashed hard last night, sleeping from probably around 7pm to 8am this morning.
Though I had the craziest dream last night. Two friends (whom now i realize I don't know) and I pissed off some guy with a cowboy hat because we were on his property. He captured one of my friends as me and the other guy took off running. I noticed that every step I took I was getting higher and higher off the ground. I was lucid dreaming! So I jumped into the air and took off flying, snagged my friend from the guy in the cowboy hat and took to the air.
The lucidity didn't last long as I found I awoke. But here's the twist; I rolled out of bed with some girl (again, whom I've never met in person) to find my friends chatting. I discovered later as I awoke in the dorm room that I had awoken from the lucid dream into another dream! So I was dreaming inside my dream if at all possible.
Anyway getting back into a science mindset will be nice. Only research this week, we start reducing data next week.
After landing, I had to find my way from the international airport to downtown(ish) Taipei some 25 miles away. A bus ride, taxi ride, and a walk through the rain found me my destination, the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA).
They've shacked me in a dormitory on a different campus location not far away from the offices. Four of us will share a six person room. I crashed hard last night, sleeping from probably around 7pm to 8am this morning.
Though I had the craziest dream last night. Two friends (whom now i realize I don't know) and I pissed off some guy with a cowboy hat because we were on his property. He captured one of my friends as me and the other guy took off running. I noticed that every step I took I was getting higher and higher off the ground. I was lucid dreaming! So I jumped into the air and took off flying, snagged my friend from the guy in the cowboy hat and took to the air.
The lucidity didn't last long as I found I awoke. But here's the twist; I rolled out of bed with some girl (again, whom I've never met in person) to find my friends chatting. I discovered later as I awoke in the dorm room that I had awoken from the lucid dream into another dream! So I was dreaming inside my dream if at all possible.
Anyway getting back into a science mindset will be nice. Only research this week, we start reducing data next week.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Still Here.
Well tomorrow morning I'm off to Taiwan. First let me say I completely ripped off the idea to start a blog for international travel from Julie. Thanks! I'll try to update this pretty regularly. This first post is rather short as I have some things to do tonight. Goodbye for now.
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