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I had imagined a city where trees outnumbered humans and rain clouds loomed above; a city where grunge and indie music played in the background and hipsters drank Starbucks and Seattle’s Best as they wove through streets on skateboards. And instead of seeing any skateboards, I saw policemen riding segways in stylish shades. Yes, Seattle [...]
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It hurts to pay $5.44 for a soy latte… and even more to inhale outdoors. It’s nerve-wracking to take the subway through Brooklyn to Manhattan then stand confused in the middle of Chinatown alone at night…and even scarier to wake up in the morning and realize that no one’s there. Yet it’s exhilarating to walk through Times Square [...]
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Past the windmills, cows, and grapevine is a valley blessed with year-round sunshine yet cursed with traffic and pollution. And the stereotypes are true—everyone does work in media and entertainment. Host #1, Jon, works for Formosa Films while host #2, Christina, manages people like Jaeson Ma and Vanness Wu with Plan C Agency (FarEast Movement, [...]
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In Asia, everything is cute or compact. What’s cute is usually compact as well: miniature toys, toy poodles, girls… but what’s compact is not always cute. The room I stayed in at my distant uncle’s over the summer was a Taipei standard. Oh, an 8 x 10′ box, perhaps? The mattress was smaller than a [...]
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I kid you not, I spent the last two days nerding it up in Taipei’s National Central Library, flipping though Shih-Jung Tzeng’s Oxford-published PhD thesis, From Honto Jin to Bensheng Ren: The Origin and Development of Taiwanese National Consciousness. Why? The 361-pager studies the diaries of two Taiwanese literary figures, one being my great-grandfather, Wu [...]
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While I was out catching up with ex-colleagues in the Shida district, my mom took my three-year-old cousin up to the Sheraton’s lounge area for afternoon tea. Apparently, there was a double-decker glass tray with treats on top and wine glasses on the bottom shelf. Wanting to reach the M&M’s, my cousin climbed up on [...]
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My social media capabilities are incredibly limited seeing that I can’t check my Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr, Facebook or Friendfeed. (I’m not sure if this is all censorship or half a connection problem, since the wifi bars just so happen to go down whenever I check those sites.) I can, however, access all of my self-hosted [...]
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