happy moon festival

happy mid autumn moon festival (zhong qiu je kuai le!) guys!

enjoy your moon cakes!

mike

typhoons abound!

it's typhoon season...

i think this is taiwan's third so far.

weeee....

enjoy your no typhoon weather,

mike

taiwan update

hey guys. sorry about the lack of updating. classes have started at the mandarin training center, but i will definitely update as much as i can.

taiwan has been good to me so far, weather has definitely cooled down a lot, and i have been out and around taiwan a lot. just yesterday i went to the water park here in taipei. pretty much like any water park in the states, but still an awesome time, and perfect timing since the cold weather is coming in.

well back to work. i'll keep you guys posted.

later,

mike

my new baby (this thing is pretty sweet!)

hey guys. so if you haven't already known my laptop crashed, and basically i needed to buy a new one here in taiwan. so after a frustrating week of trying to find the right laptop for me, i finally found the one:

meet the acer aspire 4741G with intel core i5 processor that in total was about $850 in taiwan rather than over $1000 in the states. i think i got a pretty good deal!

some pics of my new baby:

oooooooooo....

ahhhhhhhh (btw that's a picture i took of danshui, a seaside suburb in taiwan near the capital taipei)

the laptop closed

look how thin is it!

comes with free bag and mouse.

yes i'm a happy guy!

enjoy your weekend,

mike

taiwan update (about freaking time!)

hey guys. yes this post has been long in the making, so sorry it took so long... T_T

this post will also take a few days as i have a lot of photos i wanna put up (i told you this was pretty big)

anyways here are some pictures of my neighborhood in taiwan:

the park near my apartment building (you can see taipei 101 in the background)

some cool lights i saw

lots of scooters here in taiwan...

like i said

a lot of 7-11's here (food is a lot better in here than in the states)

a favorite store of mine. you can get anything and i mean ANYTHING here

another 7-11, on the same street...

taipei 101!

typical day on mrt (taipei's metro). can't complain though, one train comes every 5 minutes

OMG MISTER DONUT!!!!

love this place!

the strawberry bear i bought. it had cream in it. delicious!

some things i can't do at a park i jog at... hmmm...

more to come in the coming days!

enjoy,

mike

sick... ugh...

hey guys the big post i hoped to put up today will have to wait. i'm sick with a cold and not feeling very well

hopefully will get that post up soon.

until then enjoy this picture i took of taipei 101 at night:

later guys,

mike

taiwan update

hey guys. sorry for the delay in posting. with classes and everything here in taiwan, things have been getting a bit busy.

right now is 7:45pm here and it's raining cats and dogs. yet it is still hot and humid as heck...

i also was able to meet up with some locals here in taiwan and get a drink with them (which was a large beer. delicious).

so far things are pretty good here. the weather just kinda sucks.

later,

mike