I’ve wanted to start studying Chinese ever since Taiwan. I am intrigued by the relationship between strokes in a character and between characters in a word. I don’t really want to speak it. But it’d be really cool to look at calligraphy paintings and see more than beautiful nonsense.
I have added this [...]
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I want to study Chinese now.
Posted in Taiwan, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 24 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Got some good shots.
Posted in Taiwan, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 14 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Relived the trip by browsing the pictures. Taoist temples make my day, man. Will post later. Maybe. There’s the small matter of my harddrive’s dwindling megabytes. The last photo was of mudskippers in a drained harbor down the street from Fort San Domingo. Mudskippers! Makes an anticlimactic ending [...]
What a trip.
Posted in Taiwan on 13 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
We’re walking through the Shilin night market and like three Taiwanese people are laying with their heads side-ways on towels with what seem to be candles inserted into their ears and burning on the other end.
“What the hell?”
Another American who has happened by comes over, “Do you want to know what this is, because I [...]
Vacation
Posted in Taiwan on 9 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
Kids are in midterms this week, so I’m going to Taiwan tomorrow. Which is exciting, except it’ll be a bummer not being able to read anymore. I’m considering not attempting to speak a word of Chinese the entire trip. It’s a tonal language. I’m too worried I’ll ascend when I should be descending and and [...]
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