Taiwan: Part 2

Thankfully, my housing ordeal is getting close to being resolved.  With a little bit of work on my part, I think I get my crowded suite with the big washroom. I'm pysched!  It's really weird to be pysched about having what's really a normal sized washroom by Canadian standards, but when you look at the limited options here, you can't help but to be a little relieved (and I expect to spend a lot of time being relieved in that washroom).  The only catch is that this place I'm going to rent isn't ready until mid-August -- they're still building it!  So I will be staying with my hiring manager (is that weird???)  for the first two weeks of my stay in Hsinchu (the city I'm working in).  I'm sure I'll have a good blog about that in due time.

I've been praticing my signature in Chinese, both vertically and horizontally.  I think it's ready to go.  Every two out of five scribbles are very similar.

I cut my last paid Internet usage short, leaving after only 2h10m instead of my pre-paid 3 hrs. I had an impromptu meeting with PS who was leaving Taiwan for Canada on Sunday after a co-op at a Taiwanese company.  That was nice.  Good to see familiar faces in a different country.

Last night, I had dinner with RL, AJ, and MC from SFU Engineering.  That was cool too.  It's been a short while since I'd seen a couple of them (maybe 2 yrs?), so it was great to chill and chat again.

Tonight, I've got dinner with some highschool friends, EC, JC, and DC.  I saw EC at the Computex Taipei Computer Tradeshow about 1.5 months ago, but only briefly.  I haven't seen JC since highscool, and DC since about a year ago.  Should be a good time.

It's frickin' boiling here.  In an effort not to waste electricity at my cousin's place where I'm staying, I have the air con on only sometimes.  So at night, I'd wake up and I'm drenched in sticky sweat (no jokes, guys).  During the day, when I'm at home (where there's no TV), I find myself bored a lot of the time.  There's separate air con in every room, so I usually find the smallest room and sit in there with the A/C on. But there's really nothing for me to do in that room.  So I usually just sleep. I SLEEP SO MUCH HERE!  The heat makes you lazy.  It disables you.  It cradles you in its arms and softly says "you're a lazy bum, just go to sleep again... or I'll poke you in the eyes until you have to close them."  The heat's a jerk.

Girls here?  Lots of them skinny.  Too skinny.  Sometimes you're fooled into a second glace, to be met by noticing arms that wouldn't be strong enough to hold up a candied apple at a fair.  And then there are the girls who seem to have slender (but not too skinny) figures... but for some reason, 50% of them limp or walk like they have major joint issues.  It's weird.  Maybe if they did sports once in a while.  But I'm not here to meet girls.  Let's just make that clear.

Work starts in a week.

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