Aiming up in Puzih City, Chiayi County.
Archive for January, 2011
Old House
Published January 10, 2011 Daily Photo , Photography Leave a CommentTags: Chiayi County, Puzih City, Taiwan
Oyster Shells
Published January 6, 2011 Daily Photo , Photography Leave a CommentTags: Chiayi County, Puzih City, Taiwan
Bivalve molluscs turned into public art in Puzih City [朴子市], Chiayi County.
Four-by-Five Crop
Published January 5, 2011 Daily Photo , Photography 3 CommentsTags: Caotun, Taiwan, Tsaotun
Lanterns outside a temple in Caotun.
Chiayi’s Suantou Sugar Refinery
Published January 4, 2011 Chiayi County , Western Taiwan 11 Comments
In early October, my school embarked on a company trip to some of Chiayi County’s lesser-known attractions. It’s impossible to enjoy the scenery pass-by or engage in a pleasant conversation with the person sitting next to you on a bus ride for a company trip. Every minute on the bus has an activity planned: Ours included some goofy memory games, an informative speech about the destinations we would be visiting [followed immediately by a Q&A session to make sure we were paying attention], raffles, number guessing games, riddles, and KTV. For losing one of the games I was forced to tell a joke, I chose the Joker’s final joke from The Killing Joke. As a reward I won a pack of instant noodles – clearly the highlight of the bus ride. I was reluctant to take part in the KTV portion of the trip but sang an Wu Bai song to be a good sport. My portion of the bus was particularly rowdy – I don’t know if that had to do with KTV coupled with room temperature Heinekens or the fact that all my coworkers are overworked and don’t get out enough.
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Public art in Taichung City.
Under Construction
Published January 2, 2011 Daily Photo , Photography Leave a CommentTags: Caotun, Taiwan, Tsaotun
Laying the foundation in Caotun Township, Nantou County, Taiwan
At some point this year I’ll update the About page to accurately reflect my current family population and possibly give the Taiwan Butterfly pages an overhaul.
Hope everyone had a great New Year’s Eve! Mine was spent with my wife and baby at a Zuoyuezi clinic. We all fell asleep two hours before countdown began and woke up two hours after the festivities were over to the sounds of a hungry baby. Welcoming our daughter Josephine to the world on December second really made 2010 an unforgettable year. On the blogging side of things – long periods of inactivity were interrupted occasionally by sudden furies of postings. I expect a similar blogging schedule in 2011. So what were some of my favorite posts during the Year of the Tiger?
- Images from Bopiliao Old Street – exploring a once important passage between Monga [present-day Wanhua] and Guting Districts.
- Dihua Street – Taipei’s biggest Chinese New Year market.
- Puli’s Paper Dome – a beautiful church made out of recyclable materials after the Kobe Earthquake of 1995 and transported to Taiwan following the 921 Earthquake of 1999.
- Nantou’s Mefeng Farm – NTU’s Highland Experimental Farm’s Peach Blossom Festival.
- Taichung’s Rainbow Military Dependents’ Village – a village that has become popular from the paintings by veteran Huang Yung-fu.
- The Jhongliao Loop – I didn’t do nearly as much cycling in 2010 as I originally thought I would due to an injury early and later due to other life changing events, but this was by far my favorite route of the year.
- Low Tide at Bitou Fishing Port, Nanwan Beach, Hengchun’s Historic Gates, and The National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium were all about the awesome places we checked out during our nephew’s visit to Taiwan.
Wishing everyone a great 2011!
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