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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Just in case something happens, I want to make my itinerary for today public knowledge:
1) Take MRT to Taipei Zoo stop. Visit zoo.
2) Take Maokong gondola to Maokong. Possibly get tea at one of the teahouses.
3) Take MRT back to hotel (Taipei City Hall stop), potentially stopping at Taipei ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Yesterday was Chinese Valentine's Day. Thus, when BH went to get us reservations for Dozo, they were all gone. The hotel did some negotiation on our behalf and with a commitment of NT$6000 as a minimum for the evening, we had a table. The commitment was no ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Yesterday may well have constituted a bad day, although it only sometimes felt like one. I wrote about waking up way too early already thanks to a middle-of-night phone call. Not long after that, I bent over to pick up something from the floor and heard a pop and ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I've posted all my Taipei pictures to date in this gallery over in The Gallery of the Org*. I'll be updating that gallery with more pictures each day from here on out. :)
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Even though it's still pretty hot and humid here, my walk to work this morning was made better thanks to wind gusts. It reminded me of Chicago, honestly. I have those cool wind gusts thanks to typhoon Fung-Wong (Phoenix), which is sitting over the southern part of Taiwan. ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
My posts so far have been filled with happyjoy, so to balance it out, here are a few of the not-so-good things about my trip so far:
Being offset from US blogs and e-mail: I'm used to getting at least 10-12 e-mails an hour during the day. Thus, I ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
I'm cozy in my hotel room in Taipei, at the Grand Hyatt. My hotel is conveniently located right next to the Taipei 101, which gives me a really easy thing to say to cab drivers and others as far as getting me back to the hotel.
I also have a ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
I'm in San Francisco for my layover before my flight to Taipei. :) I realized on the way here that I suck at memorizing if I don't have a notebook to copy things down into...typing doesn't work as well. So, I bought a little notebook from the bookstore. ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I need to pack. I leave for Taipei, Taiwan (by way of a long-ish layover at LAX) at roughly 8amCT on Saturday, meaning I need to leave the house by 6:15am. Tomorrow night, I'm going to Ravinia with friends, so I need to pack tonight.
I'm still debating as ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Pictures that accompany this post can be found in the Gallery of the Org* at this link. If you're going to read this post in entirety, I suggest you read it before you look at the pictures, lest you get spoiled about certain happenings.
Some backstory:
On the Monday before we ...
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