We came to Tainan last night, at last by ourselves for a short while. In the morning I went to collect the GF’s birthday present – I’ve rented a Playstation for a month and bought him The Last of Us II, a game he dearly wanted to play. It was a bit of a hassle: […]
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Home style dining
A remarkable success this morning. It was a working day for both of us but first we went to a restaurant we had heard of – not a restaurant but someone’s house where they cook and serve in their living room. We arrived and no one spoke English and the cook came out of the […]
Crab
An excellent lunch today. It was a working day, and we went to famous old seafood place where they specialise in crab. Deepfried with deepfried garlic. Delicious. Some very tasty food here in Kaohsiung. Though crab is undoubtedly a hassle to eat.
Good luck tiger
We took the commuter train out to a suburb which was very KL like, at least like the parts of KL that are dominated by sterile condos and no pedestrians. It was very, very hot. We’d found a rather nice dim sum place, and then went on to the Kaohsiung art museum which proved rather […]
New town
Here we are in Kaohsiung. It was a hassle to get here as we both had our suitcases as well as a large ikea bag filled with assorted kitchen goods and comforts of life, which nearly broke my shoulder off when I took a turn carrying it. We are staying in a most astonishing Airbnb. […]
Dumpling day
Today was the dragon boat festival so we had rice dumplings in memory of the old poet who was thrown into the river for speaking up against corruption and the people of the town scattered rice dumplings into the water so the fish would not eat his body. Annoyingly, when the Boddhisattva brought the dumplings, […]
End of a ritual
We watched the penultimate episode of The Wire last night. Magnificent, despite the problems with the final season more generally, this is unambiguously one of the best episodes in the entire show. Marlo saying “My name is my name” – brilliant. Tonight, the end.
New identity
A friend, contemplating the stock markets: I hereby dissociate myself from humanity. I am going to self-identify as a coronavirus.
Slow move
I have begun taking my slow, faltering steps towards transferring this website, and my personal site, to a different host, having become fed up of the last one. The new is considerably more expensive, but reputedly reliable. I am rather nervous about this whole transferring business; I’m not as savvy as I pretend to be, […]
Ring of fire
What a triumphant day today was, the day of the eclipse. This was an annular eclipse, on the day of the solstice, with a long but very narrow band of totality which happened to pass through Chiayi, the town from which went to Alishan a couple of months ago. Though knowing of course that the […]