Polar Sean

Love you till the end

2008-08-27T22:36:00.004+08:00

I just want to see you
When youre all alone
I just want to catch you if I can
I just want to be there
When the morning light explodes
On your face it radiates
I cant escape
I love you till the end
I just want to tell you nothing

You dont want to hear
All I want is for you to say
Why dont you just take me
Where Ive never been before
I know you want to hear me
Catch my breath
I love you till the end

I just want to be there
When were caught in the rain
I just want to see you laugh not cry
I just want to feel you
When the night puts on its cloak
Im lost for words dont tell me
All I can say

I love you till the end

老歌..小時候的一部電影的歌 Someone Like You

2008-01-07T23:20:00.000+08:00

Ive been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
Ive been traveling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. someone exactly
Like you.

Ive been traveling a hard road
Looking for someone exactly like you
Ive been carrying my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come
Shining through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. someone exactly
Like you.

Ive been doing some soul searching
To find out where you're at
Ive been up and down the highway
In all kinds of foreign lands
Someone like you... etc.

Ive been all around the world
Marching to the beat of a different
Drum.
But just lately I have
Realized
The best is yet to come.
Someone like you... etc.

春田

2007-12-30T21:35:00.000+08:00

一直都很想常識些不同的生活, 兩個月前, 因為一時的衝動, 同事帶我去買了小時候不能常玩得瓦斯槍. 當天回來, 就決定要踏上生存遊戲這條路. 完成小時候無法達成的願望, 並且讓自己生活更充實、刺激..

表弟跟我說, 這是一個無底洞, 果真... 瘋狂的買了所有裝備後... 無數張的小朋友就飛走了. 不過為我自己的生活帶來了新的朝氣、活力. 也算讓自己轉移一下生活重心.

現在的我,常常出現在春田, 隊友們都很好, 也很高興能認識志同道合的新朋友.

MY NEW RIDE

2007-12-29T13:38:00.001+08:00

Have been waiting this car since Mid of Sept, but still no sight of it... Car dealer said it should arrive by the end of Jan, let's hope so..

新的生活

2007-12-28T22:08:00.000+08:00

就是愛香港

2007-12-28T22:06:00.000+08:00

天天～聽舊歌的我～

2007-12-28T21:35:00.000+08:00

太陽天下雨天　人擠人的咖啡店　
找一個能想你舒服的角落　
看著情人肩靠肩　慢慢轉開我視線

yeh yeh ~ ~　有個女孩讓我好想念
我的心已經　飛到這個城市的另一邊　
想看著你　我愛的臉　把心裏的感情都對你說

那馬路上天天都在塞　而每個人天天在忍耐　
沒有你日子很黑白　原來這樣就是戀愛　

我想要你在我身邊　享受生命中的一切　
我想要天天說　天天說　天天對你說我有多愛你

走在街頭上, 總覺得到處都充滿了人群, 永遠都有幾百個人陪伴著自己, 但是其實每個人的心中,似乎都是孤獨的. 人與人之間以很多共同點, 可能走在你旁邊的人是你10年前的同學, 20年後的朋友, 幼稚園的玩伴.. 但我仍是不懂為什麼人與人間的距離永遠都很難拉近...

現在的我只想找到新方向,新希望, 新生活 :P.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

2007-12-28T20:48:00.001+08:00

It's the Elf Sean

2006-12-28T16:08:00.000+08:00

The Elf Sean

狗狗占卜

2006-11-29T21:17:00.000+08:00

http://home.kimo.com.tw/ewormeworm/city/fate/02/dog.htm

Go find out what kind of dogs you should get? This website is in Chinese, so... sorry my English speaking friends.

Here is mine,

博美犬

喜歡熱鬧，是領袖型人物，面對危機時能隨機應變。

基本性格即使只有一點小成果的事也不要看輕哦！
是個快樂的人，總是精力充沛，喜歡說話，喜歡熱鬧，不論在那裏，都是眾人注目的焦點，表現能力優越，也能做出完美的自我介紹，對於初見面的人會主動交談，因此朋友的增加速度也很快，看似大膽，但也有其細心的部份，待人接物也很和善，十分具有領袖特質，一有喜歡的事，便會馬上去嚐試，非常有挑戰精神，聰明、感覺敏銳，思考有彈性，是博美型的優點，因此面對危機時，能很快的隨機應變，但相反的，卻也很沈不住氣，反而讓許多好機會流失掉了，所以，

適合的類型
和深思熟慮的獵犬型上司很合，這種觀察力敏銳的上司，在做事前會採取防範措施，對容易得意忘形的你有剎車的作用。另外，和同是博美型的下屬，個性很合，因為兩人調調相同，也很容易了解對方的想法，所以相處起來很愉快，不論是在公事上或私底下都能維持長久的關係，特別是異性的下屬，能成為無所不談的好朋友。若和吉娃娃的人做朋友，每天都會讓你有新發現，和他說話也會很有趣，絕不無聊。

不適合的類型
最難相處的便是土佐犬，你想要大玩特玩時，土佐犬就會把氣氛搞壞，可說是博美的天敵呢！

So what's yours?

More photos from the wedding

2006-11-22T22:18:00.001+08:00

The big day!

2006-11-21T12:21:00.000+08:00

Nov 19th 2006, the day that Aaron and Lily became husband and wife, the day they would celebrate for the rest of their life. Wish you two 圓圓滿滿、趕快生個小孩給我玩！！
(have a baby soon..!)

The Banquet was held at
The Grace Hill, Taipei

Through out the dinner, they changed their outfits three times.

It was a great wedding, I wish their life will be as perfect as the wedding. 祝福你們！

Finally, it's Lily's turn.

2006-11-21T01:56:00.000+08:00

Aaron and Lily's (my cousin) wedding party at one of the Taipei's hottest clubs, 18. I am gonna miss having a big sister around. Lots of wishes to you two!! Congratulation !! Welcome to the Family Aaron.

Cutest baby ever!

2006-11-21T01:47:00.000+08:00

My cousin Chia-Hui's baby, Wen-Jen, is about 3 months old now. Isn't she the cutest?

Yellow Fever 白人看不懂

2006-11-17T16:45:00.000+08:00

This is really funny and true. I guess I am one in a million Asian guys that's currently engaged to a Caucasian girl.

It's a Girl!!

2006-08-20T20:21:00.000+08:00

My cousin 嘉惠 Jia-Huei had a baby girl on August 11th at 8:30 am. The baby has really long fingers and toes, and doesn't cry much at all! We tried really hard to wake her up, but she only opened her eyes for a second and peeked at us. I was surprised we didn’t p.o. the baby when we did that..

Someone find me one of this!!

2006-08-14T09:59:00.000+08:00

Adidas? Qee?? Collector edition? What more do I have to say.......

Happy Birthday Avon

2006-07-25T14:51:00.000+08:00

Avon's birthday was on the 19th, so I guess this message is about an week late.. but I still want to say Happy Birthday Avon!

Aunt and couins' visiting!!

2006-07-25T14:41:00.000+08:00

Cousins Arena, Tracy and Aunt Cici came home and visited the family for few weeks. It has been so long since I saw any of them. They live in CA currently. I was hoping they would come up to Taipei, so I could show them around, but too bad never got a chance to. Though it was still nice to see them back in Taichung during the past few weekends.

Joe's visiting!!

2006-07-25T14:14:00.000+08:00

My high school friend, Joe, came to visit Taiwan few weeks ago. I can’t remember when was the last time we saw each other...

5 years High School Reunion

2006-06-13T22:32:00.000+08:00

Trip to Taichung Custom Port

2006-06-13T22:28:00.000+08:00

Searching for my new motorcycle

2006-04-04T13:41:00.000+08:00

Well, soon I will be purchasing my own motorcycle. I did some research last night and found these modified Yamaha SR-150. They have been around for as long as I live and they are still in production line. So I could atually go buy a brand new one, which is just ugly. but with little modification, I can get it just the way I like!!

Modified SR-150 in BlackModified SR-150

Modified SR-150 in White
This is the original Yamaha SR-150

Back to my daily life!!

2006-03-26T16:19:00.000+08:00

It has been a week since Taryn went back to the State, and I am back to the normal boring daily life. Well, it's the working part that's boring, but during the weekend I tried to keep myself entertain. You can usually find me at two spots in Taipei, one is the Sushi Express. Personally, I cannot live without raw fish and ginger pickle. I have to go there every weekend just to ease my raw fish crave, otherwise I might start shaking... just kidding.

The other place is the Eslite bookstore, which opens 24hrs all year long. I am not so much of book reader, just like to go to there and skim through all the book covers + people watching. Every once a while I might find something interesting, and worth a while to read. One thing I like about that place is they offer hard to find DVDs and great music selection. This place is very similar to Barnes and Noble but without the pop music selection.
I happened to came across the alternative music section yesterday. I was curious, picked up the headphone and played few songs from the machine. Without knowing what was playing from the player, I recognized the vocal voice from one of the CD I have. It was Belle and Sebastian. I was surprised to find their CD there. I drove all over the city trying to find their CD, didn't expect to find it at a bookstore. I really thought they don't exist around here. And hey, I got the CD for NT360 (11 something us), and there are 2 CDs inside !! Good deal, the same thing would have cost me twice in the state.
This afternoon, I decided to go back for the treasure hunt again, and bought few more CDs. This band, Niza, from Spain. It's pretty sweet. You can check them out !!, there is also a audio/video website. Also this band, The Innocence Mission, it's pretty good too. Of course, I finished the day with few dishes of nigiri at the Sushi Express, and had a nice walk back home in light rain. It was a good day over all.

Happy New Year

2006-01-02T16:30:00.001+08:00

Good Bye to our from desk receptionist

2005-12-29T16:00:00.000+08:00

Our front desk receptionist, Xio(Little) Pan Pan (in Brown), is leaving at the end of this month. She has been the receptionist here for three years, and finally deceided to get a new job somewhere else. The new receptionist Su, will start working on 1,1,2006. Good luck to Xio Pan Pan, good luck at the new place. We will all miss you, and feel free to come back and visit thirty xio didi (little brother) or da gege (big brother).

So the day goes on....

2005-12-29T14:54:00.000+08:00

It has been a while since I wrote anything on my blog. Yes, I have been slacking off. Sorry!! My work has been kind of up to down lately. Sometimes I just feel like running away from this boring place. I found it was hard to manage a group of people, also hard to deal with unreasonable people. What is rule? What is law? What is bs? I want to ask them. I finally let it all out last night and went head to head with my dorm manager last night. I didn't care if he was going to report me, or even punish me. I just can't stand someone that talks about rules and doesn't obey them. I was like a monster, coming out of cage, biting him so hard that he couldn't even stand up again. (I didn't really bite him, more like yelling) Maybe I over did it a little, but I just couldn't help it. He smokes in his room, which is totally not allowed. I asked what if your room start on fire, who is responsible? I never got an answer. There were few more things that we argued about, but pretty much he tried to explain himself to avoid admitting the faults. After my opening fire, my buddies started to questioning him more. Over all, many of our problems got solved. It's just that people was surprised I, The Nice Sean Lai, stood up and started to yell at the dorm manager. My blood pressure was high, my head was dizzy, my hair was probably smoking, and my eyes was probably fiery red. At the end, it was a peaceful ending. He admitted some of this fault, and we took some of our rights back. We won, but I don't know if this is just the beginning of our nightmare, or if this is the happy ending.
There are still more unreasonable managements in this department, and many of us are trying to reason with the big boss, who has been working here for the past 12 years. For 12 years, he never got promoted. Why? I wonder... I feel pity for him, I feel sorry for him. I think he needs to go to a psychologist. He actually wrote "disloyal, not righteous, unkind" on someone's official department transferring letter. He thinks people who try to get promoted and leave this place is trying to betray him. He is old, he can stay here and get paid until he retired if he want, BUT he shouldn't stop someone, who is not even 30 and has the ability to get higher achievement than he can ever reached, from leaving this shit hole.
I don't know how long I can stand him...
to be continued...

Christmas~ Alone in Taipei but! Best Christmas Gift ever!

2005-12-19T09:38:00.002+08:00

This Christmas was lonely for me, it didn't quite go the way I want it to be. I went to a movie, The Promise, and had dinner with few friends. It wasn't really fun at all, probably 'cause everything cost too much. The movie ticket was 10 dollar, and it was reduced to military special already. Don't even want to mentioned the meal I had. I didn't really enjoy it too much. The weekend before Christmas, I went out and snapped some pictures. Lately I have been walking around the city with a camera on my hand. Trying to capture Taipei, trying to understand Taipei.

I called Taryn's parents on Christmas eve while it's already Christmas here. It was nice to hear from everyone again, knowing that everyone is well and safe. Good to know that those two little kids are growing up and still remember me.

Also I received the best Christmas gift, well, I wouldn't be able to get it until March. Taryn decided to come visit!! Yeah!! I was so happy that I want to jump on the bed.. But I didn't, cause the bed here is too shitty. I really miss her!! Thanks Taryn. Love U.

Taiwanese English School Christmas Show

2005-12-19T09:35:00.000+08:00

Last week I went to this junior high school's English department for their Christmas Show. My high school friend happened to teach there. They had Christmas song singing, and also ginger bread housing decoration. It wasn't really “ginger bread“, it was more like cracker house. And the singing wasn’t very nice either; it was more like screaming Halloween edition silent night. Overall it was cute to see tons of two-graders dancing around and trying to sing Si”r”ent Night, Ho”r”y night. I was amazing by the ginger bread house; to me they are more like the candy house in the kid’s storybook. It was nice to be at this event anyway.

The End

2005-12-19T09:28:00.000+08:00

My grandpa's funeral was hosted on November 31st. It was probably one of my saddest days of my life. All the family members gathered, at least 300 hundreds people came to the ceremonies. It was decorated with hundreds of lilies and many different kinds of flowers. Never in my life I saw my uncles, aunts, and my dad cried so bad. My dad looked so tired because he has been watching over my grandpa for the past three years. After my grandpa had passed away, he was busy running around trying to take care of the funeral. I feel happy for him that he doesn’t have to drive to the hospital everyday now, at the same time I feel happy for my grandpa. He finally rested in peace. No more pain, no more tubes in his throat, no more medication. Just lying there peacefully.
Many weird things happened too during the month of funeral. In Chinese culture, Buddhism believes that on the 7th day for 49 days straight, the soul will come back to the family house and visit everyone. So on each 7th day we have to have a ceremonies for my grandpa. During the ceremony, they Buddha Priest (don’t know how I should call them.) anyway, they asked the “spirit” question by tossing two coins. One head and one tail means “yes”, two heads means “happy”, two tails means “no”. And to get a confirmed “yes” you need to get three of it in a row. Personally I am a statistics major, and even I don’t believe statistics can explain the outcome for all the tossing. For example, the last ceremonies on the 49th day, the Buddha nun was trying to ask my grandpa if he is ready to go to the “Eastern World ~ Heaven”, she just kept getting “no”. She then started to “talk” to my grandpa in weird language. Well, she didn’t really talk. She just kept getting hack ups. After talking to him, she then asked if he didn’t finish saying something important. We got “happy”. At the ended, after many many “no”s, she asked a question “Do you want your wife here in front of you so I can pass the message on to her?“. For some reason, we got three “yes” in a row. After my grandma came over and the nun passed her the message, we never got any "no" in the later ceremony. There are many similar situations, it was just a odd experience. Science or spiritual?
Also, I used to hear people said that when someone in the family passed away. Black cats will come over everyday, and it really came. It came every 7th day when we are having the ceremony, and even the day of the funeral. People also believe that it’s bad luck for the black cat to jump over the body, so the day before the funeral, we had many people guarding my grandpa body. Try not to let the cat getting close. Old saying says the body “might” starts to walk…. Yeah, like becoming alive. What a great news for me… I happened to be one of the guards that night. Cats did try to come over few times, but we managed to scare them away. It was just a scary night for me.
Well, I am happy for me grandpa. The nun passed on the message saying that he is happy and living well. I really hope he is!! I feel bad I didn’t spend enough time at the end of his life. All these years I was in the state, trying to finish my degree. I really hope he get to see my graduated picture, but he never really got a chance to.

Google Earth

2005-11-25T09:24:00.000+08:00

Lately my co-workers have been playing with google earth, but sadly it doesn't not support MAC. Why? Why?? So I have to borrow my friend's Microsoft in order to find my home in Taichung. The picture on the right is a snapshot of my family's house. The picture on the left is the military base (which didn't take long to find...) I stayed at for one whole month. The 2nd division is where I spent most of my time.

Back in Business

2005-11-21T11:05:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone, I am back again. Haven't been doing much for the past few weeks. I figure it's about time to post again. This past weekend I went out with few friends from the exchange student period. We went to this jazz bar called Brown Sugar. It's probably the best jazz club in Taipei area, they have musicians all the way from Las Vegas, and many other places from the state. Luckily my friend's friend paid for everything. Otherwise I would be broke that night. I think we opened at least 5 bottles of champagne. We even got to meet the boss, it's always good to know someone that works at restaurant. I will have no problem getting a seat now, ha. After that, I went to this club called Luxy. One of the guy in my office just finished his service last week, so he decided to host a part. Originally he planned to have his party at this club called Room 18 at 10:30, but one by one decided not to come at the end. So we had to give up our VIP room, which was so hard to reserve at first place. I think there were about 60 of us, but only I showed up. It was just sad, but it was ok. I had fun there. Met a lot of new people, and got to see what a club really looks like. That was a new experience. I don't know if I really like it, but at least I had fun while I was there.
That's my latest update. My grandpa's funeral will be next Monday the 28th, and I will be taking a long break for that. I am sort of excited to see all the family members to gather again.
Miss you all, Sean.

Too busy to post any messages!!

2005-11-04T11:14:00.000+08:00

Hi all,

Sorry I havent been updating my blog, I am too busy and tired of my job, and at the same time I am busy dealing with my grandpa's death on Oct 31. He past away peacefully at his home at 5:15 that morning. I am sad that he has left us, but glad that he doesnt have to deal with the pain anymore. He is at a better place now.

I have many pictures to post on the web, dont know when I will get a chance. I will try to put them up asap.

Sean

Searching for Alpha Male Rock Star

2005-10-17T09:58:00.000+08:00

Thought this would go well with the Beta Female Pop Star

Beta Female Pop Star

2005-10-16T11:54:00.000+08:00

Those who know me probably know I collect little action figures Stikfas, Ferrari Lego cars, and many random action figures. I was out window shopping last weekend and came across this new Stikfas, and I just had to get it for Taryn. It's called the Beta Female Pop Star. It's got a electric guitar, keyboard, and etc. Anyway, here it's!!

Busy at work.

2005-10-12T20:59:00.000+08:00

Hi All:

Finally I get some break from work thses couple days. Been working really hard this past week, but I haven't got any new project since this Monday. I pretty much just sit on my butt and served internet and chatted with friends. I think I am going to start learning Japanese soon, or maybe French. It all depends on which friend is gonna teach me first.

Other than that, my grandpa is probably close to his final moment of his life. His organs started to fail on my birthday last week. My parents already gave me the final warning that he could go anytime. I think it's probably better for him to go instead of staying on the life supporter forever. He doesn't have a DNR, and I think my grandma will do anything to keep in alive. It's just sad either way.

Anyway, here is a picture to share with you all today. We took this picture at Lotus' birthday party at Bryan's Lake Bowl on May 1st, 2005. Man, did I look chubby on this photo? I am so glad I don't look like that anymore. We definitely have to go there again once I go back!!!

That's the picture of the day!! Hi to everyone!! Miss you all! Sean

Birthday Boy.

2005-10-04T20:55:00.000+08:00

Finally, the special day I have been waiting for 7 years.

It has been 7 years since I celebrate my b-day in my home country. Unfortunately, I had to celebrate this day away from home at the alternative conscription dorm, without my family, girlfriend, good friends of mine, and many many other people that I miss every day of my life. My sister's b-day is today as well, Rick's b-day is tomorrow, Sonja's b-day is coming soon, too. I am soooo going to miss the joined B-day party this year :( . Well, I am going to miss Thanksgiving, Christmas and many many other gatherings. I really miss that, really miss hanging out with you guys. I miss those two kids' noise too ~ Hi Tanner and Hunter. GOOD NEWS for you all, they have shorten the serving time down to 1 year a 6 months now. Hopefully they will have the same law again on Jan 1st 2007. In that case, I will be able to get out by Dec 31th, 2006. I can still go visit you all before winter break end for everyone. Otherwise I will get out on Feb 11th, 2007. I don't think it's that long at all.
I have been working for two days already. Everything went fine, for some reason my boss likes my Chinese writing. I always thought I have really really bad Chinese performance in any sort of way. My family think Taryn has better hand writing than I do. Well, I can't really complain, can I.
I was on duty this past weekend while there was a typhoon passing by, trust me, it was not fun at all. I had to watch the 5th & 8th floor by myself. I was lucky that no window was broken, and the building is still standing tall.
Here are some pictures to share with you all. I actually bought the cake myself to share with all my buddies at the dorm. (JUST SO they wouldn't do anything bad to me on my b-day...)

Made my wishes for the year, and blew off the candle. (The candle is a question mark)

I went out for an hour with Avon and her brother for dinner at near by restaurant.

Wish you are here, Taryn. Love you.

My little cube at ITC.

2005-10-01T22:09:00.000+08:00

Finally I got my little desk. I happened to be the first one that arrived at the investigated department, so I get to choose a desk first. I decided to choose this one by the window, I think it's got better view than my boss' office. He only gets to see Taipei 101, but I get to see mountains, a famous Chinese style hotel, and the Sky-Walker Temple. I get a little all in one computer, and a huge working space. I am satisfied with my new desk and the view so far.

Starting my job on Monday.

2005-10-01T21:21:00.000+08:00

Finally we finished three weeks of training courses, and I also decided which department to go. I choose the investigating department. The reason I decided to go there is because I do not want to waste my time around here at ITC. I will get to help investigating some safeguarding cases, and hopefully I will learn some skills that are not taught at the university. I am also in charge of the alternative conscription affairs. And maybe some random stuff...
My parents came to the graduation lunch last Friday. They visited the office, classroom, and our dorm. While they were in our dorm, many of my friends came up and told them to stop me from folding my blanket like a square tofu everyday. First picture below shows me standing next to my bed (the bottom one) ~ Wait until you see what I was laughing at.

This is what's on the other side of my bed. Tons of my buddies were asking/pleasing my parents to stop me from folding such square blanket. If I keep folding it this way, all of them will probably get yell at for being slacking off. I swear to god, I didn't really try hard to do this. They really make me worry that I might have OCD.....

Well, here is the family photo.

Our last Tai-Chi, and last day of training courses.

2005-09-29T22:18:00.000+08:00

Today we finished all our training courses. Tomorrow morning we will get the official result from the exam we took earlier tonight, and we will get to choose which departments to go into according to our placing from the exam. I really don't know where I am going to end up, but I am hoping to get into the investigating department. Probably because they told us we will learn more there. On top of that I have to fight with 18 other people for 6 spots in that dept, so I really hope I got good grade on my exam. Wait for the good news tomorrow everyone!
I was ordered to take pictures this morning during our Tai-Chi class, so I have some 80 pictures to post. But I think I will just put this one. It's our group shot. The guy in white polo-shirt is our boss, the lady is our Tai-Chi teacher, and the other two guys are our head executives. The rest of the guys in white T-shirt are my future co-workers. There are three lawyers, one accountant, and the rest are all business related majors. ( I am the only one that have a non-business related major ~ Statistics.) Most of us are from the US and Canada. Only one is from France, and three are from Taiwan.

Boring Day & Boring Night

2005-09-28T21:05:00.000+08:00

Well, today went by quickly. We didn't do much today. We learned how to write official papers and letters to other departments for 3 hours straight. And in the afternoon, they taught us what kind of mistakes people usually make when they write. That's what we did for the whole day. Boring isn't it?

Many of us, including me, have been sick for the past two and half weeks. So our officers decided it's about time to sanitize our living area. After dinner, we cleaned our entire dorm. We bleached all the surface that we come to contact with. We did that for about an hour. And now here I am, sitting here and blogging. It's so boring around here.... Computer and TV are our only entertainment in the dorm.

Anyway, I took couple pictures of our surrounding areas. There is this temple across the street called Sky-Walker Temple, which my friend told me to translate into.

Morning shot of the temple.

I also took this picture of the intersection.

Boring classes...

2005-09-27T21:18:00.000+08:00

Well, this morning we had the computer and internet user rules class. They are all basic rules; do not put random files in the government's database, especially mp3s and porn files. And of course no illegal software installed on every computers. And update your virus database everyday, and make sure you scan your computer daily. One thing I didn't understand was why they don't have any junk email protection what so ever. I could just send a virus into any of my co-workers' email accounts and the entire system would be screwed pretty bad. They don't scan through all the emails either. It seems pretty dumb.
This afternoon we had the government's purchasing law class. It was about how the bidding process work when the purchase exist certain amount, and how you can get all the forms you need and how to apply for it. Great, like we are ever going to get to spend some government money... Don't think so. Though I learned how much governments waste on random projects a day. ( I think it's a secret.. So I won't mention it here.) The most boring part was when the teacher started to read through the entire law book. There are about 120 articles in there, I think he spent about 3 hours reading those articles words by words. None of those words went into my head at all, I don't even know where I was all those time. Anyway, the whole class was dreadfully boring.
Oh yeah, on top of the boring day, I owed IRS shit loads of money. It sucks, but what can I do. I cannot really go to the court and appeal since I am half way across the world. I think from now on I am going to take care of my personal letters instead of asking someone to fill it up for me. Not only I didn't get the tax return back this year, but also have to pay a large amount back to the IRS. ua. -_-'''' ~ I will make those money back sometimes in the future. I will.

Starting my own Blog..

2005-09-26T23:15:00.000+08:00

Finally, I gave blog a try. So far I don't think I have any problem with this system yet. I have been doing well here in Taiwan. It has been 87 days since I came back from US. Life has changed so much in the past three months. First, I was glad I got to spend some time with my girlfriend Taryn before I have to go to the army. We didn't really get to travel much of Taiwan due to the weather. It was either too hot or too much rain...stupid typhoon. But over all I really enjoyed that month and a half. We had so many great moments together.

I got called up on August 11th unexpectedly, and went to the boot camp for 30 days. T and I were surprised that the government would call me up so early. T had to stay in Taiwan alone with my family for a week. I felt bad, but I had to do what I got to do. I wish I could say goodbye to her and be with her for at least one more week. It happened all too soon in a few days. I didn't have any extra time to react to the fact that I won't be able to see Taryn until Feb of 2007. The fact didn't hit me until one typhoon night at the boot camp. I was alone, in a dark dark night, thinking that Taryn has left. She flew away, and I cannot see her everyday like I used to. Won't be able to find that warm hand to hold on to when I am cold at night. It hit me hard, so hard my heart hurt. But I took it as a man, and thought I need to finish this army thing. If I never get this thing done, I would never be a freeman. I need to stay strong.

Boot camp went by quickly, man was I glad to get out of that hell hole. That wasn't made for human to live in at all. I took it, and I lived through it. I was amazed that I actually finished the entire training. After that, I started my job training. We are into our final week of class now, and there will be an exam this Thursday. I haven't really decided which department I want to go into yet, but no matter where I go, I am sure I will be learning something useful. Oh yeah, I am currently working at Taiwan International Trade commission, Ministry of Economic Affairs. We mostly deal with WTO affairs, and domestic trading affairs. I like this place so far. Co-workers are all friendly and helpful. Next Monday we will start working as a formal government workers. It's going to a new challenge in my life. I actually have to work now... No more free meals.

I will try to post messages or photos whenever I have time, feel free to leave me messages or comments. Keep in touch, and come visit too.

Taryn ~ Love you so much and miss you every seconds of my life.