Taiwan

Shun has come and gone T_T Time flies when you are enjoying yourself ^_^ I now have a IXUS 70 and am snapping photos as i go :D:D:D

Taipei 101 and its observatory was definitely an experience. If one goes to the 91st floor observatory one is admist the clouds and all one can see is white mist flowing across one's chest - such a weird feeling...

I have almost forgotten the 'taking law as reference only' attitude. Doing massive U turns on the high street with flooding mopeds; driving from the inner to outer side crossing 5 lanes under 150m; putting the foot pedal down when the traffic light turns red.

Given my experiences with UK medical services I have been doing most of my health checks here. I have managed to go to the optician, dentist, podiatrics, ear, nose, throat hospital all in one day :D It was really weird having your ear cleaned using one of those micro hoover - you can even see how it's been done on screen.

On a gross but hopeful note - I managed to pull out the root of my corn, which closely resembled a magot. It essentially acted as a plug and its removal initiaed a flood of puss - since then it has gone down a lot - So it should be getting better in the month to come.

The people that are against the president has been sitting infront of the president's palace for 60 hours now. That's all there is on the news lately. From my perspective I think neither party is right - just different shades of grey. But what's so stupid is the green (pro china) party who initiated the sitting actually called taiwan a 'country' and then later had to broadcast and say any 'mishearing' is due to the electronic interference of the rain - talking about trying to dig yourself out of a hole man..=_=;;

I always think riots are the most impractical form of objection - the use of sheer force coupled with brainless actions. And in a way it is not like China cares - their newspaper recently mistaken a guy as the vice president of Taiwan, and the president's mum as his wife. The vice president is a woman and the president's wife is disabled - and they cannot even distingush a 70 year old woman not sitting in a wheel chair with a 50 year old one that is sitting in one - really shows how much they care right??