Figuring Out What to Eat...

... in Taiwan is extremely difficult, especially where I live. The food in the area where I reside doesn't really offer much in variety, unless I take a bus trip to the east side of the city. The picture you see above is one of those many restaurants that offers lunch/dinner bento boxes that are usually sent to companies nearby. The one in the picture isn't too bad, but a good majority of these types of places are average at best and can be bad if they're under rush hour. If you want to live in Taiwan and want easy access to lots of food options, stick with the Taipei area. Other wise, you're most likely stuck with a bunch local Taiwan foods - not that they're bad, but most likely you'll get tired of eating the same foods for a while.

Update of Life in Taiwan

Just finished writing a gloomy part of myself again and it felt good to get that off my chest. Want to follow up with a brighter blog entry with how things are in Taiwan. Been very busy in Taiwan and a little bit fatigued from it, but overall pretty happy. Been eating a lot of tasty food recently, wished I took more pictures rather than chomping it down like a mad bear that I am; then realizing I should have took a picture first. Traveling to and fro from Taipei/Hsinchu frequently. Spending nice quality time with a few good friends both in Taipei and Hsinchu.

If it's one thing I can complain, is that the heat and air quality as of late is really bothering me. I noticed I try to avoid breathing when I'm outside, because I get dizzy if inhale too much of the air in the busy parts (lots of cars, scooters, motorcycles, and what have you) of Taiwan, I get very light headed. If I don't breath more normally my body sweats like a mad man. I can't walk over 5 minutes and show some sweat coming through my shirt!

Other than that, I'm a happy teddy bear who feels that he has a good simple life here in Taiwan so far!

Divorce and the Effect of my Views

Hooray! It's Friday and I was lucky enough that I do not have to do work this weekend! Yay! I decided to finally continue expanding my "Life in Bullet Points" segment and let out my days where my parents got divorce, as it had a pretty big impact on how I view relationship and parenting.

Being Anonymous on the Internet

This picture here is a lot of graffiti written by students from elementary-high school. Students write other students' phone numbers on here to pick on them by sending their numbers to spammers or such. They also write very odd messages, in this example: "Guang Fu A Money is Super Big!" written near the top left. Most cases though, they write something sexual though.

Which somewhat brings me to how cyber bullying on the Internet has come. With the news of how 4chan picked on a potty mouth girl, it made me wonder about the power of being anonymous. Being anonymous, brings the power of expressing one's true thoughts to the public without shame or fear. The flip side to that is that expression can be devastating to another. YouTube, for an example, in the earlier days when comments were not rated, there were many negative comments just for the fun of being a "troll" and not giving a constructive criticism instead.

The whole real ID, where online sites requires you to post your real profile information, seeks to solve that issue of being anonymous. Trying to have users take responsibility of what they say. I think it would be great, but than again, during these times where many of us feel like somebody is ready to sue or take judicial actions against crazy accusations; not many people will embrace this real ID concept. Society as of today is oppressed by many things. It seems our freedom of speech is through these anonymous websites such as 4chan or other sites that does not require little to no information about one self.

I decided to use 24bear as my Internet identity for things I sign up with. I'll be honest, I am still afraid of expressing some of my "true" opinion on things, because of possible consequences of what the Internet might react to. Slowly though, I will shed my fear of sharing of what I believe in a more honest fashion, as I feel if people can stand by me with my beliefs, I should have nothing to fear. I think this is one of those things that we as a society have lost, standing firm.