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Keelung is COOL
Keelung is on the North East coast of Taiwan. It rains there almost as often as Seattle, but luckily, is right now in the sunny season (as is Seattle. . .) Famous sites there include a Statue of Liberty (pictured here next to the more recognizable American Icon, McDonalds. . .) and a HUGE statue/ shrine for the Goddess of the Ocean. (I don't know how to write her name in English characters, so I'm not going to try just yet.) There is also a fort the Taiwanese built in the 1840's to ward off Spanish invasion.
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I have such a huge amount of photos I want to post on the site and am so busy with work that it is hard to find the time to make updates. (I took almost 300 shots during the weekend in Tainan alone) I look at it this way, though: I will torture no one trying to force them to see my photo albums when I get back -- as long as everyone sees the pictures here and now. My newest hobby out here is to eat noodles from a sidewalk vendor and write short stories about all the people walking by. Maybe one day I'll get published. Maybe no one will visit my website or read my stories. Ah, who cares. Next weekend the NFL preseason opens in Osaka Japan. If anyone knows where to get tickets for this game, LET ME KNOW. Seeing the Redskins on this side of the planet would be a total trip. -July 27, 2002 |
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Hsi Chih, where I am stranded is in between two major cities: Taipei and Keelung. Keelung is a beautiful port city that I have not pictured yet in the site. (My old camera died while bicycling to Keelung. There were some cool pictures of a Confucious Shrine on a lonely mountain that I will never recover.)
All of the weigworen (foreigners) here visit Sundays -- a TGI Friday's clone on top of Keelung's tallest building. Here you can get two-for-one daqueries. Every time I go to Sundays, I bump into teachers I have met here. Do they all drink too much or is this the only foriegner-friendly bar in Keelung, I don't know. As pictured below, we did our duty as westerners to order the nachos. I was pleasantly surprised at the high quality of the guacamoli.
Do you detect an anti-American attitude in this web site? It's not anti American, except that I deplore such corporate brands as McDonalds and Starbucks -- which are rampant here as they are all over the profit-making world. (note: I still appreciate 7-11. Some things are best left unexplained) I am not against my home country, however, I am very embarrassed at the impression of Americans which most people on the planet have. For any Canadians visiting this site: I do not put ketchup on all of my food, swill budweiser while watching baseball in a wife-beater undershirt, or desire to colonize every corner of the world with Ronald McDonald, Marlboro cigarettes or frigging Mickie Mouse. So there. And, I ask all Canadians in Taiwan: how can you survive in a place that has no hockey?