poooooooooooooool parties!

well, with summer here in full force (feels like its 50 degrees outside) there is nothing better to do than spend your day pool side :) yes, u sweat like a pig n u cant really put on sunblock cuz your body is so wet that it doesnt really stay on your skin....but besides e fact we managed to not get sunburned! e place was great, as it had a really big pool, n we got a really sweet spot with a bed n everything, haha. e dj was upstairs n u could hear e great music throughout. n of course no pool party is a pool party without e beverages, hahaha. n let me tell ya, it was crazy! e pool was left with a film of sunblock n other unidentified objects, haha. bb players n models, floaties n naked backflips, spitting frens n sliding abner, all resulted in an awesome day :) haha. met some really cool peeps n oddly enough ran into some of em today at a coffee shop...taipei is getting to small...later

back on....;)

Ok ive been getting complaints from people that I have stopped writing on my blog. Sorry I will try to continue again, hehe. So summer is finally here! Man, n e beaches here r sooooooooooo close. I mean, they’re not e carribean or anything, haha but its still a good time! Sat nite was my fren’s farewell party n she decided to have it at e beach. So we all headed there n had an amazing time, (despite e fact that my one fren dropped her camera n spent most of e nite looking for it.)

so we were up all nite by e ocean n we all saw e sun rise! It was sooo amazing, made u feel so alive n so lucky to be in such a beautiful part of e country…..:) then after a couple hours of sleep headed back to e beach for some Frisbee n boggie boarding, ha I wanted to surf but felt 2 tired to try to learn n I’ll keep it for another day, 

next weekend there is a Canada day celebration so we’re all looking forward to it, even my Taiwanese friends. So yea, great wknd, but now we’re expecting a sad stage cuz ppl r beginning to leave  pity, especially since e summer is about to start. Hey if u guys have facebook add me n u can see all my cool pics n all my fren’s cool pics, hehe.

i will put a beautiful pic up once i get it from my fren.

later....

All by myself, don't wanna be....

For those of you that didn’t know, my gf was visiting me this last month. It was great! I showed her around Taipei and Taiwan and she really liked it. But I think she liked the shopping the most, haha. I talked to her when she was back in Calgary and said she was upset cuz she should have done more shopping…..jeez, I couldn’t believe it. Anyways it was really great to see her again but now I am soooo exhausted, haha. Gotta get use to my regular routine again.



Sooo the heat is coming  its already so hot that I cant stand being outside. And im told it will get hotter! Man, I dunno what im gonna do. I sweat like crazy and its so humid, haha. Oh well, maybe it will help me get in better shape, hahaha. So yea, no summer plans yet but there is the beach and tons of festivals. Also I will see if I jet over to japan or hong kong, that would b cool. Ive already been here for 7 months n have 5 months to go so time has gone by soooo fast. Work has been chill the last couple of weeks but now its super crazy. We have another tradeshow in June in Singapore, but I wont be goin to that one 

Anyways I hope you guys r doing great. Send me an email or leave a comment. Bye!

kenting...spring scream

So spring scream was last weekend. It is one Taiwan’s biggest outdoor rock festivals that went from April 5-7. Luckily we had a 4 day weekend to go down to Kenting (south beach town of Taiwan). The ride down was HORRIBLE. We drove my car’s car but the traffic was so bad it took us 17 hours to get there!!! I could have gone to Canada in that time. It only should have taken us like 8 or so but no.

The festival itself was fun. There was two locations and we stayed at the location in the mountains where our cabins were. Which were soooo awesome so close to all the “action.” There was tons of bands but the thing was that the location was so big and the stages were so far apart that it didn’t seem like there was a lot of people there. There were tons of foreigners and Japanese rock bands, hahaha. So we listened to some really strange stuff but also some more popular bands and djs...

During the day we headed down to the beach (going through the immense traffic jams) it seemed like all of Taiwan’s young people were there, hahaha. Plus a whole bunch of crazies as well. One of the dudes in our group was off the wall! I don’t think he ever slept and must have been on something. Great source of entertainment but as the same time sooo annoying!!!!!!!

But yea, the drive back was great and it only took us like 9 hours. We split driving time and almost run out of gas. Our friend Emily was freaking out and it was the funnies thing in the world, HAHAHA. Well Brenda will be here tomorrow so I’m jumping off the walls with excitement and can’t concentrate at work…..let u guys know how it goes ;) LATER

sunny ORLANDO

hey y'all,
well i just got back from orlando this morning. i tried not to sleep during the day so i could get used to the time again but it didnt work. i passed out at noon and slept allll afternoon. the flight was super long with two connections and a 4 hour layover in LA. not pleasant but at least the movie selection on the plane was good, hehe.

so about orlando. i went there for a tradeshow for my company with my coworker szymon. the exhibition was good though it was quite short. met a lot of people and the cool thing was that i think i spoke more spanish than english cuz there was a lot of latin american companies there. the experience was great and got a lot of market research. so now its back to work and on to the next show....

ok now the fun part. we got to check out universal studios, i must say, the hulk and mummy ride were my favorites,,, long lines but well worth it. i got to eat a lot of great food, shop at the outlets and enjoy the beautiful weather. so yea, i had a great time!!! now im back in taipei and kinda happy to be "home"! he is a pic of me and the classic universal studio pic...hahaha

still haven't recovered...

still tired as hell. yesterday i drank too much tea and couldn't get to sleep. now im almost dying but my friend is coming to cook me special rice balls with sesame for dessert of part of the lantern festival goodies, i guess. sat night i slept like a log and i HOPE i can sleep like that tonight. this weekend was great cuz i got have eat WESTERN FOOD. i thought that i wouldn't cave in but i did :( and so did diana. (my fren from the states). on friday we hit pizza hut (though we did have asian pizza and dessert!) the buffet here is much better. u can get rice, fried chicken, soups and sweet bean soup (one of my favorite taiwanese desserts!) i had western food potluck with my friends from church and then again yesterday we had more western food. so now i dont crave that no more and its on to TORTILLA's oh how i miss them soooo much. with some beans and cheese....man, i wish my mom was here to cook for me, oh and with some friend plantains....mmmmm.

today i think there is a new intern that arrived from new york and another one will come from germany in mid march. so our group is ever expanding, but i hope their cool unlike this othe intern that we had. he was totally close minded and complained about everything. everyone is glad he left, sad to say but hey...anyways, i updated my pics so check them out. also i think i might be heading back to north america for a tradeshow at the end of the month. its in orlando so it will be good experience for sure. though im not looking forward to the flight....argh!!! but who knows i might not even go as plans change so quickly at my company, lol. i mean they just decided to send me so things might change that quickly...hahaha. k dudes, later...

sawatica

Thailand was something I think everyone should experience…what can I say except that I will be returning again. We did so much, opium village, seeing tigers, elepants, shows, parties, markets, eating, beaches, shopping…it was non stop…..so im exhausted….

So because we started planning our trip so late, there were no flights to Thailand because of Chinese New Year. It’s like all of Taiwan and china were headed to Thailand, lol. All we could find was a thailand tour package so we decided to go for it. And man, was that ever an experience in itself. It was so funny. We were the only non-asians in the groups and everyone kept staring at us everwhere we went. We def. stood out…oh and we had our friend kim from north korea join us….im waiting for that pic as we speak…..lol.

Anyways…most of you guys know what thailand is like without me having to say anything. The beaches are gorgeous, the culture is amazing and the weather is perfect! Some things worth mentioning…lets talk about the “interesting” things we saw. We went to see this sex show and man, were we ever shocked!!!! If u wanna know all the juicy details you’ll have to ask me cuz I almost feel embarrased writing about it, hahaha. Oh yea and the lady boys were quite a show too, one of them keep slapping her boob on my friends head! …ha…to see pics go to my windows live space. Sorry no pics from the show there….also my friends have other pics that I have to upload later.

Oh and we had a traditional thai massage and I was in heaven for two hours!!! Even though sometimes it was painful it felt really good after. Im just glad I didn’t get a hot massus (sP?) cuz some of those positions that they get you into are scandolous. Bua! And and when we went to see the grand palace we had to take off our shoes and put them in the shoe room….man, it smelled so bad in there I almost puked, hhaha. It was so funny so see ppl dash in there grab their shoes and dash out, hahaha.

Reason’s why I have to go back? well on the tour we didn’t eat a lot of thai food since it was a chinese tour there was lots of chinese food. And I couldn’t find my coconut rice but I had this amazing spicy noodle soup off a street vendor..the best soup of my life!!! Since im a beach fanatic I would like to see more of them there….and would like to see more temples. But overall the trip was amazing, a def. awesome place to visit.