Here a a few more random pics.


This is Jessie and I making traditional Hakka Tea. The large bowl is grooved with ridges to help grind the ingredients. A variant of a mortar and pestle. It's a lot of work but the outcome is worth it. The ingredients include, green tea leaves, sesame seeds, and peanuts. Instructions: grind into fine powder and add hot water. It was very good. They had small little rice puffs to put on top and some brown sugar. I just imagined the rice puffs were little marshmallows. For a snack they also served machi which is a gummy textured hunk of goo, and in this case it was covered with peanut powder. It sounds gross but it's actually quite good. Jessie and I are also rockin our awesome snoopy shirts my mom sent us. Thanks mom your the best!

Jessie's parents and I back in February. I've come to realize how incredibly white I am. I really need to get a tan!

Taipei 101
I didn't go to the top because the visibility was not that great the day we were there. Didn't want to pay to go to the top of the tallest building in the world and not be able to see any thing.

This is me on Jessie's scooter with my mask on. This was taken just last weekend. It's a lot of fun and everyone is shocked that I can drive a scooter even though I've never driven one before. To bad it only has 49cc

Stargate Log 4.07.09

I arrived in Taiwan on January 26th and now is it May 7th so it's far past due that I post pictures of Taiwan. With the upgrade of my Linux OS things are working much better and unlike previously when trying to do anything on the computer it would look-up every few mins. Thus far it's working well and hopefully will continue to work so I can keep this pictures coming.

This is looking up a dirt road on the east side of my apartment look back at my apartment complex.

This is a confucius temple on the north side the dirt road in the picture above. They frequently have parades and make lots of noise early in the morning. Banging big drums and shotting fireworks. Its like the 4th of July here all the time. People are always shotting off fireworks. It drives me crazy. One night last week it was 12:30 pm and right out back of my apartment you could see a huge firework display and it was so loud. I was slightly infuriated to say the least.


This is a closer shot of my apartment. Its on the left hand side of the picture 7th floor very top.

I was going to add the picture I took of the parade outside my apartment but I couldn't find it amongst my numerous pictures.

Here are just a few pictures from the evening market. Many people stop by after work to pick up stuff for dinner. Yummy!