A Weekend of Contrasts

So I haven’t updated this thing for a long time now so it’s about time that I get back to the grindstone. Yes, I’ve been busy but I’ve been lazy too. Last weekend was interesting. I went to be “best” club in Taipei and therefore all of Taiwan. The place is called Luxy (http://www.luxy-taipei.com/ or just Google "Luxy Taipei" and eat your little heart out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6X0sGz36HQ&eurl=http://www.luxy-taipei.com/en/main.php) It was a nice place, there was a cool fire-show, there was a trance section and a hip-hop section, but I was under-impressed. The people just seemed fake to me.

The highlight of the night was to watch a French dude that I was with and was drunk off his ass try and grind up on chicks or do rather uncouth things only to scare them away. I even tried to apologize to some of these poor girls but they were even more scared of me since I knew the Frenchie. The best part of the night was getting a lift home from two pretty cool girls who spoke sick English.

The fake people at Luxy (I call them flower vases, they look pretty on the outside but inside is nothing) were a real contrast to the other days of the week were I was with cool people. Friday night I went out to dinner and coffee with my friend Melissa. She’s a real cool girl and whenever I talk to her over coffee it ends up being a 3 hour conversation. The downside is that she’s busy with school so I hardly ever see her, which is too bad. The other non-fake experience I had was to go out to Yanming Mountain for lunch with my friends Calvin and Kara—and it was SO good it was all fresh stuff grown there at the restaurant on the mountain (sweet potato leaves are amazing when they are fixed right). We then went and chilled Taipei city with Kara’s cousin, Min, who is a baller. They were able to get me to eat this Taiwanese treat—it’s made of rice, peanut powder, but mostly made of pig blood. They told me it was all rice but unfortunately for them I can read enough Chinese to see pig blood. It really wasn’t bad but I don’t think I’ll have one again.