The Weekend Update

So, as is standard, this weekend saw a continuation of the bar tour. But I will get to that later. I actually took it easy on Friday since we had an engineer in town to work on one of our machines and I had to get up early the next morning.

On Saturday morning, I went across the city to listen to a talk about Taiwanese politics by left leaning members of the community who know an older ND alum. I met some cool people, listened to some interesting talks about Taiwanese politics, and was able to talk to a leader of the ongoing Taiwanese student protest.

After that I walked around downtown in some expensive shopping areas and tell myself one day I will change some of my wardrobe from just “rolled out of bed” to “looks like hell but at least his shirt is decent.” I was also pretty pumped since I found a hidden Tibetan shop that sells all sorts of stuff. I am planning to go back there and get some prayer flags to decorate my apartment.

That night was fun. I went to the Brass Monkey bar. It was all people who were older than me so I just had a pint of Guinness and laughed at the 20 or so very drunk Irish guys (seriously though, these guys are Irish, what do you expect?) dressed in Santa suits and drinking Coronas.

From there, I went to another place that I heard about called Bliss. At first it really sucked since hardly anyone was there and the only redeeming factor was the owner’s cute dog. Well, I made up my mind to order some fries and leave. But the fries were out so I ordered a bunch of nachos that ended up being huge. So I offered to share them with people in the bar and eventually got roped into some drinking games. It also turned out one of the foreign dudes there, Nick, lives a short walk away from me. When the time came to leave I went to breakfast with Nick and some Taiwanese girls then shared a cab home with them.

Sunday was a waste. I slept all day. About the most productive thing I did was read 100 pages of a book my mom sent me. Seriously, I did nothing else of value today.