Happy New Year to anyone who still reads this thing. I really need to write about my last few weeks. Thankfully, I am at the office today since I have to show up the first Saturday of each month but I don't want to work so what better to do than waste some time, right?
Work
So work the past few weeks has been a real bitch. The plus side is that we have a party next weekend for the year end and in two weeks I go to Thailand. But two weeks ago we had a huge machine breakdown that stopped all production (which was already behind schedule). The problem is that all the engineers who help us were on vacation for Christmas and the ones that were around on the help line could not do anything. So to make a long story short I had to make special arrangements and work with the Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Ministry to get a visa for a Filipino engineer then arrange all of his travel and work. We got the machine fixed. Of course, then we had to deal with Thailand culture, they like to play games and kept switching the shipment dates and requests on us—which was good really since we weren’t late on the shipment.
X-mas in the Office
All that work meant that I had a grand total of 5 days off in December. I had to work on Christmas. That really sucked bad. I was happy though to make my coworkers happy and spread some cheer. I went with a coworker and two friends to dinner and had a good time but not as much as I would have at home. Below are some pictures of me with co-corkers.
Work
So work the past few weeks has been a real bitch. The plus side is that we have a party next weekend for the year end and in two weeks I go to Thailand. But two weeks ago we had a huge machine breakdown that stopped all production (which was already behind schedule). The problem is that all the engineers who help us were on vacation for Christmas and the ones that were around on the help line could not do anything. So to make a long story short I had to make special arrangements and work with the Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Ministry to get a visa for a Filipino engineer then arrange all of his travel and work. We got the machine fixed. Of course, then we had to deal with Thailand culture, they like to play games and kept switching the shipment dates and requests on us—which was good really since we weren’t late on the shipment.
X-mas in the Office
All that work meant that I had a grand total of 5 days off in December. I had to work on Christmas. That really sucked bad. I was happy though to make my coworkers happy and spread some cheer. I went with a coworker and two friends to dinner and had a good time but not as much as I would have at home. Below are some pictures of me with co-corkers.
ND Club and a Real Club
The day after X-mas the local ND club held a huge dinner banquet for the year end. I know most of the regulars who come in so I was able to bs my way through and have a great time. It was damn expensive for stylish food (a little steak with two spears of asparagus and some swirls of fancy sauce—screw that, just give me a big ass steak). I ran into my old buddy, Mike, who helped me get the job I have now. I saw the number one man in the club, who is a business tycoon here in Taiwan. He was more than a little full of himself and knew he was damn important—in his words 2009 is going to be a rough year but if you can make it through then you can make it through anything. It was also good to see some of the ND undergrads there.
Afterward we all went out to the fanciest nightclub in Taipei (Primo) and after pre-gaming hard, waiting for a police raid to finish, lying to bouncers, and sweet-talking we were able to make our way in. This story will continue in the last part of this post.
ND Football
I am so happy that ND won. The bowl monkey is off of our back for sure. Now we need to start winning in the regular season.
New Place
I am going to move into a new place. I live in what can only be described as a cell/summertime sauna now. I am moving in with my friend Nick who is from California into his place. It is about 6 times bigger than mine. I am really looking forward to it for sure. The other advantage is that I have been able to meet a lot of his friends so new place and new social circle. If any of you are ever in Taiwan you now officially have a place to crash.
Starcraft
Nick and I have been making like the Taiwanese and having a lot of late night gaming sessions at the local internet cafes. He has been giving me a hard ass kicking in Starcradt—a game I haven’t played since middle school.
New Girl?
These are famous last words, I know, but I will say them anyway—there is no way this can last long. At the club after the ND banquet, I ran into a girl from Hong Kong. That is really not all that amazing. But after that I went to breakfast with her and her friends and spent the entire next day at her friend’s house. A little bit more about her (no names or pictures here, but if you want it shoot me an email or a facebook message), she is a 20 year old student from Hong Kong here in Taiwan to study, I think she is really pretty, she can read and understand some spoken English, but this is no problem since we both speak Mandarin. The black mark is that she is a smoker—I hate that shit. Yesterday we went out to dinner, a movie, and hookah (ok so maybe the smoking isn’t so bad, wait, it still is) and we seem to get along well. We shall see.
ND Football
I am so happy that ND won. The bowl monkey is off of our back for sure. Now we need to start winning in the regular season.
New Place
I am going to move into a new place. I live in what can only be described as a cell/summertime sauna now. I am moving in with my friend Nick who is from California into his place. It is about 6 times bigger than mine. I am really looking forward to it for sure. The other advantage is that I have been able to meet a lot of his friends so new place and new social circle. If any of you are ever in Taiwan you now officially have a place to crash.
Starcraft
Nick and I have been making like the Taiwanese and having a lot of late night gaming sessions at the local internet cafes. He has been giving me a hard ass kicking in Starcradt—a game I haven’t played since middle school.
New Girl?
These are famous last words, I know, but I will say them anyway—there is no way this can last long. At the club after the ND banquet, I ran into a girl from Hong Kong. That is really not all that amazing. But after that I went to breakfast with her and her friends and spent the entire next day at her friend’s house. A little bit more about her (no names or pictures here, but if you want it shoot me an email or a facebook message), she is a 20 year old student from Hong Kong here in Taiwan to study, I think she is really pretty, she can read and understand some spoken English, but this is no problem since we both speak Mandarin. The black mark is that she is a smoker—I hate that shit. Yesterday we went out to dinner, a movie, and hookah (ok so maybe the smoking isn’t so bad, wait, it still is) and we seem to get along well. We shall see.
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