Chinese New Year Part 1

Before I did all of the things in the two posts below, I had my own adventures this last Chinese New Year (hence the lack of recent posting).

The first night I went to my boss's house for a great big dinner. It was a lot a of fun to relax and eat some great home cooked food. It was not so fun to lose some money playing dice. Still it was an awesome time.

The next day I went out with a friend of mine and his girlfriend to see the plum blossoms on Yangming Mountain. They rode their mopeds up there and I hitched a ride on the back of my friend's moped. There were not many blossoms but it was fun to get out, walk, and joke around a bit.

When it started to get a little dark my two friends got on one moped and I got on the other and we rode to a huge department store/entertainment plaza/theater. I promised myself I would never ride a scooter in Taipei. So much for that. We hung out and watched a new Taiwanese movie called Monga that shows the lifestyle in some areas of Taiwan during the 1970's.

We left at 3:30am and rode mopeds in the rain. Take it from me, that sucks to do. But I did get to take a sweet picture of me at 4:00am in the Monga (same as he movie setting) area of Taiwan in my moped rain gear.

What a badass.

The next day I joined those same two friends for a hot pot and some drinks at my friend's house. It was funny since his grandmother who only speaks Taiwanese (no Chinese) kept trying to talk to me--and since she is old she kept forgetting I don't understand Taiwanese.