Looks like I’ve found the limits to showing people the Chinese characters and having ’em show me the right bus. Today, I was off to Kwan Lin Shan (or Guang … or … etc. spelling …
Author: Alex Robinson
The Meaning of the Word Formosa
Flash of insight: What does “Formosa” really mean? “Stairs” This became clear out on the coast north of Keelung. Any place there is a hill, there are stairs. Starting to feel a bit of wanderlust. …
YangMingShan – Mountain of a Thousand Steps
Well, that’s not its name. Don’t know what YMSh means. But do know that the way up is a short 2 clicks. First half is 5 foot wide stone stairway. The rest is rougher stone, …
Loving Mother and Dutiful Son
In the US, these two with another nearby would be called “Middle Knob”, “Little Knob”, and “West Knob”. Or something like that. They are tiny peaks standing below some other sharp hills. They have stairs …
Always question zero and ten – A Day for Numbers
Started the day getting drilled on number words. The words for zero and ten are rising tone words. Someday, someday, I’ll even remember the word for 10. Anyway, at this writing I can say all …
Taipai 101
Yesterday I went to the top of Taipai 101, the world’s tallest building (or was, tallest-building-ness seems to change often). Coming out from an older, tighter, more crowded area of Taipai to the city hall …
First post
OK. Let’s try out this blog thing. 🙂 Found a card reader at the Nova store area near the main train station in Taipai. Unfortunately, the perl script that does uploads to asuka still has …