Goodbye For Now Taiwan

A month ago, I could barely wait to go home for Winter Break. Strangely enough, the night before my flight I can't help but feel a little sad to leave, especially now that the University is so quiet and deserted. It's actually pretty nice walking around campus without meeting anybody and hearing and seeing the few remaining dormers let it all hang out and talk and sing until mid morning. I also particularly enjoyed pulling out the lobby furniture into the dorm porch and having "lunch out" until 3 PM.

The old Tainan police station

Random building at NCKU

But of course, I'd pick the din of my semi-functional family and friends over the peace of an empty campus anyday. So, seeya Taiwan! My next post will be made from the Philippines...

Hello, Moment of Spontaneous Defamiliarization

Blame my booking my tickets home too late, but now I’m pretty much alone in the campus with so much free time I barely know what to do with myself. This morning as I was trying to brush my lashes straight with a toothbrush, I suddenly got a weird case of jamais vu; it was like I was seeing a human face for the first time. And it was then that it struck me: Why do people consider eyelashes beautiful? I mean its hair… growing out of your eyeholes! They’re like thick curved tentacles surrounding your eyes *shudders* pretty disgusting.

I’m staying away from mirrors from now on…

Hello, I Love Doodles, My Boyfriend

looks like a 4 year old's picture stuck to the fridge

Doodle #1 using corel Painter my boyfriend's christmas gift:

Made It Through the Wilderness (Somehow I made it through...)

It’s officially Winter Break in Taiwan and I’m officially back from my three week cram-for-finals-and-thesis blogging hiatus. It’s a very strange feeling when you actually survive something that a few weeks ago you felt certain would crush you like a bug…

Anyway, to get me back into the groove of putting up posts, I’m putting up these e-doodles I made using excel during a particularly dull class.

I love excel!!!

Will be posting more in the next few days!

It's Hard to Say Goodbye...

Hello, I Love New Year's Resolutions

There’s nothing like waking up at 10am on new year’s day in your party hostess’s bed, with everybody from last night’s party gone (including the hostess who probably had to sleep at a friend’s because you were hogging her bed) and just a vague recollection of what happened after you downed that last glass of Jesus juice, then stumbling out into the living room to get your things only to have your hostess’s housemate from out of town suddenly arrive and give you a confused stare while you make for the door before she thinks to call the police (ehem… this is a hypothetical situation of course.. cough.. cough), to fill you with shame and the desire for self improvement.

After that fateful (and hypothetical) morning, I took it upon myself to make the following promises to myself this 2009 so I can become the proper and accomplished not-so-young lady that all the Jane Austen books have conditioned me to believe I should aspire to be:

1. I will read less novels and more nonfiction… fashion magazines, tabloids and gossip blogs are nonfiction right?

2. I will introduce more variety into my diet … by putting oden sauce on my daily 711 siopao lunch every now and then instead of creamy soy sauce

3. I will be more charitable… (read: I will throw more marshmallows at stray dogs)

4. I will exercise more… by buying candy on shelves that I have to stretch or crouch down to reach

5. I will shed some weight… by wearing lighter fabrics (cotton pants instead of denims and corduroys)

6. I will be nicer to people… HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, okay maybe not

7. I will learn to play a musical instrument… I’ve always liked cowbell

8. I will spend less money… by bartering or by obtaining a sugar daddy sponsor to do the spending for me

9. I will become proficient in a new language… namely, hip hop slang (It’s all gravy my baby)

10. I will never drink again… in the presence of friends with cameras and Facebook accounts