Ice Tea Conspiracy, English School and stuff...

Well its been a pretty busy week.

So far the bad news, I lost my 64mb memory card due to a hole in my knapsack :( I also lost my transit subway card, which still had $12 of money left on it, and dropped my digital camera in some really bad soup :(

Luckily, the camera started working a few hours later, as before the LCD screen just stayed blank. Unfortunately, I think the cable outlet is too dirty on the camera, so can no longer download pics off the camera. I will get a xD card reader to download pics off the camera in the future.
Now the good news, I got an english job, and it keeps me really busy, just teaching adults is not so tough, but takes a lot of confidence I think. I spent a lot of time training this week, and it kept me quite busy. I also taught about 2 days this week. Coupled with my quasi-mandarin lessons my week was pretty packed.

This week will be even more packed as I gotta go to the hospital for a health check and a host of other places. I ate yellow watermelon today, apparently in Taiwn, there is yellow watermelon, it looks and tastes just like the normal red variety, but its yellow....strange.

There is this weird Ice Tea conspiracy, where the 1.5L bottles are really cheap at certain grocery stores, but they ran out and than I had to by from the expensive ones. The conspiracy is the fact they all ran out at the same time and didn't refill it for a week, forcing ppl to buy the smaller size of 600mL. Its weird, the 1.5L bottles sell for like $1.20, but the 600mL ones sell for 80 cents, why would ppl buy the 600mL bottles?! I don't know how long the sale of Ice Tea will last, the 1.5L bottles have just recently dropped in price to $1.08, I'm gonna try stocking up, currently I bought 6, will try for more later. Ice tea is much cheaper than coke here, coke is about $1.50-$2 for a 2L bottle. I think the opposite of Canada, as Ice Tea in Canada really expensive.

I think the best meals here is breakfast, as Dambi and other meals for breakfast are fast, convenient , cheap and delicious. Unfortunately, the breakfast stores close by 12 so one really should wake up earlier :P . My pet peeve about street vendors is that some are really good, but they keep changing their location, so you cannot plan it out, like say gee I really want that, lemme go to that street corner and buy some because that truck/vendor stand may not be there that day which can be quite frustrating unlike the stores where you can be sure the food will be available that day.

Nothing much else to report, saw I-Robot, reminded me a lot of the other robot movie by Steven Spielberg. Although I haven't mentioned it, the bugs here are still the biggest issue with living in Taiwan, just absolutely gross, and they really are not afraid of humans whatsoever.