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Going to www.miltownkids.com now takes you to the wiki. So the wiki is the main site now. Not much to report from yesterday. It was just game club and the usual chillin’. There’s a typhoon going on now so I got a paid day off of work (yipee!).

I won’t write much now because I plan on posting again later. I’m not sure who’d be interested in these, but I put some Elva lyrics into tone marked pinyin (KFC, you reading these?). You never know when those could come in handy.

I’m gonna go have me some lunch now. Peace out.

Went and checked out the (kind of ) new Mister Donut yesterday. I took a few pictures and posted them on forumosa.com. There’s a 4-5 hour line of people waiting to get donuts there everyday.

This morning I went for another bike ride. This time we rode down to the Taipei City Zoo. That was a pretty good ride. My seat is way too low, so long distance riding kind of sucks, so I’m looking forward to getting a new seat post, new bike or bringing a bike over from back home (maybe I can get my brother to bring it for me).

After that I just chilled at home. While chilling at home I researched cell phones. I think I’ll end up getting the Sony Ericsson k700i after selling my old cell phone stuff.

I’ve had this canker sore on my tongue for the last 4 days and that has dampened my spirits a bit. Off to bed now, hopefully it will clear up soon.

Now that I know my one reader has her Internet connection working again (my mom, in case she couldn’t guess it was her). Funny, I just realized I didn’t play RO once today. I didn’t play the PS2 either. I better go see a doctor or something.

Let’s see, not much to talk about. Our Taiwanese study group had it’s first meeting yesterday and I feel that went well. Starting to study Taiwanese (actually, just thinking about studying Taiwanese) excited my language nerve so now I’m studying Mandarin again more seriously. I have a strong feeling I’ll pick up Taiwanese pretty quickly (conversational), we’ll see.

Last Friday, Saturday and a few days this week I did telephone tests with my students. That was pretty cool. They all did really well except for 2 kids and those 2 are catching up quickly. I also ending up getting into rather lengthy conversations with those two kids parents about how they are in class and things. My Mandarin has been decent for a while, but I didn’t think I could get along on the phone so well using only Mandarin *miltownkid pats himself on the back*.

The principal of the Elementary school gave me a third year Mandarin book and I like that much better then the books I’ve used before. It’s much more fun reading these short stories then boring dialogs in normal Chinese learning text books. I think I’ll work my way all the way through those up to high school stuff.

We’ll be having another KTV outing next month and I plan on singing at least one song in Mandarin and one in Taiwanese. And get both of them up on the site right away a long with pictures. My new PS2 game should be coming next week (hooray). I guess that’s about it for now. I best get back to study.

What shows all your cares,



Alone or in pairs,

Looks better then your neighbor's dog...

What hits harder then Mac,

And fits on your sack?

It's blog blog blog!!

It's blog, it's blog,

It's big, it's heavy, it's electronic

it's blog, it's blog,

It's better then bad it's SUPERSONIC!



Let's see, we had an earthquake a few days ago.

It rattled hard enough to make me wonder what I'd

do in the event of a really hard rattler.  Still

gotta get those pictures up.  That'll do for now.

They have Strikers: 1945 back at the arcade. Good times. I’ve been a little lax on the blogging, but not much to report. KTV was good, but I took no pictures and recored no sounds, maybe next time. I spoke with “Smokin’” Joe W. this week. That was a good time as usual. He’s saying he wants to visit this year as long as we stay SARS free (that’s what stopped him last time).

I blew the dust off y PS2 and pulled out GTA: Vice City to get prepared for GTA: San Andreas (thanks to Jobnumber for updating me). I ordered that and a movie player for the GBA (that can also play NES games, use ebooks and do some other things) from Lik-Sang.com (your Hong Kong video game export specialist.) I payed for the speedy shipping too (I’m such a kid) so I should get me stuff before the end of the month (E Bro, you might have to wait for the DS to come out before I send the GBA, but your records are still on the way).

I got pictures from last weekend’s bike ride to put up. I’ll try to do that tomorrow.