Thursday, 09 April 2009
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Wake Up
By MC Hotdog
see relatedThe net in TPE is great!
Been in China for the last 5 weeks or so...it's really tested my ability to be away from New York and the States in general. I've been schemin' to leave NYC for the last year or so and I think it's finally happenin'. Forget the fact that I've been in Shanghai working on something that I simply can't believe I'm doin'...but more so for my own living, I'm startin' to see that the world is a really big place and that I just might be able to live in Asia after all. Other than some people, I'm not really missing New York and I know New York doesn't miss me. Hmph.
There are things that bug about China. For instance, I ain't been on this xanga thing for awhile because, well, they block the site in the country! No blogging sites allowed. Can you imagine? They really censor people's thoughts there. It's pretty crazy. At any given moment, they have the power to shut down a website if it's doing anything controversial/racy/or whatever that is bad in the government's eyes. Youtube is always down (I like how the author of this article is named John Oates) so I can never see anything on there. That bugs!
I currently popped over to Taipei for the weekend and it's amazing ... I'm on sites like this ... and, wow, do you really feel the difference in speed with the internet here. The net is totally bogged down in China. Things are painfully slow to open/upload, etc. Nevertheless, you get used to it and overall, there are so many cool things about the place, that I generally forgive and forget. If I could write it all down and describe what I see, feel, smell, sense...I just don't have the time. Generally, I wake up everyday and give thanks to the ground I walk on. I am lovin' life these days and the opportunities I've been given. It's such an exciting time right now in Red China.
But ah, Taipei. My favorite city in Asia, maybe the world...
I'm really happy to be here to meet some friends who are traveling and then some who live here. It's always a treat to be here....the food, the feel, the, uh, females...haha (F3?) There's a song that goes Wo Ai Tai Mei which translates into: I love Taiwan girls. People generalize about women or men in a certain country and how they carry themselves or appear etc and well, all I have to say is that that female persuasion here is by far the best Asia has to offer.
It is with a sense of sadness that I am here though this weekend as well. I was so shocked to find out that a sweet girl I met on my last trip here was the senseless victim of a drunken driving accident last weekend. It's totally tragic. Her boyfriend was drunk driving at 8am and they both died on the spot after a long night of partying. I barely knew the girl, but as my friend today said, it was still a footprint that she made in my life. Everyone you come across leaves a mark in some way, big or small. I wanted to look her up to tell her I was in town and when I discovered this...well, it was an eerie sense, a sad sense, a senseless sense.
I wish you well, wherever you may be at this moment Candy...our paths barely crossed, but you left an indelible mark.
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