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Month: February 2007

  • Mum

    My mother has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, she is 84.You are never too old to get breast cancer. She has Paget’s disease of the breast, see below for more informationhttp://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Breast/Typesofbreastcancer/PagetsdiseaseI am going back to UK on 27th February with Dave who is going for a meeting. I will go to my Mum’s and…

  • Lunar (Chinese) New Year.

    Happy New Year! Chinese Style, New Years day was on Sunday 18th Feb. It is a very big holiday here with most businesses closed for at least 4 days, some 5 and some, like the post office, closed for 9 days! Dave has had the week off and we have done some stuff but really…

  • front page, whoo!

    Once in a while, I’m on the front page of the website of my modeling agency, Orange Model Management Inc. Photos are randomly loaded every time you reload the page, so you may or may not see me on there if you go visit. It’s kinda neat 🙂

  • Breakfast in Tien Mu

    I can’t believe it is almost 3 months since I last updated this diary, but here we are in Taipei now and everything has just been so busy. Anyway, I will snatch a few minutes this morning before we go off to our Mandarin class to do at least one small update.We are now living…

  • sbux visa

    While the Starbucks (yes, yes, Starbucks is evil and no one should go there – sorry. I just like the coffee) card/VISA combo is really awesome – I get free money from Starbucks loaded onto the card regularly, on top of the 1% cashback on my VISA purchases and 3% cashback on the money I…

  • the problem with commercialism today

    Andy Budd has written a blog post outlining precisely what is wrong with companies that deal with consumers on any level these days. It’s one of many similar stories I’ve run into lately, across various blogs. It’s true, I’ve seen all of this kind of treatment in my own life, and it’s frustrating. It makes…

  • Taiwan not China ROC not PROC

    I feel I need to explain as this seems to be common problem for nations as well as ordinary people.Taiwan calls itself the Republic of China. China is known as the Peoples Republic of China. These two countrys are entirely seperate.Taiwan gained its independance from China in 1947 when Chang Ky Shek exiled himself and…

  • istoica photo shoot

    A couple of weeks ago, I had a photo shoot with the Toronto duo group, istoica. They do some really interesting, edgy, punky work – I was really happy to shoot with them. They’ve posted a couple of the shots on their site (go check out their other work, too). I think they turned out…

  • Apparently their was an earthquake here last Thursday, 25th Jan., I had no idea until someone told me on Monday, it was 5 point something on the Richter scale!Everyone says you don’t worry about these things as they are a fairly common occurrence here! If you look at the island of Taiwan, formerly Formosa, you…