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I recently joined up with The Pillow Fight League. I had my tryout, and made it to the next level, where I would have to fight as a “Pledge” (I’m in the list at the bottom of this page, under Pledges) to the league. That fight happened tonight, at the Gladstone. I fought against Pledge…

While visiting Viet Nam, I was reading “The House on Dream Street” by an American author who spent a few years living in Ha noi , learning the language etc. in the early part of the ’90’s. The name of the St. was chosen as the title of Dana Sachs book because at the time…

We visited Viet Nam over Easter, I see Dave has already covered this trip but I shall add to it. We stayed in a fabulous hotel (Apparently George Bush stayed here during an APEC summit) in Ha Noi which only makes the contrast between the place we stayed and the street life all the more…

Here’s more on our trip to Vietnam.I will not say much about Hanoi – we covered that 2 years ago. Just to say, it is getting increasingly dynamic as time passes now. Booming does not do it justice. One picture however, that captured Hanoi streets for me, is the following one of the bikes. Note…

We have just had a 9 day holiday in North Vietnam. What a buzzing place this has become, even more so since our last visit 2 years ago. This time we wanted to see more of the country, having seen only Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City the last 2 visits. One particular example of…

I have had a very interesting week! Dave went to Bangkok on Monday so the mouse played a little!!! Monday started normally with me going to Pilate’s, I keep slogging away at the weight/fitness but seem to be getting nowhere! Tuesday it had been arranged that Siow Ping would pick Sylvia and I up and…

I have just added some stuff to my earlier post about Japan. While in Japan we decided we would like to experience Japanese theater the easiest to understand is Kabuki: it is dramatic, colourful and the plots are easy to comprehend if you don’t speak the language. Going to a Kabuki theater is an experience…

New year celebrations over it’s now on to Lantern Festival for the next couple of weeks. A riot of colour in various places around the city and the island, and a time when you are likely tosee a flood of the sky-lanterns (4 foot columns of paper launched with a petrolium ring aflame in its…

Chinese new year is a time when Taipei is very quiet – most taiwanese go back to their families, around the Island, for a week. We decided to take the opportunity to get away, to try and find some sun. Since I had to get a new visa we decided to go to Thailand, and…

Where have I been? Not here obviously!A lot to catch up with but I must write about today first. We went to mass, as we usually do on Sunday mornings, in the little church here in Tien Mu (the church is also called Tien Mu which translates as Mother of God). The church was very…