Month: February 2007

  • A Strange Mid-Week Break

      A view into the Hong Kong airport. Taken on the 15th of February 2007 with a Nikon D200 and a 18-200 VR lens. Part of the Suvarnabhumi Series in the Thailand Chronicles. Today is a state holiday. Nobody is supposed to be working. It’s Wednesday, and I just woke up from a 12h sleep.…

  • Good Points And Bad Points In Being A Teacher

    More school art from our school in Hsinchu. Teaching is a great profession. I have learned this over the last 6 months, even if I was a teacher in part in Canada, it isn’t the same when you are a full time teacher. I have been asked what the good points and bad points of…

  • Digging This!

    A strange hawk on top of the K1 Caffe on the Ao Chalong pier in Phuket, Thailand. Taken with a Nikon D200 and a 18-200 VR lens on the 21st of February 2007. Part of the Thailand Chronicles Series. I have used memediggers in the past, quite often. They are a good tool for the…

  • Battlestar Galactica S03E08-13 (SciFi)

    Sometimes surviving can be its own death sentence. Kernel Ty to Bulldog. -Are they still eating paper? -No, there’s a paper shortage. Admiral Adama to Kernel Ty. I have really gotten into this season’s Battlestar Galactica. This season has some great episodes.

  • End Of The First Day Back At Work

    We both barely got any sleep last night. Since we had slept over 18 hours the day before, it was a bit hard to fall asleep. The day begun quietly and I arrived at work at around 7:40AM. I started drinking my tea. My first class didn’t start until the afternoon, I had 2×401 and…

  • Dangers Of The Internet Part VI: Internet Addictions In China

    A 12-year-old boy is treated with a series of low-voltage shocks in a therapy that doctors at an Internet addiction clinic in China say helps patients sleep better. (By Greg Baker — Associated Press) I found this article in the Wall Street Journal Asia edition that I read on the weekend on my Cathay Pacific…

  • A German Cabbage Leaf, Growing Entangled With The Storytree

    After I had been blogging and surfing the net in an uncomfortable situation at the Phuket aiport, I discovered that I had a virus on my 8GB CF card, that I use to take pictures. I had been suspecting this for a few days. I knew I had picked something up in one of those…

  • Battlestar Galactica S03E01-07 (SciFi)

    Well, I finally got back into Bstar this weekend. After our holiday, I was looking for some entertainment and came up with 15 episodes of unwatched scifi. So I started watching them. In all honesty, I started in the second week of February, but carried on last night.

  • A British Chestnut Leaf On The Storytree

    From one of my Thailand Chronicles Posts:  He is a Brit who lives here and does periodical visa runs to Myanmar. He just had a daughter from his Thai wife and runs his bar. Interesting chap. He said he loves it here, though he does go back each summer to England for 6 weeks. One…

  • An Indian Waterlilly Pleasantly Attached To The Storytree

    When I was waiting for my wife to check which aisle we had to check-in for our flight to Taipei in Suvarnabhumi airport, an old Indian woman accosted me. She asked me if I was Indian. I told her that my parents were, but that I was Canadian. My wife and I were teaching English…