"No one's gonna stop my flow, yeah"

Once again, links adjusted to reflect my current reading habits... if only Foo would post more.

Fun link of the day: mosnews.com -- for the same reason I watch CPAC, let me offer this awesome Russian news site. What's best is you don't even need proficiency in the language to enjoy its stories! There's something I enjoy about the different underlying cultural assumptions & situations that is hinted at or revealed in the stories. Also, apparently you can grow a penis on your arm. But don't take my word for it.

Saturday, I went to the peace march thing as I had planned. You can read an article about it or the reaction at my newly discovered find, wikinews. There were a LOT of people and let it be said that Gregg, Anna & I did lots of random things. At the beginning we got free propaganda from the DPP (green stuff) & then some Lions Club banners. I think this chick that interviewed me before photographed us for a newspaper with said banners -- my classmates mentioned seeing me in the paper. Anyway, ran into Medicare & Alice (my new official counselor) at which point we got rid of the Lions banners & got big Rotary ones... we carried two-person banners like you see in protest marches on tv. While Greg & I were doing it we kept sending Anna to the 7-11's we passed, but NONE of them had burgers, which is what I wanted. grr...

At the event we met another Canadian, a 23 year old English teacher from Saskatchewan. I found out about a new Chinese school of sorts, which seemed very interesting to me... I might try to pull an 'Alex' later on in the year, haha. After people started clearing out, this old drunken guy started hanging out with us, teaching us basic phrases in Taiwanese, Japanese & Afrikaans. Also met a random girl who is pursuing her graduate degree in journalism from 台大 (taida NTU). Got her MSN, but apparently she was 'busy' that evening.

On Sunday pretty much nothing of interest happened. I got a mysterious phone call from Jake in there somewhere, returned it 2 hours later but no answer. I think I got up at like noon and then went to bed 9:30 ish ... it was a short day. I did talk to a few people on MSN though, yay. Oh I did pushups too. Lots of pushups.

Today was another pretty good Monday. In the morning, guess what? there was once again no calligraphy teacher, so I read articles on wikipedia. I also got to talk to James (Windross) & possibly Brianna on MSN. In army class we did a lot of pushups again, and then marched around in the sun. After this I had energy problems doing pullups, but I still go every weekday; this time I saw lizards again. w00t

In choir we are starting a new song in Taiwanese, which means lyrics which are a bitch for me to learn. In choir we did another one, but the textbook uses a weird kind of pinyin for their Taiwanese so I can read it faster & guess at the sound. It was called "Garbage Truck" in English... go figure. Still no word on our next project about musicals--it'll be sweet if we do it though. Chinese class was random, with another sub... then I had another block with my awesome LIAO Ling-ling. Did two poems... one took a while, but the other was basically all characters I knew so I figured out most of what it meant on my own (it's still poetry though).

Recent Developments: Just spent the last while registering online for a ticket site, & finally acquired a ticket to the Diana Krall concert, w00t. I will be going on the 4th, but Avril is tomorrow. rock on, y'all [1 h 40 minutes] K out