9 Mar 2010
annie started a new blog in celebration of her new iphone. she updates at least once a day with either a picture or a sound. it’s pretty neat. you should all visit it at least once a day!
i know i don’t update this thing as much as i should but if any of you were ever interested in what she sees/hears on a day to day basis, go visit! /plug.
5 Mar 2010
first of all, congrats to my cousin ben and anita on their wedding! it was too bad that annie and i couldn’t attend their wedding in newport beach, but i heard it was really awesome. anyway, they are in thailand for their honeymoon but they had an 18hr layover in taipei…which meant we got to show them what taipei had to offer in a very short amount of time.
took them to eat at 士林 where they basically ate every night market food you could ever want
this was kinda cute
a picture we took to email to our family back at home…you know, just to let them know we were all alive and well
took them to cks
a picture in front of the most cultural display in taiwan
congrats again man!
i had a few days off this week before my new semester started, so i went to visit annie at her work…i mean, eat at yoshinoya, which happened to be by her work ^^
took out the 50mm, which i very rarely do
at the park
and lastly, had a very awesome show at vicious circle, despite numerous sound problems
march is going to be a pretty busy month for us. we have a show at the wall on thursday (3/11), then a radio interview on ICRT the next day, followed by a show in taichung (台中). we’re also having a small interview with taipei times newspaper tomorrow, which is pretty damned cool.
1 Mar 2010
it’s tradition here that a week after new years, you write all your wishes on a giant lantern and blast them into the sky. where they end up, i don’t know, but it was seriously a really cool experience. on with the pictures…
buying our train tickets
train ridas
transferring
the weather was pretty nice
packed ass train
arrival
the little orange things are the lanterns
super loud fireworks
lots of lanterns — it was really hard to capture how impressive the sight was
up close (these are just random people)
some people had success
some people had failure (police man stomping out the fire..kinda sad, but kinda funny at the same time!)
we always wondered where these things end up after their fires burn out…well, turns out a lot of them end up here (30 second exposure…lantern graveyard)
it was time to make our own
annie’s side
my side
oh yeah!
releasing of their lantern
success!
our turn
lift off
success!
walking through the extremely smokey streets back to the train
the train back was equally as crowded but we somehow managed to get seats. snapped this picture of a kid who was at my feet. pretty cute.
happy march!!!
22 Feb 2010
i really have to stay on top of these excitement posts, especially with video games because in this case, i’m already done with this one. oh ya, and i’m already done with dante’s inferno.
regardless, i was quite excited when capcom announced the expansion packs for resident evil 5. this one is called “lost in nightmares” and there will be another expansion in a couple weeks. i believe my second excitement post was when RE5 originally came out. anyway, what can i say? dan and i finished the co-op campaign in a little over an hour. plus, it came with new characters to play for mercenaries. definitely worth the $4.99. apparently there is an easter egg to enable the old school cameras for the campaign…just like how it was for the first three games. the mansion is almost identical to the one in the original resident evil. actually, i think this 1 hour campaign was probably scarier than the whole original campaign in RE5. something about being constrained in a dark mansion with limited space to run around in. SO STRESSFUL.
21 Feb 2010
first time celebrating the new year in taiwan…pretty cool i must say! a week full of eating, drinking and family (annie’s family, of course). it’s like thanksgiving here, but instead of eating one giant meal, you eat for like 4 days straight, non stop. it was pretty amazing. here are some highlights
this is from our first dinner at some hotel w/ annie’s mom’s side of the family
shark fin soup (felt kind of bad eating it, but damn it was good)
this cheese in papaya thing — sounds weird but it was awesome
yum
all of ussss
now, i’ve never had lunch that somehow transformed itself into dinner before. we started eating at her aunts house at around noon time, ate and drank til around 4, then rested for about 30 minutes watching castaway on tv, then out of nowhere, the food and beer mysteriously came back again…in more quantity.
annie and her cousin, beryl
and when we thought we were done, the next day we had lunch at her uncles.
by the end of the new years non-stop eating fest, annie and i were growing pretty tired of the food. luckily for us, rach was in town and we could show her the awesomeness that is mcdonalds
the next day we had the MLG (麻辣鍋)
then ktv!
we snuck in and finished a giant bottle of vodka as well
we didn’t want the party to stop so we got ourselves a table at 9%
met some cool new kids
i miss you already
he came late so we made him suffer. PUNISHED.
forgot to mention that we had mcdonalds every day that rach was here. this was the grand finale…of course this was at 4am after 9%
2x filet o fish (with double sauce), 20 pc chicken nuggets and 2x corn soups
rach bought us the best soy sauce dispenser on the planet
yea! 醬油!
and of course, sticker pictures.
they are disgusted at how pretty i am (i admit it, it’s a little creepy)
we also saw monga (艋舺) which was amazing. there was absolutely nothing about this movie that i didn’t love. for those of you in the states, you need to see this movie when it’s released on DVD. oh, and zombieland is pretty neat too ^^
19 Feb 2010
a video game based on dante’s inferno (the 9 levels of hell).
ooo death edition so pretty
i’ve already played through limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. i’m now starting my descent into heresy. i must say, the designers of this game really went nuts on making hell look like the worst place ever. maybe there has or maybe there hasn’t, but a game who’s levels are based on the 9 circles of hell is ingenious. people say it’s a crappy god of war clone, but i don’t care, i’ve never played god of war nor do i have much interest in playing it. even if the gameplay sucked, i’d have a ball just enjoying the scenery of this game (and luckily, the gameplay is ridiculously fun). it’s also fun watching people squirm when they watch me play the game. there is only one question though, PUNISH OR ABSOLVE? i choose punish, because it’s easier and the skills are cooler ^^
new years and post-new years entry after this one.
ABSOLVED.
13 Feb 2010
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10 Feb 2010
there have been quite a few pictures of us playing live, shooting music videos in crazy ass clothing and just practicing. well during our studio practice yesterday, we decided to shoot a few pics of ourselves being, well, a band. honestly, i think we’re a pretty good looking band of hooligans 
we also have a new website @ www.thelookingglassband.com
check it out!
8 Feb 2010
so next week is chinese new years, it’s basically the only holiday we have here. we get 1 week off from school and work but for some reason, they made us all work and go to school last saturday to make up for all the time missed. it doesn’t make much sense, but oh well. here’s some stuff we’ve been doing recently:
extremely tasty
erick and his extremely qt gf
new darts place
bombed
@ our mini show at riverside music cafe (ken’s arrival!)
decided to actually cook something at our place
red beans and rice, veggies and beer shrimp!
all you can drink beer and hotpot = i start jacking cokes like nobody’s business
please move here
hung out with these 2 kids from korea while wandering the streets of gongguan…we’ll probably be calling them up on our next visit to korea
it was called taco truck, we had to try it
it was actually pretty good! (best we’ve had so far)
last killing zoe show 
love these guys
after party at club wax with some amazing people
i should maybe try being on the left side of the camera some time
dude, please don’t leave ><
thanks to everyone who left messages, facebook posts etc. about leia. really means a lot.
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