Whenever Brits ask me where I am from, and in Taiwan they always do, I say ‘London’; not because it’s true, but because it is easier to say than the truth. The truth is that I spent some of my formative years in a picturesque farmhouse of a quaint British village in the Midlands, [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 10, 2007
Manifest
I had one of those frustrating traffic light conversations today. There was no escape. Scooter in front, car behind, and motorbike to my left. I clocked his approach in my mirror and contemplated weaving out of the box and jumping the red lights; the never-ending afternoon traffic crossing the Junghua/Chong-de intersection would [...]
April 5, 2007
Day 1
Welcome, refugees of the Cold Goat regime. It is here that you will find your new home. I have a thousand sentinels casting their watchful gaze upon the flowers and plants of the lip-kissers, and yet more footsoldiers of the old regime patrolling the dirty streets and the dank alleyways of the [...]
