Sunday, March 21, 2010

a good end to the week

woke up in the morning to get another fav breakfast-- soy milk plus toasted bun with oil stick. the toasted bun is like a panini, but softer and topped with sesame seeds, and the oil stick is like a churro, w/o the sugar and much airer. then went to the market with the grandparents. i have the market here. there's so much variety in food. one stand has about 12 different types of mushrooms. another has 20 different types of fish. the chicken stands have 3 or 4 different types of chicken, all beautifully cut. i'll have to bring my camera and take pictures one of these days.

spen the afternoon working. got my router to work as a client bridge, so that my cloud nodes have access to the internet, using the router's wireless connection as the wan port.

at night there's another milonga. usually there's only one a week, but this week is special somehow. two on saturday and one on sunday. i decide to grab dinner beforehand nearby the studio. the area around the studio is one of the city's busiest, so there's plenty to eat. across the boulevard is a 24 hour hong kong restaurant. next door is a fried chicken place-- i was very tempted. but based on this post i decided to head into the alley just around the corner. i didnt try the places she wrote about. for me, stinky tofu has to hit your nose when you're down the block, not when you're finally standing in front of it. instead i walked around and found a wonton place that was packed with people. so i grabbed the last seat and order a bowl. wow. i get 3 huge wontons (about 1/2 the size of my fist), each loaded completely with shrimp. and all for NT$70 (~US$2.25). pic below is the sign of the place, so i can find it again in the future. i also get a pearl milk tea for NT$25 (< US$1). they know how to make pearl milk tea in taiwan. just the right amount of chewiness.



at the milonga, i dance with two milongueras who i had met last year. sadly, yuan-yuan no longer does the cute little kick that she used to do. the other is cory, who rides a bus for 1.5 hours from hsinchu to come to the milonga. it's good to see her again, because i can speak english with her. it feels nice to speak english again. the milonga is nice, with a focus on piazolla. so every other tango is piazolla, who wrote the music to be as undanceable as possible. but its beautiful music. on the way out, i'm in the elevator with two kids from national taiwan university (ntu), who speak english perfectly. siwon is a korean exchange student from canada. samantha is a local girl (all the more surprising about her english skills), and also the president of the tango club at the university. i should make an introduction between her and the ucla and caltech clubs. i take the mrt home-- it takes almost an hour :( and that ends my week.


a side observation. i'm one of the taller people around, i'd say im in the 80-85 percentile of height. feels kinda nice.

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