Entries from Kelake tagged with 'Hsinchu'
Casa de socrates redux
While the atmosphere is somewhat unchanged, the music is a bit louder and a bit heavy on the easy listening cover tunes, it's hard to recommend a restaurant that treats it's customers with such indifference. I was there yesterday...
Wrong on traffic and economy
It looks like my post last week proclaiming that the traffic slowdown was proof of Taiwan's economic slowdown was a bit premature. The drive to work today was rife with the usual idiocy of morning traffic in Hsinchu. The three...
Proof of slowdown - no traffic
If there is any evidence that work has slowed in Hsinchu it must be the complete lack of traffic around the Science Park last Friday morning and a noticeable let up in traffic this morning on a Monday. Last Friday...
New Hsinchu Park
View Larger Map The above map is an approximation of a new Hsinchu park that encompasses a series of hiking trails, look out points, large fields, and general 'get the heck out the noisy city' ephemera. I don't know the...
Hell's highway
I had an 'altercation' on the highway this morning with a van load of dick heads. In order to make my exit while driving on highway 1 (3 lanes of which were occupied by slow moving trucks) I squeezed in...
Hsinchu HSR station and bling
I arrived by car at the Hsinchu HSR station yesterday to two full parking lots. I thought at first that somehow the concept of driving to a station at least 20 minutes from anywhere in Hsinchu had at last caught...
Elementary school morass
There is an increasing sense of panic in our household this week as we come to terms with elementary school enrollment rules in Hsinchu. Until earlier this week, we thought we had our daughter's education under control. She's had...
Catriona and Hsinchu Bikini Girls
On early Saturday morning LuLu and I were out for an extended walk along Da Hu rd. and across the train tracks. It's a nice walk but one I try to avoid as people, including tricks laden with flammable...
Casa de socrates
Hidden away on the campus of Tsing Hua University is Casa de socrates, a café following the bohemian tradition of many of my former Toronto haunts. If it weren't so removed from the rest of the city (which may...
The RT-Mart date
I wouldn't call trudging through RT-mart an enjoyable shopping experience (RT makes Wallmart seem exotic). We shop there because they have a good selection of fresh foods and the cheapest prices in town. And yet each time I go there,...
Hsinchu lawn mower
Pictured below is Hsinchu's answer to both the climate crisis and the rising cost of fuel. Instead of hiring workers to whack the grass into dust with their noisy polluting weed trimmers, they have instead stationed two goats at a...
Thursday's night out
Tonight I pick up my daughter Catriona from school, make her some dumplings, head out with her in her pink ballet tutu, pick up my son Camren, drop off Catriona at dance class and head off with Camren to enjoy...
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