Posted in Taiwan, Travel on Mar 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
Xinyi Road is a forest of drills, cranes and mushroom like ventilation towers. Taipei’s already excellent subway system sprouts new lines like clematis tendrils climb a trellis. This one will connect the financial nerve center and the world’s tallest building “Taipei 101” to the main train station and the highspeed bullet line that now renders [...]
Posted in Taiwan, Travel on Mar 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
There is something of a cat meow in the way Taiwanese girls say 歡迎光臨, it is as irresistible to the ears as ice cream on a soft breeze summer night. It seeps into the ears like spilled honey, the audio equivalent of the fragrance of lily.
Flocks of scooters that roar a turbulent surf.
The emotional tags [...]
Posted in Culture, Taiwan, Travel on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been through terminal one of the Taoyuan International Airport enough times to know which way to turn out of customs to catch the bus that is a nap away from Taipei main train station.
Down two flights of escalator, a short flight of stairs and into the slipstream of Taipei subway rush hour. You could [...]
Posted in Language, Medicine, Taiwan, Travel on Mar 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
It is not that time changes things. But, that things change as they flow through time.
Seven years ago about this time of year I boarded an airplane with the destination of Taiwan. Armed only with determination and desire to learn enough language to engage the medicine in Asia. Tonight in the deep beyond midnight I [...]
Posted in Health, Herbs, Medicine on Mar 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
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It is a common question,
These herbs, will I need to take them forever?
It is a usually a question asked by someone that is already taking pharmaceutical drugs. Taking drugs for a problem, and then other drugs to allievate the side-effects of the cure, and sometimes even others to deal with the side effects of the [...]