Thank god It’s Friday.
I stayed up too late last night, talking with guys at home, and writing my memoirs for the Blog, It’s very addictive. I also couldn’t really get a good night sleep. I woke up a few times during the night, and I’ve been tired all day. Along with that, there were some food issues. The guys ordered some spicy noodles for lunch. I tried it. I liked it. It was spicy, and I can handle spicy. I like spicy. They claim that my dish was only 1/2 spicy. My stomach however, don’t like spicy. I ended up feeling a bit bad, and combined with the tiredness I had a little lousy feeling day. But the week is over, and tomorrow or on Sunday I’m going to be acting a little touristy and go to see the places mentioned in the Lonely Planet Tourist book I bought. Probably National Palace Museum and the Chiang Kai Shek memorial park. Both I assume will give me nice photo ops. Probably Sunday. I’m thinking of sleeping very late and watching TV tomorrow. I’ll probably end up writing some more stuff for my Blog…
P.S. I’m eating some Wassabi Kabukim right now, and I just love them. Did I mention that already ?
I ate with Nelson, Sterling and that other Wesley guy at a very common Chinese Fon-du restaurant. I’m told it’s origins are in Korea. You choose some ingredients you want to eat, vegetables, meat, dumplings, seafood, and they take this cauldron, which is in the middle of your table and fry everything in it, and then pour in some soup base. Then you sit there and let it cook while you make yourself the sauce. Everyone has a different way of making their sauce. Nelson showed me they take a fresh egg and put the yoke inside the sauce you make. He later fried the while egg part (I forgot how you call it). I tried a few sauce combinations myself, with egg yoke and without. The one with the raw egg yoke was a bit strange to me but it was also the tastiest. By the end of the dinner I just combined all the sauces I made into the original sauce bowl with the egg. It created the ultimate sauce. The fondu itself was a bit strange and new to me. Most of the things I tried here so far weren’t completely new. I ate Sushi and Dim-Sum before. But I didn’t eat this. It’s a very common way to eat very simple food. It’s something I’m not sure Idan would have managed without any help, because it’s the “make it yourself” kind of food. They tried to compared this with some traditional stew Jewish make in holidays and Saturday s. but as I explained to them, this has no resemblance whatsoever to Choolent.
Something about names
Nowadays, Taiwanese people have both a Chinese name and an English name. Most of the guys here at the office chose theirs. I know Bob is going to name their kid with both English and Chinese names. I think it’s a nice custom to increase the relationship between east and west. I also think Westerns who deal with Easterns should learn to pronounce their Chinese name correctly, and even probably choose some Chinese name for themselves. I don’t know if I’m going to, though. I can imagine Bob and Nelson’s life would have been a bit harder if they’d been have to use their Chinese names in the states.
Lee’s Nephew, was named Nimrod a few years back. Lee’s sister went to the states when she was in advance pregnancy, and the already chose that name before we could warn them not to name a child this way, when he’s suppose to grow up in the states. When there, the call him Rod, which is a very standard English name.
I know I’ve been made fun of my name a few times when I was in the states, and I don’t want to imagine the childhood traumas for someone called Nimrod. He’ll probably be socially rejected and end up a Geek. Who likes star trek. And is a computer programmer. Like his father.
That actually isn’t that bad as it sound. But still, if you can avoid having your child socially rejected by naming them differently, you should. And if he’s destined to become a geek (either genetically, or religiously, Statistical probability, or otherwise), he’ll become a geek.