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And it stinks! Durian is a massive fruit that you sometimes see in the Vancouver chinese supermarkets. It looks like it could be used as a weapon (like a mace), and it stinks like hell. In the supermarkets in Vancouver, they usually keep the durian frozen so the smell is not so strong. Not here [...]

Yes, it was twenty-four years ago today when Mount St Helens blew up, and I was born. Yay! I had a great day. I only teach half a day on Tuesdays at my school (plus a few hours at a cram school), and I was lucky enough to have a field trip scheduled for today [...]

We just got home from another weekend on the tropical southern tip of Taiwan. After going on that hectic trip a few weeks ago to Kenting with all the staff from our school, we just had to go back and do things right this time.
We caught a train at the crack of dawn (6:30am) and [...]

Last weekend, Mark and I flew to Kinmen Island (aka Jinmen or Queymoy) for a little getaway. Kinmen Island is just 2km away from Mainland China and 200km away from Taiwan, but after the civil war in China in 1949, Taiwan has occupied Kinmen Island.
We flew out of the brand new international airport in Taichung, [...]