Sometimes I just walk out on the sidewalk in front of my house in my underwear and belch because I know I can do it here and no one will care. I know it's gross and crude but I've always just wanted to try it to see how it feels.

It feels pretty good -- really liberating.

I'm always pushing the envelope like that here and, so far, other than sticking my chopsticks upright in my ricebowl, I haven't found anything here which really grosses people out.

To me, it's like living in a place where dad is in charge rather than mom. It's a lot more fun and you can pretty do much anything you want just so long as you don't poke an eye out or start the house on fire.

Lucky Butter Coconut Cookies...

I like that! Nice one to file away and use later, always pretending of course that I made it up myself. Thanks!

I like the "guangxi" factor.

:?: What's that? :?:

GuanXi:It'sthe Taiwanese version of Preparation H. Works
wonders for my haemorrhoids too.(Alien 8)

GuanXi

I'll GuanXi your back and you GuanXi mine.

What makes me so shiny and happy is the thirty-odd seconds of beautiful breeze the MRT pushes in front of itself as it rolls, oh so conveniently, into the station....

It's the little things.....ya know?

Toe Save

I like construction workers that work in flip-flops (aka slip toed sandals).

and taiji in the park every morning.

Taiwan's educational system is the best!!!









btw Alien, I am kidding

someone mentioned the beautiful women, well... I'd like to put in a vote for some really cute guys...

plus, less hang-ups about physical touch. I may be alone in this, but I think it's good to see guys and girls, gay and straight holding hands and touching without worrying about what others think.

Jennifer mentioned

'Fish ponds with huge coy we can feed.'

That reminded me of an icecream factory in Hualian where there's an icecream kiosk and a big fishpond. The visitors throw lumps of icecream to the fish, who climb over each over to get them. They look quite fat.

Another 'impressive' animal phenomenon is the twig-climbing hermit crabs in Yeliu. Salespeople near the beach have big open-topped boxes with lots of hermit crabs inside for sale as pets. In the middle of each box is a big twig with several 'branches'. The crabs climb up, seem to fight each other, and often fall off. I asked a stallholder's small daughter what the crabs liked best - meaning what food. She replied that they liked climbing trees best.

Another wierd crab phenomenon that I saw - natural this time - was quite close to a reservoir/lake in Miaoli. In a big bush, on one of the flowers, was a very small, white-colored crab, complete with shell, and claws. It was alive and seemed to be at home there. It was about 10 metres above and 30 metres far from the lake.

Just to get back to the topic, in addition to all the things already mentioned, I like all the attention that is paid to physical comfort and health here such as the back-massaging chairs, the nobbly walkways in parks, the variety of different spa-type devices in swimming pools etc, the pink leather aeroplane chairs in coaches, etc.
Probably other countries, especially in Asia, are similar but I come from Britain where we don't seem to have much of that kind of thing.
Joe