Half Way there, I guess

Hmm. It's been a while. Now February 2023 and I'm 52 years old. Rather hard to believe. I figured I'm halfway there and I envisioned that I still got another fifty-ish years to go on planet earth, I think maybe I can do that. No problem. But what I didn't counter in was degeneration. What …

A New Hope

Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Monday the 28th of November 2022. Today I posted two copies of my recent novels to an elementary school in the Taoyuan area in northern Taiwan. I addressed the letter to the principal and the two books were for donation into the school library. Why would I do this? A surprise. This week …

The end of an Era

Kaohsiung, Taiwan News has broken that Queen Elizabeth II of England has died. The news has rippled with shock and sadness around the world. She was 94 years old so it is news that should not surprise us and who was lucky enough to live for so long. But still this is a person who …

August is here, and So am I.

Monday, August 15, 2022 Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Been an interesting couple of months since I last wrote this journal. About 2 weeks ago the United States speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi decided to do a whirlwind tour of the Asia pacific countries and dropped into Taiwan on the 2nd of August. Pelosi has been the …

3 Novels

Monday, April 25, 2022 Kaohsiung, Taiwan Wow been a few months since I last wrote. Still alive a kicking. I have been investing a lot of my time in doing what I used to do twenty or so years ago. I've gone back to writing. And this time with a little bit of success. Around …

So, 2022 has begun …

January 3, 2022 Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Here we go again. Another year on planet Earth. I say with gratitude, of course, let there be no doubt about that. It is now my fifty-first year on this green-blue globe. And I hope perhaps another fifty more or so. As long as I have good health I'll take …

Done: BioNTech, Pfizer vaccine and Work

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Kaohsiung, Taiwan 3:00pm: Finally got my Covid-19 vaccine shot yesterday at a nearby hospital at 2pm. Actually the same hospital where Alexander was born. Maybe extra lucky there. Incidentally Alexander started Elementary school in September and he loves it. I am so glad he can now interact with children his own …

Covid-19 Patient Zero was Huang Yan-Ling

Kaohsiung, Taiwan. AUGUST 13, 2021 Today Peter Ben Embarek, a scientist from the World Health Organization says patent Zero of the Covid-19 virus was a staffer at a laboratory in Wuhan. In excerpts released on Thursday (Aug. 12, 2021) from a documentary released by Denmark's TV 2, Embarek said the outbreak may have been started by an employee at one …

Necessity, mother of Invention

Made in the Republic of Taiwan (RT). I will be stamping all my tech products with this from now on. It's time to change and trash the china lies. Taiwan is an independent country. Taiwan: July 9, 2021 Friday 1:47 PM It is definitely true. Necessity is the mother of Invention. No one invents something …

Covid Creeps into Taiwan

A usually very heavy traffic section in Taipei has gone quiet as Taipei is facing a possible covid lockdown, for the first time ever. Sunday, May 16, 2021 Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Its been several months since my last journal entry. Mostly because there's not been much change to life. It's all been fairly standard and repetitive. …