I was considering doing a pseudonymed blog about my workplace and my life but that seemed too cowardly for me. Plus, I don't think there was enough juicy bad stuff to elicit any interest. No secret basement sweatshop, no crazy bosses, no asshole colleagues... nothing. On one hand writing a blog feels like something I would do when I want to publicly vent or, on the other hand, when something interesting has happened. I don't think either applies today particularly, but here is some stuff for you.
On teaching - Still a great job. Our office hours have been extended by an hour each day (an hour earlier) for the summer holidays which is pretty shit considering we already have about 75% free time when we're at 'work'. However, we opened a singing class and another conversation class, both of which I need to use my laptop with, so I can bring my laptop in and use the internet to find some cool, useful, educational things. Mostly episodes of The Simpsons with Chinese subtitles and questions like 'Why does Bart get fat?' ("The Heartbroke Kid" S16E17) with follow ups of 'Should you eat lots of sweets? Would your Mummy let you? Is the American health care system discriminating young black men?"
The important stuff, basically
On performing - So I just saw some photos from our school performances back in May. They were amazingly fun, despite being a technical nightmare! Music, lights, curtains, positioning on the stage, losing costumes, you name it, we did it. I also had this one moment where one of my students stood me up on stage - I was waiting for what may have been 20 seconds by myself, but it could actually have been much much longer. Stupid Lillian! I hope I can see a video of it, they may have edited it out and consigned it to the recycle bin. I'm getting a bit better at guitar, but I keep pussying out of an open mic night at a pub I like. It would only be 3-5 songs and I can probably play many, many more than that, but I keep making excuses. I feel like because I'm by myself and there would be no one in particular I'm doing it for, I don't think it's that important. I also keep telling myself I can just do it next time, next time, next time... is a bad habit. I also think I'm pretty average, and can only sound great doing average music. It makes sense in my head...
On tutoring - I've had a disappointing last few weeks but the two months before that were great. I had some great students but summer vacation has arrived and no homework from Uni so... why bother having lessons? I completely concur, haha. I think there will be some more available to me, just the ones I chose have holidays or work placements. I've more or less finished my freeware website and I will import it to my new domain (www.jactutoring.com) posthaste! Right now it has an awesome photo of some guy with a surfboard with the words 'JAC Tutoring' over it. I might keep it and say it's how I looked before, in Australia. It would have meant a very, very big change though.
On Taiwan - I've been hearing people talking about hot it is in the UK right now. In your faces! We get 30+ 24 hours a day. Bitcheeeeees. Sleeping with the fan on is always nice, the AC sometimes not so nice, you can get some real dry lips from that. I just moved apartments and managed to get 70% of my deposit back by weaving a massive yarn about me getting married and my Taiwanese wife unwilling to accept such a small accommodation, or to wait for my contract to end before I move out. BULLETPROOF, BABY. My new place has a living room, a kitchen and excellent flatmates. We had an awesome house warming/welcome to summer! Party last week and I met some great people. On this front, I am very, very happy!
On dating, and girls in general - Well... watch this space. It's been pretty slim pickings. The last girl I liked and wanted to date more thought I was 花心 even though I just wanted to date her and didn't do anything bad on her and the rest has just been like expectation and then disappointment in horrible cycles. Sticking to it though! There has been a lot of interesting shit on social media about TW girls and foreign guys, a few links of which I will leave here for you to divulge.
MAJOR RAGE blog by a guy (or maybe two guys in my opinion, see how the style of writing and the message changes from rant to social science to FUCK THEM IN THEIR MONEY GRABBING ASSHOLES) can be found here
http://ck101.com/thread-2753581-1-1.html
A link to an article about a semi-famous Turkish guy who supposedly had sex with 500 women and tried to sexually assault one of them. I hate this whole 'automatically assume the girl is lying/the guy is bad' bullshit armchair justice. I think I naturally incline towards the man being a victim in my head before I filter it and realize this reaction is sexist and foolish. Have a look for yourself, I did laugh at his 'proof' of consensual sex coming from his 500+ experience.
http://www.chinesedefence.com/forums/taiwan-defence-affairs/5780-turkish-man-claims-have-slept-500-women-taiwan.html
And for even more lols, some perez hilton anti TW girls sounding butthurt m-fer
http://janet-hsieh-sucks.blogspot.tw/2011/06/janet-hsieh-publicizes-my-critique-on.html
Enjoy!
Until next time
On teaching - Still a great job. Our office hours have been extended by an hour each day (an hour earlier) for the summer holidays which is pretty shit considering we already have about 75% free time when we're at 'work'. However, we opened a singing class and another conversation class, both of which I need to use my laptop with, so I can bring my laptop in and use the internet to find some cool, useful, educational things. Mostly episodes of The Simpsons with Chinese subtitles and questions like 'Why does Bart get fat?' ("The Heartbroke Kid" S16E17) with follow ups of 'Should you eat lots of sweets? Would your Mummy let you? Is the American health care system discriminating young black men?"
The important stuff, basically
On performing - So I just saw some photos from our school performances back in May. They were amazingly fun, despite being a technical nightmare! Music, lights, curtains, positioning on the stage, losing costumes, you name it, we did it. I also had this one moment where one of my students stood me up on stage - I was waiting for what may have been 20 seconds by myself, but it could actually have been much much longer. Stupid Lillian! I hope I can see a video of it, they may have edited it out and consigned it to the recycle bin. I'm getting a bit better at guitar, but I keep pussying out of an open mic night at a pub I like. It would only be 3-5 songs and I can probably play many, many more than that, but I keep making excuses. I feel like because I'm by myself and there would be no one in particular I'm doing it for, I don't think it's that important. I also keep telling myself I can just do it next time, next time, next time... is a bad habit. I also think I'm pretty average, and can only sound great doing average music. It makes sense in my head...
On tutoring - I've had a disappointing last few weeks but the two months before that were great. I had some great students but summer vacation has arrived and no homework from Uni so... why bother having lessons? I completely concur, haha. I think there will be some more available to me, just the ones I chose have holidays or work placements. I've more or less finished my freeware website and I will import it to my new domain (www.jactutoring.com) posthaste! Right now it has an awesome photo of some guy with a surfboard with the words 'JAC Tutoring' over it. I might keep it and say it's how I looked before, in Australia. It would have meant a very, very big change though.
On Taiwan - I've been hearing people talking about hot it is in the UK right now. In your faces! We get 30+ 24 hours a day. Bitcheeeeees. Sleeping with the fan on is always nice, the AC sometimes not so nice, you can get some real dry lips from that. I just moved apartments and managed to get 70% of my deposit back by weaving a massive yarn about me getting married and my Taiwanese wife unwilling to accept such a small accommodation, or to wait for my contract to end before I move out. BULLETPROOF, BABY. My new place has a living room, a kitchen and excellent flatmates. We had an awesome house warming/welcome to summer! Party last week and I met some great people. On this front, I am very, very happy!
On dating, and girls in general - Well... watch this space. It's been pretty slim pickings. The last girl I liked and wanted to date more thought I was 花心 even though I just wanted to date her and didn't do anything bad on her and the rest has just been like expectation and then disappointment in horrible cycles. Sticking to it though! There has been a lot of interesting shit on social media about TW girls and foreign guys, a few links of which I will leave here for you to divulge.
MAJOR RAGE blog by a guy (or maybe two guys in my opinion, see how the style of writing and the message changes from rant to social science to FUCK THEM IN THEIR MONEY GRABBING ASSHOLES) can be found here
http://ck101.com/thread-2753581-1-1.html
A link to an article about a semi-famous Turkish guy who supposedly had sex with 500 women and tried to sexually assault one of them. I hate this whole 'automatically assume the girl is lying/the guy is bad' bullshit armchair justice. I think I naturally incline towards the man being a victim in my head before I filter it and realize this reaction is sexist and foolish. Have a look for yourself, I did laugh at his 'proof' of consensual sex coming from his 500+ experience.
http://www.chinesedefence.com/forums/taiwan-defence-affairs/5780-turkish-man-claims-have-slept-500-women-taiwan.html
And for even more lols, some perez hilton anti TW girls sounding butthurt m-fer
http://janet-hsieh-sucks.blogspot.tw/2011/06/janet-hsieh-publicizes-my-critique-on.html
Enjoy!
Until next time
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