Since I don't really use this page for very serious blogging-things anymore, I might as well just tell you that I have been up to a lot of Starcraft II gaming. I've been a big fan of the first Starcraft but kind of stopped playing it when it grew really old. Besides I was never that much of a tactical genius. Now that Starcraft II is out I'm a happy collectors edition owner. Not that there's barely a difference between collectors edition and a normal one but at least I've pre-ordered it all right.

Beat the single player part already (today) and have been playing a lot with my friends. We held a release party even. One day after the release, lol.

Anyway, maybe I'll write a little about the game sometime if I feel Blizzard isn't getting too damn much attention already. Will depend very much on how busy I will be with the game though.

See? We are the number ones in our division! Wicked.

In a few days, or with a bit of luck, tomorrow, I should write something on boonbot.com too. Something with a little more content. Seems traffic there has pretty much died out, I guess it needs some serious SEO that website. But anyway, see you. And drop a line if you're playing Starcraft 2 as well.

Went to this IBM party thing today. It was crazy.
Dresscode said: Either you should dress up in traditional dress, school uniform or formal work clothes. And look at the outcome. Perhaps I should stock up on some of those dresses if I have any spare space when I get home. I bet they'll be popular. (Yeah, could make a good business importing those perhaps? :D)

As you can see, a lot of women work at IBM, and yeah, they're probably overly overrepresented in my pictures since it was Maxine, my host sister, who brought me here, and so, I had to met all of her friends. As you can see, the school uniform is not a bad choice for dressing up either. Now, can you guess the age of this girl next to me?

This is the sequel of Mah Taiwanese Birthday. If you didn't read that one yet, go ahead and click the link. Really, such a special day.

Okay. And so... If you remember, I promised to tell you about the birthday party at Davids house.

I think the Taiwanese people, at least in the circles I am meeting, are very happy about documenting important things such as certificate givings, present giving, club meetings, job/title promotion of a person of any sorts, birthday and in reality pretty much anything that can be documentet. So that's why we lined up cake, presents (both the ones worthy of notice from my 15 liter snack surplus I got in school and some of those I received from the family already.)

Some presents from my classmates that Joni found cute.

Receiving more mooncake from ama while the television is babbling about super typhoons attacking Taiwan and Japan.

And all of a sudden, I was transformed into a real chinese between the picture takings! WTF?

Yeah. Keep sitting there on your butts doing nothing and thinking the world is all easy. You wouldn't believe me if I told you I've already taken over all of china, even though I'm in my royal dresses already. Also, you probably wouldn't take your time to zoom onto the eyes of my vietnamese terminator model here. I promise you: Your days are numbered.

More mooncake!

I can pour up real chinastyle tea too. Although I'm actually doing it wrong here. You have to use your nails, otherwise you'll get burned since the ~95 degrees C water inside transfers the heat pretty fast through the tiny teapot.

Finally's done. That was really much more of a birthday than I had expected. I was actually afraid it was going to be one of the most unspecial 18 year birthdays for a dane in a long time, but I'm actually quite sure that this was much better than attempting to drink 18 shots of straight hard liquor on a night and what's worse or whatever.

Thank you to all the people who celebrated my birthday so much.

OMG OMG! DING 18. Can has epic ground mount!!

So, it became my turn now. So prepare for asian craziness.

During all day in school, my classmates were drawing stuff and acting completely different. Normally they're supposed to have neat desks and sit completely straight, just listening to the teacher, but for some very obvious reason, they were allowed to not care so much about the education today. (Hey, so much special treatment... :S)

The day was actually almost as boring as usual - still bu dong zhong wen - but finally when it was 4pm (which is actually the time I usually leave school, but not today):

So for my birtday, I get a giant burger. They really hate cake and sugar here, huh?
Okay. It's actually a cake, of course. A pretty damn good lookalike.

More...

Today, agon (means grandpa) invited me to another big dinner with a lot of rotary members. This time was very exciting as there were an even bigger list of dishes being served as well as redwine, vodka and karaoke (although, this was no birthday so I have yet to see the people drinking themselves pissed or dancing on the tables.)

The karaoke champ shows who's the man. Amazingly enough, the old men around here are the most hardcore at karaoke.

Azn's taken teh picshurz with an famous from titanixx. 

During this evening I took very many pictures with a lot of people. This reminds me that rotarys estimation that I will meet about 1000 people during my exchange trip is dead wrong. Because I'm meeting like many times more than 3 new people every day, which is the average you have to meet in order to reach 1000 in a year.

For ages asia has been plagued by a peculiar and extremely contagious disease that make people hands stuck with the pointing- and middlefinger out. Luckily I only got an infection in my left hand so that I can still write this blog.

I didn't take too many pictures of the food, and the few I took showed out to be not really too good.

When this plate got on the table, I had already stuffed myself the last bit with peking duck, so I thought this was desert, (I think this was the 10th dish or something like that,) but actually it was not sweet at all. It is some sort of meat and mushrooms in a sauce with of course some soy in. Perhaps the sauce that the peking duck was cooked in because it was rather fat. It tasted really good but unfortunately, I had already eaten a lot of other really good food so I didn't eat much of this. Perhaps someday soon I will know what it was.