When I was on my way home today, a car drove right into a pidgeon, hurling it 5 meters through a trail of feathers and onto the bicycle track right in front of me.
So I stopped up and looked at him for a while. At first he seemed like he didn't see me, then he started trying to get away but he could only move his left wing, everything else seemed broken or at least not his to control anymore except for his head.
Then after some time, he just stopped fighting and died.
Actually I was quite relieved that he died all by himself. Otherwise I would have to do it. Then I carried him away from the track, onto some grass so that no-one would fall over him on their bikes or something.

And this man was heading right towards me, talking on his cellphone, with a dog on his leash. He didn't seem to have noticed even though there were feathers everywhere and me standing in the middle of the bicycle track. (Oh yeah, the man was walking on the bicycle track instead of the pedestrian side walk too.)
His dog probably would've eaten the pidgeon if I didn't warn him to pull a little away from it when he walked by. I wonder if he would have done anything to the pidgeon if I hadn't moved it away.
I'm not expecting people to cry over a stupid pidgeon getting himself killed, but at least you can help out putting it someplace where kids wont find it. Of course I did that already, so no one else would need to do that, but they could at least just try to look as if they cared instead of walking by, pretending that the pidgeon and I never existed. I felt like a crazy freak removing that carcass. Imagine if it hadn't died by itself and I would have to kill it too.

Yesterday I found a runaway dog, also on my way home, he was dead scared of me, so I couldn't get near him at all. He didn't have a neckband either, so I called the police, said where he was.
No one else had called them to say it was missing so they told me to leave it and they would come catch it in 30-60 minutes if the owner didn't call them.
He was running through peoples gardens and around near a really trafficked road when I found him. He seemed to have been running about for a while, totally disoriented. He had probably went out to find a lady friend but gotten lost on his way home. Probably scared by the traffic. (And hell, I wouldn't let him go back to that heavily traficked road. He could cause a real serious accident.)
I haven't heard from the police whether they have found the owner or captured the dog yet, but I'll assume it's fixed.

I wonder what strange thing will occur to me tomorrow when I head off from school again.

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.

Those two are my classmates. Also friends of Rachel - the girl who taught me Chinese before I went to Chihlee College. This picture was taken on a trip to Yingge which I have written about on boonbot.com. Link:

Yingge Ceramics Museum

I also made an RSS feed on the page now, so if anyone wants to switch their subscription over there, it should be fine. Of course you can always keep the feed from this blog as you can never know if I will still put some interesting stuff here.

Please enjoy. :)

I didn't write lately. Again. I guess I do this when I'm not in a very good mood, and have been in a not-so-good mood quite often lately.

Still ought to write something, so I'll just dump this short chat I had with a previous classmate from KaiNan. Mind you I'm using a bit of experimental Chinese and very simple English. I just saw he was online (on facebook, woah!) and thought: Damn I really miss this guy for some reason. Those days were wacky days, and although I didn't really feel exactly satisfied with the way things was with the school, it was a nice time where I got to try a very wacky way of life. I kind of miss wacky.

Anyway, it's short:

If you don't understand half of what I am saying, then you can try and use a translator. Should even the English be nonsense, then perhaps translating it into Chinese and back again will yield better results? I highly doubt so, though. This guy really works hard for learning English and he's really mr. nice guy to the fullest extend I can imagine. With more people like him, I'm pretty sure everyone would be a little happier. There should be lots of those here, actually. Too bad society doesn't give a damn about such peoples qualities.

That Bridge somewhere over near Jiangzicui. I went there again. And even bothered with finding it's name through Google Maps. HuaJiang Bridge it's called.

This Thursday it rained again, so I decided to go for it. School ends early on Thursdays for me, so I went and saw a film in the library! My school has this kind of MTV like place where you can go borrow a bunch of films and watch them there. For free, (but only if you're studying there, of course.) You can watch them by yourself, or you can have a room for watching them in groups, should you have good classmates that aren't busy running to work part time as soon as they're off from school. So I watched The Happening.

After getting disappointed over yet another American film, I go home and pick up my umbrella and DSLR Camera. When I go home I usually take bus from Xinpu MRT station for a few minutes. I then find a free bus back to Xinpu station almost right after walking out the door, and decide to walk all the way to HuaJian Bridge from there.

At the time I arrived there, the weather had cleared a bit so it was quite light, also because I went there so much earlier in the day. I decided to take some photos, then read in my Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Great book, great writer. Under a bridge like that is almost the perfect place for reading such books! It's like climbing into the bottom of a dried up well for me, going to that bridge during rainy days.

If any of you guys have read Haruki Murakami, please feel free to share your thoughts. Or if you have had something with bridges or other special places that normal people would just pass by. I'm now going to show you some of my creations from that day. I used Adobe Lightroom to capture them out of RAW files and decided to put some creativity into some of them.
Enjoy.

This was taken later on the day, a few minutes before I went to have dinner I believe, so it was rather dark, especially since the rain had increased. Exposure time is 8 seconds, no flash. Have been working for a good time in Lightroom to make the bridge itself more visible and reduce the high exposure from light in the background. Look closely and you will see the roof of Taipei's second tallest building (Shin Kong Life Tower) far away on the left side of the bridge.

The other side.
You'll also find Taipei 101 in the distance, second tallest building in the world. Damn you Dubai.

The bridge earlier on the day looked like this seen from below. Mind you it was raining all day.

Standing atop the bridge, this is what I see: Taipei City seen from afar on a rainy day.

It was a little cooler this Thursday compared to Tuesday when I went here first. It was not that bad though. There were this guy running around (exercising) in the area below the bridge with no shirt on for a while, so it wasn't that cold. I sat pretty still though, reading my book.

Finally I decided to part with the bridge. I was starving and believed I had to hurry a little if I wanted to go to Taipei and eat. I got to Taipei Main Station faster than I had expected, though. So I was able to stay around for a while after, drinking expensive coffee and buying really, really sweet candy. Might as well have been half as sweet as usual Danish candy, which meant that the classmates with whom I shared the candy would leave most of the jellybeans and extinguish the not-so-dense candies.

Hope you liked the pictures. Here's a Slovenian guys take on the bridge during less rainy daytime: A day of a good walk from Jiangzicui to the Huajiang bridge. I also took few more pictures than these. Some more of them made it to boonbot.com and you can see all picture from this bridge here: HuaJian Bridge.

If you feel like using any of the pictures that I've taken and put on this page, feel free to do so. I assume you will be nice and attribute and put up links, should you decide to redistribute them in some way (on the web or any digital media as well as newspapers or books.) Please have a talk with me before you start using them for commercial purposes, though. If you want to use them at a website with heavy traffic, please mind that hotlinking could put a strain to my small webhotel solution.

Anyway, thanks for reading.