On the news (ie CNN, chink tv too..but then cant understand any of tht stuff can i...) every 15 mins or so...
Typhoon Haitang
Category 5
Winds of upto 250 kmph with gusts of 300+ kmph
expected to hit Taiwan sunday night just south of Taipei...
Blasted damp squib i tell you....i've seen heavier rain in bombay...i've stood in winds which were atleast the same force at the sea shore or on the colonade...BUT....me got a holiday for it...and for that one thanks the rain gods...
But, by the look of images shown on the same chink channels..there seems to have been heavy rain in southern Taiwan...500 odd mm in some place...with flooding and roads being swept way and all the jazz...me would have liked to see that first hand...but that did not happen...
Well theres still time....later...
Monday, July 18, 2005
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Naruwan
Well....its been one week way out in the far east...lets start about the beginning...
Travelled last fiday night to Taipei through Bangkok (no thunder thai jokes please..)...Landed in Bangkok around 4 am local time..went to the transit lounge where me made a bed out of two seats and me hand baggage on a trolley..Maroons have a foot massage parlour in the lounge...but cant provide some reclining chairs...Anyway got me connecting flight at 7AM...had a decent heavy breakfast...dozed off....and woke up in time to hear the captain announcing what i think translated to the approach into Taipei. Btw you movie buffs would be excited to know that i had the opportunity to see art house productions 5 children and it and Man of the House in flight...sadly as i said, sleep got the better of me...
Anyway got off at Taipei (good thing that i did...else might have ended up in Seoul in some student protest)...Converted some of the cash that me has been given and went to immigration...went through without any problems...me thinks tht it has more to do with the immigration chap and me not having any common language by which he could ask me anything than anything else...got out of the ariport and got to the taxi stand and the robot that i am vomittefd what i was told to tell the cabbie " Pathe Lu, IBM"...cabbie responds in garbling something in chinese and opens the bonnet..so i took that to be get on and got on..
An hour later and 1240 taiwanese dollars lighter me arrives at Pathe Lu IBM...which it seems is IBM building on Pathe Lu. get to the reception ask for ABN-AMRO...the chap there starts gesticulating and garbling away...two minutes later the chap is actually feeling guilty that he can't speak english...somehow me and him come to the understanding that it is on the 11th floor...further gesticulation...and me understands that there be a phone in the lift landing from which i can call the chaps i'm supposed to meet and return to some sanity...
Went up tried to contact the people...couldnt....came down to see them down waiting...cursed a few gaalis and went met them...got home had some lunch and slept....
good thing too...seeing tht i had to come in in the night on the first day...any the first day ends there...will continue some time later...
be warned...there shall be random profanity and frustration thrown about without warning...for now...top of the morning to you...keep it too...me is off to sleep...
Travelled last fiday night to Taipei through Bangkok (no thunder thai jokes please..)...Landed in Bangkok around 4 am local time..went to the transit lounge where me made a bed out of two seats and me hand baggage on a trolley..Maroons have a foot massage parlour in the lounge...but cant provide some reclining chairs...Anyway got me connecting flight at 7AM...had a decent heavy breakfast...dozed off....and woke up in time to hear the captain announcing what i think translated to the approach into Taipei. Btw you movie buffs would be excited to know that i had the opportunity to see art house productions 5 children and it and Man of the House in flight...sadly as i said, sleep got the better of me...
Anyway got off at Taipei (good thing that i did...else might have ended up in Seoul in some student protest)...Converted some of the cash that me has been given and went to immigration...went through without any problems...me thinks tht it has more to do with the immigration chap and me not having any common language by which he could ask me anything than anything else...got out of the ariport and got to the taxi stand and the robot that i am vomittefd what i was told to tell the cabbie " Pathe Lu, IBM"...cabbie responds in garbling something in chinese and opens the bonnet..so i took that to be get on and got on..
An hour later and 1240 taiwanese dollars lighter me arrives at Pathe Lu IBM...which it seems is IBM building on Pathe Lu. get to the reception ask for ABN-AMRO...the chap there starts gesticulating and garbling away...two minutes later the chap is actually feeling guilty that he can't speak english...somehow me and him come to the understanding that it is on the 11th floor...further gesticulation...and me understands that there be a phone in the lift landing from which i can call the chaps i'm supposed to meet and return to some sanity...
Went up tried to contact the people...couldnt....came down to see them down waiting...cursed a few gaalis and went met them...got home had some lunch and slept....
good thing too...seeing tht i had to come in in the night on the first day...any the first day ends there...will continue some time later...
be warned...there shall be random profanity and frustration thrown about without warning...for now...top of the morning to you...keep it too...me is off to sleep...
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