We had missed out on the 尾牙 this year because our company is in cost saving mode. But at least our department didn’t deny us our 春酒. Although I thought that the food would be better! We all crammed into a large conference hall style large room, filling about 10 tables of 10. Nearly everyone [...]
Happy Chinese New Years!
I can’t even remember the last time that I spent Chinese New Year home in Taiwan. Must have been more than 10 years ago! I missed out on a lot. All the friends and family, all the fireworks, all the food and most of all, the large amounts of lost money from [...]
I got to work this morning and they were selling breakfast on the second floor instead of the first. There was a notice saying that they were de-poisoning (消毒) the first floor area. I didn’t think much of it.
Then in the morning we got an email from our secretary saying that we’d get free lunch [...]
Yesterday was our company’s annual sports day. It was a pretty big event with I guess more than 1000 people taking part. Apparently ours is always the biggest one out of all Hsinchu companies. And it’s also probably the only chance that I’ll get to see our CEO this year. Next time I’ll have to [...]
After six hours of riding around on bicycle, it’s rather refreshing to sit down and enjoy some 剉冰 (shaved ice)! We went to this place on 金山街 called 古早味黑砂糖剉冰 and maybe it was because of the situation, I really felt that 黑砂糖 (I have no idea what it’s called in English) tasted better than normal [...]
Day 2, Sept 17
Wake up call was at 6am sharp. I was absolutely knackered the first day but hardly caught a wink of sleep last night.
Apparently if you’re not found in bed at 6am, you get deducted points. And if you get enough negative points, you’re punished by taking away vacation time. The adding and [...]
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