by personal | May 23, 2011 | Updates
I went around and did some thinking for an unspecified amount of time. I didn’t really care about the time that I was wasting doing nothing but purely thinking. But the thing is, I don’t have a clue what I was thinking about. What is there to think about when your life sucks and there is nothing you can do about it. Either way, if I do, do something then I’m going to always hurt someone. I wish I could explain it.
Either way, it was a good going out, even thought it was raining. Taichung Park is quite beautiful and I especially liked it when there was no one there, since it was raining. I had the park all to myself.
But I was thinking about my parent and my sister. My sister doesn’t know the full picture, nor does she know how I feel at-all. I feel like shit right now, but she doesn’t know that. At least she has friends she can rely on. I have no one. I am alone in this world I feel. I have my dad I can relate to but even still I need someone else. I can’t go on living like this. Hopefully when I go into university to learn Chinese I’ll make some really good friends. I just feel really alone and sad because of this.
I’m scared for my future…
I guess I’m a little worried for my future. Or for a future I don’t have or one that I don’t want, essentially one that sucks. When walking to the park I saw two homeless people, they carry around 20 plastic bags around and they look through garbage to find bottles, cans and other raw materials so they can sell them to the recycling yard. I just don’t want that to ever be me. I’m sure those guys who are now homeless and are at the bottom of life would appreciate any help they could get. I mean what brought them to a situation to where they are now living on the streets. We were all innocent kids once, what in gods name cursed them into a situation where they are now living on the streets. As I write this now, 5-10 years from now I could be on the streets. In fact this blog won’t even exist. What will stop the inevitable if I run out of money or if I can’t make money? This is the capitalistic gnome of things. You can’t make money? Well guess what pal, you are fucked.
by Jonny | Feb 7, 2011 | Updates
I’m going on a trip to Hong Kong this Wednesday (09/02/2011) from Taiwan to Hong Kong Intl. Airport.
I’m hoping to see an old friend who I went to school with in London but who flew back to her home country in Hong Kong after she finished her secondary school education. (Asian families who are rich or moderately rich will send their children to other countries to learn western culture and of course the language; English)
I’m quite pumped for this trip. Though it isn’t the actual reason I’m going to Hong Kong primarily. I’m doing this so I don’t overstay my stay in Taiwan of 90 days to which the UK and Taiwan representatives have agreed for a visa exempt visiting stay. I screwed up by not renewing this visitor stay by a further 90 days as you can only do that 30 days (As I found out) before you are required to leave at the start of the date you arrived in Taiwan. (If that makes any sense)
So I’m paying for that now and when I return I’ll apply for my dual nationality so I don’t have to keep doing this. But the requirement would then be myself joining the army for a year. – Which I don’t mind doing, though I’d rather not, but I will do it, if I really have to only.
It should be a good trip though. I’m a little nervous going by myself since I don’t speak Chinese well. However my mother has friends in Hong Kong who are going to take care of me. 🙂 It will be good seeing my friend again as I haven’t actually seen her for around 2 years now and she actually cried to me when she found out her family wanted her back in Hong Kong.
I find it especially funny since my sister was always talking to her saying that they’d go and see her, and they are much closer friends; yet I am the one seeing her first. :p
by Jonny | Nov 13, 2010 | Updates
I’ve made it to Taiwan, half alive. We stopped of at Bangkok international airport and from there we made our way to Taipei. I flew with Eva Air, the major Taiwanese airliner in Taiwan. The food on the plane was nice and decent and the free drinks were great.
Taiwan from what I have seen is an interesting country. In some way’s it is good and in a lot of ways it is quite bad, especially if you want to settle and live on a small budget here. The goods from a £ to NT$ perspective is very good, what I’m trying to say is that the goods are really cheap. I managed to get a computer case with a large fan inside it for £10, then I got a 400 volt power supply unit for £20. In the UK I would have had to pay much more. As for the internet, alright, I’m paying around £7 for 512kb upload and 512kb download, the man was pressuring me to go for the 512kb package even though I hugely expressed interest in the 8 MB package. I’m thinking of upgrading since the page loading speed is dismal in comparison to my UK internet.
You are probably asking what is so bad about Taiwan?
Taiwan itself is a country which relies on foreign trade which is what it’s economy thrives on and is what its people survive on. However it isn’t this which bothers me. It is the conditions in which some people can live that bothers me. I looked at some areas and places where people I saw lived and I was shocked. What we can consider as “flats” in the UK they consider 2 rooms, at least with flats in the UK you have more than 3 rooms at least of nice size. However here in Taiwan, you only have rooms the width of an alley way. Put it simply, the places people live are tiny. They are liveable however the word “cosy” doesn’t come to mind for me.
If you have a decent amount money or a decent job, then I think Taiwan would be a nice place to live. Though then again that does fall under a category where most countries are that way. However doing a comparison of Taiwan and the UK, I’d rather live in the UK in terms of housing, however I would also rather live in Taiwan because it is refreshing to see a country like this. Whatever the case I am here now and tired of blogging. I’m going to get some shut eye and then look around and I’ll be sure to get some pictures up later on, if I can be bothered. 🙂
by Jonny | Oct 22, 2010 | Updates
I usually play a game every night of this modification for the game Battlefield 2, however recently a new version of this modification came out (0.956 – Project Reality) and on this map called Burning Sands, I crashed and ever since this game has stopped working for me. I’ve done everything feasibly possible without installing Battlefield 2 to get this game working. I have un-installed and re-installed the modification as well to no avail as well as deleting the Battlefield 2 directory.
The problem
The splash screen comes up and that’s it but nothing happens beyond that, I believe the game itself freezes thus when I click on the splash screen, I then get a prompt telling me there is an error which has occurred with pr.exe.
The solution
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by Jonny | Sep 5, 2010 | Videos
My second instalment of my favourite music of the week! All about the music I like. Which means I don’t care what you think about my tastes. [Just joking] But seriously I love the type of music I like so please don’t think any less of me, even if I do like Justin Beiber. (KIDDING!) Anyway’s here’s the music I picked as my favourites for this week:
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