Photos by MJ Klein
Recently more work went on behind our house and on the main roads in the area. This time, the traffic island was jack-hammered to pieces, removed and replaced. I have no idea what was wrong with the old traffic island and why it needed to be replaced, but I was fascinated to see how fast the new island was created.
Photos by MJ Klein
Today I snapped a few photos of the more recent work that’s been done near our home:
All that’s left of the work that was being done at night, is this “L” shaped hole, now all patched.
Photos by MJ Klein
One of the great things about living in Taiwan is all the great deals you can get on locally made items, like this Johnson Home Gym.
I have been looking for something like this for quite some time, and then stumbled across it at an exercise equipment store in Hsinchu. The price included delivery and setup.
Photos by MJ Klein – photos are geotagged
Hui-chen and I attended the recent Lantern Festival in Miaoli. The festival is over now but we wanted to show you what we saw.
This is one of several parking lots for the event. There were shuttle buses to take people to and from the event. This year’s festival was a lot larger than I had imagined and news reports put the attendance at over 1 million people!
Photo by MJ Klein
Some of our loyal readers have been asking what is going on, since we haven’t had an update in some time. We sincerely apologize to our loyal readers, but something was going on that I’m about to tell you now. There were a few updates on Facebook recently that told some of the story but this is the official story of the entire ordeal that I experienced.
It all began on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011. Our company had some parts to ship to the USA and I was busy with details of shipping, labeling, etc., preparing a few thousand pieces of a part we manufacture, for shipment. I noticed some peculiarity with my eyesight which seemed to be limited to my left eye only. When I would move my eyes rapidly from side to side (which is a normal action) my field of vision seemed to be “torn” or as if I were looking through broken glass. The break or tear in my vision would appear as a white flash followed immediately by a black jagged line. This phenomenon happened very quickly and was very difficult to quantify. After observing this occurrence several times over the course of the afternoon, I was able to see that a black line was visible as well as white flashes. I continued with my shipping duties and tried to not let the visual anomalies interfere with the tasks at hand. The truth be told, I didn’t really give it much thought at the time, as I was very busy with our business activities.
Wednesday morning found me doing more shipping and I got busy right away with preparing more parts for shipment. I occasionally noticed that the flashes of light and the dark line that looked like a piece of broken glass would make it’s appearance. It didn’t seem to correlate to anything except my eye movement. I could induce an instance of flashes by rapidly moving my eyes from one side to the other. I thought that probably wasn’t a wise thing to do, so I hesitated doing it just to observe the effects. It seemed to happen enough during the course of my duties and that was good enough for me. I didn’t really have any idea what was going on though.
Photos by MJ Klein
Good friend and blogger, Andre, recently purchased a new vehicle. The one he chose is awesome, utilizing technology to solve many driving issues. He bought the Luxgen SUV, which was designed and produced in Taiwan. Not intending to be a review of the vehicle, here are some very cool things about it. UPDATE: read about some of the Luxgen technology here.
This is what it looks like. The SUV is robust and rugged looking, and it feels that way on the road too. Let’s check out some of this cool technology:
Photos by MJ Klein & Hui-chen
Dear Readers, we took a fantastic trip up to the top of Mount Washington on the Cog Railway. We have over 100 photos to show you in this article, so get ready to go along with us as we head up the mountain!
Not far up Route 302 from the Mount Washington hotel is the road that leads to the Cog Railway. I won’t bore you with too many historical facts about it. You may click on the link and read about it on Wikipedia if you like. If you’re in the Mt. Washington area, it’s worth the trip up to the top of the mountain via “the cog.”
Photos by MJ Klein
Hui-chen and I attended the 2010 Taipei Cycle show. As usual, this article isn’t meant to be complete coverage of the show, but rather an excerpt of stuff that we thought was interesting.
Photos by MJ Klein
Hui-chen and I went to the TW-Bents warehouse last Friday, and we met with Walter and Kevin. They had some new stuff to show us.
The main star of the day is this new trike. It’s a giant of a trike, built for larger, heavier riders. The main feature of this trike (besides it’s size) is the material it’s constructed of. This is an all-aluminum trike, and it is very light weight for it’s size.
Photos by MJ Klein
Hui-chen and I got up at 05:45 on Saturday to meet friend and blogger Andre and Karen for a movie and then the auto show.
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