Jonbu the baker

i’m so slow

 

Limit

I don’t think it’s that obvious, but I’m back in Vancouver.

“my backyard”

“Canada is such a good place. I want to live there.” They say it with such yearning tone.

It feels like i’ve never left. I’ts a queer feeling. The only thing really different now is I have strong urge to jaywalk whenever out on the streets. (That would be the side effect of going to Taiwan. Jaywalking was the only way to cross a street.)

To paraphrase steve’s wise co-wroker, one year is long at the beginning of it, but it’s short when you’re looking back from the end of the tunnel. Just today I held again the steering wheel of my little bunny car after more than one year of absence, and it didn’t feel like one year at all. To think i was all worried I’d forget how to drive, how to walk on the right side of the road. Actually while I was in taiwan I kept bumping into people because I’d instinctively walk left when I see someone coming towards me. He/She’d of course walk right, creating this walking-towards-the-mirror effect.

I don’t want to put my life back on track yet. Right now i exist in this cloud between dream and reality, and not everyone, including myself. knows exactly where I am. This is coming from the fact that I will graduate after only a few courses, and the path ends with an open field. I feel useless not knowing where I want to go.

I’ll stop here.

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By Jonbu
On May 31, 2004
At 7:33 am
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Banana Split

Cut and paste.

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…Had crude, cheap McDonalds with bad service as a snack last night.



(cheap bus rides)

(Gothic vampires would like these)

(Black pork sausages. They BBQ it on the spot. Looks yummy, should’ve tried one)

Woke up too early and found a frozen no-name brand chicken pie in the freezer, only to remember that our toaster oven toasted itself in suicidal fashion sometime during the last year.


(The taipei subway. You’re free to talk on the phone, but will get fined if you chew anything)

(bento)

One regret that popped up in my mind is, I didn’t get more yugart hi-chu before I leave Japan. I have this one pack sitting on my desk.


(drink in a pouch)

(this arch is massive!)

What’s next? Going out for some familiar living. I’m certain I’ll fall asleep on my food during lunch. OOh, can’t write anymore. Starting to get hungry. Maybe I’ll go fry myself an egg.

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By Jonbu
On May 30, 2004
At 11:43 pm
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Life on a Jet Lag

Here are some picture injections to my sickling livejournal. Just some crude snapshots before I fire up my PS machine and PS like a vicious Chinese chef making fried rice (CHA! CHA!).


(It’s delicious!)

(NEver got to try these.. was busy eating icecream cone)

(Hm, I’m wearing the same kyushu shirts)

Going to Taiwan first meant smooth sailing instead of Crash-landing at Richmond, emotionally speaking. I’ve already eased my craving for good food, had enough dodgy potions in glass bottles, had time to sleep all day, and warmed up beside the bonfire that is my slightly distant family. The excitement and relief of leaving Japan, the stone of arriving somewhere completely (relatively speaking) new, seeing something familiar yet distant… These things were done with in Taiwan, before I arrived at YVR.

All I need now is a good shave.


(Just some cheap breakfast)

(Those things on the roof are hand-carved!)

(mango ice with condensed milk)

(motorcycles everywhere. I might need one if i were to live there. Mm, Accidenty.)

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By Jonbu
On May 29, 2004
At 10:45 pm
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so sick

right now i am way more 1-2-2 than usual. I’m pretty sure the sickness comes from the lack of Pocari sweat.. so today I’m forcing myself a double dose, to see if i get better tomorrow.
Last night’s sleep was so bad. my brain performed the 3d-kadeliscope-in-fast-forward trick the whole night. Not to mention trying to get any good sleep.

I didn’t know Taipei has the tallest building in the world, the “Taipei 101″. The whole complex includes the Warner Cinema Village and a giant Mitsukoshi. Yesterday I wandered over there and watched the gangster movie “Glue”. (No, it’s not glue, it’s some pinying that means nothing in english) instead of walking straight, I literally paraglided around for the afternoon. My brain would phase out and back, to a degree that’s scary even for somebody that phases out regularly already.

i’ll go hang myself on the sofa now.

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By Jonbu
On May 18, 2004
At 11:12 pm
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Still no pictures

The Kaoshung trip was weird. Everything seemed too natural for me. It’s been more than a decade since I last visited, but EVERYTHING was the same as I remembered. It’s like going into the past, and feeling completely comfortable about it. I didn’t even fill up my CF for the 5 days I was there. The usual urge of taking pictures vanished the moment I started listening to grandma’s familiar voice and stories. I even forgot to take pictures with my architect cousin. It’s after I came back to Taipei that I realized, “Woah, wha, eh. no pictures of him?”. Weird.

I did get some pictures of the house tho. Many of my better childhood memories were made in this house. It wasn’t out of amusement that I took these pictures. It was more out of duty and boredom, more like “Didn’t have a digicam last time I was here, better do it now.” I was photographing my childhood.

The older-sister, new-cellphone cousin just came out of her locked, air-conditioned room where the jony-put-his-pictures-here PC is situated.

The original plan was to post this with pictures, but who knows when that will happen.

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By Jonbu
On May 16, 2004
At 4:09 pm
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