Hsinchu, Taiwan

Sometimes I even get surprised by the situations I find myself in. For example if you told me that I would be in East Asia having coffee with engineers and executives discussing the future trends in Taiwanese educational policy after giving a presentation on the technology and entry barriers into the digital dental market, I might have bought it. But more likely I would have told you to go easy, get a grip and please pass to the left.

Or for another example, I would become a regular at a bar called Tipsy (Isn't that name just brilliant?) where the bar tenders are a couple of cute Mandarin speaking sisters that keep pouring me free drinks and call me 'coffee'. There I've been playing Iceman while my abc friend, Maverick, has had the older sister on his sights. The things I do in the name of cultural exchange.

The week has been procrastination, powering through hangovers and last minute panicking for this presentation. Nothing too much exciting... just adapting the life I will have here in Hsinchu for the next 6 weeks.

I think I might take a trip to Taipei again this weekend. I want to pick up a groovebox since I don't think I can keep my sanity without some sort of expensive music machine to occupy my time. Fiddling with bleeps and beats forces me to simultaneously relax, focus and feel if I hope to do it well. Plus, I have been talking about production for years now and it might come in handy later on this trip when I have time on trains I need to kill.