After I got my Green Card the first thing I did was get my paperwork ready (from a Taiwanese Resident to a Taiwanese Foreign National) to head back to Taiwan and visit my family. Finally in January of 2004, after 18 years away, I was home…
Kevin picked me up from the airport the night before to stay at his place in Taipei… Kevin has a few dogs – this is one of them – SHIAO BAI, which means “Whitie”… Kevin got her from the shelter, who saved her from her abusive ex-owner, crazy people who thought it was fun to tie a rubber band around a dog’s mouth for months to stop her from barking… Next to Whitie is SHIAO-HEI, which is loosely translated to be “Blackie”… he’s the youngest of them all, a hyperactive one… can’t even sit still long enough to be in the picture…
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After visting my mother’s place of burial, my brothers Philip and Kevin took me to nearby Keelung Temple Street Market for a late afternoon lunch. The weather is wet and humid, which caught me by surprise (coming from Minneapolis in the middle of winter, I totally underestimated how WET AND COLD it is up in the mountains in Taiwan… ACHOO!
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My good friend Tom and his family moved back to Taiwan from Hong Kong a few years back. I ended up spending some time hanging out with their daughter Megan (my god daughter) and playing with her toy collection
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How come I never had a cool toy like this when I grew up?
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