{"id":9036,"date":"2004-01-21T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2022-08-06T02:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T02:43:01","slug":"first-trip-home-in-18-years-taipei-taiwan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/21\/first-trip-home-in-18-years-taipei-taiwan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trip Home In 18 Years Pt. 3. Taipei, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More pictures from Tom’s house in Taipei. Getting ready for my first Chinese New Year’s Eve with my family in 17 years… Megan kept me busy and entertained with her mini concert next to her puppy Oscar…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Megan and her puppy Oscar (she calls him Ka-Ka)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ka-Ka doesn’t like the trumpet!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ll keep playing until he likes it (too bad Oscar can’t plug up his own ears)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oscar the schnauzer – unfortunately Megan developed allergic reactions to Oscar and he found a new home soon…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ve come to pick you up Lulu!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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May I present to you…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ka-Ka!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Getting ready to go out for New Year’s Eve dinner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jess and Megan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tom and his new Sony K900 PDA phone, which boasts the BEST Solitaire game…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tom is so focused on the game that nothing can budge him…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… while Megan climbs “Mt. Tom”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cute outfit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy New Year Megan!
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Had dinner with my family on Chinese New Year’s Eve. My brother Philip’s home in Shi-Ji, Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My aunties<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My brother Philip’s schnauzer Doobie<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Driving to Guan Xi to Tom’s family gathering. Guan Xi, Taiwan. 2004 New Year’s Day. Tom’s mother’s family has their annual family gathering in Guan Xi (a town about 1.5 hours from Taipei), and Tom invited me to join in their festivities… The weather was horrible (wet and cold), and the traffic was awful – but it sure was fun watching Megan play with their other kids and having fun with fireworks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cloudy drizzly day in Taipei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nena and Megan
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Crazy traffic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Everyone’s on the road today!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Megan is tried…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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During traffic jams, the GPS screen doubles as…
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… an entertainment center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arrived in Guanxi (Tom’s mom’s hometown) and immediately we were brought to our table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… and asked to eat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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delicious Taiwanese New Year’s feast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Megan still tired<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pork thighs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taiwanese new year’s tradition of playing with fireworks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The older folks were singing karaoke in the main living room<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New year banner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tom came back out with a new toy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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KABOOM!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back in the comfort (and warmth) of Megan’s room<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I had a fun day!
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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\u2026 More pictures from Tom’s house in Taipei. Getting ready…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN0763.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15922,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/15922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}