Thailand Democrary

In October, I went to Thailand. I also went to the democracy square to see what they happened.

I had some pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/chihweicheng/2008_Thailand_2nd#

I had some explanations to those pictures.

Cape No 7

Last night I went to a move "Cape 7" in a movie theater nearby my current company.

This movie is the best Taiwan movie I have even seen in recent years. The whole story composes of two stories: a story that was 60 years ago, and a story that Taiwanese want to build a music group in a show.

The movie location is a small town in southern Taiwan: a young guy decides to go back to his home town after dozen year struggle in the biggest city in Taiwan-Taipei. He decides to leave this place because he is not famous in this place.

When he goes back to his home town, he find a postman job. He delivers daily until one day he finds a returned package from Japan. He opens it and it tells a love story 60 years ago. A Japanese teacher and a local Taiwanese girl. In 1945 when Japan lost the World War II, the noble arrogance became shame, the Japanese teacher returned to his home town. The unchanged thing was the love for the Taiwan girl. He wrote 7 love letters in the ship returned to Japan. Each day a letter. In 2008, the Japanese teacher's daughter mailed it to Taiwan to that lady with a girl photo when he took it before 1945. Because the address was old Taiwan address, the package can not be delivered.

In another scene, a local Taiwan southern town decides to hold a music show. They decide to have local team as the beginning of that show. It is not easy to find a local music group, so they decide to form a group. In the beginning, it is not easy to do it. There are many arguments between this group. Some of them leave because of bad music skills or by an accident.

At the end, by an accident, the love story finds the 1945 girl and the postman delivers that package to that woman. The local music team also has a successful show.

There are still some untold issues in this movie. However, there is no need to give answers to them.

Why this movie touches local people's heart? Because all stories are usually seen in Taiwan, local people know this is life.

My Dog "Little Friend" Died

My dog little friend died o May, 7th.

A New Life in HP Taiwan

I changed my job to HP Taiwan after my trip. The new job was confirmed before my trip.

There was nothing to do in the beginning. My project will kick off in November, so I need to pick up this culture in two months.

Many new things and culture need to learn here. I will have a short trip to Houston, USA at the end of October. I am looking forward to it.

I haven't been to USA since my 2004 trip to LA, Phoenix, and New York. I need to think what I need to buy now.

My Vietnam Trip

I planned my Vietnam trip before I quit my Job in Arima Computer, Taiwan.

I didn’t have too much time to do it because I need to do a lot before my leaving this job. I needed to prepare for the new hire processes, and also I planned to hire another person before I quit my job. To do this would ease the work loading of my successor.

Last week I was in Vietnam. This was an amazing country. It was like 30 years ago in Taiwan. It has many opportunities to become rich even you only do the traditional industry. I will put some photos later.

Planning for Bangkok

I am going to Bangkok for a business trip to demonstrate my company's thin client computers.

I plan to visit the Hyatt Hotel's afternoon tea, a message(in Let's Relax), and also have a face clean (in a mall).

I need to prepare the related documents and also my company's stuff. I will take some photos this time.

A Small Island Outside Taiwan

Last week I went to a small island outside Taiwan. It is located in the YuLin county. There is a Chinese version web page: http://www.tweu.net.

The island is beautiful. Only few people are at that island in the same time. Because the island is still drifting, it is not a good idea to build any house in that island.

From that island, it only takes 70 minutes to take a regular boat to PenHu. No wonder the coast guard needed to call the roll when you take a ship. I recommend people in Taiwan come to this trip. It is a new type of travel in Taiwan.

The evening of Mohiniyattym

Last night I went to the show in Taipei.

The dance is from south India. I've watched this dance before. This dance strongly uses hand gesture and eyes. The performer Gopika Varma (http://www.gopikavarma.com) is good at it. The other performer Resmi Girish is good at fast hand waves and body balance. Kuchipudi Dance (http://www.indianandworldmusic.net/Dance/a009.php) is from south India.

A bad thing last night was there were too many children. Parents should not bring their children to this place. In stead, parents should be aware that if they want to have children, they should be responsible for them: to keep them somewhere else.

Leave Thailand

On Oct 23rd, I would leave Bangkok.

Since I had a diarrhea, I need to use the rest room (toilet in India)6~7 times a day. I could not stay in Bangkok any more. I need to go back to Taiwan to have enough rest.

I bought something for myself and my family. I could not carry too leavy luggages. In the airport, I found my luggage was 19.8 KGs, just a little bit lighter than required.

After I have enough energy, I need to start job hunting.

Giardia Lamblia

What is this? I don't know.

I went to that hospital at 9:00AM on Friday morning. I think every
hospital should have regular clinics at this time.

A female doctor in the Bangkok Christian Hospital
(http://www.bkkchristianhosp.th.com) listened to my description and
disease history and suggested me to do a "shit exam." They asked me to
come back after 1 hour because the lab needs time for the test.

When I came back, they told me that they found "Giardia Lamblia" in my
shit. Basically it is a worm. They used "Amoxil" (a kind of
penicillin) to treat me. You can find many resources about this
disease and drug.

The doctor gave me the following:
1. Amoxil 500 mg * 20
2. Ropect(polar) * 10
3. Fasigyn 500 mg * 20

There are some descriptions about this disease and drugs:
http://www.sciscape.org/print_news.php?news_id=1324
http://www.niea.gov.tw/analysis/publish/month/25/25th2-4.htm
http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:ma9wHFpVNxAJ:www.health4ever.com/drug/amoxycillin.asp+Amoxil&hl=zh-TW&gl=tw&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_zh-TW
http://hospital.kingnet.com.tw/medicine/medicine.html?medno=1043915174
http://www.walgreens.com/library/finddrug/druginfo1.jsp?bid=7424&bname=AMOXIL%20500MG%20CAPSULES&id=17095
http://www.asa.org.za/pharm/pfizer/fasigyn.html
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap22.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardia_lamblia
http://www.protech-tio2.com/Organism(1)/qr11.htm

Arrive Bangkok

On Oct 19th, I arrived Bangkok.

This time, I decided to try to stay in a different location: Kao San Road. I heard this place was a place for backpackers.

From the Internet, I tried to find "Lek Guest House." It was recommended. However, their bathroom and rest room is not in my room. It is not convenient for me because I need to use the rest room 6~7 times a day as of my diarrhea.

A single room is 190 Baht a night. It is a good deal, and I tried to get used to this place.

On Oct 20th, that is my 10th day of my diarrhea. I decided to see a doctor. I found there was a Christian hospital in front of the headquarter of Bangkok Bank. In my opinion, it should be a good hospital. I decided to see a doctor in that hospital.

Leave India

On Oct 18th, I left India.

In fact, I didn't have too good memory about this country. First, there are touts every where, especially on my first day I happened to be cheated; second, there are not too many places to eat food, so I still carried diarrhea when I left.

To survive in this country is not easy. Every time when you buy something, people try not to give you the small amount of coins. This also happens to local Indians. In Taiwan, it is of course not possible that a store manager doesn't return you $1 NTD when you buy a $9 product and you give him $10. If he doesn't return you that money. It is considered cheating.

In this country, many touts try to waste your time, they ask you what you need. If you response them every time, they will try again to provide you that service. Or they try to point you a wrong place if you want to go to the government's Delhi tourism. They try to lead you to private travel agents.

I don't know in Taiwan 30 years ago if it was like this. I have to ask my mother and grandmother.

7th Day Diarrhea in India

As title, this is my 7th day since I had diarrhea in India.

Today I become better, but diarrhea still exists. Tomorrow I will leave India. I hope everything will be okay with me.

One Day in New Delhi (II)

I didn't do anything since yesterday morning. I don't feel comfortable for the past few days.

I try to stay calm in my bed all day because I know there is no good drug to cure 腸胃 disease.

There is a good web site for me: http://hospital.kingnet.com.tw/medicine_disease/digestive.html?id=48#aa. Hope I can cure it by myself in few days.

Bad Day in Varanasi

Sorry not to update this web blog for a couple of days because my stomach is not good since yesterday morning. I decide not to eat anything and go back to Delhi asap.

I will take a night train and arrive Delhi tomorrow morning.

A Good Day in Varanasi

Today I decide to treat myself better. I went to a 5 star hotel to have a lunch buffet because I don't like local food.

It cost me $426 RPs to eat, but I think single order is better. Probably I will come back again.

This afternoon I got government's tour information.

One Day in Varanasi

Today I arrive my next city in India-- Varanasi by an overnight express train. I arrived here at 7:20AM.

Fortunately, I met a Korean origin lady. She helped me out a lot. She and her Indian husband operate a guest house, so I live there. A day charge is 200 RPs. It is not expensive.

I went to the UP government travel office at noon. The sold a local map for 2 RPs. I also chatted with him for 1 hour.

I found the Hotel Alka. It cost 300 RPs a day, but the view of lobby is quite good. I will spend one afternoon there again.

I start to settle down here.

A Hell Day in Agra

Yesterday I took a local tour to Agra city to visit Taj Mahal. The local tour took 300 RPs.

Taj Mahal is beautiful, but my tour was bad. In the morning, the travel agent asked us to arrive at 6:00AM. I was there then, however, it took 30 minutes to have a guide person to pick us up.

Later he needed to "collect" more people to save $$, so we waited for one more hour to get started the road. I was asked to sit in a small seat behind the bus driver all day long. I need to blow(?) my knees all day.

We were taken to an expensive restaurant to eat our breakfast. I only ate a vegetable sandwich. Then we got started again.

At about 1:00PM, we arrived Agra Fort. They only allowed us to view it for one hour. However, a local Indian told me that we only had 30 minutes. It took 1.5 hours for us to start on the road. I have waited there for 1 hour.

Later we were taken to a local marble shop store for 40 minutes. No one could escape. Later we were taken to eat lunch. Of course, it was an expensive one. I told them that I was not comfortable in my stomach, so I escaped to eat something else to make me more comfortable.

Finally, we were at Taj Mahal, but we were allowed for 70 minutes. I hurried to finish all the processes and waited the bus on 6:00PM on time. However, we waited till 7:00 PM to get started again.

We were on our road to New Delhi. However, we were taken to a Hindi temple to see it. Actually, I have no interest now. Of course, after one hour, we got started again. After 1 hour of driving, we were taken to a Muslim temple. The way they handled it was like you were taken to a local Taiwan temple and asked you to donate $$. I didn't understand their introduction, but I thought to get home asap.

Later, we were on our road again, but now it was 11:30PM. We were taken to the same restaurant for breakfast again for resting. At 2:50AM, we arrived the New Delhi Railway Station.

If I knew it, I won't take this trip or recommend it to my friends.

Taiwan First?

Around 10 years ago, Taiwan said that it wanted to be the 6 management operation centers in Asia Pacific.

However, few days ago, when I sat in the India New Delhi MRT train, I saw a person right next to me used Samsung a cellular phone; left to me used LG one.

Taiwan was late for world competition. Should we say "Taiwan First", such as 10 years ago?

Delhi Local Tour (II)

For the past few days, I have been eating 4 times the egg curry and plain rice meal in the same restaurant. I didn't "拉肚子." (diarrhea)

I found that in the same location (restaurant), there was a local private tourism office. They didn't call customers, but they had good businesses.

Today I asked their price:
Hotel Neelam (same location, the first right lane of Main Bazar, go straight for 30 meters, if you go from the railway station)
4240 Opp. New Delhi Railway Station, Pahar Ganj, tel: 6951-3005
Agra (same day tour): 300 RPs/ person, meet at their office (6:00 AM ~ 11:00PM)
Delhi (same day tour): 100 RPs/ person, meet at their office (9:30 AM ~ 6:00PM)
Jaipur (same day tour): 400 RPs/ person, meet at their office (6:00 AM ~ 11:00PM)

comparing to Delhi tourism, the price is really cheap. No wonder only rich Indians attend the government Delhi tourism tours. ( 1 day & 3 days ,etc.)

That local tour boss is very nice. If you eat a meal at that restaurant, you will notice that many local customers register at that counter. That is, they don't call customers, but customers come volunteerly. You can register one day before your tour. They close at 11:00 PM. The boss is not like other touts. To say again, I have been eating 4 times and pay my meals there, but the boss didn't ask me to attend his tours!!

I plan to take their tours to Agra & Jaipur, if my Delhi tourism cancels my 3 day triangle city tour.