21 September 2006: Taiwan and Thailand

I can still vaguely remember the 9-21 Earthquake of 1999 in Taiwan, and was glad that the same disaster did not happen 7 years later. At the moment, my life is not threatened by possible earthquakes or even typhoons. On the other hand, there are so many ants in our room that Marcus often uses the f- word on them, while I am getting used to the presence of dead ants on my desk by the use of an aerial insecticide in our room. Let's hope that the insecticide can kill the invading ants before it kills us.

I have not been watching the news lately, and was surprised to hear from Raymond that Thaksin was ousted by army generals and is in de facto exile in London. I hope that Boredin can get over this soon, because I suppose he's a Thaksin supporter. Thaksin was overthrown before President Chen of Taiwan is toppled. How surprising! I hope that stability will be restored in Thailand soon after this political turmoil. After all, I have some Thai friends whom I met in a Youth Expedition Project (YEP) two years ago.