23 November 2006: Long Night Ahead

I'm doomed. I have yet to complete my agenda papers and conference scripts. I may need to blabber nonsense and crap my way through when the time comes. At the meantime, I hope that this worst scenerio will not happen.

I hope that my blog can allow my friends to know more about the wonderful place of Taiwan. In this entry I shall talk about the cafes in Taiwan. Taiwan is a nation of cafes. These cafes have good ambience and setting, serving good brew and great snacks. Everywhere is a Holland Village. Moreover, their cheese cakes and chocolates are cheaper than those found in Singapore. Many of Taiwan's cafes operate on a 24-hr basis, and students burning the midnight oil can always be found in these places, mugging hard through the night. When the cafes play songs such as Daniel Chan's 比我幸福 and the like in the wee hours of the morning, it sets an atmosphere of serenity. I can describe this feeling experienced more aptly in Chinese--淡淡的忧伤. Not that I had eaten too many cheese cakes to behave cheesy here, nor am I emotionally dampened in Taiwan, but this is the mood or sentiment felt when few or no one is around in a cafe, at one night in Taipei.