Aboriginal experience, redux

I was on the road with my scooter when it started to rain. Coincidentally, a 咖啡 (coffee in Chinese) sign appeared in sight. I entered without thinking, and found that it was an open meeting place filled with handmade musical instruments with some deck chairs on the...

Protection and ownership

My friend and entrepreneur co-hosts a just-in-time, on-demand network for professional service in Taiwan, saying that skilled professionals no longer need a lifetime job—they need a work that matches their life. Someone always needs to get something to be done, but it...

Anger management

Recently, I paid for the next term of my physical/emotional therapy (sort of). The fee was much higher than I had thought, but before I realized I already signed up and paid full price. It was one of those compulsive payment moments where I got carried away by the...

Template is for temp + late

At a dinner, an architect friend of mine shared with us that the worst type of project is something that comes with a preconceived plan where he has to cram everything—including his creativity perhaps—into a fixed space. In my technical writer/translator field that...