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Confucius Temple (June 7, 2009)

On Sunday, June 7, Joanne, Tim, and I went into Taipei to find the Confucius Temple. Unfortunately, my camera became nonfunctional while taking pictures there. But Joanne and Tim had their cameras. Here’s some shots with Joanne’s digital.

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Shilin and the Temple (June 3-4, 2009)

On June 3, Joanne, Tim, and I went to Shilin Night Market. If you look closely, you can find Joanne in the photo of the market street. The next day I took a few shots of the temple on the mountain across the valley from us from our apartment window.

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Drinking Snake Blood

Joanne, Tim, and I went to Snake Alley, where we watched a snake handler tease a cobra for a while before killing another snake, draining its blood, and taking out its gall bladder.

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Longshan Temple and Snake Alley (May 29, 2009)

In the evening, Joanne, Tim, and I headed downtown on the MRT and over to Longshan Temple. After checking out the temple, we walked over to Snake Alley, where restaurants sell snake soup or offer shots of snake’s blood. At one place, a snake handler had a cobra on display, but they didn’t allow photography.

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Taipei 101 Fireworks, New Year’s 2008

Joanne and I went to her an apartment her sister has downtown to watch the fireworks display on Taipei 101. I snapped some photos.

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Taipei 101 Fireworks, New Year 2009

The fireworks display at Taipei 101 on New Year’s Eve 2009. Joanne’s brother in law works at a school where we went to view the fireworks from the roof.

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Guitar Shop Madness

So my electric-acoustic guitar has a problem. It doesn’t work. You plug it into the amp and there’s no sound. It didn’t just happen, but developed over time. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn’t. So I tried to troubleshoot the problem.