Living and having Fun… Omero

First of all I want to thank to all the people that actually comment something on my posts, that is why I keep writing… and I don’t feel lonely anymore…. Jejeje J

Besides that I have not been able to find the place on my blog to answer the questions using my name and I don’t think answering as a guest it’s a good idea.

Now, talking about what I have been doing… to start with I love the new house, don you guys think that the best thing in life is to be able to get home and actually be able to relax? Well for me that is the most important thing in the world, I know about many couples that will get divorced after a few years because they don’t find a place to share and relax together, imagine a normal engineer that works around 8~10 hours a day, besides when he gets home he doesn’t feel like he is going to be able to release all the stress from the office and the next day he will start working again with some of the load from the previous day… that is not good at all… it doesn’t mean that u need a huge house, it only means that that where you live has to be a place where you feel comfortable, even if it’s a one room apartment. That helps the relationship in ways that you cannot imagine…

Last weekend was a special weekend; the restaurant (The BBQ House) where I am “the Manager” was on his first anniversary of 1 month… I know that an anniversary is for one year but how do you say the one for one month… anyways it was a good party, unfortunately the party ended kind of fast for me because I got a little bit drunk with something like 2 bottles of whisky and I had to go home… the next day I had a Texas Hold’Em tournament… that was nice but I was still drunk from the night before and I kind of made some mistakes at the beginning… the tournament had around 30 people and I finished 7^th, not bad but still no money… by the way a nice website to read and learn some tips for poker is : http://www.learn-texas-holdem.com/

On Sunday I was dead.. so all day I just watched movies and LOST, that is one good tv series… since I never saw it before I got the DVD’s and I am watching around 4 episodes every day !!!

I also played with my RC car and finally killed the tires… now I need to get some new ones to play again… that means that the car will sit in my table for some time….

Hopefully this weekend I expect a good weather so I can go for a bike ride… it has been a long time since I don’t ride my bike due to the rain and my busy weekends… hey if you have a big bike and you are not much into racing but you do like good performance for your tires I recommend the BT-016… those are good tires, hard on the center for the everyday ride and very sticky on the sides to give you a good grip on the corners…

Well guys I think that is pretty much everything for now… I really want to do some videos like I used to so I can post them for everyone to see !!! have fun and enjoy your lives

Hi my friends, well it has been a long time since I don’t write anything here, but I have been very busy, first (around December) I was planning my trip to Colombia for holidays, 5 nice weeks there (later I will make some videos of the trip when I get back on track), then of course the trip ;P… at the same time that I was planning the trip I was helping 2 of my best friends here in Taiwan to open a great restaurant bar called The BBQ House… and when I got back I had to help more with that, the opening was on Feb 13th and it was great !!! Now I have been going there every weekend since I am the manager… besides the fact that the beef is so nice (Angus beef) and that it’s cheap. I was also looking for a new place to live because I was living in a small dorm with a bathroom, and it was kind of ok for me, but now that I have my wife here for good it was time to change so I moved to Chudong, a small city near Hsinchu, it’s about 10Km from the new house to my office so it’s still ok.. This house is huge and it’s located in a very good area. It has 4 floors, the first one has the kitchen, living room and a small patio for the washing machine and drying the cloth (not that small…) then the 2nd floor has 2 bedrooms, one is my office and the other one is my room, the 3rd floor has 3 rooms, one is a small room with all the things from the owner of the house, that in my opinion ran away because there are so many things…. anyways the other room is medium size, maybe for my younger brother who might come later in this semester and the big room is from a Mexican called Luis, who I accepted in my house and because he is a good friend too :)…. and the last floor has a small room for the press bench and weights and that kind of things and 2 kind of big patios… or something like that, with a great view !!!
well the moving to that house was 2 weekends ago, and last weekend I had the Mingwu 4 event, then you have to think WTF is that… well it’s an MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) professional fight event that is growing here in Taiwan, and Ian and me and some other friends are kind of giving them support by doing the videos of the fights, on this last event there were around 1400 ppl… not so small right.. there 8 nice fights and the after party was at the restaurant since we sponsored the fight a little jejejeje… and that was busy because the restaurant has a capacity for around 27 ppl but we had that night almost 100… So it was one busy night besides the fact that we were filming the fight all day and kind of drunk :P… did I said drunk, sorry I was tired !!! Later when Ian finishes the video I will put the link here !!! it was Awesome
and now I am very tired and next weekend I will do nothing… except riding my bike if the weather is nice, or else I will drift with my RC car and maybe if I am not so bad I will do a video jejejeje…
see you next time guys !!

The RC Hobby has many features for different kind of people, some people like to fly airplanes, some others helicopters, some like the peaceful electric motors, and some others love the noise and smell of a good nitro Engine.

I had the opportunity to go with my friend Art Chen to a race of Nitro RC cars, the cars were 1/8 and 1/10 standard scales reaching speeds up to 60 mph, the engines are tuned with high end equipment and the drivers are very skilled in order to find the smallest change on the performance.

My friend works for a company that designs engines for that kind of RC racing cars (STS), with prices of 20000 Taiwan dollars for a good 0.18 cubic inches engine.  This can be a little expensive hobby but it gives to the drivers a touch of the real deal with the power that the cars are able to develop in such small distances.

Sadly due to some economical problems in Taiwan on the recent years, many people have left the hobby, leaving the owners of the tracks on a very hard situation.

This track in particular will be closed in October this year.

Here you have a sample of what a race looks like !!!

well since we won the race we had to celebrate… and one month or so after the competicion we had a great party organized by Dave, good food and alcohol, water games and music, what else could we ask for…

Dragon boat party 2008 Taiwan Hsinchu. (pictures) from iix23 on Vimeo.

I came to Taiwan almost 4 years ago, and my idea was to work and entertain myself with local activities, so I bought a big bike and well… what else do you do with a big bike… I started to go to the race track!!!!… But then some friends made a team for a “very popular” local activity called Dragon Boat Festival, and I said… I don’t feel like rowing now… so the first day I was the camera man… I drunk a lot of whiskey and beer that day… the next day I did join the race and we actually won the tournament!!!! Who would imagine that I would end up racing paddle boats in Taiwan jejeje…. anyway we will join next year to rock them one more time!!!
Check the video made mainly by my friend Ian.

Dragon boat festival 2008 Taiwan Nanliao from iix23 on Vimeo.

After 2 weeks from the trip, i finally had time to make the video…
Enjoy it !!!

Have you ever felt that things are going completely in the opposite way that you were expecting? That you cannot just trust your plans based on some other people word… not that they have to do what they say, but at least you expect them to do or tell things within some time limits… I bet that feels like *@#!%…

Don’t worry, it didn’t happen to me…

Well, I have been waiting for so many things to happen, but it seems that for some of the, the most important ones, I will have to wait more…

I am waiting for the sales VP to confirm the trip to Argentina in September

I am waiting to see my wife and my parents and my brother in October

I am waiting for my wife to come back to Taiwan

I am waiting… I don’t know why I am waiting for this one, I could be looking for it now… but I want to move to a different house, bigger than my dorm so in the future when my wife comes she can have a cat or a dog or whatever

I am waiting for the company trip to Phuket in August

I am waiting for summer so I can fly my airplane (RC)

I am waiting to get a new scooter

But seems like waiting is not so bad, because when it comes, when it actually happens then you have a lot of fun enjoin what u were waiting for, for example, I was waiting for a company activity that after convincing everyone that paintball is better than a museum or eating or even hiking, I prove them that it was true !!! here is a video from the activity

 

paintball Taiwan Beipu from iix23 on Vimeo.

I was waiting to buy a car one day, now I have it, I was also waiting to buy racing pants for the motorcycle I finally found my size… I am still waiting for next Friday and its very close now… why am I waiting for Friday, well it has been a long time since I really enjoy my bike, and on Friday I will depart on a trip to Kending for 3 days with around 40 motorcycles more!!!! That I will also enjoy very much.

Ok guys I will keep waiting for the best things to happen, see you guys then!!!

I haven’t been able to write for long time now, mainly because I was very busy, and I am still busy …

Anyway, since the accident and even a little before the weather has become very unstable and normally gray, last week it rained for 3 days all the time, and then we had 2 extremely hot and sunny days, than again a gray rainy day and then another sunny day… with a weather like that many ppl will get sick (I hope not me).

That plus the fact that I had the accident I was not able to ride my bike until last Sunday… I went to the Mountain View Resort, a very nice restaurant somewhere near Beipu and I enjoyed my ride very much… actually I felt very tired because of the lack of riding but I need to go out again this weekend so I can fortify the muscles on my back in order to enjoy more the trip that I will do to Kending with the WRS club next May 23th. We will depart at 7pm from Hsinchu and I don’t really know the plan… maybe we will try an Iron-but ride riding all night to kending, or we might stop in Tainan… at least it will be a 4 ~ 6 hours ride if we stop in Tainan, or 7~8 if we don’t…

Well I will keep you guys informed about the trip and what will I do about it

 

After the accident the doctor said that I should not ride scooter for around 2 weeks… so it was useless to buy one… then I asked if I could ride my bike… but of course he said “are you kidding me” then I said sure I am… that means that I couldn’t  go to work…. But wait… I needed to work and I didn’t  want to ask my brother always for  ride on his car… so what could I do… then I knew that I had to buy a car !!! And here it is what I found, it’s a Ford Liata 1995 with only 110.000 kilometers, the previous owner was a house wife that took very good care of it.

 

In my family, it has been a tradition to always name the cars, I am still looking for the name for this one, so if u feel like helping on that, I would accept suggestions… please nice ones…