228 Massacre

February 28, 1947 was the catalyst for uprisings against the corrupt Chinese government in Taiwan.  Uprisings which were later suppressed brutally and which began decades of martial law and the period known as the “White Terror”.

For more on the history, please visit this site.

In the interest of completeness, I looked up a few articles on the events this year:

1. report from India – only “foreign” report I could find, added for perspective’s sake.

2. sit-in rally – group of people made the words “do not forget 228″ in Liberty Square.

“It’s always nice when…

… someone puts a smile on your face.”

Is it odd that I always associate that sentence with random strangers?

I can certainly see it applied to friends making you smile, but when I read that, my first thought is of encounters with random strangers.

Does that mean my friends don’t make me smile, or that I’m already smiling all the time so they don’t have to? I can’t always be smiling, can I?

Or maybe it’s because it’s unexpected from a stranger so I remember it better?

What do you think of when you read that?

Lunchables Haters

I’ve been eating Lunchables lately when I either don’t feel like cooking or I’m too hungry to wait till I finish making something.  I bought a bunch on sale at Safeway for $1 each… that hasn’t happened in years!

Long story short, I went online to look for info and came across the yelp page.  Who knew they had a page devoted to Lunchables?!  I sure didn’t.

The reviews made me sad because it seems most of the negative comments were written by people who’ve never had them.  And what kind of review is “no”?

There were two main points which I’ll address:

Threaded comments, colors, and resolution update

Just noticed the new feature on wordpress… very nice, but not so useful at this point considering how few comments I’ve been getting!

It would have been great back when I first started this blog.  Neverthless, I’ve decided to activate it just in case my blog gets busy again (right, in forever and a day).

Oh and you might have noticed that my blog has turned pink.  What is that supposed to indicate if I prefer pink to the other colors..? other than that I’m being girly. :p

On another note, resolutions have been a bust but that’s ok they’re only really guidelines.  I don’t consider it failing if i don’t accomplish it every day, since that’ll just make me give up.

Besides, bedtimes take a while to reset.. especially when you occasionally have sleepless nights.  And the flickr update has been a few pictures rather than a whole album because I feel like I’m starting to run out of pictures.. haha

I know, boring post.  Hopefully the next one will be slightly more interesting.  For once I know what it’s going to be about!

Local pictures

I just found this group on flickr.  It’s specific to SF but after looking at the photos on there, I think it could be specific to any city you’re in.

Anyway, I just thought it was a nice idea to capture your city in ways most people don’t think about/notice.  It’d be a good project someday. =)

Flickr Widget

I discovered the flickr widget (seen on the right of this blog) while looking for a place to put the flickr badge.  It’s either new or I never had any use for it before.  Either way, I have an easy solution to my problem!

I prefer the flickr flash badge, which has a mosaic of pictures and enlarges random ones periodically, but until I figure out how to put that on this, the flickr widget will have to do.

So now you can keep track of whether I’m keeping resolution #2.  I failed in all resolutions last week because I got sick again, but I should be able to keep them now that I’m feeling better. =)

EZ-Rider Parking Validation

I just found this video on the “new” EZ-Rider parking validation.  The video says registration is free before Feb, and $7 after Feb. 1st.

Wish you found out earlier, and wondering why a little hangtag costs so much?  Me too.

Until I found the official Bart source.  Ok it’s only $7 if you don’t already have EZ-Rider because you pay $5 for the card, and $2 for the hangtag.

Yes it’s not as good as free and it would have been nice to not miss it by ONE day…. but $2 is reasonable.  I assume the hangtag has some electronic coding on it as well.

$5 for the card isn’t horrible either, considering you get a pretty sturdy case and a strap (? correct me if I’m wrong, it’s been a while and I don’t use a strap) in addition to the card and paying less for fare.

Side note: Hope this doesn’t increase car volume in the parking lots..  It’s already crowded enough as it is in some locations..!