The sun is setting… I'm sitting in this weird hotel in Taoyuan and I really want to get home. I started off at 9.30pm on Saturday night and I'm going to get home only at 3am on Tuesday morning. Far too long. 17-hour stopovers… not the biggest joy. Also, the flight to Taipei - 12 hours - so incredibly cold and so impossible to be comfortable! I almost froze to death and I was just elated when I discovered that Taipei has 30-something ºC temperatures right now. Then I walked into my hotel room and found that they had left the air conditioner on and that just irritated me because it was nice and warm outside. Of course, once I'm back home, I'll be wishing for air conditioning before long. Also, I really need to learn Chinese because it doesn't look like the people in this hotel are going to learn any kind of decent English any time soon.

The last time I came here, they gave me lunch and dinner coupons as usual but I could find nothing to eat. This time around, I overslept and missed lunch and I was just pissed off. So, so hungry. I wanted to go to some McDonald's and get some french fries but I couldn't find the Taiwanese equivalent of Google Maps, so that didn't work. Crap! I had to watch Lord of the Rings (which I've dumped onto the hard drive of this MacBook) until 5.30pm when they started serving dinner. Of course, it might as well have been like last time when I couldn't find anything to eat there anyway. But this time I got lucky. They had corn soup. I love corn soup. I ate corn soup. They had little 1-inch cube cakes. I love little 1-inch cube cakes. I ate little 1-inch cube cakes. Six of them.

If there's one thing that I am really thankful for, it's the fact that I've found Internet everywhere I've wanted it and it's all been good, fast Internet. Since the last time I came to this same hotel, the Internet situation has definitely improved. As far as I can see, they've made their two wired terminals free of charge. They run Linux. Aight.

What fun!

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