Music Monday

Ever wonder how music of different generations sound when fused together? Here I've found a perfect sample of Taiwanese past-present fusion of music:

Here We Go

Allright. I made it safely back to Mil-town. After 2 months of summer break, I'm finally back full time onto school and blogging. As this will be my senior year, I'll made an effort to update with interesting stuff onto this website regularly. 

お楽しみ

rOar

Mid-flight

Sup y'all, Dag here. I'm currently in Japan's Narita airport's internet kiosk. Just landed here about 30 mins ago and awaiting my next transfer to Chicago in about 2 hours.

Leaving BKK is always hard, especially when you know that you will miss all the delicious food and the friendly people there and trade them all for the cold weather and the daily toil of engineering work that Milwaukee has to offer. I'd be lying if I said I wasnt sad leaving BKK this time around. Sister just graduated, good friends finally back at where we started, Pattaya, last day insanity, drunk off my rocker after Fallabella, to name just a few.

But fortunately this sadness will only have to occur once more; this winter. After that, it's goodbye Milwaukee for good!

Strange to think that senior year is already rolling on by. Lets just hope I'll make it through okay...

rOar

Exciting Week

Sup y'all, Dag here. Finally found some time to sit down and write about my trip back to BKK this summer so far.

Jet lag wasn't as bad as I thought. Quite frankly, I was up and about the very next day, ready to hit the beach (Bang Saen) with the fam. Unfortunately for us, of what was to be a 3 days 2 night excursion to Bang Saen and Koh Samet turned into an overnight stay at Bang Saen with the arrival of my sister's unexpected minor food poisoning. Nonetheless, the fam decided to come back to BKK the next day and celebrate Mother's Day by getting ourselves a brand new Nintendo Wii. Quite fun I must add. But it'll get dull if you're not into all the art-tsy cute-tsy graphics the Wii has to offer. Next morning, the buddies and I decided to hit Pattaya beach. HOWEVER, not to our surprise, the friend that was suppose to drive us there was 2 hours late to pick us up. So by the time we got to Pattaya, we didn't board the boat until past 2pm. Fishing was terrific that day. Must've caught around 50 with the 5 of us there that day. Fresh sashimi on the boat? Hell yea. Fish we caught was quickly cut by one of the boat crewmen, and damn lemme tell you, that thing is FRESH. Unfortunately all that fishing streak was too good to be true, as one of our buddies got his finger caught in a fish hook. Good thing we weren't too far from the shore, so after a quick 30min dash back to the docks and our buddy was de-hooked at a nearby hospital.  Later that night we hit up a local Swiss/Germen (can't remember which, as I was suffering land-sickness) restaurant and the all famous Walking Street. I'll spare the details, as some memories are best kept inside. Just remember: air stewardesses and robot-dancing girl. :)

So we didn't get back to BKK till last Friday afternoon, as we were still racing go-karts that day after lunch. And since then I've been bumming around the house and the nearby store. Probably gonna hit up ramen and beer tomorrow. Will see whos free to hang out. 

In the mean time, this pic was taken last Sunday, showing a magnificent sunset over the BKK city-line.

Not looking forward to going back to Mil-town. Not at all. 

rOar

Going Home!

Sup y'all. Dagron here. 

I am 5hrs away from my 35hr+ journey back home. 

Trans-pacific flights is NOT for the faint of heart. If you are not born out to endure long period of time of sitting, then expect hell when traveling across the globe in an airplane. 

Even with my experience in flying, this is still a quite a journey to embark. 

I'll try to document some of the journey for this blog. 

Expect me to be MIA till after a week after I recover from jetlag and fatigue.

F.U.N.

rOar 

Women Drivers

As I was walking home today, I come across an intersection where I almost witness a major car accident. A woman driver decided she would continue along her road despite its a red light for the past 30 seconds. Of course all hell breaks loose as the cars on the intersecting lane came screeching to a halt, resulting a HUGE pile up in the intersection. 

Heres my problem with women drivers. 2 reasons:

1) Yes, I know we're all about gender equality these days. But that doesnt make women more assertive and aggressive on the road. For those who drive, you know the road is a beast on its own. If you dont have confidence in your driving, you should not drive. Some, if not a majority, of women drivers tend to not have this confidence when they drive. Not sure if its because the sight of fast cars intimidate them or what, but from what I've seen, they're not assertive when they drive. 

2) I know it had been said that women are better at multi-tasking than men. Yes, I can agree to that. Hell, evolutionary theory of the prehistoric cave-people can account for this: Men hunt, women gather. Because women had to also rear children, they are forced to learn multi-task earlier than men, who just have one focus: hunt. But when it comes to the modern times of vehicle operation, multi-task does not seem to be a well-desired trait. Who would you rather have in writing a paper? Someone who can multi-task between watching tv and writing a dessertation, or someone who only concentrates on the dessertation? Of course if your concentration is on just one item, its more than likely you'll perform well in that task. Same thing with driving. We all know women got their urge to keep checking their outlook constantly. Hell, thats what the mirror in the shotgun seat is for. But to check how their makeup turns out WHILE driving? Receipe for disaster. 

So please, women drivers, we all heard of "Dont drink and drive". But for you lot, "Dont bitch and drive". Stay off the road. 

rOar

Questionable Music Video: Ivy - Temptation of Sonata

Found this recently. If you are a fan of RPG games, you'll definitely recognize something eerily familiar with this Korean music video:

If you still can't figure it out yet, heres a comparison of the MV with its source:

Of course, Square Enix have sued the producers of this MV and won. More fuel to the fire between Japan-Korean tension? 

You bet. 

rOar

SUMMER!!!

Aiiitee. Dagron is back. After a grueling month of philosophy lectures and readings, my summer has officially kicked off!

No more Aristotle! No more Kant! No more Mills! No more Donagan!

Yes summer!

(for the remainder of august)

rOar

*comp is still recovering.