Missed one day of posting, but who is counting right? When I stopped with the podcast I believe there were above 200 people subscribed to the podcast. Now I guess this blog is read by 0 person. I couldn’t even find this blog through Google search. It is how this abandoned address has become.I believe the hardest thing of being isolated is to deal with the sense of time. When your life is

Normally I am not the kind of person who bothers others a lot. After the fight with hotel, I contacted my best friend in Taipei and asked him to buy a few things for me and drop them off at the hotel. Great to have friends. I do not have many friends, but a few truly good ones to consider myself lucky. On the quarantine side, the meals are repeating and honestly getting quite boring. If I stick

Today the meals start to repeat, which indicates that the new week has begun. I have been in quarantine for 7 days now. Tried to connect with my old friend in Taipei and he agreed to bring some stuffs to me. It is a relief to know that I am not totally dependent on the mercy of this hotel. Need to start to work again on Monday. Hope that it will be a good week.

Just past midnight and that means the official entering of my second week of quarantine. Had a small fight with the hotel today. Few days ago I asked hotel if they are able to buy beer for me from the convenient store next door. In Taipei, the density of convenient store is world famous. There is basically convenient store at every corner of the city. Especially the hotel I am staying in is in a

Final working day of the week and it went just like another working day. Clearly noticed that my eyes are getting quite sore and there comes the realization that no matter if I am working or resting, my eyes are fixed to one of the screens. It is the screen of my laptop, the screen of my iPad, or the screen of my phones. Need to find a way to cut down the accumulative screen time. The other thing

It is actually not easy to write journal everyday. Didn’t develop this habit, not having much to say, or simply too busy with other stuffs. Who knows what will happen if I can really keep it up for 14 days. Maybe there is no need to give oneself too much pressure, but what is a content creator without discipline? There is much more to do as a YouTuber than a podcaster. In both content creation

Sitting at the small balcony to type this piece. This balcony is one of the important reasons why I chose this hotel as my temporary space for my meditation journey. To still have the possibility to get in touch with the world outside not being blocked by windows. During the day it is very hot, but in the night it is the comfortable temperature sitting outside after shower without blow dry my

Not so special day overall. Trying out some delivery apps, but surprisingly (or not really) that not so many of them deliver alcohol drinks. After some digging I found out that it is due to liability reason. Delivery services want to avoid delivering alcohol or tobacco to minors, which might posses the means to order these deliveries. Well, they obviously didn’t consider adults being quarantined

Set the alarm for 8:00 in the morning, but finally woken up by a phone call from the hotel at 11:30. I started to develop the habit to take melatonin on the first three days of travel involving time zone changes. It worked quite well for me to deal with jetlag. The first night has never been a problem anyway because it is normally the most tiring night after the bad sleep you get on the flight.

Back to Taiwan due to circumstances and starting my 14 days of isolation today. Just some short notes to register this experience. I am starting out full of confidence and think such an introvert like myself should be able to go through this effortlessly. Well, only time can tell. The biggest challenge is obviously the lack of space for exercising. I mean, I do not sport normally, but make on

I was fortunate to be awarded the RSM/Intermediair EMBA Scholarship 2011. I've written an essay about the role of trust in social networks and also the privacy issue thereof. If you're interested, please feel free to download (clicking on the title of this post) and read it.However, students, do not copy it for your own homework at school!Enjoy!

Haven't visited this blog for a long time. Due to a stream of spam comments, I decide to take a look and found a handy new function of blogger. It's a way to mark the spam comments as spam mail and have them moderated automatically. Really cool....Since I'm already here, so what the heck, let me also post this short piece to just make the blog "up to date". Take care everyone, who ever is still

本週四至週日 (10/23~10/26)，神秘失控將參與2008台灣國際文化創意產業展覽會！這是今年台灣文創產業的年度盛事，一流的設計、製造、生活、藝文產業都將齊聚世貿展覽館，而semi今年度有幸通過文建會徵選，與果陀劇場、表演工作坊、朱宗慶打擊樂團、采風樂坊、台南人劇團等優秀藝文團隊一同進駐，把台灣的純人聲音樂、semi創造的快樂與感動展現給來訪的國際來賓以及台灣的參展觀眾們。而要告訴大家的是，在這次展覽中，semi除了將把過去的展演記錄一一呈現以外，大家期待已久的大安森林公園演唱會ＤＶＤ也將正式發售！已經在9月6日的迴廊演唱會中預購的朋友們，我們也將在本週寄出給各位。上次錯過預購的朋友，也歡迎到世貿semi的攤位來一睹為快，現場也將以展場特價發售喔！同時我們也要給大家一個驚喜，就是在展覽的會場，我們也將販售semi的專屬t-shirt！在2006年初，我們曾經製作了第一版的神秘

最近幾篇好像都是神秘失控的新聞，自己實在太懶了，很高興在沈寂一陣子以後，神秘失控又有許多表演的推出，有機會要去觀賞喔！在結束9/6的演唱會後，semi又將在9/27(六)的彰化藝術季中登場了！這次是應彰化市政府邀請，在彰化高中的雨賢館來舉辦演唱會，也是今年度semi在台北地區以外所舉辦的第一場演唱會，住在中南部一帶的朋友門如果有時間的話，歡迎大家在禮拜六晚上一同來相聚！:-)而神秘失控與踢踏舞團舞工廠的年度製作也在緊鑼密鼓的進行中，同一時間，神秘失控也獲選參與了在10/23登場的第一屆台灣文化創意產業展，將在台北世貿一館與果陀劇場、表演工作坊、朱宗慶打擊樂團、心心南管等優秀藝文團體一同展出，到時候我們在現場除了有表演外，還會販售不少大家「期待已久」的週邊商品喔！我們近期內也會公布各項資訊給大家，請大家繼續支持喔！===============================2008彰化

三天後的禮拜六，神秘失控2008演唱會就要登場了。這幾個禮拜中，semi的成員們都在努力的排練著，希望能讓大家看到最好的演出大家！這兩年來semi所做的各種可能性嘗試與累積，不論是新編新曲、原創音樂、舞台走位、音樂戲劇表現或是更多有趣的融合性演出，都會在這場演唱會中一一呈現。在這最後一波網路宣傳中，要告訴大家的是之前一直保密的「神秘嘉賓」的真面目。我們特別邀請到了國內最專業的美式踢踏舞蹈團體「舞工廠」來和semi合作，共同創造出融合踢踏與A Cappella的創新演出！事實上以身體來發出節奏或是聲音，不正是A Cappella的重要特性嗎？融合了神秘失控的旋律、人聲打擊與舞工場的奔放節奏跫音，會是什麼樣子的演出呢？請大家拭目以待！而這也會是神秘失控與舞工廠即將在今年十二月共同合作的音樂踢踏製作的預告。所以在這場演唱會中，你不但可以回味神秘失控的經典招牌曲目，聽到華人圈首見的純人聲創作音樂

SemiSemi !! ~SEMISCON LIVE 2008 VER.~演出時間：2008/9/6 19:30(19:00入場)演出地點：台北迴廊咖啡劇場(中和四號公園地下國際會議廳，捷運板南線永安市場站旁)場館地圖： http://blog.yam.com/alucafe/article/15939257售票系統：年代售票系統售票據點： http://www.ticket.com.tw/points/ticket_points.asp網路購票： http://www.ticket.com.tw/dm.asp?P1=0000008774票價：500元，學生九折，採不對號自由入座。開放席次：僅約460個座位演出人員∣神秘失控人聲樂團全體一同∣神秘共演嘉賓（！）音樂總監∣鄂以倫 ∣ 舞台呈現總監∣江翊睿製作∣陳午明∣林欣民燈光設計∣高一華 ∣ 現場成音∣張竣傑神秘失控官方網站∣http:/

幾年前他們來荷蘭表演時有幸幫他們主持，剛看到消息，有情贊助刊登。==台南我們來啦==Semiscon將在5/30於台南開唱！此次承蒙台南二中合唱團主辦演出，並以台南市立圖書館育樂堂為演出場地，公開免費索票入場，真的是一次很難得的機會。還沒有去過台南表演的semi也很高興終於可以在古都開唱啦！希望在台南的朋友時間許可的話可以過來看看我們喔。:-)演出資訊：~二中音樂會：遇見神秘失控~時間／5/30(五)18:39地點／台南市立圖書館育樂堂索票／免費索票入場，請至國立台南二中警衛室或台南市立圖書館索票主辦單位：國立台南二中合唱團協辦單位：台南市立圖書館==semi二代目新團員來囉==今年semi增添了兩位生力軍，分別是女中音茵茵以及女高音冠禎，他們分別都有不少豐富的戲劇與歌唱演出經驗，都是優秀的正妹喔:D近期內就會把他們的相關資訊公布在網站上，請大家多多支持喔！==四月望雨2008巡迴要展開

好久沒有做節目，新的一集就是一個很有趣的訪問，這次的來賓是在荷蘭東邊Enschede的DAI (Dutch Art Institute)讀書的亦慈，她受邀於Balen Festival藝術節中發表一個行動藝術作品，時間在今年五月二十二到二十四號，節目中談到她受到邀請和作品的構想，還有關於她個人的經歷，以及來到荷蘭的過程。也希望邀請大家除了在五月表演時能到Enschede捧場，也在準備過程中，有錢出錢有力出力，為這個由台灣人自編自導的大型表演，做一個鼓勵。表演的細節除了在節目中有提到，還可以下載參考以下的powerpoint檔案。Could I sleep well? 表演介紹檔案裡面也有亦慈的連絡方法，請大方的和她連絡喔！Pretender

上回的文章題目是雙時差效應，可是竟然寫到後來就忘了解釋他的意思，過了幾天才發現，現在來稍微補上。當然還是和出差去新加坡有關，不過基本上的定義呢，是形容一種，當本地時間和原來所在地時間，兩者都在白天或晚上時，所互相影響加強的時差效果。譬如說，當我在新加坡下午七八點時，身體已經習慣的荷蘭時間是中午十二點一點，因為兩邊都是身體活動力強的時間，所以會格外的有精神。其實仔細想想，這個理論其中有許多弔詭，不過還是暫時給予他了，雙時差效應的稱呼。

這兩天剛從新加坡出差回來，真是一個還蠻讓我小小敬佩的一個地方，在短短不到四十年的時間，從落後到進步。街道乾淨，整個城市（國家）充滿了購物中心，建設蓬勃發達，還有多文化融合下的食物、語言等等。或許當生活有一定水準，政治和言論自由又不是最重要的了。尤其是語言方面的應用，剛好和我最近對語言的感想不謀而合，出國也好幾年了，想寫些東西時，常覺得中文也不夠好了，英文也還不夠火候，荷蘭文更是不到文學的等級。被這些想法綁手綁腳，其實，為何不能就以想表達的意念為主，所使用的語言為次來寫作呢？新加坡的人就是如此混淆的運用英文、中文、閩南話、馬來文，雖然讓我聽到頭痛，但是互相能夠很清楚的傳達想要說得話，我相信是有其值得學習的地方。我想這也是我從此想要保持的寫作方法，自由的運用不同語言，互補概念上的長短，或許到最後變得很小眾，但如果寫東西的目的不在於販賣，而是意念的傳達，小不小眾從來也不是重點吧。