tag:englishmanish.blog.co.uk,2009-11-08:/MokoFeed2009-11-08T22:51:29+01:00tag:englishmanish.blog.co.uk,2005-08-01:/2005/08/01/first_post_58/stagger2005-08-01T17:28:47+02:002005-08-01T17:28:47+02:00 <p>Hello, and welcome. I am an English Language teacher living in Tainan, Taiwan and these pages will serve as a record of my thoughts and experiences. I planned to get started on this blog as soon as I arrived in Taiwan, but being the chronic procrastinator that I am, it has taken a little longer to get started than I initially planned. In fact, I am here eight months now.<br> But here it is, better late than never, and as I write, we are in the middle of a thick and humid summer with a heat that seems to penetrate every pore. I am an Englishman though, and you will never catch me complaining about the tropical climate. After 30ish years of miserable cold drizzly shite UK weather, I am happy to be sweating my balls off a few k's south of the Tropic of Cancer. The conditions are extreme here; winds are typhoons, rains are torrents and heat is a blanket that envelops every aspect of my life.<br> This blog, as with all others, is concerned with all the things that are important to me and which occupy my mind on a daily basis. My obsessions; weather, books, music, travel, politics. My hatred of 'home'; how terrible the UK has become (I rue the day that I have to step foot upon English soil and, if I had my way, I would never return to that sorry land), and other random meaningless, meaningful, irrelavent, relavent thoughts and ideas on whatever is on my mind. I make no apologies for offensive opinions, cliched observations or poor spelling/grammar.<br> Please keep in touch with this blog; it will enrich your life. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://englishmanish.blog.co.uk/2005/08/01/first_post_58/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>