Archive for April, 2008

Some History About Taiwan Before I Write About My Trip

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Taiwan FlagBefore I start writing about my recent trip to Taiwan I thought I would provide some basic data on the island country,Taiwan.

First of all most American’s and Canadian’s are not familiar with Taiwan, unless they’ve been there, they know someone who is from there or they have been pro-active and learned about foreign lands on their own. When people hear Taiwan, they often mistaken Taiwan for Thailand. I’ve heard quite a few ignorant individuals say “Ya, I know Taiwan……I like Thai food.” Uhmm….Thai food is from Thailand you dumbass not Taiwan.

Back To Planes, Trains and Automobiles – The Travelling Engineer

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

office buildingToday mark the 1st week at my new job. Although working for myself (internet business and trading) was fun over the last 1 year and 1 month it did not necessarily make a lot of money. In the end I realized that making a living trading is very difficult and not everyone can do it. You have very little control over the market and therefore having a consistent stream of income to pay the bills can be difficult. As for the internet business, I realized that this may take some time to build all the websites up to a point where they can generate an income that I can live off of.  I am not going to stop those two activities however, I will continue doing those things on a part-time basis from now on, on my own free time.