.... well not really. We get lots of amplified, cheesy versions of carols done in Asia-Pop stylings, and it sure isn’t visually ‘quiet’ either.
The video here is our apartment building, sorry it's kinda blurry, but I can assure you, it's cheesy crystal clear too. Last year we had a simple light display saying Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - it was nice and in keeping with the understated interior and exterior design of this building... This year.... not so much....Taiwan is given to visual overload pretty much any time - LED light manufacture is a major industry here - and they get slapped all over buildings, bridges, sidewalks, vehicles, you name it. But around Christmas, they step up their game when it comes to the lights.
This is our second Christmas here... interesting to experience it again. I'll write more about it in a separate post.
This is our second Christmas here... interesting to experience it again. I'll write more about it in a separate post.
Coming off a Taiwanese summer, this year feels way colder than last year did - if only from the shift in relative temperature - when we got here fresh from the US last year, to us, 58 degrees F was warm. Not this year. We went for a ride today and were bundled up more than I’d like to admit. In Portland, during or after the winter, 58 degrees was cause for shorts and barely a jacket. Here, just the opposite. And I have to say, being so close to the Taiwan Strait, it’s a bit like San Francisco - ambient temperature seems warm enough - until you go outside into the cold humid wind - surprisingly bone chilling.
From Taiwan, where ever you are, whatever the temperature, whatever you celebrate, I hope you get to do so with good food, good cheer and peace.
From Taiwan, where ever you are, whatever the temperature, whatever you celebrate, I hope you get to do so with good food, good cheer and peace.
