Archive for February, 2006

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Rubber Stamp

Posted by Kerim
February 23, 2006

Believe it or not, I was actually given a rubber stamp so that I can rubber stamp all the ridiculous paperwork that we have to deal with. Some memos are deemed too important to just e-mail to faculty. Instead, we have to go every day or two to the departmental office and officially stamp a […]

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Fu Laoshi

Posted by Kerim
February 20, 2006

Titles are very important in Taiwanese society. It is incredibly impolite to call someone by their given name, unless you are close friends or colleagues. Even then a nickname might be more common among friends and surname-plus-title among colleagues. Another option is to say the full name: surname + given name.
My Chinese name is Fu […]

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Commute

Posted by Kerim
February 18, 2006

I just have a crappy camera phone, but here are some pictures of my new life in Taiwan. It is just a 10-15 minute bike ride between where I will live and my office.
The view from my new office:

Inside my office:

{taiwan, 台灣, 東華大學, 花蓮}

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Office

Posted by Kerim
February 14, 2006

In India, on January 12th, around one thirty in the morning, back from a long day of filming which had involved over nine hours of driving, I fired up my iBook just before going to bed. Thats when I got the email that would turn our lives upside down: I had been appointed as assistant […]

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Anticipation

Posted by Kerim
February 9, 2006

I’m off …
Tune in next week for the big news!
(Hint.)

{adventure}

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Upgrading…

Posted by Kerim
February 4, 2006

I’m in the middle of upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1. This has created all kinds of additional work with plugins and the like, so please hold on till everything is back to normal!
UPDATE: Seems to be working OK.
Some plugins are disabled for now, like the “recent comments” which used to appear in the sidebar. As soon […]