Taoyuan Nights

Man, I had some awesome games of badminton tonight. As you can tell from the headline, there were several smash!smash!smash!!!! situations which demanded to be punctuated with shouted quotes from “300″, though in fact I just barely managed to restrain myself from actually doing it, mostly. And then several situations involving trickshots played while jumping, which I’m fairly sure had slow-motion multi-colour japanese-cartoon-style special effects going on in the background as I did them – at least they did in my head – and maybe even in reality too.

And then someone brought a cute black and white rabbit along to the badminton courts, and before you knew it, some crazy people started gently nudging it around a bit with their racquets and playing Rabminton. Awesome. I think that will be the next sports buzz in Taiwan. It was, like, uber-sweet.

Oh and I found a Taiwanese Army Surplus place that sells 3 things mainly: boots, ropes, and 100% genuine Taiwanese Army Ninja Swords. Yes, for real. That’s about the most awesomest thing I’ve ever seen, ever, even including the time I saw a pirate being decapitated in slow-motion by a electric guitar while a ninja strummed a totally wickedkiller power-chord on another even better electric guitar.
In real life.

And someone at the hospital took a long, spooky, war-of-the-worlds-snakey-thing-shaped throat examining device and threaded it down my left nostril so they could check out a longterm throat problem I’ve had (like… yechhh), all the while having a conversation with me in English and asking me to keep saying ‘eeeeh!’ as they spoke. It was like… totally…. invasion of the body snatchers, and I was like… totally….. Leonard Nimoy. And it was like… totally…. a group of 5000 Yorkshiremen building up to the biggest ever ‘EEH, BY GUM!’ the world has ever heard – and then some.

Then they insisted on taking my picture (thankfully not while having my throat actually being nostrilarily examined with the spooky Is-Tom-Cruise-Hiding-In-Your-Lungs?-Device) for some reasons I don’t quite fully understand, or even at all.

And the weather was just perfect and the food was just spiffy, though I think someone spiked my kiwi-fruit icecream with betel nut, since my gums seemed rather overtly tingly afterwards.

Superbly brill. Definitely one of the most weird days I’ve had since I got here, or, like, ever. Totally.