Warren and Sandra in Taiwan

Ok I'm a little late in wishing you this (Feb 18 was the first day of the new year) but still, the festivities in Taiwan continue.  Tonight I'm going out with Jo to the Lantern Festival held in and around the Chang Kai Shek Memorial.  The streets in that area have all been adorned with red and yellow colored lanterns since February.  Also firecrackers are still heard regularly.  Ever since the 17th of Feb, there have been loads of fireworks, firecrackers and all kinds of other explosives which have the objective to make NOISE,  as much noise as possible!  It was fun for the first couple of days, as we live on a rooftop apartment. We'd just go to our roof patio and watch tons of fireworks displays around the neighbourhood with a beer in hand. However it's now been almost 2 weeks and I have to say that I'm definitely over it.  We don't even flinch anymore at any kind of noise.

 In other news, Warren has finally started his new job. It's been about 3 weeks and he's enjoying it. It's a much better job than the last one, thank god for that.  His schedule is not much better but at least he's happy.  I'll let him tell you all about it sometime. 

What else is new? Not that much. The weather has been great lately, it feels like summer is here already and our winter was practically non-existent.  The coldest it got was 3 degrees I think. And that lasted about 2 weeks, not even.  Winter was more like fall. Now we've skipped spring and it's summer (at least it feels like it) So I've decided to try gardening.  I've never done it and I can usually barely keep a couple of plants alive in my apartment so... wish me luck.  THe previous tenants here obviously loved gardening because they left us a pretty nice collection of potted plants on the patio.  However due to my lack of skills I only touched it for the first time last week. (Which means 3 months of neglect) Last week I went out there for about an hour and as I moved pots and swept around them I discovered the usual garden bugs: cattepillars, worms, ants and well in Taiwan, the famous cockcroaches everyboday hates.  But my gardening fun was cut short at the discovery of a dead rat between two pots.  I finally got rid of it after days of dreading it.  Anyways, any gardenting  advice would be welcome.  We want to plant some herbs... which ones are easy? etc.

Bye for now. Miss everyone so much! Oh and congrats to all the expecting future moms! I'm very happy for all of you!