Interactive Story Project

Check out my new project here:

http://therealalexanderarts.blogspot.com/

I created a separate blog for this one.

-IAN-

Hawaii 51

Last night I went to eat at a restaurant called Hawaii 51. The food there was really good, tasted a lot like Chilis or Fridays, same kind of selection. When I was ALMOST done with my food I bit into my ceaser chicken wrap and bit down on something hard. It wasn't hard like a bone, I mean it was HARD. I put my fingers in my mouth and pulled out a push pin. Yes, a little yellow push pin that you'd find in a cork board.

Well it didn't stab me or anything so I didn't complain to much. Just showed the waiter. The manager came and said that particular order would be free, although he didn't offer to make Ash's food free as well. Later on he brought us a chocolate cake and ice cream dessert thing.

The problem now is that I really liked the taste of the food there, and the price was a lot lower than the other places. Then again it also had a lot more push pin, haha!

Sometimes I think it's important to look past these things, it was a freak mistake. Probably one of their decorations fell down and the put pin landed in one of the pots. Weird that even the cook didnt notice it while wrapping up the chicken though...

Well maybe I will go there again, maybe not... Leave me a comment, what do you think?

Mad Libs 1 Completed

Check out my latest project here. I think it turned out pretty well - let me know what you think!

VLOG

Talking about McDonalds, Taiwanese Money, and my broken video camera.



Let me know if you have any suggestions about fixing or buying a new one.

Madlibs

Yesterday I made up some mad libs to play with the kids in my school. Doing this can help to make them remember nouns, verbs, and all those other grammar points.

After playing that I got the idea that I could play madlibs over youtube. So first I made a video announcing the project and asking for the words I need. I will then plug the words I get in the video comments into the story.

After I've written the story out I will draw a comic strip style cartoon and read the story out loud. The result should be something like reading rainbow for Madlibs.

Check out the announcement video below. Be sure to leave me some words too!



Here are the words I need:

Animal
Adjective
Non-sense Word
Noun
Plural Noun
Noun
Adjective
Verb
Adjective
Adjective
Verb
Verb
Adjective
Verb
Adjective
Noun
Verb
Verb
Adjective
Adjective
Verb
Noun
Verb
Verb
Number
Bodypart
Verb
Noun
Verb

Random Stuff

I just wanted to post a couple photos here, check 'em out:

Strange Australian Tree at the Science Museum here in Taichung:


Old man doing a very odd exercise on a small bridge, passers by greet him:


A Transformers Themed Scooter parked on my street:

VLOG #1

The other day I made a Video Log instead of writing a blog post, you can check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wf5rKrL08E



If you haven't seen my Taiwan Dreamin' Ep 1 yet, watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBeM_ipFzDU



-IAN-

New ARC

My contract has been extended so I am staying at my school for another year. I had to go and do some paperwork with taxes, take another health check, and go to immigration for more paperwork. Yesterday I went to pick up the new ARC, looks the same as the old one.

I bought a new game, Killzone 2, it is pretty fun, but the controls are kind of weird, not sure if I will stick with the online multiplayer, but the game is really pretty, great graphics. Resident Evil 5 is coming soon, can't wait for that!

I started editing Taiwan Dreamin Ep 2 before but I haven't worked on it for a long time, I need to do that some more. These past few days I have been sick with a cold or something, think I have a fever too maybe. Well I will go to work today and wednesday is my day off so I can get a lot of sleep then.

Some friends came down from Taipei to stay with me and hang out. We played a lot Street Fighter 4, and we went to a small concert in a bar, was pretty cool. We also went to an arcade and took some video of us playing the games. Another thing we did was a part of a little skit for one of my friend's Youtube channel, we both like to make videos.

Okay - I will try to keep you guys updated and finish my video - bye bye!

Gaming again!

I just got Street Fighter 4 on the 12th - it's a very fun game and highly anticipated. I decided to make a video review for it since it doesn't come out in the US until the 17th. So far it's been about 24 hours and I have over 2,000 views. To give you a comparison, my Da Keng Monkey video has gotten 62 views in the last 2 weeks. Taiwan Dreamin' episode 1 has 435 views and it's been up for 3 months.

My number of fans or 'subscirbers' has gone up as well. Before I started doing video game related videos I had about 20, now I have 72.

Here are the honors for my SF4 video:

#3 - Most Discussed (Today) - Taiwan

#1 - Most Discussed (Today) - Gaming - Taiwan

#52 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Taiwan

#1 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Gaming - Taiwan

#5 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Gaming - Taiwan

#94 - Most Viewed (Today) - Gaming - Canada

#68 - Most Viewed (Today) - Gaming - United Kingdom

#69 - Most Viewed (Today) - Gaming - New Zealand

#68 - Most Viewed (Today) - Gaming

#41 - Most Viewed (Today) - Gaming - Taiwan

#3 - Top Favorited (Today) - Gaming - Taiwan

#11 - Top Favorited (This Week) - Gaming - Taiwan

#76 - Top Favorited (This Month) - Gaming - Taiwan

#22 - Top Rated (Today) - Taiwan

#85 - Top Rated (Today) - Gaming

#1 - Top Rated (Today) - Gaming - Taiwan

#1 - Top Rated (This Week) - Gaming - Taiwan

#4 - Top Rated (This Month) - Gaming - Taiwan

#44 - Top Rated (All Time) - Gaming - Taiwan

So as you can see I am very excited about this. What this means is that I have more traffic coming through my page and more people will see my videos as a whole. When I publish my next Taiwan related video many people who are not necesarily interested in Taiwan will get notice of it and possibly check it out. Very good news for me, and for my Taiwan Dreamin' project!

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fVSCHbPLOI




Also, there was a big gaming convention in Taipei recently, I didn't go but it seems pretty cool. Here's a page with photos from the event, lots of pretty girls there for advertising purposes, haha!

http://www.mobile01.com/newsdetail.php?id=6995

Okay - I am still editing Taiwan Dreamin' ep 2, so I should be finished after not TOO long!

Today I am 25.

Today is my 25th birthday. Wow... When I came to Taiwan I was 23, then shortly after turned 24. I have been here for slightly over a year.

I decided to stay here a while longer so I had to renew my Resident Visa. To do this I need to have a job, I am staying at Wells English School here in Taichung. Then I had to go to the hospital for my health check. They do x-rays, draw blood, and test your vision. Check your height and weight as well. I was about 77kg and 174.5cm something like that. Surprising, haha!

I feel pretty annoyed with myself that I only have a few Taiwan videos online, but of course I have other things I am doing too. I am editing episode 2 currently but I haven't been able to get past the intro music part yet...

I make a note not to talk about my relationships on here but I will just say I currently have a girlfriend and she has been helping me to learn chinese more than I had been with my friends. My Chinese tutor moved to New York so I don't have an organized class currently.

There are 3 videogames I am looking forward to coming out soon; Street Fighter 4, Killzone 2, and Resident Evil 5. Hope they are all cool. I have played the hell out of Fallout 3 since November. I want to continue to make videos about Taiwan though, I think I will do some more 'close to home' subjects for the episode after this one, that should make getting footage a lot faster!

Well, I am sorry I didn't update this blog more often. Not sure how many people actually even read this but if you do, let me know in the comments.

Monkey!!!

When my father was here in Taiwan for his visit we went to Da Keng Mountain. There are 4 trails. My ex-coworker Jen told me that trail #4, which is off in a different direction, had monkeys. She had seen one herself.

I took my dad there and we didn't see any, he also went again alone to check it out.

Well the next time I went I took my video camera and actually saw this large male monkey. So here is the video, I just basically put the entire amount of footage I got of the monkey which is about 2 mins. I whistled at the monkey a couple times, seemed he didn't like that too much. At the end you can see he shook the tree which I think is kind of a warning he is getting pissed off or territorial, that's just a guess though, I decided to leave him alone.

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRRLWap2Iw