Flying Solo

I am another step closer to becoming a man. Just kidding, I just thought I'd bore you with another floridian comment. But seriously there are some things that can only be acquired my your self, and that being said - hold on something is going on in TaiMall.

Yeah I'm not really sure what's going on actually but that's only because I don't want to walk by the security guard and have him awkwardly nod to be. I've been nodded to too many times in my life and I'm simply getting sick of it. Except I'm still going to nod to people I don't really like or who I don't know.

So I started work at the Monarch Plaza hotel. I work about 8.5 hours a day, my regular schedule will make me wake at 6:45 a.m. and make my way towards the bus stop. In comparison to the Taipei public transportation system, let alone the bus schedule, the Taoyuan system is for lack of a better work-"shit". The buses hardly even follow the posted times and don't even have a clear way of displaying the placards so its very easily to get frustrated and board a random bus. I did that this morning. And I got lost.

That's why I have to get up earlier next time. Thankfully I have tomorrow off (Sunday). Then on Monday back to work again! I get out at 4:30, but I won't get home till 6:00 thanks to the buses.

So what do I do at the hotel? I think the best way to describe what I did yesterday is to describe it in a simple phrase: stand there and in Chinese we cal it fa guey. Imagine standing in your closet all day waiting for people to come inside and you have to open the door for them as they walk in, smile, nod your head, and then look away. Keep in mind you have to stand and not sit. Except in a hotel, people actually come to the door. Tragically it seems that I am a rare breed of employee in the Taiwan service industry. I possess the skill of bilingualism, being able to speak English and Chinese with relative proficiency. Amazingly, in the 5-6 years that it has been open, the Monarch Plaza has not yet been listed in travel websites such as expedia! or orbitz. This is where I come in. I have been blessed with the task of contacting the managers of such sites and requesting that we be listed.

I'm going to read the news now.