I'm continuing to collect images and memories "retrieved" from the recent trip to Hualien (see Youthful Reminisces ). I started writing this post on March 16, 2019. Most of the documents included are from a time period in my rearing when I began to explore possible career options and interests, in some way setting the path to where I am today. BitSmart: Ron Huang, Ted Way, Me, My Mother, Albert Lin, Helios Yu. [see an older, rambling article here] During my high school years (1995-1998), the Internet with hypertext html was beginning to develop rapidly. For those of us that played around with computers, we were already using messaging programs ( ICQ later AIM), text based email ( Eudora , pine ) and bulletin board systems ( ptt.cc ). Developing webpages was, for me at least, a neat idea and way to write and record a little something about myself. In particular, webpages were not just text based, rather a key component that made the internet fun for me was the ab
These past four days have been a trip down memory lane. I'm going to try to organize some of the memories for blogging, though not all in this post. My parents, M and I took a road trip to Hualien, partly as a family get-away, and also to introduce our Taiwanese hometown to a group of my brother's ( Albert Wu see here and here ) students from France. Albert and his wife are jointly teaching a course in history in Paris, and over the last few weeks they have been taking their students on an abroad research-coursework-fun tour of Taiwan. If you know my father, he tends to try to get involved in some way with any of his sons' projects, and from our perspectives, it's great to get his help and/or just advice (from time to time). My brother and his wife planned a historical, social justice introduction to Taiwan (I wrote about a visit to Dadaocheng ). Important components to understand the complex identities and mindsets of Taiwanese today involves understanding the Ea