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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

See the post title. ***** If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)    "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions d