Entries Categorized as 'personal'

Alert: Jumbo Limbo downgrade to Picolo Limbo

Date March 23, 2008

>компютри втора употребаof my friend’s tenuous grip on atheism is being further eroded by my previous post. He says he is going to pray for me. Well, I just could not live with being the instrument of spiritual obfuscation for anyone. So, an update…
The agent in Taipei has agreed to proceed with switching the category [...]

Jumbo Limbo–waiting for a Canadian immigration officer in Taipei to show some mercy

Date February 17, 2008

The following is an email I sent to my wife’s case worker concerning some information I was given by my mother. In the past, he’s answered my queries within 12 hours, at the most. He’s even replied to me on a weekend. It’s now been 9 days since I sent this one. My mom, forever [...]

A difficult day

Date January 30, 2008

I received a letter yesterday from CTOT, the Canadian embassy equivalent in Taipei. I was pretty happy, because the last time I got a letter from the Government, it was the one that said i was approved to sponsor my wife.
this was not the same kind of letter.
This one said that according to the information [...]

Hernia operation successful at Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital

Date January 26, 2008

I just got out of the hospital yesterday from a hernia operation. It was a small umbilical hernia, just above my navel. I decided to have the procedure done at The Tzu Chi General Hospital, near Tan Tzu. I chose the hospital because it is near my home and very new, thus clean. I am [...]