Cable TV

As many of you may be aware, I have been sick the last 3 weeks or so with some mysterious stomach infection. Today was actually my first day off the medicine and overall it went pretty good. I have felt a little bit of pain now and then today but for the most part I felt pretty decent.

Having an infected stomach sucks. I couldnt eat much so no going out to eat. I certainly couldnt drink, and I didnt have the energy to jam with Andrew, learn chinese, nor work out or play any sports. So pretty much, this stomach problem has kept me from doing about 85 percent of the things that I would normally do with my free time.

As a result of being a beached whale, I have had the opportnity to watch alot of television, something I havent really taken full advantage of since we got cable about 2 months ago. I have discovered that we get some pretty decent channels in English. We get CNN, Animal planet, about 5 movie channels, maybe four sports channels and even MTV.

The movies arent bad as in the past 3 weeks I have seen some great movies such as Casino, Donnie Brasco, Con Air, Jarhead, The Adams Family, Spiderman, Friday Night Lights, Coach Carter, Collateral Damage, Junior (Arnold Schwartzenager gets pregnant = halarious) Mission Impossible 2, as well as my favorite obscure dose of nostalgia Sunset Park. And I assure you I have seen alot more movies this month than I presently cant remember and list.

The sports channels arent bad either. There is always a healthy dose of NBA basketball and MLB baseball. I even got to see two Blue Jay games and a Raptor game which was quite the treat. No hockey on TV though, most likely becuase there are no Asian players in the NHL unlike the NBA and MLB. If all else fails there is always 9 ball on tv which is exciting for about 5 minutes. Additionally commercials here are quite the laugh. They are extremely overacted and cheesy. When i get my camera back from being fixed (tommorow) I might post some videos of them somewhere for your enjoyment.
There you have it. Just goes to show how dominant of a language it is that we speak. Despite the numerous languages spoken around the world, English is accessable here in Taiwan, on the other side of the world. Not Russian, not German, but English.

Going for my blood test tommorow to see how effective the antibiotics were. Hopefully I get some good news and will be able to give the TV a rest for a while. Ill obviosuly keep you posted.