Office Worker during the Week, Brickie during the Weekends.

I have now been here for 2 months and a bit. I've mainly just been working at the design practice to be honest. And on the weekends I go to Bihu Park (Wende Station) to help my friend Wang Wen-chih, a bamboo artist who built the amphitheatre entry to Woodford in 2013, I interpreted for him at Woodford. He has a project there at the moment in collaboration with the local university. His crew consisting of people from his brotherhood, childhood friends, randoms who drop by asking for a job and volunteers are amazing. One of them, a master at weaving all sorts of insects, fruits baskets and so on has been doing it since childhood. Name anything and he can pretty much make it.

While Taipei is offering a much more busting and diverse scene to Brisbane, admittedly, I've become quite fatigued lately. Since all I've been doing is work on the weekdays and then do physical labour on the weekends, it's quite a toll haha. I've noticed that I really need to balance my life out a bit more. Even though I treat the bamboo project as a hobby (it's very enjoyable!), it will only go on till mid-June and I will need to find something else to occupy my weekends. I don't mind partying but it's not for me any more. My house mate made the comment recently that I need to "party more". But I think I just need to find other things to do. Partying doesn't really interest me any more. While clubbing in different countries (Singapore, Germany, Australia, etc) all provide very different experiences, I just like LEARNING! So I want to spend my time learning rather than drinking the night away. Of course there are also things to learn at clubs, but I much rather enjoy a good conversation over some tea or being hands on with gardening, cooking or craft.

However while I am happy that my current schedule enables me to develop skills for my architecture career both mentally and physically, I am also interested in developing other [cave people] life skills such as: fishing, hunting, foraging and so on! Which reminds me, I should really think about when I'll use up the 50% Off Voucher to Bushlore this year!