I saw my first mixed martial arts event (MMA) last night (10/25) at the Youth Activity Center here in Taipei. Two guys from our BJJ club were on the fight card and they both ended up trouncing their opponents. It was a great night of watching fights!

I've been busy settling into my new job during the past month or so. The company I now work for makes folding bikes and one of the perks of the job is that I get to test ride all sorts of new bikes. On Saturday (10/18) Byron and Mark from the bike blog site Bikehugger.com were in town and dropped by for a ride with us.

My old clunker bike gets me around my neighborhood quickly and efficiently. It has a nifty basket in which I can carry groceries and other stuff that needs carrying. Unfortunately, every so often people use it as a trash bin.

Taiwan has been influenced greatly by Japan in terms of politics, education and technology. One particulary popular cultural import is manga-styled comic books and the obsession with school girls as objects of lust.

Computex Taipei 2008 came and went. This year, I didn't get as many shots of showgirls like last year. Mainly because I was a bit busier this year and also because the incusion of the new Nangang Exhibition Hall probably diluted the number of showgirls I ran into. I did, however, see quite an amusing sign on one of the booths at the show.

I survived yet another Brazilian jiujitsu competition. The last time I went to Hong Kong to compete in a BJJ tournament was in November of 2006 and I took second place in the white-belt divsion in my weight category. This time, though, competing as a blue-belt, I didn't do so well.