Well, my life in Taipei is ending for now. What does that mean for the future of this blog? I don't know. Maybe I'll change the title to "Life in Taipei, Interrupted". I'm sitting on the floor, a paper towel as my seat, in a hot apartment, as the sounds of traffic and scooters drifts up to my 4th floor window. It's half past midnight, and in about nine hours I'll bring my modem, passport, and ARC card to Chungwa Telecom and end my ADSL service. My umbilical cord to the world will be severed. Strangely enough, Blogger has decided that anyone who posts from a Taiwanese IP address must be able to read Chinese characters, because all of these pages are entirely in Mandarin characters. So I'll be relying on my memory of where the "Post" button is in order to post this. Truth is, I don't know.

But five years of a life in Taipei is ending tonight. Unfortunately I am way too tired to record very much of it. All I will say is I am leaving something very dear behind, and I will need to return. My life in Taipei is not over. This is a very special place, indeed. Time to be with family, time to tend to some ties, but Taipei has not seen the last of me.

Looking very forward to a return in the near future.

All for now, ladies and gentlemen.