Practice Makes Perfect

While making an origami fireworks over the weekend...

...I had a abject moment of terror where I thought I had forgotten how to make origami Yodas. So I made six in quick succession:

The Confederation of Yoda

I remember now. Whew! That was close.

I am on vacation in Motherland Taiwan from January 16-30. While I'm away there will be no posts :(

But I'm happy to announce that Shit Chinese People Eat will be coming back with a vengeance, like that Die Hard movie. May they never stop making those movies. Next post will be on February 4th. See you all in three weeks!

Money Origami Car

I spent two days making a money origami car.  Mine looks like this:

But it's supposed to look like this:

Mine didn't turn out too bad for a first try, considering as how this was part of the instructions:

Won Park didn't call his book Extreme Origami for nothing.

Taiwan 2013: The Ten Day Mark

HOW THE FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN?!

Was I not just bemoaning the fact that my vacation couldn't come any sooner? (Oh wait, that's Star Trek Into Darkness)

The only thing I've done in preparation for this trip is get a new camera.

Isn't it pretty?

Too much to do and not enough time to do it in. *runs around like a headless chicken*

FACK!

Happy New Year 2013

Happy New Year and all that jazz.

I had dumplings for breakfast.

This should probably be a post of Shit Chinese People Eat because not a lot of people can stomach svoury dumplings for breakfast. Neither can I most of the time, so thankfully New Years only comes twice a year. (January 1st New Year and Chinese New Year. I know how to count, damn it!)

Anyway, dumplings for breakfast is part of Chinese tradition. It's derived from the term "yuan bao" which is roughly translated into "coin full." So having dumplings first thing in the morning on New Years implies that one would gain wealth and riches for the year. Sometimes people put a coin in there for extra luck. (Fucking unsanitary, I swear.)

I could be wrong about the whole thing since I wasn't entirely awake and coherent when I asked my mom about it this morning. I was also quite distracted by the steam rising from the rooftop of the garage.



Melting frost