Karaoke, Meditation, proper Celebration of German Unity Day and other stuff

Thursday I went to a Karaoke place! This had actually been my first time really singing Karaoke and I was quite curious how it would be. I expected me to be rather uncomfortable about singing but it turned out that I competely stopped caring very quickly and we had lots of fun!

Whats different to the Karaoke places in Germany is that you get your own Karaoke room here for your group so it's much more private. And we also had a nice buffett with food and drinks.

Anker was also really into it :D

And on Friday evening I went to join a Zen meditation group. They had handed out flyers at the campus, advertising free meditation lessons and as I am recently trying out to meditate (got an app for that^^), I thought this might be interesting for me. And it turned out to be quite an intense experience for me - I think it was the first time that I had really been meditating with getting into a deeper level of consciousness.
Furthermore an Indian guy there told me afterwards about a German Buddhist nun who is living around Taipei that I could meet if I am interested in learning more about Zen meditation and Buddhism and I might actually meet up with her soon (learning more about Buddhism is on my bucket list ;-) ).

This weekend we also got a Taifun once again. But this was even less strong than the rather weak last one and again it was just raining mildly all the time.

But I got this stunning view at least! Reminds me of the Batman movies...

Some other impressions:

whenever I go to the 7/11 convenience store, besides my usual groceries I also buy something weird, just to try something new. This was my most recent aquisition - tasted very strange.^^
So far I also got to try almondmilk and papayamilk this way.

my good Swedish friend and tennis partner Larsson!

In this lovely picture you can also marvel at my new Asian-style haircut!

bird-head! Mjami! 

Furthermore to end the misery of Ankers food blog, I decided to make a guest post for his blog. Starting the series "Lino Klagt", the first post is about my contact with the Taiwanese "Lebensmittelmafia". Its in German though: http://myessen.blogspot.de/2013/10/sondergastbeitrag-lino-klagt-1.html

Soon Anker might also write a guest post for me about his experiences at the Taiwanese Oktoberfest!

and of course Anker and me had to celebrate the German unity day properly! :D