On the November 2nd, I gave my letter of resignation to my boss. My last working day here will be December 18th. I have been offered a programming position in Taiwan and I’m scheduled to begin working there on January 19th. I’ll only have about a week to settle in, because I won’t arrive in Taiwan until the 14th. I still have a lot of things to take care of before I make the move. I’m sure when the time does roll around in two months, I still won’t be fully prepared. The reality of the move probably won’t really hit me until I’ve been working in Taiwan for a couple of weeks.
When I’m in Taiwan I should probably start updating my blog more often and start uploading more pictures. Maybe I’ll revamp some of my blog code to allow me to easily post images in my posts. I still hard-code some html tags in my entries, but in order to post images in my blog I have to upload the images first and then hope I never change the path for my pictures. Which means I also need to write some better code for the way I handle images in general. Start using a database rather than simple directory/file structures. I’m about to have a month of time off, so maybe I can do it all then.
Two nights ago I went to watch 2012 with some of my friends from work. I enjoyed the movie, but it seemed to me that the writers/director had an anti-religion agenda that they were trying to push, and particularly anti-Christian It showed people of all religions praying in desperation and still being destroyed their prayers landing on deaf ears. It showed the catholic statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro crumbling, St. Peter’s Basilica fell to pieces in the show and the dome rolled over the hundreds of people outside praying. Considering that the director is openly gay and commonly mocks religion, I’m not really surprised. The film would have been better had he left some of those scenes out, and it wouldn’t have taken anything away.
Anyway, the movie kind of made me think of my life right now. In some ways it’s like my world is ending. I’m leaving my job, my friends, my family, and my country behind. But, as in the movie, I will be starting fresh in Taiwan. At least I’ll still have all my old friends, and my family to talk to, even if I am 6000 miles away.
I hope when I move to Taiwan, part of my fresh start will be joining a good church. I haven’t been to church in nearly a year now. When I first moved to Houston, I tried some of the local baptist churches. I was just about read to join one, but one Sunday the preacher got up and shouted till he was red in the face about myspace was evil, and it was NOT going to be in that church. Now I don’t really care for myspace, but it’s stupid to be so against what is essentially a dumb person’s personal website. Sure there are evil people who put evil things on myspace. But with that mentality, how can you use the internet at all? How can you even walk out of your home in the morning?? After that I pretty much stopped going to church. Mostly out of pure laziness. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of finding another church, so I didn’t really even try. I hope that will change when I am in Taiwan. I also hope that it will be easier to go because I’ll have Shao-Ling to go with me.
Sorry if I blathered and rambled on too much. I’ll leave with this: Just like the movie 2012, moving is not the end of my world, it’s a new beginning.
