Got upgraded to Business class...

Flight was delayed though, so I did not sleep at all.

I returned to the office and one of two things are shipped.

Half successful or half failed I guess... (But the important socks to Polygel is shipped..)

This is the brightest day in Taiwan so far. Though I see no sun.

I see farmers burning the land everywhere, and I believe it would be dark again, not due to rain clouds unfortunately.

The grey smog is very depressing, not in a goth way. In Taiwan, some minority seemed to have pushed recycling, and mandated the "sale" of plastic bags. (When you shop for groceries, you pay for plastic bags.) All these seemed like a direction towards "Green Taiwan" but the littering and dumping on undeveloped land, under highways, and burning of trash practice... (Expensive to throw away trash, so they burn it.) Makes all the efforts of making Taiwan - "Green", seem not worthy.


I think mandating some "cleaner and greener laws" does not work if the public finds it "Smart" if they can get around the laws in a more polluting way.

On the mountain top, I can smell burnt tires, burnt plastic and other foul smells.

Even in an industralized Taiwan, profits seemed more important than the environment. Even when the farmers depend on the sun and the environment, they do not seem informed enough to bother to prevent others from harming it.

I can see foul liquids flowing into the drains and soapy discharge from restaurants into the canals...

I could see Taiwan might be a nice place 20 years back, but they have not improved on their operational processes, but just better ways to beat the environmental laws.

-- Iron Bowl.