Tuesday, December 24, 2013

To all curious eyes

First thing, thanks to all those who have actually bothered to look at this blog, I honestly thought I'd be pulling in 3 of the same people per day who just pitied my worthless attempt at being social on the internet. This was a way for me to kill time at first but since it seems you guys are interested so I'll try to step up the game since the pressure is on.

To reward all of you I'm going to let you in on a nice little treasure of Taiwan: the garbage trucks (Yes, seriously).



Yes, I stole the video from Youtube. I'm not going outside and waiting for one of these things to roll by just to record it as everyone stares while I dishonor my family's name. But anyway, these garbage trucks are pretty much standard across the nation. The only difference between that and where I am at is that I am in the heart of a major city so the building owners tend to have a large bin or dumpster that gets collected or emptied into these things. The reason they play the music is to let the people know they are on the way so they can be ready to unload their trash (they place the music at levels a little bit below those of police car or ambulance sirens). The trucks come by 2-3 times a day just in case you're busy and miss a collection.  OH, they also come in Fur Elise models for those of you that are extra classy.

2 comments:

  1. Do you remember Singsing? It wasn't like that when you visited 10 or 15 years ago. We used to have huge pile of garbage piling up street side and the cleaning crew collects them early morning (Like NYC! yup!) P.S. my friend told me for the first time he heard it in Taiwan, he thought it was ice cream truck.

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  2. Oh, it's wei-hsin, your cousin :) I am a reader of your blog, keep posting!

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