I woke up one day to find I was surrounded by 3 million (or thereabouts) Taiwanese people. A long way from the great state of Texas, but more specifically a long way from the greatest city in the world, Austin. I'm here pursuing a nepotistic opportunity in women's fashion (shoes-predominately Europe). But the truth of it is, I'm here to simultaneously expand both eastern & western horizons.
"So the journey is over and I'm back again, richer by experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance...I set off on my travels knowing, or thinking I knew, how men should live, how be governed, how educated, what they should believe. I had my views on every activity of life. Now, on my return, I find myself without any of these pleasing certainties...
--Aldous Huxley, 1920