Taipei, Taiwan

Last Thursday I went to Taipei to work with our partner studio, CGCG. I was really impressed with the city and the people. It reminded me a lot of Rio without the bad stuff (violence, poverty, etc).

I had a great time visiting. Spent only 3 days but it's definitely worth a visit. The picture above is from Taipei 101, the talles building in the world until the day I visited it. The next day apparently a building in Dubai became the tatllest. Pretty cool to see the view from up there ... feels like you are looking at a miniature at a movie set. The elevator is the fastest in the world (60 km/h). Cool stuff !!! =)

I saw Demshui, Xiemen, the Ku Kong museum and the area close to the main MRT station. Stayed at the Grand Hyatt and from there I moved to a Hostel International on top of the K Mall... ok place to stay. Next time I think I would look for something closer to Xiemen to stay ... that part reminded me a bit of the Times Square in New York with even more outdoors and visual polution.

For those of you coming to Asia to visit, It might be woth a stop if you have the time.

CloneWars

Some images and a trailer was released from the show I have been working on for a while now.
I am guessing that I cannot put those images here but I can provide the links. Check it out:

Image:
Image from Cover of Star Wars Magazine

Trailer:
Star Wars Website Trailer

Enjoy... Let me know what your thoughts are.

Cheers.

Back to Trikora...

It's amazing how Trikora became a first class resort on the last year.
Wind was not as good as expected and we could not get Mila kiting yet but soon.
Being back in the water was as good as it gets. Short but sweet.

The group (there were about 20 of us) was like a big family... Already booked to go again in 2 weeks... and the countdown starts again...

New Toys

Been out for a while ... SUPER HIPER BUSY with work. 11 hour days and weekends are not really my concept of fun but .... you gotta do what you gotta do right ?

Last weekend I finally had a weekend off and a couple of visitors... It was AWESOME having Marcia and Tobin here. We did some sightseeing with them and had a great time. I do not have the pics yet but will be posting them here soon. Marcia left yesterday back to Perth and Tobin is with us till next week doing a course here.

Finally I have some time to come back to life. I started wakeboarding again and that's been great.
Been a bit tired from the gym workouts so decided to step back with the physio a bit and get back outside on the water where I belong.



This past week I bought a new Kite (monkeykite Griffin 12) and a new board. It's pretty exciting and started praying for wind this coming weekend. We are heading to Trikora for a kitesurfing weekend. REALLY hope it blows.

Yesterday I picked up a new board as well... an 2006 North Jaime Pro (127x39) VERY COOL.



GREAT news is we are heading home on august 3rd for a couple of weeks. I CANNOT wait to see everyone specially the little one and meet all of Mila's family... we are both counting the days.