If you should ever be seized by the desire to live in an Asian country of any sort for any period of time lasting longer than a week I highly recommend you choose a residence that is as far as humanly possible from a temple of any kind.
Also try to find out whether or not the street your residence will be next to is used as a parade route. "Oh! But how often can there possibly be parades?" you innocently ask me. Roughly every two weeks complete with banging of drums, gongs and bottle rockets. Often accompanied by mass amounts of firecrackers. This number will increase during the myriad minor holidays attributed to the no less than 8 thousand deities that someone somewhere is honoring.
Gahh! The part I like least is when it is decided that 7 am on a Sunday is the ideal time to launch the rockets. I'm not talking simple little bottle rockets here. Those would not cause me to launch my butt out of bed and cling to the chandelier (if I had a chandelier of course). No I'm talking mortar fire here that I believe they are using to show China that Taiwan has a loud things that go bang so you should stay away or we will use many of them in your near vicinity and cause you to go deaf.
As you may have guessed someone is setting off firecrackers nearby and today I'm very tired of it.
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I can imagine. That would get old pretty quickly. Mental Note to self: Never live near a temple in any asian country.
No wonder you're having a funky day. We know they weren't celebrating Easter.
Hey, Chris, one of these times when I'm down we should go out to dinner.
MOM
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