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I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday trying to recover from whatever weird stomach bug I got earlier this week. This consisted primarily of laying around in bed in a fetal position when in pain, and when not in pain, laying in bed playing New York Times Crosswords. I was really proud of myself for finally getting an A- on a Monday (AKA easiest level) crossword puzzle after many, many Ds. I still had to go out occasionally, as our photo shoot with Sophia Ritz on Thursday required some things.

I got five different outfits for the shoot, while Kelvin got four, which means he needed to get another outfit unless he wanted to repeat one of the rented outfits. Kelvin planned on getting a suit while in Taiwan, so we went to buy one on Tuesday. We went to Kelvin’s favorite store, G2000 (known for nice, but affordable, suits). It’s the brand of suit he got while he was in Taiwan last time. We couldn’t bargain-hunt because of lack of time, so we just went to a chain and got whatever was available there (which is still quite reasonable compared to the US… and it actually fits Kelvin well). The last suit Kelvin got was all grey, so he went for one with stripes this time around. Of course, the first suit (grey with faint blue stripes) he tries on fits him like a glove and looks spectacular on him. Because the matching pants weren’t available in his size that night, we picked up the outfit (jacket and pants) along with a couple shirts and a silk tie the next day. Also on Wednesday night, Kelvin and I had to get some last minute supplies for our Sophia Ritz shoot on Thursday. While trying to get to our destination (one of the large super-marts they have here), we got lost and probably walked twice the distance we needed to AND we never go to our destination, but we found all the necessities at a smaller chain supermarket.

Thursday was our Sophia Ritz shoot. I will go to it in greater detail when I review the place, but let’s just say it took ALL DAY and was FUCKING exhausting. Thankfully, my stomach was MUCH better, so I didn’t die during shooting. Today (Friday), we picked out our photos (30 out of 290!), which also took all afternoon, and on Monday we have to go back to look at final, Photoshopped photos. I swear I’m spending half of my vacation at that godforsaken place. Anyways, looking at photos, they present us all the good pictures, supposedly leaving out bad ones, like ones with blinking and whatnot. As a testiment to Kelvin’s amazing ability to look inadvertently goofy in photos, I present to you two “best of the worst” pictures Kelvin managed to sneak photos of:

Kelvin doesn’t look particularly bad in this; we just thought it was hilariously cheesy.

Man, I wonder what the BAD pictures looked like. The first time I saw this, I couldn’t stop laughing at this for several minutes. I mean, I was crying from laughter. Every time I see this picture, it’s the same process over and over again: laugh until tears start pouring. I swear the Australian couple behind us at Sophia Ritz (who were taking this experience way more seriously than we were) probably thought we were the most obnoxious people on the face of the earth.

I would like to emphasize there were many much, MUCH better pictures than these. I’ll post the good ones when I get them. These (plus a couple candids) will have to for now (ahem Robin).

Tonight, Kelvin and I had dinner with my “Uncle Teacher” (my mother’s late sister’s husband) and my two cousins at this yummy shabu-shabu place called White Sugarcane something… can’t remember. What’s great about this was that we passed by this place while we were lost, and Kelvin had mentioned we should eat there while we’re in Taiwan, looking at the food and patrons inside. I think it lived up to his expectations.

New thing I learned today: The logo for Volvo is the same as the male symbol.