This ... worries me. I first read about it from michaelturton.blogspot.com.
Choice quotations:

Many citizens may be unaware that almost immediately after taking power from the Democratic Progressive Party administration of former president Chen Shui-bian Tuesday, the term "Taiwan" was purged from the Chinese language header of the homepage of the "Office of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)." (Upon looking it up, the Taiwan is actually still on the website. Not sure if it was taken off and then put back on or it was a mistake in the article.)

Moreover, one of the first actions by new KMT Defence Minister Chao Chao-min upon assuming his post was to similarly expunge the phrase "Taiwan" from the front page of the Ministry of National Defence - owned "Youth Daily News" and to change its banner lead slogan from "fighting for Taiwan's survival" to "fighting for the Republic of China and fighting for the security of the people on Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu."

In addition, the official stamp commemorating the inaugural of President Ma and Vice President Vincent Siew on May 20 also made no mention of Taiwan in Chinese.

and this ...

It is expected that the KMT government would move quickly to realize its campaign program and move to improve relations with the PRC, but the Ma administration should not simply naively look at the positive side and neglect the possible risks.

If the KMT government is unable to maintain an objective and cool mentality to examine the present and future interaction between the two sides and negate Taiwan`s ideological pluralism for the sake of currying favor with Beijing, more and more citizens will worry about possible grave negative side-effects from liberalization of cross-strait ties.

And lastly, this puts the worries into words:

Such actions gives rise to serious concern over whether President Ma has sufficient wisdom and resolution to resist ultraconservative forces in his own party and pressure from Beijing for faster movements toward "ultimate unification" and spark doubt whether Ma's claims of "ove [sic] for Taiwan" and commitment for Taiwan's democracy were merely exercises in campaign rhetoric to be forgotten after the KMT has "won back Taiwan."

I don't understand why the media had to focus on the new first lady's attire yesterday. Not just the first lady, though, but also other females in the new president's family. Why? Why the need? Why the need to talk about stupid things like that on the news? Aren't there more important things to focus on and let the public know besides what the first lady is wearing? Bombs are going off all over the world, there's been a devastating earthquake in China, children are starving, etc., yet the Taiwanese media chose to focus on the first lady's dress?

OOOOO, she wore a skirt! Instead of her normal slacks! And it's a green skirt! Oh MY GOD. That's gotta go on the news. So shocking ...... =.= Oh, nevermind that there's violence in South Africa and people are fleeing or that another survivor had be found in China ... The first lady's dress is DEFINITELY more newsworthy.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!

And on further thought, why not focus on the men's clothing choices? He's the new president. His image is more important, I would say, than his wife who probably (hopefully) has no sway in public policy and international relations.

So why this focus on what she decided to wear to her husband's inauguration?! Someone want to explain to me the 無聊ness of the Taiwanese media? *Smacks forehead*

Ugh, sometimes, well, a lot of the times, the Taiwanese media baffles and annoys me.

I've been meaning to update, I swear! It's just that my lunch time updates got interrupted by my Google Reader calling me to read the RSS feeds I've subscribed to. I haven't had the chance to read for a couple of day, so there were 1000+ entries to catch up on. I'm down to 800-some. :P So behind on the news. I'm like living three days in the past. TEEHEE.

Anyway, ever been on a motorcycle in the pouring rain? I have. And it's not fun. My shoes got soaked, and they're still wet. It's been four days. May is rainy season in Taiwan, so I guess I'll have to get used to having wet feet at work for a while. =( I hate rain. It makes everything less convenient and makes me gloomy and depressed. I wonder if I have SAD. Well, not like it affects me living my life, so I guess it's not a disorder yet.

Having problems sleeping at night because I feel so guilty that I have to quit work already when I haven't even been here for a year. >.< Ahhhhhh. I feel like such a bad person. As usual, I wish I didn't have a conscience. Then I could just live my life not caring about what other people think. Although there are probably lots of negatives to not having a conscience, some times I think having too much of a conscience is a bad thing. It hinders you from getting a good night's sleep ... a lot. But I have this opportunity to go out and study masters, so I should take it, right? And this job isn't what I want to spend the rest of my life doing, right? So I should just take what I'm given and go with it, right? RIGHT?!

Argh, I never know if I'm doing the right thing, or if i'll end up regretting the decisions I make. I hate this unknowingness ... It makes me unsettled, and I'd much rather like to be settled.

On another note, I have a needle hole in my arm (drugs! jk) from my health checkup today. They had to suck some blood outta me. >.< I hate needles. I hate I hate. At least I now know I am 159 cm. Just one cm away from 160. AHHHH. so close, yet so far. :P