Location: Xian Xian Bistro (permanently closed) in an alley on Bade Road, Taipei. Travel note summary: Last night, Tim, Yu Jia's cousin, moved downstairs to become a neighbor, so after returning home in the evening, I went out with him to find a place to chat. Tim is also a top student—NTU math, NCTU communications, and a postdoc at the University of Michigan. He previously worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Now he's back in Taiwan to contribute his knowledge, so starting this year, he's teaching three courses in the electrical engineering department at National Taipei University of Technology. Time flew by as we drank and chatted. When we finished a bottle of Chilean red wine, it seemed my talent for meeting people kicked in again—a stranger at the next table brought over a bottle of red wine, saying he wanted to treat us because he overheard us talking about blockchain and previous lectures at National Chengchi University, so he wanted to get to know us. We chatted and found out that Ben, who is a decade younger than us, now works at Amazon. His father is a professor at NCCU, and he himself is an NTU graduate, so he also paid respects to his NTU senio…
