Somebody call 1-1-9!!

Shawty fire burning on the dance floor.
Whoa!

For those of you who don't know the song I am referring to, click here.

It occurred to me today that the emergency number in Taiwan is 119, not 911. I tried doing a little research on why it happened to be exactly backwards from the US number but did not find any results. If you think think you know the reason or have any guesses, feel free to share in a comment!

I also found out that a lot of countries have separate police, fire, and medical emergency numbers. 119 is the fire and medical emergency number in Taiwan; 110 is the police emergency number.

For a list of other countries and their emergency numbers, visit this Wikipedia article.


In other news, today I went ice skating 台北小巨蛋, also known as "Taipei Arena". It basically looks like an egg nest, like the stadium built in Beijing, China for the 2008 Olympics. It was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed being in a super air-conditioned environment after so many days in the Taipei heat! The one downside was the scary amount of people. I spent most of my time dodging people, which turned out to be a fun little game but was pretty scary at times.