My Birthday 2009

My Birthday 2009

I guess you must have read about my early birthday celebrations with friends in Singapore at 1-Carmel. If you haven’t you can click here to read it. But my actual birthday was celebrated in Taiwan…

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Away away away

Away away away

Regular readers of my blog would know the drill, I’m away which means emails and comments reply would take longer but I will get to them eventually. Meanwhile I’ll try to keep the blog updated…

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My little sister's makeover in Taiwan

My little sister's makeover in Taiwan

Before we left for Taiwan my sister’s hair was terribly fried from a bad perm by a horrid hairstylist. She had been really upset at how her hair turned out and I told her to…

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More on Taiwan Food

More on Taiwan Food

I had a couple more request to blog more about the food I had in Taiwan and what was nice to recommend. I’m honestly no expert in Taiwan but I did try quite a no.…

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Taipei 101

Taipei 101

I’m sure most of you that have been to Taipei before had gone to take a look at the Taipei 101 台北101 skyscraper. At one point it was the highest building in the world but…

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National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

A quick trip via the trains to the National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. The hall  was officially opened by Chiang Kai Shek and serves as a place for people to pay tribute to Father of…

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Japanese Lunch at XMD

Japanese Lunch at XMD

Oh… I’m so bad at cutesy Japanese poses but I do try! My sister is really good at them though… maybe it’s simply a sign of my age! Anyways, back in Taipei, we wandered into…

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Taiwan Hualien Food

Taiwan Hualien Food

In this post I’ll try to cover all the yummy food I had in Hualien. First up, we have the xiao long baos and soya bean drink. The bao was not bad but I think…

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Qi Xing Tan

Qi Xing Tan

Still in Hualien although we are no longer in the gorge. We managed to catch a spectacular sunset at Qi Xing Tan or 7 stars beach.   This is a shingle and stone beach with huge crashing…

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Tunnel of Nine Turns

Tunnel of Nine Turns

I’ve been extremely inconsistent about my blog updates and I do apologize. I haven’t been around much and the furry of Chinese New Year festivities and parties doesn’t help much to give me more spare time to work…

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