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…
View PostAway 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…
View PostMy 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…
View PostMore 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.…
View PostTaipei 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…
View PostNational 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…
View PostJapanese 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…
View PostTaiwan 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…
View PostQi 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…
View PostTunnel 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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