one of my birthday gifts. cute no? :)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Pictures from Taiwan
me on the train to iran city in taiwan...
my crazy parents
me and my father
crazy lady (mother), grandmother and me
the gate like they have in korea too in the middle of the city.
mmm...more stinky tofu stands...
dragonfruit...they look cool.
my favorite fruit...LOVE IT!!
a jam packed market...
making the food...
sweet ginger riceball soup
meatball noodle soup...
oyster pancake with sauce and an egg.
delicious booth food...oh and i saw a cockroach on the wall as i was eating....mmmm yum :P
some sort of meat filled rice ball.
tempura?
stinky tofu!
night market food...
night market shopping.
chian kai chek memorial place
taiwan flag...
chian kai chek memorial place
taipei 101
taipei 101...world's fastest elevator? 80+ floors in 35 sec.
shopping for clothes at the market
stinky tofu stand...mmmm yummy!!
a toy store...
street markets..
taipei subway system
family and crazy lady...oh yah that's my mother...the crazy lady...
grandmother, me and crazy lady...
my grandmother and i, my first day in taiwan.
"i'm tired...i want to sleep"
"take a picture of me"
"stop taking pictures of me"
my friend being crazy...
this is actually a decent picture of me...
hanging out...
after the concert
the concert finished...
my friend peter's saxophone solo...
saxophones are awesome
play it baby...play it! haha...
iran high school
...
my man looks cool no? :)
Friday, November 28, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
MIA
sorry i've been MIA lately. i guess everything's been the same lately so i didn't feel the need to update much. life here is pretty much the same, the same routine, the same roads, the same people, pretty boring. ohhh...except we got a new teacher. i got to chat with her for awhile, she's pretty cool ^^ it seems that a lot of people who don't really know what they want from their lives came here to find themselves.
i went to a korean pro basketball game yesterday. it was pretty bad compared to of course the NBA which i was more used to watching. however it got better towards the end. my city's team won. i've been watching a lot more sports lately, including the asia series for baseball. taiwan beat korea hehe...i was like HAHA!! anyway...it's a sunday afternoon and i have work later on tonight, i have another training session even though i've been here for almost an entire year.
i think i'm due for a year update. i guess next month when i reach my year mark, i will do a big long reflection of my year here. i'm such a nerd, sometimes on my free time i go through itunes U and listen to cal lectures. psych lectures of course :) they're interesting. right now i'm listening to psych 156? Human emotion. i know..i have no life. what do you expect from me? i watched some korean dramas and some chinese ones. i gotta make sure my chinese doesn't get rusty because of all the time i've spent here. this update is for david who told me to update my blog more.
i caught up with many friends yesterday. i talked a little to anna, david, henry, peter, and will. i really miss my friends. so cal and nor cal ones. i miss the days when we would play guitar hero all day, go snowboarding, play pictionary, go clubbing, play taboo, play guesstures...now we're scattered all over the world each carrying on with our own lives. of course i realized that we weren't always going to be together, but it makes me a little sad that we'll never be able to return to those days. i'm too sentimental. stupid will said i turned into such a sap. oh well...tis my life now walking the same streets of my small city thinking about my friends and family. i need to come home again soon. i really want to make it back for the holidays, but i can't because i have no money. $2400 a pop for a week is NOT practical.
i honestly don't know if i made the right decision to stay here longer but...i made my decision, i just gotta live with it now.
i went to a korean pro basketball game yesterday. it was pretty bad compared to of course the NBA which i was more used to watching. however it got better towards the end. my city's team won. i've been watching a lot more sports lately, including the asia series for baseball. taiwan beat korea hehe...i was like HAHA!! anyway...it's a sunday afternoon and i have work later on tonight, i have another training session even though i've been here for almost an entire year.
i think i'm due for a year update. i guess next month when i reach my year mark, i will do a big long reflection of my year here. i'm such a nerd, sometimes on my free time i go through itunes U and listen to cal lectures. psych lectures of course :) they're interesting. right now i'm listening to psych 156? Human emotion. i know..i have no life. what do you expect from me? i watched some korean dramas and some chinese ones. i gotta make sure my chinese doesn't get rusty because of all the time i've spent here. this update is for david who told me to update my blog more.
i caught up with many friends yesterday. i talked a little to anna, david, henry, peter, and will. i really miss my friends. so cal and nor cal ones. i miss the days when we would play guitar hero all day, go snowboarding, play pictionary, go clubbing, play taboo, play guesstures...now we're scattered all over the world each carrying on with our own lives. of course i realized that we weren't always going to be together, but it makes me a little sad that we'll never be able to return to those days. i'm too sentimental. stupid will said i turned into such a sap. oh well...tis my life now walking the same streets of my small city thinking about my friends and family. i need to come home again soon. i really want to make it back for the holidays, but i can't because i have no money. $2400 a pop for a week is NOT practical.
i honestly don't know if i made the right decision to stay here longer but...i made my decision, i just gotta live with it now.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
another month...
wow...another month has passed. time seems to slip by and stop like a crazy rollercoaster malfunction. tossing me around. maybe many of you don't know that i've actually decided to extend my stay here for various reasons. part of me is regretting my decision while the other part is trying to make the best of my time here...
life is a funny thing, it offers you so many choices. not all of the ones you make will be good, but you've made them anyway. some are right, some are wrong, some are inevitable, and some you just need to deal with on your own. if you ask me...am i happy now? at this point in my life, am i happy with the choices that i've made so far? well...honestly i don't know. only time can tell.
things could be better here..but then again things could be worse too. i'm just trying hard to take things one day at a time. i went to the dentist today. i need to get a bridge, that will cost me about a month's pay to get all the work i want done. i spend a lot of time alone, thinking...trying hard to figure out what i want to do later on in life. i'll be 23 soon. the new year is coming, bringing another year of challenges my way. i made a lot of bad choices last year...hopefully this year will be better. soon i'll make my new year's resolutions and try again to follow through with them.
*sigh* 잘 몰라요...
life is a funny thing, it offers you so many choices. not all of the ones you make will be good, but you've made them anyway. some are right, some are wrong, some are inevitable, and some you just need to deal with on your own. if you ask me...am i happy now? at this point in my life, am i happy with the choices that i've made so far? well...honestly i don't know. only time can tell.
things could be better here..but then again things could be worse too. i'm just trying hard to take things one day at a time. i went to the dentist today. i need to get a bridge, that will cost me about a month's pay to get all the work i want done. i spend a lot of time alone, thinking...trying hard to figure out what i want to do later on in life. i'll be 23 soon. the new year is coming, bringing another year of challenges my way. i made a lot of bad choices last year...hopefully this year will be better. soon i'll make my new year's resolutions and try again to follow through with them.
*sigh* 잘 몰라요...
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