i knew there would be a day when i finally ventured outside my 3 mile radius of taipei city and when that day came i knew would then be able to justify that bubble style of living....and it happened when my aunt/uncle and cousin flew in from singapore and LA respectively....not known for being frilly tourists they strayed away from the common sites (which they visited 30 years ago) but still wanted to see what all the hoopla was about at jiu fen....they were here for 5 days...and it rained for 5 days.....horrendously horrible wet weather combined with a small country with not much to see....why travel outside the bubble?....
getting out of the car was more my mom's idea....so was trekking up the mountain or up the steps of the "closed for renovations" museum....cranky and wet...and supported by the actual tourists of the country (my aunt) i pushed for the menstrual-emotional-alternative-site-seeing-eating....LETS GO EAT INSTEAD....
jiu fen kind of reminds me of macau....or any of those ancient citys...ancient alleys....places in japan....places in seoul...and ancient diagons always sell tons of traditional candies, cakes and treats...
you walk into this restaurant and think...wow..the owner must know a lot of celebrities...there are soo many pictures up on the walls, then you realize its all of the same nasty old woman..who turns out to be the same woman cooking your fish balls.....
miserable...
wet sock not worth the view...
non-refridgerated meat is no longer a novelty.....its the non refridgerated meat hanging off trucks in alleys that get to me...
torture....
as if the day didn't get any colder and my socks couldn't get any wetter...ximending
i didn't start the fob pose....nor the arab look
foot massage!....(nothing compared to the facial i went for today...)
dong qu fen yuan
i love gan bei...and now there's interest in franchising....
marinated unripe mango's and guava were a hit with auntie and uncle
yang ming mountain
7 miles daily!
can anyone email me about gold futures?
off to HK tomorrow.
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you're just jealous cause i can eat and eat and eat and not get fat. such a pansy. and fu!
why are you travelling like this again? i thought you were back? for like a brief second.
omg, are you ever in the states? how do you afford to travel like this?
i just got back from taiwan/hk. good times. and lol to non refridgerated meat hanging off trucks in alleys cus God knows i saw that a buncha times haha.
i went to jiu fen this past summer. it's cool. have fun in hk.. i think mike and anita are going to be there too. happy new years!
i wana visit chinkville motherland....i hear its like a big ass chinatown....not sure if ic an hanlde that
gave fun with old people? haha
I wanna go visit hong kong and shop till I drop. how come you get to travel all the time? what is your occupation?
are you going to go see your soul mate in hk?
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