Gravel crunch beneath our shoes. The railway tracks bring us closer to the gold mines. A couple of stray dogs chase each other, friendly in the way these mild beasts are. Beautiful dogs, one pure white, the other a sleek shade of mandarin. Oh to be so carefree! Yifan tells us how Jinguashi1 used to …
There are the days when the big city life gets to be too much. All the noise and the smog and the madness of a million rats running a race without any real direction – how could so much mean so little? We buy and we buy and we work harder to buy bigger houses …
It changed my life. (Now, how often does one get to use that sentence and have it be true?) I remember trying my best not to say goodbye. I have never lived abroad before. A trip down south to Singapore, a beach vacation in Phuket, a couple of weeks backpacking in Australia, yes. But living …
Third time’s the charm. Dance around the magic circle thrice and be swept away into the Other Realm. Click your heels together three times and enter Oz, enter Faerie, enter Wonderland… . . TEATIME: Room For Dessert (R4D) Yifan promises us delicious treats for our tea. Our feet have trampled all over Ximending; we …
Ximending sprawls before us like Taipei’s answer to Harujuku and Shibuya in the same breath. As we step out of the MRT station, we are greeted by hordes of fresh-faced Taiwanese out for the weekend, a sea of adolescents and twentysomethings that soon break into waves of their own cliques, seeking entertainment, shopping, food, company, …
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