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, …
We don’t get to eat breakfast together most days. The alarm clock goes off, you hit the button a couple of seconds later. You turn, wrap you arm around me as I sink further into the sheets, my chin resting on your forehead and the first smell of the day the sleepy fragrance of your …
Spring can be a beautiful season, with the flowers blooming, the clear blue sky promising a crisp morning. Spring can mean afternoons spent in tiny cafes, sipping on freshly brewed coffee and browsing through pretty magazines (the pictures help since you can’t read the text). Spring means new beginnings, baby romances starting with a spark …
We open the door to our hotel room and promptly collapse onto the bed. Long day. Taipei is made for walking, from switching between metro stations to trekking all over the city from one street into another; there’s always something new (or old) and exciting to see. But now we are both so tired neither …
The scenery rolls by as the train quickens – greying buildings give way to the rooftops of smaller houses as we move from the city to the suburbs, then almost suddenly and without warning, the sea. We look outside the windows, thin beaches peppered with the sort of long grass that only grow in salt-washed …
Kenny Mah believes in the good in people. He has been blogging for over ten years. No, his hands aren't tired. Yet.
