This year i didn't really sit down and write my resolutions, mostly because i'm lazy but probably because i just didn't really feel the need to write them down. One of the things i'm wanting to do this year is read. It was one of my resolutions last year and after reading the whole Harry Potter series i kind of stopped, granted it's hard to find good books h[...]
The other weekend everyone on Instagram and Facebook kept posting pictures of the beautiful cosmos and after seeing directions to the cosmos field in Kin Town i begged my husband to go with me. He wasn't too thrilled but he happily walked around the field as i took like a million pictures. He kept saying "how many pictures of flowers do you really need?" and[...]
picture source Ever since we moved to Japan i wanted to give japanese a try, simply because i love the way it sounds. I knew it would be complicated. For one they use symbols instead of letters, but also because they have 3 alphabets, 2 sets of numbers, and their grammar/sentence structure is completely the opposite of english. I quickly learned simple p[...]
On our first full day in Taipei we woke up super early, ate a quick breakfast at Starbucks and went on our way to the Taipei Zoo. The only reason i wanted to visit was to ride the Maokong Gondola (thanks Pinterest), but sadly we realized once we got there that it was closed on Mondays. We ended up exploring the Zoo because apparently my lovely husband had ne[...]
After exploring Taipei 101 we took the MRT to Shilin Station where the largest and most popular market in Taipei awaited. We were so excited to explore the Shilin Night Market, to walk around the thousands of shops and eat some taiwanese street food. The market is HUGE i mean we walked/ate for like 2 hours and i don't think we saw it all. I'm kind of sad tha[...]
Last year a friend told me she went to see the first sunrise and that apparently it's a japanese tradition, so i knew i had to go and see the first one of 2015. We celebrated New Years at my co-workers house, we played Cards Against Humanity and watched some movies. We woke up at 5:45am and we were at the Nakagusuku Castle Ruins by 6:15am. It was absolutely[...]