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Mental baggage during work travel
Prompt #16: BAGGAGE Mental baggage can weigh us down as much as physical baggage when we travel. How do you travel lightly – either emotionally or physically? One of the perks of my job is (if you do...
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Top 5 localized GANGNAM STYLE covers
I have a confession. I have very bad taste in music: I love viral music. Back when Rebecca Black’s Friday and Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe were popular, I listened to them repeatedly on Youtube not...
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#FoodFri Traditional Taiwanese breakfast
My parents and I stopped by a Taiwanese breakfast place when we were in Taipei in 2010. Traditional Taiwanese breakfast The shop was divided into two sections. In front, the shopowners cooked while the...
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Where I’m off to next: China and Taiwan
Hello everyone! My 2-week break from blogging has just ended and I’m very excited to tell you about where I’m heading off to next. china flag On September 26, I’ll be flying to Hangzhou, China, where I...
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Flight to Taipei cancelled because of typhoon [YQasia Day 11 Oct 6]
Location: Shanghai, China My flight to Taipei was originally scheduled at 2:30pm and I was supposed to reach the destination at 4:25pm. However, I learned that the flight was delayed till the next...
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Flight to Taiwan, bus to Taichung [YQasia Day 12 Oct 7]
Location: Shanghai, China -> Taipei -> Taichung, Taiwan Background: My flight to Taiwan was cancelled yesterday because of typhoon. However, the airline company gave us each a bed in a nice hotel...
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Staying at a hot springs resort in Dongpu [YQasia Day 13 Oct 8]
Location: Dongpu, Taiwan My mom decided not to join the tour group organized for overseas Chinese and instead to go with the flow. Today, the flow (my aunt, no pun intended) brought us to a hot springs...
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Outlet shopping at Sunshine Plaza in Taichung [YQasia Day 14 Oct 9]
Location: Taichung, Taiwan I have quite a silly travel regret: I do not go to outlet shopping enough. Wait a minute, you ask. Aren’t you a miserly traveller? Why do you even want to go to outlets?...
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To Miaoli for food [YQasia Day 15 Oct 10]
Location: Taichung, Taiwan It was a weekend so my uncle brought everyone out to Miaoli for a meal of Hakka food. My aunt’s sister and her family came along in another car. Before we had our lunch, we...
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Where I’m off to next: China and Taiwan
Hello everyone! My 2-week break from blogging has just ended and I’m very excited to tell you about where I’m heading off to next. china flag On September 26, I’ll be flying to Hangzhou, China, where I...
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Flight to Taipei cancelled because of typhoon [YQasia Day 11 Oct 6]
Location: Shanghai, China My flight to Taipei was originally scheduled at 2:30pm and I was supposed to reach the destination at 4:25pm. However, I learned that the flight was delayed till the next...
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Flight to Taiwan, bus to Taichung [YQasia Day 12 Oct 7]
Location: Shanghai, China -> Taipei -> Taichung, Taiwan Background: My flight to Taiwan was cancelled yesterday because of typhoon. However, the airline company gave us each a bed in a nice hotel...
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Staying at a hot springs resort in Dongpu [YQasia Day 13 Oct 8]
Location: Dongpu, Taiwan My mom decided not to join the tour group organized for overseas Chinese and instead to go with the flow. Today, the flow (my aunt, no pun intended) brought us to a hot springs...
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Outlet shopping at Sunshine Plaza in Taichung [YQasia Day 14 Oct 9]
Location: Taichung, Taiwan I have quite a silly travel regret: I do not go to outlet shopping enough. Wait a minute, you ask. Aren’t you a miserly traveller? Why do you even want to go to outlets?...
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To Miaoli for food [YQasia Day 15 Oct 10]
Location: Taichung, Taiwan It was a weekend so my uncle brought everyone out to Miaoli for a meal of Hakka food. My aunt’s sister and her family came along in another car. Before we had our lunch, we...
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