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This is probably by far, the most popular design. I love it. I love my camera. I love how these pictures came out :)

I've been so sick...

I need to get back to everyone regarding appointments.

I mind as well start now or I know I procrastinate and I never end up starting. s

Taiwan 09 (part 1 - Street Food)

I categorized my Taiwan pictures into two groups. Street Food and Restaurants!! I kept forgetting to bring my camera when I went out and it was so hot in Taiwan that I just got lazy with taking pictures. It just wasn't very convenient hauling a heavy camera all day and not knowing if someones going to walk into it.

Noodles

I love this, it's some sort of intestine. My all time favorite and it's hard to find it here.

I think this was some sort of fish egg.

Pork skin? Did not like too much

This was boiled octopus with a very good satay like sauce.

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Yum yum, pork stew rice. :)

my favorite intestine in soup

I think this is pork liver... :)

tofu

There's not much to say that hasn't been said about Taiwanese street food. There are good places and bad places but, because I only go back once a year... any street food is good.

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Next is the second most popular night market in Taichung and I didn't bring my camera when we went to Fong Jia because I was sweating and there were SO many people.

I love these places and I always spend way too much money here getting a stuffed animal that I will forget about. Hopefully, when I have a boyfriend I can bring him here and make him get one for me. That's so adorable.

Very popular tea place, there was a long line for it. I didn't think it was all that great.

Very famous popcorn chicken place. I grew up with this and this awesome-ness started in Taichung. I remember when I was little, the original store was just around the corner from our bakery and either my mom/dad/worker would bring me here to get chicken. Cute memories, and I find it funny that the things I remember most from my childhood is food.

Chicken

Taiwan's most infamous dish - Stinky Tofu!!

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Duck blood and stinky tofu pot... soo good.

clouds

"tell me why is it, sometimes I can't look you in the eyes. This is my goodbye and no longer will I try, because I'm leaving and you hurt me for the very last time"

I will never get over how beautiful clouds are. I didn't take the first one, it was taken with an Iphone... why can't I take pictures with my iphone like this?

I feel like my blog and become so personal and I originally made this because I wanted to share my happiness with others. I just need an outlet, because at times opinions aren't necessary. I just need to pour it all out, I guess I can express how I feel better through writing.

I have so many secrets, so many things I hold deep in myself because I know people can't handle the truth. J came back the other day, just like wind he blew himself back into my life. It hasn't exactly settled in yet and the day he expressed his feelings to me and we laid there on his bed I whispered, "I feel like I'm dreaming." I wasn't exactly coherent at the time but I was utterly shocked because I closed that door already. I moved on, or at least I tried very hard to move on and I was just about there when this happened.

Anger was how I reacted at first and I just didn't want to deal with him because my heart had already drifted away. I found happiness in other things and my personality grew a bit thicker. After he came back, I just got this feeling that I wanted to stop talking to everyone, I wanted to just be alone and not have to deal with any of it because I need to be selfish. Although I want to be selfish, at the end of the day I can't walk away from the people I care about.

Music hasn't been helping the headaches, why can't things just be simple?

The kind of person I am? I feel like a horrible person, I feel like my actions were lies. I feel like people are counting on me to be strong and to figure out what I want but what if I don't want anything? Does that make me a horrible person for not wanting anything?

What if I don't want anyone? What if I just want to be alone? Love is strong, and I'm also the kind of person that can't stand to hurt another for my benefit. Have I become bitter? Do I not believe anymore? People change and I try to live life without regrets, if you make a mistake, shouldn't we keep walking forward and learn from it?

2009 I JUST WANT YOU TO BE OVER!!!

I want to concentrate on work.

elegant

This one if so pretty and elegant. LOVE IT

Nicole just recently go engaged... and like these nails she is one of those elegantly pretty girls!

Funeral (Taoism) - Taiwan

I went back in September for my Grandmother's funeral and I learned a lot. I finally learned that there's a difference between Buddhism and taoism. Buddhism originated from India while Taoism originated from China but apparently it's a mixture of both. Since my Grandmother was very religious so was the funeral. I learned so much about my own culture and how elderly people interact.

We had to fold paper which were later on burned for my grandmother. I think these symbolized money.

So they set these tents up in front of the deceased house and on the street. The roads are even closed off for these days.

LOTS AND LOTS of flowers were delivered.

I didn't get to Taiwan until the day of the ceremony.

and, I had no idea what was going on

We had to wear white clothes and Taiwan was so hot and humid at that time.

Family had to wear robe like clothing.

All of this stuff just amazes me because I have no idea what any of it means.

There was even a live band.

I feel like this is really paying our respects for my Grandmother.

Very emotional time

Leaving for the cemetery. For Taoist funerals, we do not see her one last time. She is kept inside the whole time.

After the burial there was more practicing.

Being an American born Taiwanese... I was seriously blown away. For the first time, I felt like a foreigner and I just didn't understand anything. I don't understand funerals and why it's so important, but I felt like my Grandmother's funeral was very deep. The fact that it's so religious just blows me away. I actually feel like we did everything we were and could for my grandmother and we said our goodbyes very properly. It's hard to explain but honestly, I have been to too many funerals lately.