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Taiwan: Taipei City & Art

June 29, 2017 In Travel No Comment

So this is my first visit to Taiwan and I must say so far so good. In my previous posts on Qingjing and Pingxi, the air was fresh and minty. So much greenery and nature and best of all, the cooling weather. You definitely can’t get that kind of sight and cool air in Singapore unless you lock yourself up in an air conditioning room and you’re surfing the internet looking at travel pictures. Taipei though is just another city with lots of cars and shopping malls. What kept me excited was to hunt down the street arts as usual.

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Taiwan: Jiufen, Shifen & Raohe Night Market

May 14, 2017 In Travel No Comment

Pictures like this show exactly why I love travelling. And very much especially with the besties and the right travelling mates. It’s not a masterpiece picture but the point is the mood I get from looking at it. How we can have a devil-may-care attitude, not needing to think of work or whatever bothers, disappoints us and just unwind and go with the flow. Do slightly crazier things we don’t normally do. Shoot the breeze enjoy everything from nature to architectures or even frivolous things.

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Taiwan: Rainbows of Taichung & Qingjing’s Grassland

April 19, 2017 In Travel No Comment

Taiwan is like so near yet so far. The reason why we haven’t considered Taiwan was that Ant & Eileen didn’t have an impressive experience many many years back. Running out of places to go for short trips, they finally agreed on a “second chance”. So Joel and I were really looking forward to the trip while Joey was no stranger to Taiwan having visited in recent years.

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Pokemon Go Singapore : North Region

October 8, 2016 In Blog No Comment

By now, I need not explain more about what is Pokemon Go nor the rules of the game. Or how to level up, where the pokemons’ nest are and their spawning area because you might have already found it everywhere on the internet, Facebook groups and what not. Instead, I’ll be sharing how I caught my 141 Pokedex list from MAINLY the northern region of Singapore. In which, the rare and ultra rare ones in places especially from Yishun, Sembawang to Woodlands. Of course, it’s not possible to shoot all the way from Yishun to Woodlands. So I broke it down into 3 parts (refer to map) and did my hunting mostly at night or the weekends and waited for a couple of hours (luck plays a part too).

Japan: Gotokuji Temple, Shibuya, Shinjuku & Shimokitazawa

August 26, 2016 In Travel No Comment

The Japan post entries felt like forever or something. Finally, this is the last post of our trip. So on my previous post, we visited the Nissin cup noodle museum. We head over to Gotokuji temple after which. Gotokuji temple, in a quaint neighborhood, is definitely one of the interesting places in Tokyo. I mean like seriously, a temple filled with Maneki-neko (cats)? We wouldn’t give that a miss! Not real cats but the famous ceramic beckoning cats. Beckoning cats are what shop owners place in front of their shop hypnotizing consumers with their waving hands to spend money in their shop. In short, a good luck charm.

Japan: Harajuku, Yoyogi Park & Nissin Cup Noodle Museum

August 5, 2016 In Travel 1 Comment

Because we arrived Tokyo from Mount Fuji in the afternoon, we were out in the Tokyo streets late. Which made us missed the Meiji shrine opening hours as well… wtf. The only shrine we actually wanted to visit. So we ended up taking a walk in Yoyogi park that has like loads and loads of big fat crows, dramatic trees, and some plum (ume) blossoms… surprise surprise!