“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen?”
On the Wulai day hike, I met a software engineer named Janet. We met again for brunch a couple of weeks later in April, along with her boyfriend Dan and my friend Wendy. Continue reading “Janet and Dan, met.”
Apologies for not posting recently, I’ve been extremely busy and haven’t had any mental energy to produce blog posts.
On Sunday, April 4, I went hiking again with the Taipei Adventure Group. We were going to Wulai, a 45 minute drive away from the outskirts of Taipei city. We took the 849 bus from Xindian 新店 MRT Station.
Upon arriving, we saw this view.
On Saturday, March 29, I went hiking with the infamous Taiwan Adventure Group. The 15 of us took Bus 795 from the outskirts of Taipei over to the town and began our hike.
Continue reading “Mudslides and leeches: hiking in Pingxi, Taiwan.”
I am now one month behind in blogging about travels, it’s embarrassing. I’m currently in Seoul, South Korea. My experience in Korea has been, without question, my favorite in Asia. A lot of this is due to chance (good weather, good company), but also due to other factors. I’ll discuss more on this when I finally write about Seoul.
First, let’s talk about my Singapore trip from March 19-23, 2014. Continue reading “A summary of three days in Singapore.”
I expected to be shocked in India, and therefore it did not hit me that hard.
Bangladesh is different. Not many traffic lights anywhere, not much road either. A lot of dirt as roads. Cars drove in both sides of a barely-distinguishable road, shared with bicycle rickshaws and pedestrians.
Similar to my awe of Sri Lanka’s countryside, I couldn’t take my eyes off the sights, and thus did not take many photos.
Continue reading “Bangladesh: the definition of a developing country.”
Professor Zook warned me, Bangladesh would be a culture shock. I believed him, but didn’t expect the shock to start as early as getting off the plane. Continue reading “Dhaka, Bangladesh: not a good first impression.”
On Saturday, 3/16/14, I took a bus down to the southern end of the country to Galle, a major city in Sri Lanka. In Taiwan terms, I went from Chiayi to Kaohsiung. Continue reading “Galle, Sri Lanka: the Dutch fort and surroundings.”
On the evening of Thursday, 4/13/14, I arrived in Colombo. In addition to being overly cautious and avoiding scamming taxi drivers, I had some network proxy issues on my laptop and could not connect to the internet. Finally got that fixed, and slept at 2am. Continue reading “Colombo, Sri Lanka: ocean paradise.”
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen?”
On Friday, March 14, I had dinner with a lovely husband and wife. Tim was an India-born America, while Eileen grew up and moved around in the States. The two met when they were in the peace corps. Continue reading “Tim and Eileen, met.”
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen?”
On Sunday, March 9, I spent the first half of the day YouTubing in my hotel room. This is a legit condition for introverts: must recharge by being alone. Continue reading “Hyderabad: touring the city with two new friends.”
Andy Cheng 