It never ceases to amaze me how utterly exhausted i get sitting behind a desk for 8 hours. It's only Monday and i am already done. I need a vacation so bad. I have taken 6 days off all year and have 12 days of annual leave banked, which i want to carry over 10 of them to next year for my trip to Aotearoa, so 2024 i have two more long weekends to ( Read more... )

I left y'all hanging in the middle of a party in the mountains two weeks ago ( Read more... )

Alas, we barely knew you, but those few short years we spent together were amongst the best of my life ( Read more... )

From thefridayfive, you know i can't resist a food meme.

1. Do you cook regularly or does someone else cook for you?I cook every day. The number one best thing about not traveling is cooking your own food. It's sad to me when i meet people who aren't travelers who eat out or order in all the time, it seems like they're neglecting a key benefit of having a ( Read more... )

For the last day of my long weekend, i went for a bike ride. I zoomed out along the river to Bali and paddled my feet in the sea at the secret beach behind the shipping port, nibbling on 芋仔冰 taro icecream, 甘蔗汁 cane juice, 仙草 grass jelly and a 自助餐便當 buffet bento lunch featuring various greens and tofus on rice. I don't think i've ever enjoyed ( Read more... )

I have been pondering how and when to do some kind of food post about my time in Macedonia and Greece. While i was working i often forgot to take photos because i was with colleagues, and when i wasn't working i didn't get a lot of good shots anyway because i ate outdoors where the lighting wasn't great. But aside from that, the food in Macedonia ( Read more... )

Alright, let's try this. I'm tired, but i don't think i'll not be tired for quite some time. Work destroys me. Let's try to remember a time when i wasn't working. It feels like a century ago, but it was not even a couple weeks.


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I was considering different ways of compiling the food posts for my Youbike trip through Taiwan - for instance splitting snacks/小吃 and "full" meals - but one of the reasons why i do these posts is so that i can remember the arc of my journey. To that end, there is something satisfying about taking chronological slices that feature at least one dish ( Read more... )

Now that i am back in Taipei it's time to put together a food post. I am going to try split it out to several posts so they are more digestible, ho ho. Since it's morning right now and i just had a breakfast, let's start with a breakfast post ( Read more... )

Today is start of 端午節 Dragon Boat Festival. It's one of the Chinese holidays which i still don't really get what the point of it is. I mean, seriously, just go read the Wikipedia page and see if you can figure it out. It's all like "well it might commemorate this poet, or maybe that one, also it's almost summer, and something about insects and ( Read more... )