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Dec 27, 2005
Move to Blogspot
Dear All,
For those who happens to check updates on this site, I have moved my
writing to http://meidays.blogspot.com. Most of the content of the blog
is in Indonesian Language, as I am now staying in Indonesia.
Thanks for visiting my blog !
Posted at 05:39 pm by Mei
Aug 16, 2004
Weekend full of Stars
Posted at 08:13 pm by Mei
From Last Year's Trip
Posted at 08:07 pm by Mei
Aug 11, 2004
Some Pictures from Macau
Posted at 10:59 pm by Mei
Jun 20, 2004
Real Love
Real love is wisdom. What most people think of as love is just an
impermanent feeling. If you have a nice taste every day, you will soon
get tired of it. In the same way, such love eventually turns into
hatred and sorrow. Such worldly happiness involves clinging and is
always tied up with suffering, which comes like the policeman following
the thief.
Nevertheless, we cannot suppress nor forbid such feelings. We
just should not cling to or identify with them but should know them for
what they are. One loves another, yet eventually the beloved leaves or
dies. To lament and think longingly, grasping after that which has
changed, is suffering, not love. When we are at one with this truth and
no longer need or desire, wisdom and the real love that transcends
desire fill our world.
(A Still Forest Pool, Achaan Chah)
Posted at 12:17 am by Mei
May 8, 2004
Tao Yuan
Sometimes in the weekend we went to Tao Yuan, an hour train ride from Taipei.
Indonesian worker are quite a lot in Taoyuan. One of the street in Taoyuan, near from Train Station.
We also went to the nearby mountain, only 30 minutes walk from city area. Taiwan is very mountanous, mountains are always nearby. And they have steps to climb up too.
Shangsen (mulberry) tree, in front of my friend's house in Taoyuan. Summer is time to pick the fruit. These ones above are not black enough to eat. It tastes good as juice.
This peanut tastes really good. In addition, it's hot! (Fresh from the cooking pot). We eat while climbing up the mountain. How nice !
Posted at 01:17 am by Mei
May 2, 2004
Trip to Alishan
Alishan (Mount Ali) is one of the most famous place in Taiwan. They even have a well-known song about this place.
This is the famous old and slow-ride train from Pei Men (Chiayi), trekking up to Alishan.
When the train finally arrived in Alishan.
Alishan has numerous varieties of beautiful flowers. Springtime is when this Rose blooms. I don't remember this flower's name, but it is one of the Sakura family too.
It was kinda too late when we came to Alishan in the mid April, because the flowers are already rare.
Two top tourist attractions in Alishan are: sunrise viewing (from 4 am to 6 am depends on the season) and the sea of clouds (where you can see sea of clouds under you from the top of the mountain).
It is a tradition when you spend a night in Alishan, the hotel staffs will wake you up in 3 am, to give you time to prepare for the sunrise viewing. Some take a morning walk up to the higher place to view the sunrise. Some (like us) take the bus, rent from the hotel. It was chilling in the morning. The picture above shows sunrise-about-to-be. We were unlucky because that morning it was about to rain, so there's no sunrise to see. :(
This is the sea of clouds. Amazing.
Post office in Alishan. I like it.
Posted at 08:21 pm by Mei
Baby in the park
Posted at 08:07 pm by Mei
Yang Ming Shan
Posted at 08:03 pm by Mei
Taipei 101
Taipei 101, the tallest building in the world, and also the loneliest, I guess. No skycrapper in its surrounding.
Posted at 07:56 pm by Mei
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