Elephants Roaming: 2013

[Cambodia] Children of Angkor's Tree School

I had an early start on "planning" this trip to Cambodia. Booking a flight, and finding places to stay ... and that's all I ever did. The plan was no plan, and it was a marvelous plan!

[Cambodia] Must Go!

Wow ... Cambodia, what a journey. There is so much to be written about this short but abundant one week trip, to a country where many has journeyed to before ... pilgrimages to a thousand years of magnificent history, and heartful tributes to the victims of the country's tragic past of the modern age. I can't believe I never put this on the bucket list, but I'm hoping that everyone should, visit and be awed by the remains of the Angkor Era at least once in a lifetime.

[As mentioned as one of my 24th birthday wishes!]

The Alchemist. 牧羊少年的奇幻之旅

After our first attempt in understanding spirituality, self-consciousness, our ultimate purpose in being ... and all that last week, through reading Osho, Today we turned to one of the all time best-reads - The Alchemist, 牧羊少年的奇幻之旅. by Paulo Coelho.

An Attempt On Understanding Self-Consciousness ... or Something

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[Bike Around Taiwan] Rent Your Bike Here!

For anyone who's rented a bike from the best bike rental place in Taipei, you're most likely to have taken the exact same picture as this, or similar. It reflects the genuinely whole-hearted encouragement they give you before you head off on your trip, AND when you get back!

佳遊單車，though I'm not sure if they have an English name. I highly recommend them for your choice of bike rental! They're equipped with MERIDA bikes, and have you prepared with the whole package! Anything you can think of, helmets, tools, extra inner tubes ... and a whole lot of stuff I did fine with without understanding anyways. They would also give you free personal lessons of how to work the gadgets, how to fix your bike, how to get around without any trouble.

[Bike Around Taiwan] One Year Later ...

It's been an ENTIRE WHOLE YEAR??! 365 DAYS gone past! Actually MORE than that! 365 plus 2 I think. A YEAR!!! Since we completed this trip of biking around Taiwan. Everything seems so distant yet so clear in my mind. I can still clearly re-experience every step of the pedal. Every "omg, another uphill?" Every field and coast we were so drawn to by their beauty. Every cheer and encouragement we earned from passer-bys.

[Happiness Project] Clutter Clearing

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Inspired (a little) by the Happiness Project, which I'm currently reading, and MOSTLY because of my unnerving urge to clear away all the MESS that's been just mindlessly piling and piling and piling up, ever since I LAST cleared it all away, which was when ... we got this new shelf just to "organize" all this stuff into.

Michelangelo in Taipei

After Salvador Dali in Taipei, for this month, it's Michelangelo in Taipei!!! At the 歷史博物館, where the last exhibition we went to was that of Pablo Picasso! This current exhibition was just as exciting Dali's! I've never really been that INTO art, especially those from the Renaissance ... classical art and the sort ... but now that I'm starting to see and getting to know the stories behind such renowned works of art, suddenly I can comprehend them more intimately and personally!