This weekend I decided to take a trip to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Longshan Temple and was greeted with a surprise at the C.K.S memorial hall. I figured I've been here long enough to go to a museum, why not. Along the walk to the museum they had the left overs from the Flora Expo. There were tons of flowers everywhere. I took this time to pull out my macro lense and take some nice flower pics. Now, on to the museum..they had a Monet exhibit showing, Now i'm not a huge fan of Monet, but they did have a quote posted on the wall that I thought was quite cool "I have been painting non stop so I can capture as much as possible before my world goes completely black" ~Monet. I think it ... read more

This weekend I took a quick trip up to Shanghai to visit a few colleagues of mine. When I arrived I forgot to exchange money at the airport and just figured I would do it at the many 7Elevens just like in Taiwan, I only later found out there weren't very many in Shanghai. After checking in to the hotel I google mapped the closest 7Eleven and went on a little journey. about 10 minutes later I found one, success! but that wasn't the most exciting part of the journey, on the way back to the hotel I decided to check out a local fruit stand and what did I find...Mangosteen! Yay! I hadn't had these since the last time I was in Thailand. 6 Please :) Back in the hotel I made a silly video ... read more

This lovely weekend I spent wandering about the city some more and visiting Yeilu Geo Park. After doing a bit of research on how to get to the Yeilu Geo Park I decided to start my journey at Taipei Main Station. I was a bit difficult to find the bus station but once I did It was easy to buy a ticket headed for Yeilu. 96NT and 1 1/2 hour ride later I was dropped off at the nearest bus station from the park. I was lucky enough to see someone else headed to the park so I cheated a bit and followed him until I got my bearings. I arrived on a cloudy day around 2:00 PM. There were quite a bit more tourists than I had expected walking about, but none the less I ... read more

This weekend the SoCal Meet-up group went out to New Jack City for some rock climbing, twister, fire poi, slack lining and zip lining fun. We pulled up to "unknown road" trying to find our rock climbing crew who had their camp decorated with christmas lights and blaring music. The first night we were there was mostly just mingling around the camp fire and spinning poi. The next morning we were headed to climb, some of the routes we were on had really crappy holds, rock would just break off the wall, that made things interesting for sure. My favorite wall was boy scout's wall. This rock was solid, many routes on one wall at different lengths and difficulties. We even met some new friends from the San Diego meet up group who let us climb on some ... read more

Back in Tokyo for 2 final days we had a few things left on the list of must see one being the Tsukiji Fish Market for some sushi. I did extensive research on the best sushi in Tokyo and then compared them to how much I was willing to spend on sushi and decided to go with Kiyomura I reccomend doing research before chosing a sushi spot as there are many and I wanted to make sure I was getting quality (which isn't hard to do steps away from the biggest fish market in the world) Anyway, I took a picture of the outside with my camera and asked a few people along the way the direction and we found it. There was a huge group of 30 Japanese tourists going in and the place was ... read more