Taiwan '14 (1)

Here to blog about my recent Taiwan trip with Sean, it was our second overseas trip! 

WARNING: PHOTO SPAM AHEAD

21/5: 

The night before we fly, hehe excited

22/5:

 Zombie us

 SO FLUFFY

 Train ride to Hualien.

Arrived at our pretty minsu! This is the lobby.

 Fairytale like room, everything florals and girly.

Dream bedroom~

Yum!

The papaya milkshake from this stall was damn good, one of the nicest I've had. 

23/5: 

Dolphin watching and shopping at Hualien City in the night!

 Our brunch.

 I'm so glad we really managed to see these wild dolphins, our first time seeing them wild ones. Luckily it wasn't a wasted 3hrs ferry ride! These wild dolphins are really playful and curious, swimming close to our ferry and there were so many of them! One off the bucket list, many more to go!

The famous Cisingtan beach that's full of pebbles instead of sand, a very pretty place. 

 Look at that sea, so pretty and calm.

That day's weather was quite bad, it was drizzling a little hence the dark skies :(

24/5: Taroko tour towards Cing Jing

Passed by Cisingtan beach the next day and look how beautiful it was with good weather.

Failed jump shot

Our driver initiated for us to take a jump shot, here a successful one!

Superman

Hot spring

Cold spring

At our CJ stay with such a breathtaking view.

Ended the night with steamboat dinner provided at our stay, perfect for the chilling weather!

This time round we went for a longer trip, total of 8 days but I can't get enough of him anyways. They say happy times tend to fly by exceptionally fast and I can't agree more. It was sort of a birthday trip for me because we came back 1 day after my birthday. First time celebrating my birthday overseas, feeling extremely thankful and blessed that this trip happened. We were blessed with good weather and minimal rain throughout because apparently its the rainy season in May when we all thought it was summer. It only rained super heavily on our last day, so we were really lucky :')

Shall continue another time, tata!

Smooth

Just came back from Taiwan few days back. Here to update my weekends!

Friday night: 

Friday night was spent celebrating my birthday with the secondary school clique at PODI. Food wasn't fantastic but its okay, the company made up for it. Off we went to Planet Jupiter for second round, an impromptu decision to me because it was their initial plan to go Zouk/Thai club after dinner but they didn't tell me so that explains my dressing. Felt super out of place in a maxi at such a place. Most of our first time at Jupiter and it was quite an eye-opening experience with hot girls onstage. Met a few familiar faces there and before I know it, I drank a little too much and KO. Almost couldn't go home because I forgot my keys and everyone was asleep at home. My brother hung up my calls so my friends had no choice but to wake my mum up :/ in the end, my parents were both awake and saw me in such an unglam state omg. Luckily, they didn't scold me the next day and we still had dinner together with Sean ^^

Last night, met Sean for dinner at my place and we went for a run together. Super long never run together because he's quite busy with army. So happy we managed to clock 5km but I almost died after not exercising at all for 11/12 days after our Taiwan trip. Felt super unfit, gonna start my running regime again! Met my friends again for impromptu supper at chomps and durian feast at yx's condo. First time stepping into his territory and it's quite a nice place to chill at night! No complains from the residents although the 8 of us were quite noisy throughout. 

Gonna bathe now and catch a movie with Sean later! Another impromptu plan, but the weekend is so far so good :)

P.S pardon the pixelated and different quality photos. Photos all taken randomly from Kl's Chua's and my phone.

Thoughts

Nowadays, its really getting more difficult to find someone who can actually understand you and not judge you so quickly. Just a simple conversation discussing about simple stuff can actually lead to an argument so easily. What happened to listening before any nonsense accusations? I guess maybe I'm at fault too? Since it takes two hands to clap. Feels so empty and sucky to feel this way but I guess nobody really cares.

I miss those days where it's all about listening fully and having proper meaningful conversations with the people I love. Gone were those days. I don't expect people to understand the things I say but to always have accusations thrown at me is like unimaginably hurtful. Makes me feel like all the efforts I've put in all these while are all gone to waste. It's so nice to have someone who understands exactly what or how you are feeling at any point but now I know it's almost close to impossible to having it. Now, everyone is too quick to judge, comment and say nasty things. Is it just the world changing or me being the problem? 

Life is short and everyone is so caught up in it. Be it with work, school, army or any other commitments, nobody really cares genuinely anymore. At the end of the day, we are all alone. Sometimes all we need is someone to constantly reassure us that "everything will be fine", to hear us out when we are at the rock bottom. This is the kind of motivation we all need in our life, isn't it? At least this is the kind of motivation that I need in my life right now.