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This year I'm much closer.Happy New Year! : )NYE 2008 @ Taipei 101

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It' s a pleasant town by the lake and famous for its palace and temple. As you can probably tell from the picture, the pace is slow here. It's from some detail that you learn that there's something special about this town. "Miniature" is the special art form they master here. If you have the time to draw things nicely on your wall, that probably means that your life is wealthy/relaxed enough that

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It's not really that comfy to sleep but again I chose to spend my night on the overnight train from Jaipur to Udaipur. I woke up a couple times but the 9-hour journey actually passed quite quickly. I always pick upper berth while booking for overnight train so i can be far from the hassle of the aisle. Since I tend to go for the cheaper non-AC carriages, many things would happen in this "open"

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So far i wrote about Delhi and Agra, so maybe I should at least finish the golden triangle. Here it is.Again, I woke up at 5 and rushed to the train station. My driver was waiting for me outside the hotel, and the sky was still dark when I left.We managed to get to the station on time but the train didn't. According to other backpackers, this is not unusual since India is such a big county. We

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Guess it's about time to write something. Life has been treating me alright lately, but my life has been all about work these days. And time flies when your days are filled with work.Anyway, maybe more writing to come this weekend....

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It's called the Golden Triangle of India. To some people, it's what India is all about. Delhi, Agra and Jaipur form a tourist loop that most visitors to India would come by. For me, I wouldn't mind following the crowds, especially before I get to know this country well enough. So, the first stop is Delhi, the capital of this huge country. I might have said some bad things about this city but

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"India is the kind of place that you can find your peace of mind." said Martin, a Brit that I met in the east coast of Australia. And a couple weeks later, I bought an one way ticket to Delhi from Bangkok after getting my visa to India in the local embassy. I was not alone when I arrived. It was an indirect flight from Bangkok to Delhi that passengers had to spend one night in Bangladesh, and

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So, Phoebe and Alma will go travelling next week. One for almost 2 months in France and UK, and one for about 75 days in China, Tibet, Nepal, India and possibly Iran. Three of us used to backpack in Greece and Turkey together while we were in college, so I got this strange feeling of being left out while I learnt that both of them are off for big trips.Back then we met quite a few people that

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It's 2am now.I don't know it's because of the green tea that I had tonight or the fact that I'm starting a new life, I'm having some trouble falling asleep in my cozy new room. I just moved in this morning, and it's located on the top floor ( or more like the rooftop ) of an old apartment in Xinyi district. The room is modest but comes with most of the basics that I need, and faces a balcony that

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This one is about travelling. I always believe that the best picture that will pull you back into the sensation you felt while in a certain journey is never the beautiful postcard-like scenery shot. It's a hot afternoon, I was in a bus with my big backpack and about to leave Mumbai. India never stops to surprise me with even the smallest thing that you can spot on the streets. And then, there's

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Happy New Year to all and ....We were a bit far off but that's Taipei 101 for sure. ;-)Hope this year will be as good as the last one for me.

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Merry Christmas and time to get a bit cultured!!Another Sunday with nothing much to do. So right before I went for a haircut, I dropped by TADA center, where Mike works, to have a look. The palce was a wine distillery before being rebuilt to an art venue, but I have to say the whole setting in that precinct is much better than I expected. The center has many buildings and is nicely maintained.

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If anyone would care, this is how my itinerary was like.

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The picture used in the background is a photo that I took in West Australia few months ago, and the girl is based on a sketch ( or graffiti) that I drawed even before I started the one-year travelling. By putting them together, it became something that I can use to fill up the empty space here. ( Sad but true.. )I tried some other fancy decorations on the picture but ended up deciding that I

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After having curry ( or whatever that tastes like curry ) everyday for 3 weeks in a row, I start to wonder if curry or some of its ingredients are addictive. Instead of getting tired of that taste, I actually craved for this magical mix of spices in the final few days of my trip in India. But the craving is easily cured when I started to have problems in my stomach right after leaving India and I

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Believe it or not, I'm finally back at home now. Everything here still works as the same way that I remember, and it does not feel like that I've been gone for a whole year. As for me, the journey of the past 2 weeks is a bit rough. The travelling itself is pretty alright, but my eyes was irritated by something for several days that I looked as if I've been crying the whole day and can't even see

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I'm now in Goa. What are the cows doing on the beach? Haha, I have been wondering that as well. But this is India, they are everywhere. The journey so far of heading south has showed me a very different aspect of India. Goa is a Christian area that they do eat beef here, and the religion also reflects on the clothing that more modern dress can be seen on the streets. As to the famous beach here

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Now in Jaipur, my third stop. Taj Mahal in Agra is really quite amazing, but I start to realize that travelling in India is maybe more about seeing the life style here than just the tourist spots. This part of the world is nothing like what I can imagine before. Travelling alone here ain't easy, but facing the reality here is harder. There're so many poor people and sometime I really don't know

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I'm now in Delhi but I will go to Agra in several hours. Although I stayed here altogether less than 48 hours, it 's definitely enough for me. It's not like there's nothing to do here, but it's just too hectic. The sanitary condiction and noise are also ...er... overwhelming. I went to Jama Masjid and the Red Fort today. They are the 2 most famous tourist spots in Delhi. They are all nice

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Again, I'm in Bangkok and got the visa to India now. I spent the past few days in Chiang Mai and a small town called Pai, which is in the north of Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai is nice and a great place to learn about Thai culture. I took a cooking course there and ,since I have the recipe with me, I should be able to cook the same nice dishes after going back home. Anyway, we will see. Pai is the kind

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I'm now in Bangkok and I'm applying my visa to India at this moment. It takes several days to apply so I will stay here for a while or maybe have a short trip to Chiang Mai first. Somehow I look very much like a local here with my tan and long hair. It saves me from being greeted by most of the touts & tuk-tuk drivers on the streets. Bangkok is about shoppping and temples, so far I didn't really

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I'm in Phuket of Thailand now. Somehow the weather has been a bit lousy since I arrived Malaysia. It rains a lot lately and Southeast Asia is having some serious haze problem now. It's not very pleasant to travel around with this kind of weather and air pollution, but I guess I'm also moving on ( or running away ) pretty quickly. That's it for now and I should write more next time. : )

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I'm now in Singapore and this is actually already my third night here. Singapore reminds me of Taipei in a strange way, but it's definitely a good cushion for me to return the life in Asia since it's a good mix of cultures. I have been lucky along this trip because it seems wherever I go, they all happen to have a festival or something like that. It was the River Festival in Brisbane, and then

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I did some wwoofing (Willing worker of organic farm) in the past few days and stayed in an old lady's house. I usually worked with her in the herb & vegie garden or help out with some house chore in the morning, then had the afternoon to stay at the beach or just relax. She's a yoga teacher as well as an ex-chef that has published her vegetarian cooking book, so I indeed learnt a lot about herbs

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