Taiwan Picture Post

taken at the national palace museum garden

i ate this like every night. omg, so good. (taipei 101 food court)

the view from where my dad went to elementary school.

the metro is awesome. and you thought you didn't have to wait anywhere else. and plus, there're flat screens with very attractive people on it (takeshi kaneshiro is so attractive).

Chan Kai Shek Memorial. Did you know he was a Christian? cool.

the worst food evar. don't ever eat this. it's steamed stinky tofu in pork blood. gross.

let's play a game. whoever can find the most errors in this passage wins!

this is my favorite picture from the trip. Taroko National Park

notice, 75% or us have cameras.

there's a pharmacy called ROS near Taiwan National University!!!!!! puaahaahaahaahaaa

where my dad went to college.

ok that's all. more to come later.

OMG

Dogs

I'm a dog person. The day a cat scratched me on the back of my hand, I became a dog person.

There's something about dogs that makes them almost infinitely lovable: their unswerving loyalty. The knowledge that this dog will love you, no matter what you do. That everytime you come home, that dog has been waiting for you, yearning for you to come home to play with it. That whenever an intruder walks through your front door, it will give up everything to protect you. It will love the things you love, whether it's food or people. That it will (kind of) listen to you if you've had a bad day, calm you down if you've had a stressful day and comfort you if your mood is on the downswing. Sometimes as a human, I don't understand this unconditional loyalty. I mean, just because I feed a dog food regularly would be ground for it to be so attached?

But the thing is, I value that. I value loyalty and it is something that (hopefully) the people I love feel they recieve from me.

Anyway, here's Taiwan, in a nutshell... (actually a small bean wrapped in rice dough covered in peanut flour).

I don't sleep on planes

or subways

or cafes

but for some reason I can sleep on cars, lawns and libraries.

But I don't sleep on planes. Instead, I watched Little Miss Sunshing (prepare to laugh your face off at the end), Miami Vice (bad movie with good looking people), read and finished The Kite Runner(Read it. it's worth reading, seriously), journaled and ate.

oh well.

to sleep I go!

Coming to you from

TAIWAN!!!!! ^_^

Where boba is dirt cheap, dogs pee on motorcycles and Jay Chou can't grow a mustache.

Wait, I take that back. Jay Chou can't grow a mustache anywhere.

Taiwan totally rocks.

The Joy of The Lord...

Is my Strength

Today, I accomplished something that I wanted to do since the beginning of the quarter. I shared it at Sonrise and it hasn't happened to me in such a long time. I laughed until my stomach hurt. We were seriously laughing for like 15 minutes just about one thing. But it was the best time. Thanks guys, for making me laugh so hard. And, Thanks God.

Since Saturday morning, I've felt joy. A stark contrast to Friday night which was drowned in sorrow. But this weekend has been good. Thanks everyone who participated, even on the phone.

This past quarter has been a test, and I passed it. There were no grades, there's no percentage. It's pass or not pass, and I passed. That's an awesome feeling that I can't contribute to myself. At the beginning of the quarter, I broke down in tears thinking I wouldn't be able to even survive the quarter, let alone finish it. During midterms, I seriously thought about just giving up and going home, taking the rest of the quarter off. But, by God's grace and strength, I actually finished the quarter doing almost just as well as I had been doing previously.

Today I had an epiphany on the BART. I've been watching Pride and Prejudice and in these women's lives, all they think about is marriage and the story kind of showed me how trivial sometimes that can be...but that was me. And then I started The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis and it showed me that there's nothing we can take to heaven. Just our actions and our souls. So on the BART, I became convinced that marriage, relationships and boys don't define me. They don't give me worth as a person and they most certainly do not get me into God's good graces in heaven. I already have all of that and my future/life is secure. It's secure. God gives and takes away. Everything is from Him and nothing is mine to keep or to claim as mine. The only thing I can do is to use everything that I have for God's Kingdom, for the spread of his good word and to have everyone I know come into a relationship with Jesus. In my status now, God has a plan for me, as a single woman. And I'm going to sure as heck find out what God wants me to do, and do it. Knowing and doing it would no doubt bring me the joy that comes only from the Almighty.

This weekend has been good.

Thanks God :)

Mr. Darcy

::swoon::