The 3.2 ShooterOverheard a couple of mainland Chinese tourists talking about the mountain on the opposite shores of Tamsui River and got to know its name. The weather was just so terrible for the entire day spent at Tamsui. There was a mini-typhoon going on… The river was swollen, there was even reports of landslide in the […]
The airplane flying above Taoyuan, Taiwan, in full view of Taoyuan International Airport and the surrounding towns. The aerial view of this part of Taiwan seems rather disorganized and scattered… It felt incredible to get a full view of the airport before the plane lands, which is probably attributed to the geographical location of the […]
HuaHsi Night Market is known for exotic food like snakes’ gall, ice desserts and goose meat. For me, I’d remembered that nice bowl of pork rib noodles I ate there. It was super tender and succulent… You can’t get pork ribs like that in Singapore.
I came across these movie posters at the Beitou Hot Spring Museum. Beitou used to have a very vibrant cinematic history. I wonder if we should have a cinematic museum in Singapore…
The MRT station at Xinbeitou. I like it’s Classical Chinese architecture. I’d expected Beitou to be a very hilly place with tall trees and secluded. It was surprising to me that this place is so developed (Google Map made it seem like a jungle)! You don’t even feel there are hot springs beneath the ground.
This gate is the ultimate irony to Chiang Kai Shek’s legacy. He was nothing like the words engraved on the gate. 大中至正? He’s the last person to be incorruptible and just. Another megalomaniac that lived in lies about his character, even beyond death.
The thing I like about Taiwan’s National Palace Museum is the words carved on the grand entrance gate. Styled in rich classical chinese architecture and em-blazed with Sun Yat-Sen’s maxim, which translates to the idea of republicanism. “The world belongs to the people”… You won’t see such architecture in Singapore.
I thought this structural support on Taipei 101 looked like a key, more than a ruyi. The ruyi symbolizes heavenly clouds. I guess it kind of complimented the layered clouds behind. Notice that the bottom bit of the sky is dark. A storm was raging, and from the height of 383.4m, I was looking at […]
The National Concert Hall was under renovation, so I wasn’t able to any shots of the entrance. However, I managed to take a shot from the side of the building that was covered up.