Taipei Taipei

Just came back from my little retreat from Taipei with my beloved on Sunday. I was there for 5D/4N free and easy trip.

It is now summer in Taiwan and the weather is so so hot! The very first thing I bought in Taipei after I checked in to the hotel was sunblock. :D

Didn't really like the food there but the beef noodles are to die for. I also like the braise duck found in 西門町 itself, but I forgot the name of the restaurant.

I had the best bubble tea ever called 青蛙撞奶 found at this 陳三鼎黑糖粉圓鮮奶專賣店 near 公館 station. The queue was super long but it was worth the wait. 

Before I go to Taiwan, many people told me that things in Taiwan are VERY CHEAP. But sadly it is not. Maybe I've went there at the wrong timing as I heard during Winter and Spring, the stuffs selling there are really very cheap.

Went to a few tourist spots and did a lot of walking under the hot sun everyday. Thank God for their nice and well planned subway facilities that we also get to avoid the sun as much as possible walking underground.

It was overall a nice place to visit as the Taiwanese are really very friendly and helpful. Especially for the Chinese, you would not feel like a foreigner when you are there.

 

Nice to meet you....Love

You don't look for love. Love... just happens.

I had given up on Love once, but then.... Love has found me.

Everyone wants to love and be loved.

Love... is not about being with someone. Love... is knowing that someone is there for you whenever you need him/her. Love.. is that someone will always be there on standby even when you don't need them.

Love comes in many forms. To know Love is to Care.Even if you have stop loving someone intimately, that doesn't mean you have stop loving that person at once. As long you still care, you love. Difference is, that 'love' as evolved to a different kind of Love.

Sometimes, Love can be blind but Love is also a Choice. Falling Out of Love is as easy as falling in, if you let it. But, you can be in control and choose to Stay In Love.

Love is beautiful yet cunning. It might throws many challenges and temptations at you occasionally.

Love knows no boundaries. Race, age, gender, wealth, education, religion could not be used to measure love. Coz Love, knows non of them.

Love is Protective but isn't Possessive. Love knows contentment, not envy.

Love is a fragile little thing that requires careful nurturing with loads of patience, understanding, compromise, endurance, care and support.

Love is not selfish but it isn't selfless.

Love is unconditional. Though Love does not expect anything in return but it wishes to be loved back.

To Love others, we must first Love ourselves.

Love is as powerful as it is destructive. It can either make you a better person or the opposite. This is all depends on who and what you Love.

These are what I've learned about Love and how I interpret Love. :)

As I Was Saying.... The Book's Cover

Never judge a book by it's cover. This is what we have always been hearing or even reminded ourselves from time to time.

Judged a book (hypothetically), I did. It was a very funny incident happened 2 days ago during my company's Health Awareness Day. 

You see there were a few representatives came to the event from this fitness training center to gave us some demonstration on self defense techniques. There was a very small size lady and two muscular and fit young guys in their 20's. And there he was, a tall middle age man (he looks like in his late 40's) which is half bald at the front with a ponytail and he faced the audience (I was one of them) and gave an opening speech. To be honest, when I first lay eyes on him, he did gave me a bit of Chinese Kungfu Master kind of impression (base on characters I saw in those old HK movies/drama).

While he was talking, my colleague whispered to me, "Can he be the Master/Sifu?", and very quickly without even thinking for a second, I blurted out, "Cannot be. Coz he got a tummy there." (to be fair, it was just a very small tummy). And quickly, we turn our attention back to that man. He starts giving some introduction about himself and mentioning that he is the trainer of that 2 young guys I was mentioning earlier, and that he is 60 of age and he can do 1000 push up a day. Imagine the Ooohhh and Ahhhh (gasping sound) escaped from the audience' lips (which mostly were ladies) when he mentioned all that.

And there it begun....... both my colleagues immediately turned their head towards me and said, "Liz, you see, you look down on him, did you hear what he just said?!!!? I think he can kill you with just one finger ah!". And we all started giggling so loudly. Honestly, I felt so shy due to what I said earlier, but then it was all a joke. But my, that man was really a surprise. Didn't I mentioned he looks  40's? He is actually 60 years old!!!

My colleagues kept teasing me every now and then when that man demonstrating some acts. So in the end I succumb to my colleagues, "Okay, okay. My fault. I'm so sorry. I take back what I said earlier." (and I pretended to slap myself a few times). Seriously, I laughed so hard and I got tears in my eyes.

Actually the reason why I didn't expect him to be the trainer was because he doesn't really have those muscular physique which I usually see in those sports trainers (too much influenced by all the Kickboxing/MuayThai sports). :P

  

So yes, It's another theory proven that we should never judge a person base on their outlook. 

Enough said.

 

TOUGH

A small episode happened at work today due to some misunderstanding. And I was involved.

Given the same situation if it happened 2 years ago, I would have been so so upset and would have hid at a corner and cry silently. But what happened today did not affects me.I wasn't upset at all.

I am tougher now than I was 2 years ago. Guess my previous job role has offered a very good training ground for me to toughen up myself and to improve my EQ.

I still don't like to argue with people and usually the first one to keep quiet if I see the other party can't be reasoned with. But at least now, I don't get upset by all these minute stuffs.

Even if I've done wrong, I would apologize to the other party and move on coz I always believe let bygone be bygone. I do not hold any grudge towards anyone and I also hope no one does towards me.

And I choose to focus on all the happy and good things in life. Coz, the GOOD is Bigger than the bad.

Life can be tough. We just have to be tougher. :)

P/S : At the end all are good (I hope). :D