Learning about my Sparketype

"Most people might define success as mastery of a craft or skill, but rarely is it defined as something rooted in self-knowledge and self-awareness." I don't think I've explicitly mentioned here that I like taking personality tests, but I have shared something about personality tests in an old post. Recently, I discovered Sparketype by Jonathan...

The first 2 weeks of October – of catch-ups and work funs

I can't believe it's already November as I'm writing this. In just 2 months, we'll be saying goodbye to 2021 and we'll be welcoming 2022. That also means that we'll have been in this pandemic for 2 years. Yikes. Moving on... I'll be splitting this post into two because I feel like it's going to...

[Monthly summary] Self-reflection September

Family calls and visits We had a couple of video calls and on one occasion, my sister found it funny to play with the kids' faces! Hahaha I was in charge of taking screenshots to send to the family after our call.  We also visited T’s grandmother who was doing much better than the last...

Family, friends, food, and learnings in July

It took me quite a while to write this because things became hectic and I wasn't able to spend as much time blogging as I wanted. I'll do better! Family We had a couple of video calls in July, and this was one of them. The kids are adorbsss and from the looks of it,...

A pretty uneventful (#adulting) June 2021

Life stuff Tax filing and condo downpayment I don't think a lot of eventful things happened in June. Two things I did was to file my taxes and pay the downpayment for our condo. I talked about it in April's update, in case you haven't read that. Tax filing in Taiwan is usually done in...

A life-changing April 2021

I’ve put off writing this post because I didn't really know how to start. Maybe I wanted it to sounder grander than it was? Or maybe everything hasn’t fully sunk in yet. I should probably stop overthinking and so here I am just starting. I don't want to keep delaying this anymore because as you...

[Banqiao Eats] Foliage Cafe, One & Together (在一起), Top One Pot (這一鍋)

Foliage Cafe This restaurant has been on my list for quite some time now, so we finally decided to check it out. They are known to have Southeast Asian offerings such as Penang Curry Laksa Noodles 檳城咖哩叻沙麵 and Thai Green Curry Chicken Rice 泰式綠咖哩雞, which we both tried. We also ordered the original waffles. Well,...

Some other (food) things in March

Ginataan Because I had some upcoming bills to pay in the Philippines, I went to the Filipino street again to make a remittance.  The last time I went there, I had lunch at MH Filipino Cuisine. This time around I didn’t have enough time for lunch so I dropped by the Filipino store instead to...

[Taiwan hiking diaries] Qinglong Ridge 青龍嶺 and Mt. Dadong trail 大棟山步道

We added another mountain to our hike list - Qinglong Ridge 青龍嶺 and Mt. Dadong trail 大棟山步道 in Shulin! Granted, we didn’t walk the entire route because we didn't know that we had already drove past the starting point. Oops! That's something we can do next time. Before we went to Shulin for our hike,...

[Banqiao eats] Taiwanese food at 吾時食牛肉麵, and Japanese food at 漁之誘

Taiwanese food at 吾時食牛肉麵 There's this beef noodle place in Banqiao called 吾時食牛肉麵 that I've been eyeing for quite some time. There are mixed reviews online so we decided to try it out for ourselves for our firsthand verdict. Verdict: we liked it! They have a delicious and flavorful soup base and chewy noodles -...