in an attempt to motivate myself to write more i am doing a thing where i write in my blog every day of the week but save the entire post as a draft until sunday and publish it. that way if the day is boring i dont have to write much. but por ejemplo monday was awesome. todays already practically wednesday but here goes
sunday the 17th: went home for dinner with the family. afterwards i went to shida night market and saw peggy chang who i havent seen for two years. she's the first friend i made when i came to taiwan to do loveboat, that month long camp where we travelled around taiwan and did boring stuff. it was great to see her and catch up. she's really the only friend i have left from there that i still miss and talk to. with everyone else im pretty sure if i saw them it'd be small talk for a few hours and we'd both leave the hangout feeling awkward and relieved to have gotten that over with. peggy and i always talk about stuff and she's hilarious and i've missed her.
monday the 18th: went with lachlan to wulai. it is a mountain rainforest villagey area where a bunch of aboriginals in taiwan live. we thought it was going to rain.. and rain it did. only a 40 minute scooter ride out of taipei if the traffic is on your side (which is wasnt) wulai is a totally awesome day vacay. we got wine and noodles and went down a beaten path to see where it took us. chilled by the riverside and made up our own songs because we had no speakers. eventually it started pouring. on the way back we found the waterfall that we had passed by earlier but had a lot of people at. but the rain scared them off, it was deserted. we climbed around the top of the waterfall and that is when i decided i wanted to go swimming, so we did! it was fun and awesome we had our own private waterfall lagoon and the water wasnt even that cold. went back to the city, got japanese curry and watched breaking bad, a drama about a cancer patient meth cooker. its pretty good. theeen we hit the mahjong tiles for a few rounds and i came home and stayed up until the sun came up which is something i've been doing a lot unfortunately. at least i wont have jetlag in seattle!
tuesday the 19th: didn't do much today except for go to lunch with lachlan, read cosmo in shida park and then came back and did laundry. i put the laundry in the dryer for two rounds today instead of one like usual and my clothes came out COMP LETELY DRY. sad that this was the highlight of my day.. but it was. and i attempted to watch harry potter 7 part one but it was so laggy and pixelly i just ended up getting annoyed. jamie and i are going to the beach... in 5 hours hah
wednesday: didn't end up going to the beach
thursday: went to the beach, got really rosy on my cheeks. got a new swim suit, its blue. started raining so rebecca and i went swimming naturally.
friday/saturday/sunday: didnt do anything worth documenting. went home to visit the family and spent the night at a friends on saturday night.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
things i have lost
cell phone
money
hello kitty wallet
jewelry
faith in humanity
the game
some of my favorite clothes
socks and bras
keys
my virginity
homework
my mind
money
hello kitty wallet
jewelry
faith in humanity
the game
some of my favorite clothes
socks and bras
keys
my virginity
homework
my mind
started out with nothing
i think it used to be easier to write. at least for me, when i was younger. i never thought about what to write about really i'd just write about my day and it would turn into a really long incoherent tangent with no real purpose. but i love looking at those old journal entries where i would just write out my entire day. i mean even then i was lazy and probably never wrote as much as i should have.. who does? but i really would never have remembered any of what i read about in those entries if i hadnt written them down. lately its been bugging me that life has been too mundane to write about anything fascinating, but i'm curious now if maybe i should just write about the mundane things, write about my surroundings and how i'm feeling this exact moment and see if its as entertaining to read about a few years from now. maybe ill do one of those picture a day things but probably not thats way too much work.
today i had lunch with lachlan and afterwards we sat in the park and read the "50 things you never should have stopped doing" from cosmo magazine. it was the stupidest list ever i can make a better one. as a matter of fact i will.. i dont know if i can get to 50 though:
1. never stop reading the books you loved as a child
2. never stop singing in the shower
3. never stop enjoying the small things in life that are important to you. for me: aioli sauce and feta cheese, a nice breeze on a hot day and the feeling you get when you find money in places you werent expecting
4. never stop bubble baths
5. never stop playing with fire!
6. "sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down, just get back up when it knocks you down."
7. never should stop doing summer bonfires
8. or allnighters with friends
9. doing fireworks twice a year minimum or at the very least watch them
10. never stop talking to people you promise to keep in touch with. people who can make you laugh, people who challenge you to think, people you teach you how to live. they're hard to come by
11. never stop picking your nose, i'm serious. think of all the gross boogers that will stay there unless you pick them out
12. here are a few things you should never stop eating: roasted marshmellows, popcorn at the movies, cheese, hummus, cream cheese and bagels, spaghetti, lasagna, dumplings, indian curry, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, cheeseburgers, pizza, clam chowder, spiced chai, chocolate mousse, creme brulee
13. don't stop taking naps in the sun. or taking naps in the rain. napsss are great
14. stargazing
15. family game nights are awesome! if you dont live with your family do it with your roommates friends etc the homeless man on the street...
16. don't stop writing about the things that happen every day
17. never stop dressing up for the sake of fun and being pretty.
18. never stop playing with puppies! they're the cutest
19. never stop playing in the snow at least once. if there's snow
20. i'm tired and can't think of anymore. never forget what it feels like to be young and have the world at your feet. never forget what it was/is like when life was a mystery, when there were things you were curious about. when there were things you thought you'd never experience. everything is always happening. never let that end.
today i had lunch with lachlan and afterwards we sat in the park and read the "50 things you never should have stopped doing" from cosmo magazine. it was the stupidest list ever i can make a better one. as a matter of fact i will.. i dont know if i can get to 50 though:
1. never stop reading the books you loved as a child
2. never stop singing in the shower
3. never stop enjoying the small things in life that are important to you. for me: aioli sauce and feta cheese, a nice breeze on a hot day and the feeling you get when you find money in places you werent expecting
4. never stop bubble baths
5. never stop playing with fire!
6. "sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down, just get back up when it knocks you down."
7. never should stop doing summer bonfires
8. or allnighters with friends
9. doing fireworks twice a year minimum or at the very least watch them
10. never stop talking to people you promise to keep in touch with. people who can make you laugh, people who challenge you to think, people you teach you how to live. they're hard to come by
11. never stop picking your nose, i'm serious. think of all the gross boogers that will stay there unless you pick them out
12. here are a few things you should never stop eating: roasted marshmellows, popcorn at the movies, cheese, hummus, cream cheese and bagels, spaghetti, lasagna, dumplings, indian curry, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, cheeseburgers, pizza, clam chowder, spiced chai, chocolate mousse, creme brulee
13. don't stop taking naps in the sun. or taking naps in the rain. napsss are great
14. stargazing
15. family game nights are awesome! if you dont live with your family do it with your roommates friends etc the homeless man on the street...
16. don't stop writing about the things that happen every day
17. never stop dressing up for the sake of fun and being pretty.
18. never stop playing with puppies! they're the cutest
19. never stop playing in the snow at least once. if there's snow
20. i'm tired and can't think of anymore. never forget what it feels like to be young and have the world at your feet. never forget what it was/is like when life was a mystery, when there were things you were curious about. when there were things you thought you'd never experience. everything is always happening. never let that end.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
consecutive happenings
i cannot even remember the last time i sat down and wrote. i've kind of been feeling apathetic and indifferent towards life lately, making things uninteresting. ive realized all it does to me is make me count down the days until i go home, but actually i've been doing a lot of cool stuff.
i guess the only major thing that ISNT happening lately is no major changes.. therefore no life epiphanies or theories to publish. i guess thats why i haven't written. nothing too much to vent off about either. so, i guess i can't complain. but i've done a bunch of super cool trips. like that three day vacation away from the city to green island and taroko
and that time pat and i biked from my house to danshui from 2:30 AM to 5:30 am. i have attempted to learn to surf (no success thus far.. attempting again this weekend though), and some other day adventures with my good friends in taiwan. andrew came to visit me. having a friend from home made me realize in such a drastic way that i have two completely separate lives. and i guess i have changed a lot from the person i used to be. i mean i still like the same things and have the same values but i think i go through life differently. i've grown up. i've grown up having friends that are older than me, but more so i've grown up being so independent. it's funny. for the last two years my parents kept telling me i wasnt going to be capable of taking care of myself. i'm doing a pretty good job. not completely independent but more so than most of my friends. sometimes i want to feel like a kid again though. i'm not saying i'm completely not a kid anymore, i just mean sometimes i want to feel vulnerable and like i have no control over what happens. sometimes i wish there was someone that would say "everything will be okay if you do what i tell you to do" but i guess this is growing up.
anyways, 25 more days until i go home. here's a new approach to life i've recently decided to start applying. whenever making a tough decision ask yourself: what's the worst that could happen? what's the best that could happen? obviously extreme circumstances excluded i'm not talking about war, death and epidemics, okay.
i guess the only major thing that ISNT happening lately is no major changes.. therefore no life epiphanies or theories to publish. i guess thats why i haven't written. nothing too much to vent off about either. so, i guess i can't complain. but i've done a bunch of super cool trips. like that three day vacation away from the city to green island and taroko
anyways, 25 more days until i go home. here's a new approach to life i've recently decided to start applying. whenever making a tough decision ask yourself: what's the worst that could happen? what's the best that could happen? obviously extreme circumstances excluded i'm not talking about war, death and epidemics, okay.
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