Being a Vegetarian

I find it is very powerful for being a vegetarian - basically, you have less options when considering what to eat and hence you eat the same food/restaurant over and over again.  Also, no one can bribe you with the offer of great steak anymore.  Not too bad.

My experience of veggie restaurant is that people are generally very nice, dinners are very polite and quiet.  The waiters always tell you something is very delicious, you have to have it - it turns out not as good as they claim most of the time.

Brisbane Photos

Mum and I spent some time to find the dress for myself to wear in Alex's wedding earlier this year - cannot be too bright and flamboyant that attracts attentions but cannot look too boring.  It turned out nice, keeping a photo here because I don't know when I will wear it again.

Bala Article

There are many articles published by friends in FaceBook but it is very obvious those were translated from Mainland Chinese - some phrases were giving it away such as "Shocking", "Moved", "Speechless" - I don't remember those were used that frequently in Taiwanese Chinese.   The contents were overly melodramatic and unsophisticated.  A typical example is the title would say "Russian President Putin made a speech that shocked the whole Chinese Population" - if you click into the article, you will probably find those statements were not made by Putin but you did read it from some other magazines.  It is also very doubtful that Putin's speech are translated to Chinese word by word and read by the whole China - I don't think even President Xi's speech was that popular.  This whole story is completely fake and being put together just to attract careless readers.  Nothing is true nothing is authentic - the publisher can get paid if the article attracts web traffic hence they are very used to make up disturbing headlines or pictures.

Please do not share articles if you are unsure about the origin - that's really annoying.

PS, Bala is a how Taiwanese call "Guava", the phase is used to describe time-wasting, useless item, song or people.