Day 1 - Taipei Holiday Trip - Dessert at 3 Sister's
Looks Tempting isn't it! Well, it was yummilicious!
This shop located right next to the dessert shop, selling stinky beancurd.
Sorry, we're not going to try stinky beancurd, cause it really smell like shit!
Ice cream
Fresh Taiwanese Mango
Recommended by the server, hmmm I'll recommend you to just order the mango shave ice without ice cream. The shave ice was so smooth and creamy, better than ice cream, goes very well with the fruits. Don't get me wrong the mango ice cream was good but it's too pricey to order this, it cost NT160/ RM16
No words needed, absolutely delicious!
Black Sugar Shaved Ice with Taro Balls and Red Bean Balls, NT80/RM8
We love the Taro and red bean balls, finish all even though we are extremely full!
Chewy thing with a red bean inside, we all love this!
Bitter gourd drink NT45/RM4.50, good for lowering down cholesterol level. Oh! This we take-away
Cold Tau Hua with Peanut and Pearl, NT30/RM3.00
I will recommend you to save your stomach for other dessert, just order something else. The tau hua, made of agar-agar, peanut was nice-better if is hot.
Address below, in Chinese
After dessert, we felt extremely full, we need to walk around to burn off some calories.
Just right across the street, there are many hawker stalls available, you'll never go hungry in Taipei...never...never as long as you have $$$
Don't it looks familiar, we have Easy Way in KK too!
Today's Meditation:
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.
Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a
wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some
other object, and very possibly we may find that
we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I've definitely been one of the people who have chased after happiness. It wasn't my fault that I did so, for I never had anyone in my life who could teach me that there are other ways to go about being happy, but I certainly was not happy during all of the time that I was looking for it.
The problem was simple, I always expected certain things, or certain people, or certain situations, to make me happy. If this would just happen, I'd tell myself, I'll be happy. And many times "this" would happen, and guess what? I definitely would feel better for a certain amount of time, but none of the things that I expected would make me happy ever did, the good feeling would fade as I started to realize that my dependence on a thing or another person for happiness was more damaging to me than it was helpful.
I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover and practice the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.
If we spend all of our energy trying to change our lives, then we don't have any energy left to make the most out of everything that we have. When we trust life and look for the lessons within our current situations, we have the opportunity to let happiness come into our lives and touch us gently and lovingly, transforming our perspective so that we can see the happiness inside of us and let it grow on its own, without trying to make it grow. We can't force a rose to grow, we can only nourish the plant to create the conditions in which a rose can grow. Happiness works much the same way.
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
Willa Cather
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