Day 5 - Taipei Trip - Taoyuan International Airport

It is time to go back to KK. Kind of missing Taipei, but we already had a pleasant trip. Our flight was at 9.50am and we were there, at the airport two hours earlier.

Waiting at the counter to check-in, we saw the notice stating "Please make sure your baggage have been scan". As we didn't noticed that there is any scanner around, we asked the staffs at the AirAsia counter, but were rudely told by the staffs to stay at our queue and just wait for the check-in. Other passengers were confused by the notice too.

After the check-in, we went to the 4th floor for breakfast.

We all agreed to have breakfast at the Taiwanese Cuisine and Snack Stall. They serves Breakfast Set in the morning.

Porridge Set NT$125

We ordered three sets of porridge. By looking at the Menu, we thought that the set is very small, but we were all wrong.

The porridge was served hot. It is Pork and Preserved Duck Egg Porridge. Tasted not bad. The portion was quite big and we couldn't finish it. Lots of preserved duck egg was found in the porridge.

The Mantou that comes with the set was supermarket bought. We saw the brand. It tasted not bad.

The other condiments that comes with the set, were all tasted not bad, but nothing to shout home about.

After our breakfast, it is time to proceed to the departure hall. There are lots of shops at the International Terminal.

Liquor Shop

Taste Of Taiwan. Coach, Branded Make-Up Store, Loccitane, Branded Watch Shop, Burberry

For those who wanted to do some last minute shopping, you can buy some souvenir from Taste of Taiwan or Hsin Tung Yang.

Free Wi-Fi Zone

Today's Meditation:
Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If one aspect of that cycle doesn't function, the entire cycle ceases to function and the life force cannot move freely. If you can't inhale, you will soon have nothing to exhale, and before long, your body will be unable to continue living.

Shakti Gawain

Generosity has a flip side that few of us tend to notice, it's the side of us that accepts gifts and caring and other people's generosity with graciousness and appreciation. It doesn't reject what others wish to give us out of a false sense of modesty or a desire to seem humble to others; it allows others to give to us, and thus feel the great feeling that comes from doing something for us.

Somehow we've come to believe that it's okay to refuse gifts or help from other people. We have to do things on our own, completely alone, and it may even be a sign of weakness to accept someone else's help. But ask yourself this: how does it make you feel to help someone else out? It makes you feel pretty good, doesn't it? Well, if you don't accept help from others, aren't you robbing them of the chance to have this great feeling for themselves? Aren't you depriving them of the chance to learn what it means to give selflessly and to help another human being?

When we see a movie in which some character looks at a gift from someone else and criticizes it, we cringe and we start to despise that character, for we can see how damaging the behavior is. We know just how great it would be for that other person to have the gift accepted gracefully and gratefully. We see how selfish it is to think only of their own attitude towards the gift, and not the attitude of the gift-giver.

Inadvertently, perhaps, we all do the same thing when we turn down help, when we turn down gifts, when we disregard advice. As Shakti says, though, we can't exhale if we never inhale; our giving will be weak if we never learn to take. One of the most generous things we can do for others is to learn how to accept their generosity towards us.

We must realize that we cannot give love 
unless we can receive love. . . .

In order to give of ourselves, we must nurture ourselves.

John Gray