Before the "heat wave" strikes again, we decided to bring Jade to the Taipei Zoo in Muzha, found at the outer rim of Taipei City. Our zoo trip is one story, a mountain with most part of it turned out to be a cemetery, found along the MRT ride to the zoo, is another. The images seemed to stick to my mind and led me to surf on the net articles about it. I found two personal stories related to it, both of which mentioned about the place being haunted. The cemetery is actually on the mountain itself and underneath the mt. is a tunnel, the Xinpai tunnel that connects central Taipei (city that is) to the outskirts. One story mentions that drivers had their own shares of scary experiences while driving on the said tunnel. Then I remember that two years ago, the first time our Taiwanese friends brought us to the zoo, we past thru the said channel on our way back to Taipei City. Twas already a late afternoon trip back to town so I was so sleepy that I thought the "buildings" I see on top of the mountain are houses but then I thought I appeared like a ghost town. Indeed it was!
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Images long time ago...
A friend forwarded me a retouched picture showing how Session Road looks like decades ago.
On the other hand, I grabbed a photo of the old church in Tublay, my hometown, from a friendster contact.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
What it takes to say YES and what it means to say SO...
YES - Indicates an affirmative response...
AFFIRMATIVE - Expressing or manifesting praise or approval
APPROVAL - Acceptance as satisfactory
ACCEPTANCE - The act of taking something that is offered
SATISFACTORY - Meeting requirements
REQUIREMENTS - Needs
It is so easy to say YES - but the question is that, is YES given as an answer just a simply way of ending a conversation, an argument, a request, a demand, a question, a statement...
What if YES given today or minutes ago suddenly turns out to be a "NO". Then again you'd get an affirmative answer, that is, YES. Word uttered as it is but the ACTION is the other way around.
What does it take to say YES such that the outcome is as required?
...such is for somebody who so easily says so but does the opposite
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