mama in taipei! pt. 1
I think I can say with full confidence that my mom had a blast in Taipei! I often forgot to bring my camera with me on our Taipei excursions because […]
singapore days: pt. 4
You’ll have to excuse the gross lack of photographic record of our final day in Singapore. To tell the truth, I took my first picture + then proceeded to eat […]
singapore days: pt. 3
Our third day in Singapore brought us through Chinatown + to maaaaaany Temples: Hindu, Buddhist + Taoist. The first thing we did once we got to Chinatown, like proper tourists, […]
singapore nights
Despite tales of Singapore’s bustling night life, I did not partake in any of the city’s clubbing + bar hopping during this trip (as exciting as that might have been […]
singapore days: pt. 2
On day two in Singapore, we decided to go to Pulau Ubin, an island off the main city that is reputed to be quite the way all of Singapore was […]
singapore days: pt. 1
So as I was saying, three weeks ago my mom came to Asia to visit me! It was her first time in Asia + she stayed for two weeks, one […]
hedwig: mandarin style
We got a four day weekend this weekend because of Tomb Sweeping Day + Children’s Day in Taiwan. It poured (like, actually POURED) all day + I spent most of […]
teaser
I don’t like posting for the sake of posting, but that’s sort of exactly what I am doing to say that I haven’t forgotten you, my devoted readers, or ze […]
finding the way away in a tourist trap: jiufen
During my first few weeks in Taipei, I went on a bunch of touristy excursions knowing that as school picked up, I would have less + less time for such […]
a little self-guided research, pt. 3: translation/theatre
In celebration of my trip to Singapore with my mama, I reckon this is the perfect time to post about Singaporean writer Kuo Pao Kun’s play Mama Looking for Her […]
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