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Wanderlust Taiwan

August 18, 2015

It’s been weeks since the end of my 2015 Asia trip, and I’m continuing with a few more travel posts.

Here is another post from Taiwan. This collection of photos were taken in Taipei, Taiwan. I love the quaint ambience of the streets- I felt it was captured beautifully in these photographs. One thing that I notice about traveling the foreign places is colors. Different countries lead me to stare at different color palettes and combinations than the ones I’m used to seeing. The colors in Taiwan felt especially vibrant, a rainbow array peeking through the background jungle of gray infrastructure and greenery.

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DIOR, DDP, Seoul

July 6, 2015

Visited the Dior exhibition today in the dongdaemun design plaza today. It was a totally beautiful and exhilarating experience. To avoid pretenses, I wouldn’t label myself a museum lover. Going to an art exhibition or museum definitely wouldn’t be the first idea to cross my mind on a given free day. However, I can sincerely say that I’ve never been disappointed in any museum or exhibition visit in these past few years, especially those related to art or fashion. I think art is innately appealing, it is so sensory, human, raw ; it always invokes a stir from within. Maybe it’s triggered by enormous, deafening respect, maybe it’s inspiration- most likely a congregation of both.

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Taipei, Taiwan

June 11, 2015

Greetings from Taiwan!

This is my first time going to Taiwan, and it’s lived up to the high expectations I had-but even surpassed it in many unanticipated ways. I am shocked by a sense of unanticipated simplicity, I expected more of a hustling metropolitan throughout many parts of Taipei. But most surprising is my appreciation for what Taiwan is; I feel refreshed and peaceful. I put in my earphones. The lighthearted reggae or the occasional pop song that plays enhances the drive through the Taipei highways with its unexpectedly pleasant juxtaposition. When I close my eyes the colors still rush through my eyelids, like bits of construction paper melting in a puddle.

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The Next Four

June 6, 2015

I’ve taken a delay in updating about my personal life, because that same personal life has kept me so wrapped up lately in its ups-and-downs. The biggest news that I have is an announcement of where I will be for the next four years. I’m very happy and proud to announce that I will be attending UCLA for college with a major in business economics. (Update: applying for Communications major)

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