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06 Apr 2010 | Tzu Chi
80 days after the quake: Tzu Chi's 11th relief team
   
Many thanks for this great opportunity to travel as part of Tzu Chi's 11th relief team to help the victims of Haiti, to all other team members for their compassion and support, to the Haitian volunteers for their unending devotion and heart to help, to the other volunteers in Boston for their guidance and encouragement, to the fabulous work of the 1st-10th teams, to the Haitian people and to Master Cheng Yen for leading us and making everything possible.
24 Mar 2010 | Cycling Taiwan part 4
Taitung, Taiwan
   
Another 160km of cycling to Taitung. I actually originally planned to cycle around to Kaohsiung or Tainan but did not get enough time after some mild sickness.
24 Mar 2010 | Cycling Taiwan part 3
Hualien, Taiwan
   
With forecasts of heavy rain and wind, I took the train for the Suao-Hualien stretch as that highway tends to be dangerous for cyclists in bad weather. South of the Taroko gorge, things are dramatically drier and sunnier. Hualien county is home to a number of aboriginal villages, including some of the Amis (阿美族) and Taroko (太魯閣族) peoples. With dramatic cliffs, wetlands, fields of flowers, and turquoise ocean waters it is one of the most scenic parts of Taiwan. Hualien is also the location of the Tzu Chi headquarters, a worldwide community service organisation I volunteer with.
23 Mar 2010 | Cycling Taiwan part 2
Yilan, Taiwan
   
The first time I had gone to Taipei was with my school orchestra, and spending all day practising for a concert we never actually got out of Taipei, so this time I took my bicycle with me and set out to cycle across the island -- first, over the mountains and to the Yilan plain, full of beautiful wide open spaces, flowers, farms, and ... a lot of rain (which I'm sure the farmers are happy about).
19 Feb 2010 | Cycling Taiwan part 1
Taipei, Taiwan
   
In my school years, it was in Taipei (台北) that I ever really wandered a city with friends for the first time. In Kuala Lumpur I was almost always with family, but taken to Taipei as part of a school orchestra trip for a performance together with 5 other schools, it was the first time I ever flew on an aircraft without parents, the first time I was out in the evening with friends rather than family, the first time in a restaurant with friends, the first time I ever set foot in a 7-Eleven. That was a long time ago. But a decade later, I set off once again to Taiwan, taking my bicycle with me this time. Some things have changed tremendously: most notably, Taipei 101 sort of appeared. But many things were still rather familiar, and most unchanged was the still-amazing food experience, night markets and the variety of vegetarian food all over the place.
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