The cool shopfront from Taipei Central District for Sign2

 

This shop only opens at night. It is designed for people who takes acids I guess. Effects are more pronounced for drug users.

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Sign2

Tamshui Taiwan Dock for Skywatch Friday

 

The water was actually clean in contrast to my childhood memory. 

Tamsui Old Street is divided into the inner and outer side. The outer street is the golden anchor walkway of Tamsui river coast, while the inner side is a traditional old street lined with bustling shops. There are faithfully traditional pastry shops, groceries and stores selling trendy outfits and toys. The popular foods in the area include A Gei, fish ball, fried fish crackers, traditionally baked cake, Granny’s iron eggs, etc. are all must try goodies. In the evening, the beautiful scenery of the sun setting below the ocean horizon can be seen along the golden anchor walkway.

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Skywatch Friday

Taipei street signs for Sign2

 

Sign overload everywhere in Taipei street

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Cat family in tea room outside a cafe for Mural Monday

 

This is a mural I would have forgotten in the hard drive if I was not searching for a mural to post on this event

Outside a cafe in Taipei Taiwan

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

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Taipei mural for Mural Monday

 

Melbourne is cold too. Despite me paying the bill, mum's frugal approach to simple life means no heating at all (I spent 20k AUD on the 26 sheets of solar panel and a battery too). She even developed chilblains in her feet. The generation. 

My trip to Cape Woolamai did not happen as the gale was up to 40 knots. The weekend weather was not fitting for me to go into the nature at all. Plus mum and brother were nagging me to stay home boy instead. So I ended up trying the best winning 2023 pie in Australia - I will show later on.

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Mural Monday

Taipei Mural in Ximengding for Mural Monday

 

It looks very odd. It feels Bolognese sauce gone wrong in human brains. 

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Linking Mural Monday

Taipei Hut for Mural Monday

 

This was a tool shed to store cleaning equipment. Quite a lot of walls painted by mural. It was a nice area to explore.

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Mural Monday

Street sign in Tamshui Taipei for Sign2

 

The sign says street corner. The carp symbolises wealth. 

This is an old street from 1900s

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Sign2

Comic book premier on mural for Mural Monday

 

Quite comical to see a fusion of Japanese Manga and Taiwanese local style in the mural

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Linking Mural Monday

Manga Mural for Mural Monday

 

This is the mural from the time I was in Taipei. 

Just got home from Queensland. Rushing through all the work preparations for next day. The conference was a good break first time in my life. 

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Mural Monday

Confucius mural in Taipei Street

 

Mural Monday event features an Asian theme of an old wise man. 

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Mural Monday

Tamshui Taipei Taiwan for Sunday Best

 

This is near the river mouth in Taipei district. It looks somewhere in a tropical island. In fact, it is next to ugly concrete jungle. 

An illusion

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

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Samurai possessed for Mural Monday

 

This is a Japanese themed mural Spotted in Taipei

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Mural Monday

Ximending Street Art, Taipei for Mural Monday

 

This was one of the murals on my trip in Taipei Taiwan. A boring central district but a stroll on the graffiti street was fun. It took a while to find. 

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Mural Monday

Sign in the train station for Tom's Sign2 Event

 

The sign says pray for goodness in life

Not sure if it was a cow above it or a reindeer. Never mind.

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Colourful lanterns for Tom's Treasure Tuesday

 

Nice patterns on the lanterns when I tried to have some nice XiaoLongBao ( a version of thin skinned soup dumplings)

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FE 14mm f1.8 GM

Linking Tom's Treasure Tuesday

Taipei Street Mural

 

A typical Japanese style underwear worn by most silver hair in Japan. The mural suggests a gambling problem running away from Mahjong. 

Sony A7RV

FE 14mm f1.8 

Linking Mural Monday

National Memorial

 

This is one of the facades in the memorial hall for one of the leaders in Taiwan. 

Given all the troubles with blogger, I will rest the blogging until I get home. I will still comment and visit other blogs that I am "allowed" to visit too.

I will be back 3 weeks later. On Monday to Wednesday, I will be joining a team to hike in the mountains. I hope my fitness level is up for it. 

Butterfly for Eileen's Saturday Critter

 

It is quite difficult to even post on blogspot. I have scheduled all the photo posts on the other street photography 3 weeks ahead. Here, I was planning to post it day by day. Very often, the editing platform just crashed for no apparent reasons either. 

Getting home to my home town in Taipei is always a nightmare. Everyone seems to want to borrow money for their own family dysfunction. I am not a bank. It is really getting to me that things have to get ugly.

I also learnt that I cannot even copy and paste my blog link address to all the weekly event either. I miss my original structure back in Australia. Humans only thrive on restructure. Constant innovation does not bring stability.

Olympus 150mm f2

Linking Saturday Critter

Santoukou Ramen

Yummy noodle. In Taipei