Finally took a trip outside of Taiwan again... just thought... since there is an opportunity, might as well go and do my walking somewhere else...
I actually had no set plan on where to go and what to see... just going with the flow... perhaps, making it to find the City God Temple 城隍廟 in Shanghai--a temple I had thought might exist, was told to exist not, and finally found out that it really exists after I came back to Taiwan 3 years ago.
There was one thing I wanted to do at the beginning of the journey... My friends' family were flying to Taiwan on the same day although we were not taking the same flight and going to the same airport. Knowing that their flight will take off 2-3 hours earlier than mine, I had in my mind this big plan... sort of... to go into town and have a sip of coffee at a coffee shop.
Possibly due to the fact that they know how not too useful my body is, they were worried and wanted me to have a cup of coffee at the airport instead. lol
Yet, I bid them farewell when they were getting on to the airport bus and ventured on to my final destination... an unknown coffee shop... where I'd be sipping my cup of coffee... people watching.
I knew what was to come... the empire of my body strikes back albeit my rehab efforts. The weight of the luggage, however minimal I packed, still would do damage. I was prepared and I was prepared to find all means to minimize the damage.
I found myself a coffee shop and sat down to leisurely have my cup of coffee... not the first one, not the second one... I made my efforts to search for a coffee shop and, en route, walked a bit more around the Shatin Mall. Which one to choose? As per the order of my body... the Pacific Coffee.
On August 16th, 2013, thousands of people might have visited the Mall, many more a person got a cup of coffee from this shop, quite a few of them sat on one of the seats while I was there or not... The same day when that cup of coffee that I drank and the whole 9 yards it entailed happens to be yet another benchmark I made this year. Surely, there was setback in my bodily condition... yet with minimized repercussions... which could be "repaired" within a few days.
I, like what other travellers do, I walked with luggages hanging at the Mall. I sat down at a coffee shop, drank my cup of coffee, watched the people around, and did some work.
So it is... a cup of coffee... a benchmark. (Man... I surely am ambitious... ain't I? 8-O lol)
I actually had no set plan on where to go and what to see... just going with the flow... perhaps, making it to find the City God Temple 城隍廟 in Shanghai--a temple I had thought might exist, was told to exist not, and finally found out that it really exists after I came back to Taiwan 3 years ago.
There was one thing I wanted to do at the beginning of the journey... My friends' family were flying to Taiwan on the same day although we were not taking the same flight and going to the same airport. Knowing that their flight will take off 2-3 hours earlier than mine, I had in my mind this big plan... sort of... to go into town and have a sip of coffee at a coffee shop.
Possibly due to the fact that they know how not too useful my body is, they were worried and wanted me to have a cup of coffee at the airport instead. lol
Yet, I bid them farewell when they were getting on to the airport bus and ventured on to my final destination... an unknown coffee shop... where I'd be sipping my cup of coffee... people watching.
I knew what was to come... the empire of my body strikes back albeit my rehab efforts. The weight of the luggage, however minimal I packed, still would do damage. I was prepared and I was prepared to find all means to minimize the damage.
I found myself a coffee shop and sat down to leisurely have my cup of coffee... not the first one, not the second one... I made my efforts to search for a coffee shop and, en route, walked a bit more around the Shatin Mall. Which one to choose? As per the order of my body... the Pacific Coffee.
On August 16th, 2013, thousands of people might have visited the Mall, many more a person got a cup of coffee from this shop, quite a few of them sat on one of the seats while I was there or not... The same day when that cup of coffee that I drank and the whole 9 yards it entailed happens to be yet another benchmark I made this year. Surely, there was setback in my bodily condition... yet with minimized repercussions... which could be "repaired" within a few days.
I, like what other travellers do, I walked with luggages hanging at the Mall. I sat down at a coffee shop, drank my cup of coffee, watched the people around, and did some work.
So it is... a cup of coffee... a benchmark. (Man... I surely am ambitious... ain't I? 8-O lol)
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