by Jonny | Feb 3, 2013 | Travel
Around a week ago I went to Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) and to the Aboriginal Culture Village (九族文化村) in Nantou county in Taiwan. I went with one of my cousins who is a tour guide, so he introduced my family to the place; even though I’ve been there twice before.
Entrance to the village:
A view of the aboriginal village (via Cable Car):
These are also the posts I made the last time I went there:
“Sun Moon Lake”
“Isn’t Taiwan beautiful?”
“Fun times!”
All these pictures were taken at Sun Moon Lake; either in the Sun Moon Lake area or the Aboriginal Village.
by Jonny | Feb 1, 2013 | Fitness
Let’s just say that while my sister has been in Taiwan I’ve gained weight, as I’ve been going out and eating at restaurants and I simply have not had enough time to exercise.
However, I’ve changed all that; now that my sister has returned to the UK I’ve started exercising again.
Today, I pushed myself and I ran around the track 14 times without stopping at a fast pace; it took half an hour to do that as I was really pushing myself.
I just weighed myself and I only gained 3kgs, so it isn’t as bad as I thought it was — as I originally thought I had gained 7kgs; that would really have been a disaster. So, weighing myself now I weigh 86kgs where at my peak I got down to 80kgs, however that was long time ago. In December, before my sister arrived in Taiwan I weighed roughly 83kgs. I’m still overweight by a small margin in comparison to how I was 2 years ago when I originally arrived in Taiwan, but I’ve still got more weight to carve away at. My ideal weight would be 75kgs, but the reason I started putting weight on at 80kgs is because I became fed up as I wasn’t losing any more weight; effectively I hit a plateau. That plateau really demotivated me as I was tirelessly trying to lose weight, yet there were no obvious signs of any weight loss or muscle growth. That really annoyed me, so I became lazy I guess.
I’m rebooting now and hopefully in a month or two I will notice changes, as I will be pushing myself to the absolute LIMITS! Ha.
Here’s a recent pic of myself:
I’ll update this when I feel I can see a difference! I’ve definitely gained weight around my face as I’ve been comparing my face to how it was one year ago:
I can definitely see a difference, or am I just hallucinating?
by Jonny | Jan 31, 2013 | Updates
I am sure I’ve made similar posts to this post about my future. The uncertainties, the worries and the “What will happen… questions”. But, I’ve decided that I would like to make a return to the UK to study again or to simply go back to work! I can leave Taiwan in March/June/July as that is the period that I can stay in the Taiwan; unless I want to do Taiwanese military service, as I am Taiwanese, as well as being British. I would have done the military service last year (I actually wanted to do it then), but I feel that I’ve wasted a year, so I’m no longer interested in doing it and I really need to get studying/working before I become too old and become useless.
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by Jonny | Jan 30, 2013 | Travel
I recently went to this place called Gaoxiong (Pinyin) or Kaohsiung (TW Pinyin; 高雄) and it is the first time I’ve been there since I’ve been in Taiwan. Usually, foreigners will travel around and go places; however, little old me has just primarily stayed in Taichung. I’m boring I guess. Although if cash weren’t a concern I’d be going anywhere and everywhere, so I need to be a little fiscally conservative if I want to survive.
I went with a group of friends and with my sister, and we met up with my friend’s relatives who took us around Kaohsiung on a sort of tour guide of the nice places in and out of the city.
One of those places we went to was a place called Cháishān (柴山), a mountain in Kaohsiung that has a monkey reserve sitting on it! Below you can see a few pictures I took of the monkeys on Chaishan!
Here are the pics:
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by Jonny | Jan 25, 2013 | Travel
I don’t know where to start! Although the beginning is usually the best place, I feel as if I haven’t posted in a while, to which that is true. So I’m just going to post a few pictures that I’ve downloaded from my Facebook album recently.
Other than my grandmother passing away, and with some of my relatives being up in arms over the inheritance, everything has been fine. I kind of look at the way my grandmother was and I have concluded that it was best that she died, as her condition was not getting better and a life of immobility is not really a life. She also said to my mother that she wanted to die as you literally needed someone with her 24/7 to do things for her as she could not move on her own will.
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