Travel stories by Johanna Frejoles
My piano teacher once told me that you will never forget the first song you learned on the piano. Perhaps it’s true because even after 18 years of not taking my piano lessons seriously, I can still remember how to play John Thompson’s Little Spring Song. I can even play it with my eyes closed! But what I really liked …
Call me ridiculous but the 2001 Meteor Garden series changed the lives of my generation. When this Taiwanese drama series aired in the Philippines, it became a huge phenomenon that people of all ages talk about it. Posters, CD’s, and any merchandise you can think of are sold almost everywhere. That’s how crazy successful that drama series is in the …
Eslite Bookstore is a bookstore I wanted to visit ever since I was in high school. But I got lost in the wrong bookstore in Taipei when I got there.
I just want to put it out there that I wasn’t scammed. I just think the word ‘tourist-trapped’ is the right definition of what happened to me on my birthday. A few months ago, my friends and I went to Taiwan. It was an impulsive decision because I had just recently returned from Indonesia. Taiwan was not part of my …