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The Ocean (Taitung, 2023)
Taiwan, 1999 Taitung, Taiwan. 台湾 台東市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata
Instagram is not good enough for me to document my travels and everyday life 👹👹👹. I want to share more impressions and entertaining stories from my travels.
Recently, I have not been effectively coping with my anxiety and depression. I feel like I'm wasting my life. I feel like there is something wrong with me where I can't live life to the fullest, yet everyone else in the world can. I have a few too many days of 8 hour screen time and doom scrolling, anxiety so bad that I hide from everyone and feel sick at the thought of leaving my room, which makes me spiral further and makes me believe even more that I'm useless and that I will live my entire life like this.
That's another reason I'm creating this blog, to clearly lay out all the interesting stuff I've done and situations I've been in, as a reminder that I'm not wasting my life away.
These are some nice pictures from places I have been to recently in Taitung County.
8 days in Taiwan. 4 days cultural research trip in Taitung. Amis Music Festival is one of the largest Austronesian Indigenous Music Festivals. I'm glad I booked a ticket to Taiwan and got to experience it and understand more about the Out-Of-Taiwan migration started back 4-5 thousand years ago. Here are some photos I took with my Fujifilm X-H2S. - Flanegan Bainon
2023台東自然醒慢活祭Taitung Spirit Festival / 活動主視覺
Do you celebrate Lunar New Year 🎉? Tonight, I zipped over to Kau Kau 🥢, the best Chinese BBQ joint in Seattle’s Chinatown. It’s a family favorite that @rikiyamada4 & I enjoyed last year when he was in Seattle. While waiting for my takeout order 🥡, I remembered that the restaurant might have a copy of the final print issue of NW Asian Weekly 📰. The free paper, founded by Assunta Ng, has been a source of information to the Asian community for 41 years. It’s going to be completely online next month. The cover illustration spotlights the coming Lunar New Year Does your city celebrate Lunar New Year 🧨? Lunar New Year 🧧, also known as Chinese New Year 🇨🇳, marks the beginning of a new lunar calendar. 2023, the year of the rabbit 🐰, the fourth animal in the 12-year Chinese zodiac. People born in the year of the rabbit are said to be gentle, friendly 👋, creative & are good at building relationships 🤗. Are you a rabbit 🐇? Does this sound like you? Seattle celebrates the Lunar New Year in the historic Chinatown-International District neighborhood ⛩️ with cultural events & lots of family-friendly activities 🐉. I remember first going with @peggyyaplee when we were kids. She turned me on to deep-fried prawns. They were amazing. IN SEATTLE, CHINESE NEW YEAR: 🌜Showcases cultural diversity & community celebration 🌜Brings people together & encourages engagement 🌜Boosts the economy & attracts visitors 🌜Provides educational opportunities But it’s also a chance to get out with friends & family. If you live in the Seattle area, you can Google 🌜 “Lunar new year activities in Seattle,” & a list of events will appear. I’m sad that NW Asian Weekly will no longer be in print, but I get it. We still receive print editions of the Seattle Times & Bloomberg Businessweek 📚. As a graphic designer, I think I’ll always love print 🥰. Do you subscribe to print publications? . . . PHOTOS: #nwasianweekly #Chinatown #lunarnewyear #internationaldistrict #seattlechinatown #yearoftherabbit #hinghaypark #taitung #kaukau . . BOOKNOTES: Warm ((HUGS)) to @LoriMcNeeArtist @MartyMcPadden @Mistygirlph @FiorenzaMella & @mitchmitchell_lpool 🤗 . . . (at Kau Kau BBQ Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnq37Leu1w8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Taiwan is beautiful Sanxiantai, Taitung The sunset is so beautiful Source: taiwan_traveler
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