sweet dream amongst nightmares

Finally, a nice sweet dream. I was in the company of a few other foreigners and one of them included Henry Cavill. *swoon

I had walked away to use the restroom. I went back to the waiting room and saw HC on the arm of the couch reading a magazine and two others having an intelligent conversation, so I sat on the opposite side of them and kind of dwindled my fingers. After a few moments, HC came over and started a conversation with me and was super sweet and charming.

It was wondrous. I haven't felt giddy in a long time. And even though it was brief and unreal, it was a nice change from the string of nightmares I've been having.

zombies

What a frightening dream. I don't know where it began, but it seemed as if I was being picked up from the airport and already distraught from the news of a zombie apocalypse. D (surprisingly) was the one to pick me up and my one request was for him to hold me and not let go while we walked through the abandoned streets. And he agreed. As we walked down the streets, I would see zombies out of the corner of my eye and D assured me that they wouldn't harm me which I thought was odd. Once we were more removed from the zombies, I tried looking for my mother hoping she was still human. After searching for a while, I found my mom except she didn't really acknowledge me. But I went with her anyway.

That night there was a dinner that I was obligated to attend and wasn't sure why. It turned out that the zombies weren't attacking because of an agreement made. There was a sacrifice to made on behalf of human kind which would happen the day after. After that, the zombies will live in peace with us. But I was very skeptical to think the zombies would just agree to live with us. So, the next day, I went to my house awaiting the sacrifice to be made so that we can go back to normalcy. But. I was wrong. An undead woman came to my door, trying to break in. And I kept her out until she reached the back door. I told her to go away, but she said, "you are not going to keep me from coming in." Soon the bolts for the door started to shake and I started to scream for fear of my life. Then I woke up.

I've been having many nightmares lately. I'm not sure why. I hope I have sweeter dreams tonight.

life is moving too fast, I can't catch up

Oh dear, many of my good or close friends are getting married or having babies. It's here. It was inevitable. Life is speeding past me, I don't know how to run faster.

What to do.

28

It only just recently struck me that I'm 28 years old. It happened when I met up P and J a few days ago. They came to Taipei for vacation and it was so amazing to see them here. I get super excited when I have friends come visit me, and there have been quite a few who have purposely chosen to meet me which really warms my heart. But anyway, we met up to go to eat lunch, walk through the National Palace Museum, got milk tea, walked around to find a parlor, picked up a 12 boxes of pineapple cakes, and ate spicy hot pot. We had good conversations all around, mainly to catch up and share stories of what our lives have been about these last few years. Now that I've had to time to slow down and recollect our past, I can't believe it's been nearly 10 years since we've known each other, that's when my age had finally hit me. Not in a bad way, but a wow, time surely has passed kind of way. We've all grown up and moved on with our lives in our separate directions. We were so young and naive back in college, and now, probably still young and naive, but at least, prepared to face the world as it comes knowing that there's always room to grow and learn.

Hiking in Filial Son Mountain

There were just so many funny moments on this hike that I need to record it somewhere before I forget.

N: I feel like I'm walking like a fat person.
J: I'm sorry for touching your butt.
G: This was not what I was expecting.
S: Slow pace.
G: I look like I rolled around in mud.
A: He needs to fill his pants.
G: Why are you fixated on his ass?

It was a grueling 5.5 hours of hiking followed by the lantern festival and all of it was well worth it.

Recently, I've noticed that I'm enjoying all my physical activities. I'm much more active than I have ever been. Even though my body hasn't been showing the effort I've put into it, I feel much healthier and lighter. Swimming, walking, and occasionally hiking, consciously aware of what I'm eating...all have been good habits that I've adopted since moving to Taipei. I know that I would not do the same in Texas, lol.