Tag: happiness

  • Of Love, Music, Physics, and Other Demons

    Of Love, Music, Physics, and Other Demons

    Preface Did you know that the original meaning of demon simply meant divine power, and had no connection to evil?   Chapter 1: The Lady in Number 6 “Everyday life is beautiful. Everyday. It’s beautiful. The music is so beautiful.”- Alice Herz Sommer I never want to be old. It’s a silly thing to say, but…

  • A Smile to Remember

    A Smile to Remember

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    If there’s a goal I’m striving towards in life, it would be happiness. Now I’ve had my share of philosophical discussions on the actual realization of this. If I lived a miserable life but experienced euphoria at the end of it, does that fulfill my goal? Or if I lived a lived a comfortable life…

  • May All Your Wishes Come True

    May All Your Wishes Come True

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    We had breakfast on the second day at the corner stand that sells delicacies from Taichung. The bowl on the top left is Taichung meatball (台中肉圓). The dough is made from corn starch and sweet potato starch and is gooey and chewy, The inside is filled with meat, bamboo shoot and shiitake mushrooms. The bowl…