In a phrase to cut these lips

Shakespeare, scurvy, and everything in between.
Fight the good fight: Finally getting around to editing photos from my stint in Taiwan after I abandoned my collection of pictures somewhere around spring break. Therefore, a swimming hippopotamus which I photographed at the Kaohsiung zoo christens this post. The day I snapped it was a good one - last day of spring break and I got some time to wander around the zoo on my own; love zoos, glad I got to see three different ones all in Taiwan.  But just like how I believe there is no perfect bowl of mee sua there is also no perfect holiday and there will always be that one place (or two) that you never made it to for whatever reason. Like how I passed on the Seoul zoo because it rained every day that I was there.. and how I never tried soju in fourteen days in Korea (I still don’t really have a good reason as to why I didn’t), much to the dismay and ridicule of people I told that to. We all want to be that intrepid traveller. Sometimes I still feel like I have too much to prove. Also it is inevitable that these six months abroad have become synonymous with change so that sometimes I feel I should tread with caution and find new footing in old terrain. On my original topic of photography I guess I’ve become a bit disillusioned with it ever since returning from Taiwan/Korea. It’s been a full year and a half since I first picked up a DSLR and nothing I produce, both video and photo-wise, really excites me now. Need to push past this creative rut and stop stagnating and stop seeking validation in all the wrong places but one always finds that knowing the right course of action does not always result in the ideal outcome. Inertia is a double-edged sword. So many things easier said than done as age creeps up stealthily, not so much the increments of years as the milestones that accumulate, insidiously. Need to have more faith, less fear, and tackle the future head on. Pretty much nothing new. Right?

Fight the good fight:

Finally getting around to editing photos from my stint in Taiwan after I abandoned my collection of pictures somewhere around spring break. Therefore, a swimming hippopotamus which I photographed at the Kaohsiung zoo christens this post. The day I snapped it was a good one - last day of spring break and I got some time to wander around the zoo on my own; love zoos, glad I got to see three different ones all in Taiwan. 

But just like how I believe there is no perfect bowl of mee sua there is also no perfect holiday and there will always be that one place (or two) that you never made it to for whatever reason. Like how I passed on the Seoul zoo because it rained every day that I was there.. and how I never tried soju in fourteen days in Korea (I still don’t really have a good reason as to why I didn’t), much to the dismay and ridicule of people I told that to. We all want to be that intrepid traveller. Sometimes I still feel like I have too much to prove.

Also it is inevitable that these six months abroad have become synonymous with change so that sometimes I feel I should tread with caution and find new footing in old terrain.

On my original topic of photography I guess I’ve become a bit disillusioned with it ever since returning from Taiwan/Korea. It’s been a full year and a half since I first picked up a DSLR and nothing I produce, both video and photo-wise, really excites me now. Need to push past this creative rut and stop stagnating and stop seeking validation in all the wrong places but one always finds that knowing the right course of action does not always result in the ideal outcome. Inertia is a double-edged sword.

So many things easier said than done as age creeps up stealthily, not so much the increments of years as the milestones that accumulate, insidiously. Need to have more faith, less fear, and tackle the future head on. Pretty much nothing new. Right?

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