When U care enough to send the very best..

True to their TagLine, Hallmark, has for centuries been bring love, hope, holiday cheers, birthday wishes, condolences and everything else in between - to people of all ages... The world over!!!

A nice little place to hold small exhibitions - adjacent to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.... 

 to date I have attended three exhibitions here....

 

Yesterday, I was had the pleasure of admiring some of their many greeting cards at Taipei Story House. This quaint museum at the moment, houses "A Century of Greetings". A retrospective of Hallmark Greeting cards.

It was quite a collection... Greeting  Cards past, as old as the Turn of the Century ones... Celebrating Holidays from all over the world, and in many different languages... Fave characters, Pop Ups, various occasion cards...

 

THANKFUL.6

Birthdays & Birthday Cakes!!!

"Happy Birthday, Xiaomei!!!"

Birthdays are always a very nice BREAK from the daily grinds....  

... especially when they are accompanied with Birthday Cakes to Gobble Up!!!  :)

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Father's Day - Now I KNow!

A couple of days ago, while having coffee and lounging about at home with Lynn and David - we got to thinking about Father's Day and it's origins... you see in Taiwan it is CELEBRATED on August 8 (8/8), pronounced BaBa - which is closed to Papa, hence, why it was chosen to be celebrated on this day...

So they asked me why the US (and everywhere else in the world) celebrates on the third SUNDAY each year? And I was lost for words -- I honestly did not know.

What to do? What to do? Of course I had to GOOGLE it and the BEST and SIMPLEST explanation I got was this:
Father's Day (Third Sunday in June)
Quite interesting that there's few speculations on how it really started - but no matter, it is always GREAT to give Thanks and Celebrate our Love for our Dads...

Happy Father's Day to All Dads, and would be Dads!!!My Dad & I - June 2005. A year before his passing.

Orange You Glad It's Dec....

So I got another early XMAS present... this time from my roomie, Lyn, who just came back from her -- what seems like -- bi-monthly trip to JAPAN... this year - she decided to give everyone Fleece Jackets... so she came home with a suitcase full of Fleece Jackets in varying colors... as she knows that i love colors and am a bit more adventurous when it comes to wearing colors, she opted to give me the brightest one of all - ORANGE!!! Works fine with me as I even have a nice scarf to go a long with it... HAHAHAHAHA....

And it just so happen that, yesterday the 2nd of DEC, I had a get together, catch up, coffee break @ STARBUCKS with Juliana (hey did we not just see each other a lot? Hahahahahaha) -- so I had an excuse to put it all on as weather here is quite cold lately... freezing to be exact, only thing missing is the snow... PERFECT really to wear such a coat....

@ Taipei Starbucks... same XMas Decor as Manila's Starbucks -- but alas, NO PLANNERS/NO STICKERS!!!!