Caregiver's Diary 2

It's been almost two days raining here in Taipei. The temperature is cool. But for granny, today is a bad day. Rainy days makes her sad and lonely. She talked a bout her son's difficulty coming home from work tonight because the rain is pouring. Sometime of the day she just burst into crying and I rush to see what happened to her. But nothing was wrong with her, she only remember her mother and father, whom she misses all the time. I comforted her and let her watch television shows to distract her attention.

So this afternoon, I prepared green tea and some biscuites. She likes to have our afternoon tea and talk about anything she can remember.  

Funny Little Decor

Me and Steve (my boyfriend) stroll around the streets in Tienmu today looking for a place to have lunch. We found a very inviting restaurant called Lion Foot Sri Lankan Cuisine. Thought of trying thier food for the first time and we are very satisfied that I almost can't move on my chair. (Hahahaha) But this caught my eye, (the above picture) hanging on the wall, were funny wooden caricature of Sri Lankan natives. Wearing thier  traditional clothes and smiles. Thier head can move from side to side. It is just interesting.

What is in the Name?

No, this is not a flower or a withered leaves. They are the Purple Crow, a kind of butterfly that can only be seen here in the island of Taiwan. There are obviously hundreds of them, even thousands that are scattered along the island. Taiwan is used to be called "The Kingdom of Butterflies". But sad to say, this amazing and delicate creatures are slowly declining in number due to development of the city.

I remember my trip to YangMing mountain, some few months ago. While walking along one of the trails, a butterfly kissed me on the cheek! I was so surprised to see how beautiful the little creature was. Its wings were yellow and blue stripped with black. As it landed on one of the flowers, I was tempted to touch it but it was so delicate that I think I might ruin its beautiful wings if I'd ever do it. I watched with amazement and from then on I fall inlove with this sweet creature. And called my blog 'Farasha', which means butterfly in Arabic language.