Taiwan Day 1 - Iron Man, Fear Keepers, and my "wife"

Alrite, here's the long awaited update on my ventures.

Day 1 in Taiwan. Our tour group was combined with another group from Taoist group from Singapore. We were later joined by other Taoist groups from Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia brining the total tour group to about 200. In the next few days, we are to travel throughout Taiwan, visiting all the famous Taoist temples of Taiwan.

Food was all meat, so the 1st restaurant cooked vegetarian special for me and i ended up having 3 person's share of food as he wanted to offer variety =.=... I'm so gonna grow fat...

Taking the taxi, one of our drivers was really interesting. He is a martial artist and also a famous fortune teller. When he told me to hit his arm, I felt as if I had hit metal. It's crazy. Then he asked for my dad's name, then my uncle's name and read their lives from the element of their names. It was dead on.

Then he asked for mine and talked about how at the age of 24, I will reach a dilemma as to what should I do? To study, to work or to travel the world. Dead on again! That was scary as all I told him was my name. I didn't even mention my age. Then here's the part that was weird... He said according to my elements, I'm supposed to have a wife who is extremely beautiful... Lolz... And he's not the 1st person to have told me that. Unfortunately I don't... and he said i might have done something along the way that changed my destiny... =P



Went to Ruo He Night Market after and paid our respects to the Ma Zu Temple before proceeding. On the way home, we met another taxi driver who said we had to visit the Xing Tian Temple. As if our journey was planned by some unseen force, we were directed to our next destination. This was a Guan Yu temple and the interesting thing about it was that there was a sort of Aura healing event that goes on in this temple where a older lady will used incense and do what they call 收驚 (Keeping/Calming Fear).

We finally walked home from the temple to the hotel. A crazy day of “fated” meetings – the different taoist groups, the iron man fortune-telling taxi driver, the Fear keeping mediums, and my beautiful “wife” whom I never met...

事事都有理
果報都有因
前世業種，後世生
因果熟時，在相會

For everything that happens, there is a reason...
For every effect, there is a cause...
The karmic seeds planted from lives past shall bloom in the future...
When the conditions ripen, we meet again...
(Another lousy attempt of mine in writing poems... =P)