The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
The Taipei 101 Observatory is located on the 89th floor. The glass windows offered a 360-degree view of Taipei and the surrounding county.
Above, a busy Taipei street. Below, a football field.
Above, a shopping mall. On the foreground below, bridges spanning the Keelung River; on the background, Taipei county.
If some photos look hazy, it’s called pollution. 
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
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Very good photos Ms. Connie.
It was winter when we were there. Kaya di ko alam kung fog or air pollution ba yon nakita ko.
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Sa amoy nagkakaiba hehehe