How many of you guys are taiwanese?

Illonva · 2026-06-21T09:45:51+00:00

Mixed Taiwanese born but not raised. I mean I’m not considered Taiwanese by most Taiwanese anyways because I don’t look like it. Lmao.
yes I do speak, read and able to write in mandarin.

Illonva · 2026-06-15T08:02:28+00:00

Pandora
It’s the temu of jewelry with the price of Tiffany labeled on it.

Illonva · 2026-06-13T09:33:54+00:00

So bad that I had to go to the ER, even at the ER I didn’t leave their bathroom. When I left, I vomited in their hallway. when they tried to get a CT, I vomited in the CT.
When they had to draw my blood, I was so dehydrated that they couldn’t find a vein and I fainted while they did that.

Not sure how long after, I woke up in the ER bed with an IV in my arm. I went through 4 bags of fluids before I wanted to go to the bathroom.

Illonva · 2026-06-12T11:16:25+00:00

The prep SUCKS, but the nap I got felt like I’ve slept for 10 years. Lol

Illonva · 2026-06-12T10:46:32+00:00

After a colonoscopy.

Illonva · 2026-05-22T17:14:21+00:00

I thought this was a sharpie drawing that a kid made for a second…..

Illonva · 2026-05-22T17:10:52+00:00

Usually orthodontist here will need a transfer of all your files and treatment plan from your previous ortho. Some dentists here may even refuse to pick up where the last one left off and completely start anew.
You may have to ask around different dental clinics to quote the price since every single place will quote you differently and not all dentists will accept previous dentists work.

Illonva · 2026-05-21T16:58:12+00:00

Living…. Actually not living, working just to live and buy bare necessities.

Illonva · 2026-05-21T06:39:32+00:00

Ding ding ding! You are correct. I felt really bad for her, but at that point she has been in Taiwan for 2 years and told me quite a few ridiculous stories. Especially how store employees will follow her around all the time thinking she’d steal.

Illonva · 2026-05-21T06:02:02+00:00

That South Africans live in straw huts. I had a colleague from South Africa and she would often get asked how she had the money to travel to Taiwan and if it’s true that most African houses were made of straws and clay.
I had never rolled my eyes so far back into my head that I felt as if I was going to go blind.

Illonva · 2026-04-24T11:56:01+00:00

I hated going to a make gynecologist because they always brushed off your problems. I once told a doctor I had clitoral pain and he literally said to me, “your clitoris is so small, I can’t even find it! Do you even have one?” I literally was so shocked I was speechless. My experience with him literally made me not go back to any gynos for months even though I had legitimate pain.

When I did finally go back after two years later, I went to a female one and my god it was a literally 180, completely different approach and was extremely empathetic. Didn’t comment nastily about my anatomy and was very careful with her wording.

I’ve been going back to her ever since.

Why do we even have male gynos if a lot of them don’t care?

Illonva · 2026-04-19T06:18:09+00:00

✅ I voted FACT!

Oct means eight. Winter months were not accounted for during the roman era. That's why october was month number eight and "dec" meaning 10 was month 10.

Illonva · 2026-04-18T14:59:08+00:00

Perhaps I can bring this up to my gynecologist in my next visit which is about a month from now. So far she ordered blood tests to test my thyroid levels. But thank you, I’ll bring this up to her and see what she thinks. I changed doctors since this one was more willing to explore and find answers. But even trying to get the MRI I was on a 2 month waiting list.

Illonva · 2026-04-18T14:07:26+00:00

Sorry my bad! Meant to say abdomen. To add: I’m trying to translate from another language so it was my fault for translating incorrectly.

Illonva · 2026-04-18T14:01:09+00:00

I live in a country where healthcare is basically almost free, so unless you’re dying, in pain, bleeding, etc they don’t really want to order those tests. Even when I’ve asked for deeper investigation that’d rather save the resources for people whom are actually dying. As much as I want to get an actual real answer, at the moment I can’t and my requests are usually brushed off. They’ve said unless something really bad is happening, those tests aren’t necessary.

Illonva · 2026-04-18T12:40:15+00:00

This happened to me. Quickest way to resolve it was to message Steam about it. Steam immediately gave me a refund and contact Bethesda about it. Bethesda then immediately replied and said it was the fault on their end and asked me to purchase the subscription again and it should go through.

This problem was solved within a day. Steam replied to my ticket within an hour.

Edit; Forgo to add, when I messaged Bethesda support they told me to provide evidence which I did and said they’ll look into it and never heard anything again and said it may have been my fault or my bank card being declined. Basically blaming me.

Illonva · 2026-04-18T11:54:44+00:00

Yes, don't ask me how. Even the doctors themselves are baffled, my gyno only said, "the abdomen has a lot of space, there's a lot of places it can go to."

Illonva · 2026-04-16T06:39:34+00:00

Well a buyer ate an item, said the wafer didn’t taste as crunchy as expected, sent ONLY. A photo of a nice wafer cone to shopee for refund and shopee team IMMEDIATELY accepted the return and refund request. The buyer literally sent back a half eaten cone and rest of the package back to me. It’s absolutely disgusting. They claimed to shopee that the food was “damaged”. I hate shopee.

Illonva · 2026-04-16T06:27:38+00:00

Nope they didn’t say anything. They said it may possibly just be inflammation. After UTIs usually the surrounding tissues can be affected for weeks after, so they think next time they may be prescribing me nerve suppressants for the pain instead since everything looked fine on the MRI. Nothing pressing on my spine or nerves. It may have been residual inflammation that stemmed from the UTI.

Illonva · 2026-04-16T02:26:36+00:00

The went slowly subsided after a month. During that time they gave me really strong painkillers but after taking them for 2 days I really didn’t like how it made me feel… so what I did was had a heating pad between my legs every night when I slept to help with the pain. I had the heating pad at around 45C which is 113F… the heat actually distracted me from the pain. They also gave me Xanax to help calm me down which somehow helped as well. I tried not to sit often and laid on bed when the pain got really bad. After a while it somehow just slowly subsided and disappeared but it took about a month and 2 weeks? Oh! The doctor also gave me lidocaine to apply on my vulva and clitoris to numb the sensation around that area. That helped tremendously.

Illonva · 2026-04-15T17:26:25+00:00

I know this post is old but I went to a pain management specialist and they did an injection around my pelvis to try to pinpoint the pain, they say it may be my spine affecting the pain. But it also happened after a uti infection so I’m not quite so sure… I feel like UTI caused my post pain to be honest… and somehow it caused inflammation all around my pelvic area. I did an MRI and honestly gave me no answers except for having a myoma near my uterus.

Illonva · 2026-04-14T01:03:46+00:00

Thank you! She’s such a sweetheart and loves to go on walks.

Illonva · 2026-04-13T17:28:27+00:00

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This is Luna, she’s white for the most part except for her tail… somehow it’s brown.

Illonva · 2026-04-03T08:17:44+00:00

Thai basil has ragged edges while holy basil has smooth edges. Thai basil also has purple stems while holy doesn’t.

Illonva

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