Tripatini contributor Nithin C writes:

"The countryside was beautiful. My most amazing moment took place at beautiful, alpine Sun-Moon Lake, which resembles Lake Tahoe in California, where at a Taoist temple I performed a ritual where I ask God a question and then drop two wooden blocks on the ground. If they fall on opposite sides three times in a row, that means God will answer, and I take a fortune after randomly selecting a number. My host, Evelyn, told me that many people drop the blocks many, many times to try to get it to land the right way three times in a row.

I felt really positive right then - I felt I would get a fortune; it seemed like my destiny. So I dropped it three times. To her shock, it landed the right way each time. The odds are 1-27, but what were the odds of this happening on your first time ever doing it, in a remote temple in central Taiwan right before you're about to embark on a great, uncertain journey? Even greater -  probably outside the realm of mathematics, just as I like it."

Read more in his post Friendship and Destiny in Taiwan.