Sunday, January 13, 2008

A Trip to Taiwan: 1st Day in Taiwan

After 30 minutes of waiting, we were finally in Taiwan.



We saw the text in marquee:




I noticed that we were asked to stand on the right while using the elevator.


We went onto the bus and saw our tour guide.

He joked:"If you call me tour guide, no one will know who you are calling, so you can either call me 'xiao yu' or 'shuai ge'." On the way to Shi Lin, the guide explained that Taiwan's bitter gourd is drier than green bitter gourds and can be made into drinks like: pineapple carrot bitter gourd.

Soon, we arrived at Shi Lin.

We passed by a fried oyster egg store. They cooked the egg on the round stove. There were vegetables under the egg. It was extremely oily and there was a layer of oil under it. Eeeeyurgh!


After walking around for a while, we decided to try the white bitter gourd drink the guide told us. We went to "A-Zhong's Drink Stall".


They had a wide varirity of fruits displayed in a very beautiful manner:



The carrot, pineapple and bitter gourd drink was very sweet and sour and has an after taste of bitter. It has some kind of DRY bitter
taste.

We had 15 minutes left so we decided to walk around again. Then, we saw a stall selling prawns with claws ( very much like tiny lobsters without a claw ) !


You had to fish the prawns with small fishing rod-like things and put them in buckets - of course, its not free!

There were also games in the night market like: basketball! Pay NT$10 and you'll get to play! Here's a video of someone playing basketball:


He is professional at basketball! In just 30 seconds, he scored 128 points ( 2 points for each ball ).

We then checked in to our hotel, called Yaward Hotel.

It is actually more of a 3-star hotel because it only has 3 stories and one lift!





Here is a map of the hotel.


By the time we were getting ready to sleep, it was already 1 a.m. in the morning!

Saturday, January 5, 2008

A Trip to Taiwan: The Songs On The Airplane

The songs available on the airplane by order ( by the way, I only go for the music ) :

01. Stand By Me
John Lennon





02. Don't Look Back In Anger
Oasis





03. Hold On ( Funny Version )
Wilson Phillips





04. Those Were The Days
Mary Hopkin





05. You Gotta Be
Des'ree





06. Hopelessly Devoted To You
Olivian Newton John





07. Crazy For You
Madonna





08. Every Breath You Take
Sting and the Police





09. Time After Time
Cyndl Lauper





10. You're The Inspiration
Chicago





11. Goodbye
Air Supply





12. Can't take My Eyes Off You
Barry Manilow





13. I'd Love You To Want Me
Lobo





14. Picture
Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow





15. Without You
Mariah Carey





16. Every Time You Go Away
Paul Young





17. Only You (And You Alone)
The Platters





18. I Have Nothing
Whitney Houston





19. No More I Love You's
Annie Lennox





20. ( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman
Carole King





21. Sacrifice
Elton John





22. Emotion
Destiny's Child