Laidback Metropolis

Monday, June 18, 2007

now with the 2nd day...

rainy...sunny..and windy.

view outside my uncle's place...

this snail just remind me of the jay chou's song...

move step by step...never give up!!

our room for 4 nights...boooo
sucks...hahaa..
we had to pump the air for the beds on the first night(when we were already dead tired)...
then the bed is like making feel as if i'm floating in water...

streets of taiwan..
i like...
looks like malaysia...
but much safer..

the traffic lights-green man..is super super cute~~

when it left with only 5 seconds, the motion of the green man walking will gradually move faster..super cute..

like the green man running...hahaa

outside the fire station..

there lots of stray dogs along taiwan roads..

the metal dustbins..

my uncle's working place...research center..
its like 4 times bigger than NYP...

super big..

the entrance...

we had to walk quite a distance..

so keane got tired..

see his face...super funny..

he wanted someone to carry him..

views from the pond....

pretty lotus...

hahaa..

outside the office room...in the research building..

outside the office room...

view from the office..

the office...super spacious..AND MUCH CLEANER than my uncle's rented house...

boooooo...

my uncle's name..hahhaaa...

the signage on my uncle's office door...

spacious right??...

no wonder my uncle said he preferred to sleep in the office...
his job is so relax that he siad that he actually didn't go to the office for half a year...

his job scope is just to do research on economics...and write books...

i really wish i have half or even 10% of his brain...

he has like multiple degrees and a PhD holder already but he still continue to study..pursuing degrees in other industries...

he is studying law now...

oh..the way i'm ranting abt him is like someone talking abt her bf...hahhaa...

he's my uncle...

he's a "monk"...
he's 42 yrs old already...

but still a bachelor...

any takers?

hahahaa...

he doesn't have a tv at home...

he only has 2 radios at home...

his home is a rented apartment given by the reseach center...

he's smart...

his usual hangout is the mountains, the library...the book store..

see......boys will always be boys...running around...
haizz....can shorten my life man....

BUT I STILL LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the mother of the 2 kids..

hahahaha...

no la...my sister..

seriosuly, if u got no patience, think twice abt giving birth to 2 boys!!esp. 2 boys...

not a minute of silence...

the only look angelic when they are sleeping..

then we were on our way to taipei 101 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yipppeee....

on the way,

u can see and observe the cultures of taiwan...

their main transport...

their taxi..

only one taxi company..

but their taxis are not all toyotas corollas...

their taxis can be toyota camry!!!

or toyota altis...

or hyundai..or some lousy ones...

view from far

of taipei 101...

hahaha...

they are really very flexible...
3 in one motorbike...

yesterday my friend told me that before the taipei 101 was build,

the building had collasped couple of times..

then some fengshiu person says that the place was formerly a cemetry..

so in order, to prevent it from collaspsing...they had a couple of "ba gua" to fight the bad omen...

inside..the shopping mall..

they have coach, ralph lauren,tommy...all the expensive brands...

have to pay to go up...

NT$350 for adults...students and children NT$320...

in the lift...

the lady blabbering away...

she spoke too fast..

but the lift went super fast..

we reached the 89the floor in like few minutes...

woohhh..nice right??

they gave the vistors each a "phone" to hear to the explanations of the whole taipei...

so tiny....so pretty...

coz this building is too tall..they have to placed this to make sure that the building don't sway when the wind blow...

waiting for the lift to bring us down...

food at the taipei 101 food court..

the taiwanese seems like to eat beef alot...

they are much influenced by the japanese...

their food at this food court is super ex..

each abt SGD$13..

see they are so thoughtful..to give plastic gloves to customers who buy their chicken...

then we went to their main city area...

the kids got grumpy..and keane wanted to sleep...

so yippppee...

they suggested to go home..

but of coz i don't want to go home..

not as if there's tv at home...

so and papa,sis and me...went to wu fen pu...yipppeee...

luckily i suggested to go there...

if not, i don;t dare to face my friends when my friends asked me what i do in taiwan...

if we do acoording to what our uncle planned for us...

i will be shameless to come back to singapore...

my uncle's planned intinery is...to the bookshops, to the memorial halls, to the library,to the mountains..to the research centers,to the museums..to the bookstore...

LIKE THAT CAN DIE AH!!!

he actually didn;t even want us to go to shilin night market..

he said is waste of time...

i wanted to scold him upside down...

or even go to the hotel to stay..

we managed to find our way to the train station...

to wu fen pu...