9 May 07
Zhong Zheng Ji Nian Tang
Taipei 101
New York New York
Raohe Night Market

Set off from the Taiwan Hostel Happy Family to the train station. Was just taking the escalator down when I suddenly remembered that I forgot to bring along Panny's gift! As we would be heading to Raohe tonight which is near Panny's house, there might be a possibility of meeting her. So Suhui and I told the gang to go ahead first while we went back and take her gift.

You wont be able to believe it but yes... we were LOST!!! Sobzzzzz!!!

We past by it so many times but it didnt occur to us that that's the staircase leading to our hostel! Grrr....

And I'm so smart to claim that it should be further down the streets as I remembered seeing this coffee logo. It turned out that the coffee logo actually exists, but we didnt past by it while leaving the hostel.

Hmm... now the question is if we didnt past by the coffee logo while leaving the hostel, where do I see it then???

I saw the coffee logo on a drink in 7-11!!!!!

And this coffee logo actually left such a deep impression in my head that I THOUGHT we walked past it -_-"""

I would never forget Zhong Shan Bei Lu!!! There's so many Zhong Shan Bei Lu!!! Everywhere!!!

So ended up Jin Xin and Soon Fatt came and 'rescue' us... and once again, I had to let Panny know that I couldn't meet her =(

Okie anyway, met up with the rest of the gang at the train station and off we proceeded to Zhong Zheng Ji Nian Tang. It was a super hot day and I was stuck with the bananas. Let the following pictures do the talking then.


So neoprint style heehee


Everyone fall in


Yup... I'm still continuing my banana


Jun Pei, me and Yingjie


We are so patriotic! Orchids!

Some of us decided to go up Taipei 101 while others decide to give it a miss. So for those who went up, they were rewarded with awesome views and some nonsense of fun. For the rest, we were bored trying to lengthen our stay in a shopping mall called New York New York. Really nothing to shop - lah.


Taipei 101 from afar


Jun Pei, Suhui, Soon Fatt and Jin Xin went up


See, this is what I mean by some nonsense of fun heehee


Suhui acting scared =p


You're captured hohoho!


Awesome view of a bridge out there


Nope, its not the dining restaurant. Its the shopping mall

Guess what? I saw cold stone in Taiwan!!! Never did I expect that cold stone has franchises in Taiwan, so how could we miss it? We went and grabbed a strawberry something thingie coz its officially declared that there should be no banana in the ice cream. Yes, strictly no banana coz enough's enough hehe.


Eh.. statute of libery also loves cold stone in Taiwan?

Saw the biggest Cheng Pin Shu Dian... of couse must dropped by so that Soon Fatt could conquer yet another Cheng Pin hehe.


This is the ceiling with the flap flap thingie


Found a nice corner to settle down to read mags. On the floor lies a mag with Arashi as the cover


We had to take this simply coz of the word NTU over there keke

Went to Raohe Night Market. Its quite a small night market as there's only two rows... and I thought that the air was worse than the other night markets. Very difficult for me to breathe so no more hehehaha from me. Couldn't talk, couldn't eat... felt that everyone is fighting for oxygen and my share was getting smaller =( So after exploring Raohe, Suhui and gang went to ask the police for the nearest hospital. Actually it wasnt that serious, just that clinics were all closed at that time so the option left was to head to the hospital.

Suhui, Mei Xuan, Jin Xin and I took a cab and off we go. Had to register myself at the counter, fill up the particulars and take blood pressure before the doctor could attend to me. While waiting, I saw a patient who's having difficulty to breathe.... and her family is beside her. See liao very heartache... then I started to cry. The doctor must have thought that I'm such a baby come hospital sick also cry. Anyway, hope that the patient is okie le. So the doctor asked me what happened and took my temperature etc. It turned out that I was having a fever by then... and somehow it also affected my breathing too. The doc is very patient and detailed... kinda impressed by him hehe. Saw this cutie torchlight on his desk and meddled with it, then he showed me how to go about using it. I thought they would be keying chinese into the system and so I was caught in a surprise when I saw him typing english into the system. Not that I thought he dont know english, but coz I thought people in Taiwan would prefer tying chinese. He explained to me that sometimes he found it faster to type in english thats why now he's typing in english lo hehe. And I started complaining about the poor air quality in Taiwan and he agreed keke =p

Went over to get the medicine. Their packaging kind of different from ours... so many chinese words were typed on the packaging to describe the medicine and its usage etc. Couldn't understand so I have to get the nurse to explain to me what each medicine is used for, afterwhich I diligently wrote the following words on the packaging: flu, fever, cough. Jin Xin laughed and commented that I'm wasting their efforts of typing the chinese explanation out when one english word of mine will be able to make me understand le hehe. Paiseh ah my chinese standard cannot make it.

Took another cab and returned back to Taiwan Hostel Happy Family. As the walls for the individual rooms were quite low, I was able to climb onto the upper deck of the bed and throw the cab fare over to Jin Xin's room... and so we began a series of money throwing haha.

Hmm...

First time got lost in Taiwan...

First time stepped into a hospital in overseas...

Experienced a lot of emotional ride today.

Nevertheless, I need to thank the gang. Without them, I guess I would still be struggling to breathe in the hostel. THANK YOU ALL!


Entrance of Raohe Night Market