Saturday, June 25, 2011

Life in Taipei


Few days had passed. Everything still to go on pretty smooth. One thing about the life in Taipei, have to walk a lot! *Leg hurts* =S but still acceptable~

This is my last day of home-stay at Ben's place. It's was really a nice experience for me. I wish there's more chance again *Big hint to Ben* =P

I remember the first day when I arrive at his front door he gave me this slippers *censored toes* to be wore inside the house. I kept on forgetting to wear it! sorry Ben!~

Another nice breakfast from 劉妈米^^

劉妹妹...she's very funny.

From the left, 劉妈妈, me & Ben!
Hereby would like to thanks Liu Family for the amazing homestay experience! =)

I got to meet 2 other EP for the first time in person ^^. From the left, Martina from Czech Republic and Michelle from UKM Malaysia!

劉阿姨 & me! She's the one in charge of our current animal protection program =)

劉阿姨 brought us to visit Taipei City Animal Protection Office for the first time =)

A really established organization that protects the animal I must say. I hope Malaysia can have something like this in future *a more established one* =)

They were having some meeting when we got there.

Uncle seems to have some dissatisfaction during the meeting but everything was sorted out thanks to 劉阿姨. She's very well respected =)

Martina was very tire because of her 12 hours flight to Taipei.~

We can even find tons of animal vaccines here =)

We visited the director of the Organization (Yen I~Feng). He's a very friendly guy.

He even gave us each a notebook *not the laptop notebook* but a notebook for writing

That's the box

when we opened it...wow...really really cool..the cover of the notebook is designed like a ancient china door...with the lion door knocker on it!

from the left Liu Aunty *that's how I call her* , Michelle, Martina, Director Yen and me =)

Someplace nearby where the Animal Protection office is located, we waited for the bus there. According to Liu Aunty 吴宗宪 *Jacky Wu* lives here too!!

Liu Aunty bought us to lunch at one of the famous 7 Eleven somewhere around Taipei 101. 7 Eleven here really has a huge different compared to the ones in Malaysia! here you can find almost anything you need...zillion types of instant food, beverages and so on. You can even reload your easy card here. How convenient for a convenient store!

some of the many instant food you can buy. Just pick the one you like, make payment and they will microwave it for you.

cheese pasta for Martina & Michelle...

BBQ Pork for me =)

We visited Shilin Night Market

Something pretty important for anyone who wants to visit Shilin Night Market. We have to get off from JianTan Station Not Shilin Station. Because if you get off from Shilin Night station you will walk until you drop! lols~

Shilin Night Market is just Opposite Jiantan Station

It's super crowded as any night market in Taipei. You can find lots of food and other stuffs here.

Roti canai! this dude is demonstrating his throwing skills. I can't imagine if one day he lost focus and it just drop on his HEAD. hrm~~

We found this candy shop...and YES only candy!..millions of it!! You can eat all and lose all your teeth.

everywhere you can find people selling umbrella. All kinds of umbrella, automatic open/close...even those that looks like samurai sword. Cool huh~

a guy selling 'limited edition' Addidas shoe with wings on it! Maybe it can help you fly around Taipei?

We had this for dinner.

Taste alright for me.

While waiting for the train I saw particular building which I wanted to snap it but the train just passed by!...and I ended up with this really cool shoot =P...wanna guess what's that??

It's actually church...the words reads 耶稣爱你 *Jesus loves You*

Thursday, June 23, 2011

After Day 1 =)



Continuing my blog after day 1! but of course this is not going to be such consistent post about every detail from morning wake up, brush teeth, go toilet, go sleep~kinda post! It will be basically combination of all the stuff I find interesting on throughout my stay in Taipei =)


tried the 牛肉汤面! it's awesome and at a very reasonable price! =)


me at Zhen Dong having breakfast


We visited the skating ring at Taipei Arena. I saw this 阿妈 putting on her skate shoe~ this shows how age has no boundary, we must have perseverance!

We then went to 淡水~ very beautiful place
We visited HuWei Fort

such coincidence there's a group of tourist from China and best of all with their tour guide who was there explaining all the detail history of HuWei Fort..we pretended to look around so we can eavesdrop on the 'speech'...after all it's FREE!

saw quite a lot couple taking their wedding photos there...so I also 'kepo' take some! *now you know how convenient it is to have a super zoom =P*


saw a few strays too...this one seems to be kinda high. *weird position on the left seems like the heads gone* lols


really nice for Ben's Mummy to have brought us breakfast every morning =)


something really cool~he has a piano in his very home!! how awesome it that! >> for me ^^


He got a cute little hyper active cat roaming around his home too!...猫咪 like to bite my toes!


some cool ads display for Taipei Flora Expo =)

a 360 paranormal view of 松山机场 nearby's MRT station =)


you get to see all types of people walking in and out of the MRT stations, you'll find some funny little like this one also~ ^^


Cinema at the shopping mall near taipei main station (台北车站)

so expensive to watch movie!

Lunching with Sylvie & Zhen Dong some place around 台北车站 =)


She gave me TN's number and hotel address. Then she when to fetch Michelle (Another EP from Malaysia) from airport and Me & Zhen Dong start hunting for the hotel location.

and YES we found it!!.....on the map~

but of course it's not that hard to find thanks to all the nice people in Taipei giving us direction when we asked for it

This is how the hotel looks like from the outside...first impression I was like...haaa...hotel looks like that 的吗?but at least the staffs are really polite and helpful =)

room is reasonable, clean. everything seems to be working fine =) there's free WIFI too! What more can I ask for??

we meet up some of the CCLC AIESECers for Zhen Dong's farewell. He's going back the next day already. CCLC AIESECers are so nice..they come for the gathering even though they have final exams the next day! *Zhen Dong 你有感动吗?*


some the nice Italian food we ordered. More pricy compared to the usual meal but still acceptable.

from the left Elena, Wei Ting, Annie, Zhen Dong, Henry, Me & 宛親 *let me know if I got any names mistaken*

present giving ceremony~ very sweet =)

well that's all....haha....well I guess you can label my blog as picture gallery

*I don't care! =P*