Archive for June, 2008

Hualien 3rd and 4th Day

June 12, 2008

Sunrise over the pacific ocean from our hotel room.
- Tonight is our last night in Hualien, schedule has been packed but realtively fruitful. Went to a hot spring south of Hualien yesterday, there is a huge number of Singaporean tourists this time of the year, we kept bumping into one particular group at all the [...]

Hualien 1st and 2nd Day

June 10, 2008

- Hualien is really beautiful, but as our tour guide puts it, everything comes at a price, you “exchange” your energy to appreciate its beauty. “花莲的美景是用体力换来的!” We’ve been walking around these two days and my feet are killing me. Not much energy to write, but I’ll make up for it with more photos.
- Yesterday was our [...]

Taipei Photos

June 9, 2008

The wide selection of food at the veggie buffet, includes vegetarian “burgers”, sushi etc.

The change of guards parade with rifle drill

The queue outside Ding Tai Fung when we left the restaurant

The veg dumplings @ DIng Tai Fung, drool…
Have problems uploading pictures and resizing them, so this is it for now…. will upload more [...]

Taipei 4th Day

June 8, 2008

- Visited Hua Shan artist village, nothing much there now, but it looks promising, and the space is very inspiring – think old beer factory transformed into an performance and exhibition space. Grey concrete walls overgrowned with vines and trees, and splashed with graffiti. I love how they kept everything in their semi- original finish, [...]

Taipei 3rd Day

June 8, 2008

- went clubbing last night, LUXY rocks, flame throwing bartenders, sexy “辣妹” bar top dancers, great music and (my personal pet peeve) high celings!!!! But it seems like half of them there are foreigners, and half of the foreigners are Singaporeans (hear the accent everywhere) Rushing out now cos i overslept.
- Had dinner at the flagship Ding [...]