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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

In Taiwan (Part 7)

31 December 2008 --- The last day of 2008 and a long long long day for me.

Woke up early once again and after refreshing ourselves, Jowyn and I packed our luggage and prepare to move again.

We pulled our luggage along the already busy ShiLin streets and boarded the train to Ximending where our hotel is located. Since we were early for the check-in, we left our luggage at the counter and went off to start our day.

The first thing we did was to made our way to National Chengchi University (政大) where Sarah was studying at to take a look around her school. Since we haven't had breakfast, after meeting up with Sarah at the entrance of her school, we went to have our breakfast.

yup, it's riceball again but this time its healthier cause of the rice used

After breakfast, we went to the supermart located in the school and in there we got a few surprises as there were a lot of drinks endorsed by S.H.E and Fahrenheit sold there.

Since we could not bring everything back, we took pictures of some of the bottles.

After getting the things we needed from the supermart, we walked back to Sarah's hostel and waited while she got the things she needed for the day.

After which we made our way to Mirama to take the famous ferris wheel and enjoy the view of the rainy day up in the booth.

the mini round-a-bout beside the ferris wheel

After we finish our ride on the ferris wheel, we made our way to have desert at a very famous ice-cream palour.

with my favourite Reese chocolate in it :D yum yum

After the delicious and satisfying desert, Sarah and I made our way to Taipei Main Station while Jowyn went back to the hotel to collect her luggage and met up with her friend.

It was still early when Sarah and I arrived at the Taipei Main Station so we decided to shop around at Eslite Bookstore and Taipei 101.

failed attempt at getting a picture of me with the 101 =P

love this picture the most but the colour seems weird

Every year at the City Hall of Taipei there is a big countdown party. I was fortunate to be part of the crowd to witness the beautiful lightings, concert and wonderful fireworks last year.

I was supposed to post pictures of the concert but I'm simply too lazy so I'll skip that. I'll just roughly recap who were the artistes who performed that night.

Sodagreen（蘇打綠）, S.H.E, Da Mouth（大嘴巴）, A-mei（張惠妹）, Mayday（五月天）. I believe there was somemore but pardon my memory=P

That night was definitely memorable. Standing in the cold night from 7pm to around 2am. After that we walked a long way to the train station and squeezed to get into the train. A night like this, how can I ever forget about it?

Maybe to end off on a good note, I'll post pictures of the beautiful 101 that night:

fly me to paris, please?
3:10 PM