February 12, 2006

  • February 10, 2006- I'll spare you all the nitty gritty details.


    Highlights/Interesting Things/Not So Interesting But Made Me Happy Things:


    1.      Helped an older lady who was riding the MRT for the first time find her way to Gu Ting.  She was way far from where she needed to be and I used no Chinglish at all.  On top of that, she didn’t even know I was from America.  Way awesome, huh?  We chatted while getting to our respective stops and she asked if I was going out on a date.  Um…no. Hahaha.  Apparently I was wearing a lot of makeup or something for the day time??  And then she continues to ask if I was married yet.  Errr….wow.  I must look really old.  First I’m asked if I am 30 and now I’m asked if I’m married.  There isn’t a ring on my ring finger…


    2.      Went shopping and was desperately trying to find some cute stylish fob clothes.  No success.  Everything was just too fobby.  But I did however, find an awesome steal for HELLA CUTE SHOES.  3 pairs for $3000NT…which is less than $30 a pair.  Very cute!  I shall try to post pictures up later but Xanga is GAY (yah, you hear that Patrick?!  Gay!!!) and I’ve gone over my max uploads for a while.  Bleh. 


    3.      Got dinner with Mimi and hung out at Berry Milk (hella good strawberry dessert store) later on by her place.  We were just chilling and enjoying people watching when we came up with the brilliant idea to run to the nearby 7-11 and grab some beer.  Heh.  (1)Because we can and (2) well, because we can! Hahaha.  We were like damn, Taiwan is awesome.  You can walk around with open alcohol in the streets.  So that’s exactly what we did.  Sat there and enjoyed some.  Because we can.  =P


    February 11, 2006


    Met up with Mimi again and her friend Karen who came to visit while studying abroad in Korea.  We also met up with Mimi’s friends in Taiwan, Wendy, Amelia, and Jessie and went shopping at 5 fen pu.  I found another pair of really cute shoes and these were only $740NT!!! That’s like…gee, $23.  How great is that!!!?? They were 50% so I was totally thrilled. 


    Went to Xi Men Ding afterwards and got the Tie Ban Sha Wei Ma (really good steak sandwich) that I’ve been longing for.  It was splendid.  Just as I remembered!  Then visited Jessie at her work and chilled on couches at MUJI (home furniture store sorta…) for a good 40 minutes I must say.  Mimi, Karen, and I were all so tired from a whole day of walking that we just sat there and talked. Hahaha.  It was awesome because it was as if we were at a café but we weren’t really…we were in middle of the furniture store. We were smart enough to not have sat down on the bean bag chairs because all the people who sat down had a hard ass time getting up.  We watched and snickered like immature lil school children.  Aiya.  Ok, maybe not snickered, but definitely giggled.  Heh.  Good times, good times. 


    Went to a club, Cheers Nini, later on that night.  It was a party thrown by liquid-lifestyles and of course, that Royal kid was there again.  I saw him and I was like, I remember that dude…funny name…oh yah-Royal.  But anyway, so it was a traffic light party- so wear green if you are single, yellow if unsure, red if taken, and if you participated in this, you get a chance to be entered in a raffle drawing for 50 cent/linkin park front runner dude concert in Taipei.  I didn’t get a raffle ticket at first because I guess the lady didn’t really see my…errr…colored tank top. Heh.  And I figured there was no point in getting a ticket because I never win anything anyway.  At least not raffle type stuff.  Anyway, I end up getting a ticket because Wendy had to put her other half into the bucket and so I just asked for one conveniently.  Anyway, long story short…I won the raffle and I’m going to see 50 cent/linkin park front runner dude in concert in Taipei!  Each ticket is priced at $150 (got 2) and I got like the best seats you can get after the VIP section which is probably for local radio stations or something.  I want to sell the other one, cause I mean, can you imagine how many more shoes I can get with that???  But yah, gonna take Manly with me, since Mimi and her friends all bought their tickets a long time ago. 


    Headed back to Mimi’s shack at like 4 am in the morning and got some breakfast.  Right below where she lives is this breakfast store that sells the best dan bing with cheese (egg…thing…) and xiang gi bao jia dan (chicken/egg hamburger).  So that’s what I got and boy was I way happy.  Such great food.  *sigh*. Hehehe.  We then proceeded to squish 4 people total in Mimi’s room.  Think of my old room back at Durant but SMALLER.  Yah, pretty insane.  It was all good though. Heh.


     


    February 12, 2006 


          Not much happened today.  Got woken up by Borkae way early.  My cell just wouldn’t stop ringing and he was the cause of it.  Bleh. Hahaha.  Jkjk.  But yah, had lunch with the girls and then headed back home.  Came back, showered, got ready and met up with Bk.  We walked around Gong Guan and I got my Nai Lu (green milk tea) that I’ve been wanting since me, Helen, Dave, and Trace went there back in December 2004.  I also got a Mango Bing Sha (err…icy? Smoothie sorta?) and the lady thought we ordered too many drinks because there was an excessive amount of beverages on the bill (BK ordered a drink too) but no, I just wanted both.  Heh.  We talked and caught up and walked around.  That was fun.  We walked from Gong Guan all the way to Gu Ting, which I guess wasn’t that far, but it was a fair amount of walking.  Again, good times, good times. 


     


    Today was Yuan Xiao Jie (lantern festival) and while walking out of the Xiao Bi Tan MRT Station, I was just casually looking up into the sky and I see all these red glowing balls in the sky and was like wth???  Those, of course, were like…lanterns of some sort that float in the night sky and there were fireworks going off too in the near distance.  It was such an awesome sight to see and I enjoyed it very much.  It was just so cute…all these red glowing balls in the sky coming from every direction.  On top of that, can’t remember the last time I’ve seen fireworks either.  Didn’t see any this past or last year’s New Year.  Didn’t see any this 4th of July b/c I was in India nor did I see it in 2004 because we went to some party at Stanford.  It was just nice seeing them again.  I’ve always had a thing for fireworks.  I don’t think its anything I will ever grow out of.  Heh.  Must have fireworks at my wedding.  =P  And yes, I know, it’s going to be an expensive wedding with fireworks.   That just means no open bar then.  Hahaha. 

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