Back to taipei!

May 10, 2007

In de morning aft breakfast, we left taichung to return to Taipei, n tt took us ard 3 hrs plus. When we reached there, we went to 古宫博物院 to look @ de antiques, mainly jade, copper (usually used to make bells n utensils), de lions tt Chinese lyk to put in front of their hses or carry w/ them. Things lyk 天禄, 辟邪, accessories made of 象牙 into stuff lyk a ball within another ball which is in another ball which resulted in @ least 17 layers in all n small box which contains other smaller accessories. According to de tour guide, these antiques were brought in by 蒋介石 coz he luv those so much tt he couldn’t bear to c those being destroyed by 毛泽东’s culture revolution. Somehow I dun tink I can believe tis story, coz I’ve heard another version, n tt was, 蒋介石 stole those antiques. Well, it’s hard to conclude which version is de right 1 coz these pple were no longer in tis world. Oso according to him, de antiques were enuf to last us 4 70 yrs, such tt we come back every year to view new antiques.

Aft tt, we went to a theme restaurant 4 our lunch, n tt was 五角船板. De bldgs as well as de bowls n plates were man-made, n they were very heavy. It’s quite a unique restaurant coz it was built due to de lady boss’s curiosity if many things can be built w/o a std shape. However, I dun tink de food is really tt special or gd.

Next, we went to天禄展示馆 to listen to de pple toking abt feng-shui n how ur name affects ur life by its no. of strokes. De person din really explain anything tt vividly. They all r afraid tt they might interpret wrongly.

Aft which, we headed str to 阳明山国家公园. It’s supposed to be a very beautiful pl w/ lotsa flowers n beautiful scenery. But coz now it’s turning summer there’s not much flowers to view. Tis is de most boring pl I’ve eva been. It’s juz a park, n de tour guide asked us to take a stroll ard lyk it’s a time 4 us to rest by taking in fresh air. De oni attraction I found there was a squirrel climbing up a tree n finding food. Slowly, more n more pple surrounded it, n when it realized tt, it got so alarmed tt it tried its best to climb up a tree to avoid de crowd.

Our last destination w/ de tour was to 维格烘焙专门店, where a lot of tv stns haf been recommending it. It’s famous 4 it’s pineapple tarts. So we ordered 10 of it w/ 10 green bean tarts. Actly, all its pastries were very delicious, n I’m very tempted to buy all, but I’m not de type who enjoys snacking. Still, I’ll recommend pple who go to Taipei to buy its pastries.

Now we’r considered as being indept of de tour. Yeah! Finally free! We decided to go to 华西街夜市 4 dinner. @ 1st, we strolled along de street w/ rooftops, n apparently there’s not many shops opened, n not many pple were there. When we walked to de end of de street, to our surprise, there’r so many more shops ard behind tt street. Not oni were there lotsa food stalls, but shops too. We settled our dinner for 庚面. Then we had a short stroll ard. It’s really a very happening pl.

I really wanna shop ard more, but I’ve promised jianyi to accompany her to buy manga, so both of us left early. We took a cab, asked ard 4 de location of de shop, n we reached a very dark n quiet street. It’s really lyk de scenes of thriller shows tt we alwaz c. but finally we managed to find de shop. There were 2 dogs ard, n jianyi was so afraid tt I’ve to be her bodyguard to keep blocking de dogs fr her. De lady boss was very friendly, n they treated us w/ drinks. In de end, jianyi bought ard 76 manga! My goodness! How is she gonna be carrying these ard n up de plane? De boss’s brother even helped us to carry 2 paper bags full of manga to de opposite street to hail a cab. They’r really very friendly pple. I’ll visit them again if I am coming back to Taipei.