free & easy - Day 1

May 11, 2007

Yeah! We can finally slp as long as we want n be @ each stop as long as we want!

We left de hotel @ 11 plus instead of de 8am every morning, n our 1st destination is NTU! Actly it means National Taiwan University, de 1st uni in Taiwan. Some of us gals bothered to dress up in order to attract some guys! (haha, actly it’s oni an act 4 fun) But frankly speaking, most of de pple there looked nerdy w/ very few gd-looking guys. Most of de bldgs were made of brown bricks, which made de environment looks classy. We went to 1 of its canteens 4 lunch. From de outer design, it’s so run-down tt 4 de moment I tot: my goodness! Dun expect me to be able to eat some nasty food! But when we got in, de canteen was rather clean. They sold mix vege food, n de price is based on de weight of de dishes u got. There’s even soup @ 1 side 4 self-svc. When we finished our food, we’r supposed to clear our plates ourselves.

Over there, a lot of pple r riding on bicycles. There’s oso a lot of couples ard w/ de guys giving gals a ride while de gals r standing behind leaning against de guys’ back. So romantic right! On our way back to de main gate, we even saw a couple holding a wedding ceremony there! But too bad, din manage to find any cute guys…

Next, we went str to 淡水, n it’s over 20 mrt stops. De moment when we reached there, we went to pasar malam called 商店街. It’s really very crowded, esp w/ so many students ard. Over there, we tried tis beancurb w/ glass noodles called 阿给. Then we headed str to 渔人码头 via a small ferry. Tis is de pl where meteor garden was filmed! De bridge was very beautiful when there’s lights in de evening, n de wind over there was so strong tt we could hardly hold our cameras firmly. We wanna view de red river due to de sun setting along de horizon, but dunno y aft we saw de red sun, it disappeared among de fog suddenly.

Now we’r split into 2 grps: 3 will be gg shopping @ 士林, de other 6 will be gg to Miramar to take ferris wheel. Once we reached 剑潭stn, de 6 of us managed to hop onto a shuttle bus immediately. N shortly aft, we reached Miramar! We quickly headed str up to de top of de mall, buy tix, n boarded de ferris wheel. Coz my mum was afraid of hts, b4 we boarded de ferris wheel we agreed to let her sit in de middle. When we hopped in, instead, lihui was sitting in de middle w/ my mum sitting @ de side! Apparently she interpreted our intentions wrongly! Aft they switched seats, suddenly lihui said she’s afraid of hts too! Aiyo, juz how many pple r we gonna be protecting? So in de end my mum n lihui were sitting in de middle.

We wanna try kfc here, but it’s closed by de time we’r done w/ our ride. So we juz went back to士林夜市 to haf dinner. Whereas 4 de 3 gals who went shopping, they had quite a fruitful trip w/ hands full of plastic bags. Well, all of us had a fruitful trip.