day 5: slow poke in china (ew, not like that)
oops. i haven't been updating lately, and i couldn't tell you why. well, i have been busy, but you may have noticed that jason 71 updates alot. damn him and his fastidiousness. he's some how able to survive on 4 hours of sleep but i can't seem to get up unless i smell food or someone slaps me.
well, day 5 of the trip in taipei was nice and easy. i woke up kinda late, in time for an early lunch at the apartment. tasty as always, some more jiao tsi among other vegetables and such. first plan of the day was to head out to the Living Core mall, another enormous shopping center. this one was special though cause it has a giant sphere that resembles the death star jammed right into the middle of it. quite fantastic looking, but the inside of the mall is fairly delapidated. it was dead inside (ooh, get it, death star) and i'm sure it was because of the time of day. but after visiting that mall, we headed back to the ever attractive Taipei 101 building, and it was jam packed. certainly, being the tallest building in the world helps fill it's mall. our visit this time was to travel to the top of the building. we jumped in their elevators, the fastest in the world at 600km/h. my ears were popping the whole way up, and you can't even really tell that we're moving besides the change in pressure in your head. the view was pretty nice, a little foggy, but great to see the city from way up and get some bearings.
we chilled out afterwards in the bottom floor's enormous food court, but instead of perusing some intriguing fare, we just opted for McDonald's (yeah, even in Taipei I eat that junk). BUT i did try one of their strange Asian concoctions, some sort of fried chicken sandwich with rice cake patties instead of bread and a strange sauce. yeah, i didn't finish it. blech.
headed home in, of course, the rain. donned our lovely ponchos that my uncle gave us. i think i still get really wet cause the damn things don't breath at all, and i sweat like crazy in it. gross. oh well, my backpack didn't get wet at least. we headed out for one last dinner with my aunt and uncle. they've been so gracious the whole time. my family is GREAT! so kind. delicious and filling as always.
head back home, and decide to try and check out some bars in shin da (i think?). we got pretty lost trying to find this one street. we walked for about an hour till we finally found what we had been looking for, this one college/music bar called Underworld. totally empty except for the DJ and his girlfriend and the bartender. i think two people came in later, but they just sat at the bar and read their books. we finished our drinks after some conversation and found another bar called Oldie Goodie. i think it was trying to be a pub, and this place was a little more hopping. well, at least there were other people in there. they had two guys playing live music, singing classic songs on their guitars. at random points, people in the crowd of about 12 would go up and sing with them. pretty funny to hear the main guitar player sing "You'll never know how much I rearry love you! You'll never know how much i rearry caaaaare!" hilarious good times. we leave and jump in taxi back to the apartment at intense speeds and make it home alive. another day down...
well, day 5 of the trip in taipei was nice and easy. i woke up kinda late, in time for an early lunch at the apartment. tasty as always, some more jiao tsi among other vegetables and such. first plan of the day was to head out to the Living Core mall, another enormous shopping center. this one was special though cause it has a giant sphere that resembles the death star jammed right into the middle of it. quite fantastic looking, but the inside of the mall is fairly delapidated. it was dead inside (ooh, get it, death star) and i'm sure it was because of the time of day. but after visiting that mall, we headed back to the ever attractive Taipei 101 building, and it was jam packed. certainly, being the tallest building in the world helps fill it's mall. our visit this time was to travel to the top of the building. we jumped in their elevators, the fastest in the world at 600km/h. my ears were popping the whole way up, and you can't even really tell that we're moving besides the change in pressure in your head. the view was pretty nice, a little foggy, but great to see the city from way up and get some bearings.
we chilled out afterwards in the bottom floor's enormous food court, but instead of perusing some intriguing fare, we just opted for McDonald's (yeah, even in Taipei I eat that junk). BUT i did try one of their strange Asian concoctions, some sort of fried chicken sandwich with rice cake patties instead of bread and a strange sauce. yeah, i didn't finish it. blech.
headed home in, of course, the rain. donned our lovely ponchos that my uncle gave us. i think i still get really wet cause the damn things don't breath at all, and i sweat like crazy in it. gross. oh well, my backpack didn't get wet at least. we headed out for one last dinner with my aunt and uncle. they've been so gracious the whole time. my family is GREAT! so kind. delicious and filling as always.
head back home, and decide to try and check out some bars in shin da (i think?). we got pretty lost trying to find this one street. we walked for about an hour till we finally found what we had been looking for, this one college/music bar called Underworld. totally empty except for the DJ and his girlfriend and the bartender. i think two people came in later, but they just sat at the bar and read their books. we finished our drinks after some conversation and found another bar called Oldie Goodie. i think it was trying to be a pub, and this place was a little more hopping. well, at least there were other people in there. they had two guys playing live music, singing classic songs on their guitars. at random points, people in the crowd of about 12 would go up and sing with them. pretty funny to hear the main guitar player sing "You'll never know how much I rearry love you! You'll never know how much i rearry caaaaare!" hilarious good times. we leave and jump in taxi back to the apartment at intense speeds and make it home alive. another day down...
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