Sunday, July 6, 2008 11:07 PM
I'm a Rocker!
I'm starting to become very social and making friends everyday. Lol. 2 days ago, i brought Mike the US guy to Taipei Main Station to get his HSR ticket to Hua Lien. The east coast of Taiwan. There are suppose to be nice views of mountains and everything, like the Taroko Gorge. One way ticket there would cost around NT$400.


While i was waiting for him inside the control station, i saw this group of kids with their childcare teachers coming in through this gate. They were measuring their height for the free entry option. Haha. So cute.
Today, was spent with Charlie. This guy in my room now. He has been here for quite awhile too. French guy who is better at mandarin than me.. He stayed at China for 3 years before coming here to study mandarin for 2 months. We went to have our lunch at one of the chinese coffeshops and they handed us a chinese menu. Those with traditional chinese, and he read it out with ease, while i was stumbling with every other word.. Haha. After our lunch, he asked if i had anything on, i said i was going to MaoKong Gondola, he seems interested and ready to leave his homework behind, so i asked if he wanted to tag along. Of course, he agreed. Lucky, the weather was really smiling at us, not blasting sun and stormy rain. The ride for the 3 stations the gondola took us to, cost only NT$50. The ride took a total of 20 minutes ( really long ride for a cablecar ) and it was only a one way ride. The highest it got was 299.3m off the ground. >.< You can see quite a big part of Taipei from the top. There were nothing much up there.. Much to my disappointment.. Only shrine temples and semi-restaurants.. Sianz..







The roads really look tempting for a racer. Haha. Those Initial D moments keeping replaying in my head. Even Charlie who knows nuts about Initial D were saying there must be some kinda racing here at night. Lol.


The walk down was very long, we decided to walk down the flight of stairs which we weren't sure where it led to. Even the flight of stairs was long.. Neverending.. Took us a long time to walk down the stairs, i wondered if we just walk along the road, how long would it take us.. Actually you can get on a bus that drives you down.. But we just wanted to test our patience and endurance. haha

And to stop every once in a while to take nice pictures of the place. Thats Charlie. He kinda looks like a younger Tom Cruise, a skinnier one too. Lol.
Walked for 2 hours and finally got to the Metro again..


So tired.. And ready to hit the shower.. Another half hour ride before we can achieve that..


And when we reached the hostel.. The receptionist asked us to try on the new wig she got. Haha. I am a Rocker!! haha. But the winner is Charlie. He looks more like one, no? lol.