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For the Love of Food! I Love Chinese Under the Maple Tree
Chinese Cuisine and any other links for pages you frequent. Adventures With Chopsticks
*#*#* Another Week passed..... *#*#*One more week ... $#$#$ Work & Eat $#$#$I've been working till aroun... ^@^@^ This week.. ^@^@^1. Went back to school to c... %#%#% HAPPY BIRTHDAY RECCE!! %#%#%Recce's Bday is ... 我知道我变漂亮了詞/曲：石欣卉 製作：陳達偉"过去的批评嘲讽 (Let it go Let it g... ^%^%^ EY Training in Penang ^%^%^Start Work le!!EY... went out with my bro today and it was really fun!!... %#%#% (= TAIWAN!!!! =) %#%#%With Mom! =)Supposed t... *Taiwan continued..*More Food...first row is dedic... Fortunes Can Be Funny Fortune Cookies  Blogskins Soup-Faerie.com for Cursor Take Out Boxes October 2004 January 2005 February 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 November 2005 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 December 2006 January 2007 March 2007 May 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 |
Friday, June 06, 2008 went out with my bro today and it was really fun!! i'll miss him dearly when he goes to london to study... What's disturbing now is the realization that i'm away from home so much this hol... it's almost.. too much. Taiwan, then now Italy & Bangkok for June, then soon after that will be Penang for work. My heart is heavy.. as if all i wanna do is to stay at home with Recce and watch tv, eat breakfast/lunch with my bro, walk Recce with Mom and eat dinner when Dad comes home... time is ticking away, counting seconds lost. there will not be a time like this anymore when i can have great long holidays... There will not be a chance for me to relive these moments.. simple things which fill me with great joy..... when bro goes overseas, when i start work- when our lives change. and i'm really sad, to b honest.. sad instead of excited. bcos i don't want things to change.. juz feel tt alot of things around me r happening beyond my reach, n making me lose alot of things tt matter to me.. and i know tt instead of feeling this way i should b treasuring them as in the present and now.. but the thought tt it's ending so soon.. juz... sad. =( Thursday, June 05, 2008 %#%#% (= TAIWAN!!!! =) %#%#%  With Mom! =) Supposed to go US... then bcos no available dates suitable, we signed up for Jiu Chai Gou. Then kena Earthquake!! - Just a week b4 departure!! *hope that situation there will improve soon!!* So emergency diversion- Taiwan! =)  It's my 2nd trip with only mom! the previous was b4 i started uni, so it's quite quient to end uni with another. it's great travelling with mom! cos she does most of the nagging and worrying abt stuff and all i do is have fun irritating her =p We went for a round-taiwan tour (whole island), so it was alot of travelling.. (which i hate cos looong bus rides give me motion sickness).. and the typhoon rains kept ruining moods as the night markets won't open... but comming back and looking at the photos, i really enjoyed myself v v much! i love mummy!! =) roughly sum the photos (for my memory's sake): 1st 2 pics:some beach to see the queen's head rock (can you see?) 3rd: golden ma zu 4th: taroko gorge - v loong winding bus ride 5 & 6th: in the mountains of hua lian - beautiful scenery last row first2: some pics in temples - thought it was v lucky to arrive at the time when tt single lotus flower bloomed. like fated =) btw, can you see the little bee in the lotus flower? last pic: some big expensive shopping mall tt we didn't buy anything from and ended up photo whoring 4 hours away..  Food from 1st 2 days in Taiwan! need no intro- ah chong mian xian!! yummy yummy goodness!! mum loved it so much we had it again juz b4 we left Taiwan! Xue HUA Bing: i regretted... paying S$11 for it!! (center pic!) 2nd row, last pic: Peanut snacks!! if anyone goes taiwan, pls pls pls muz try this if you see it!! Last row: FuChou FishBalls!!! have meat in them! - the same stall sells drunken chicken which is more Q then ours, but i'd prefer meater chicken.. hahaha.. and the last pic features *gasp* pork lard rice!! i finished the whole bowl!! the old uncle from my tour group finished 3 bowls!!!! really really yumm!! =)  Taipei First 3 rows: Taipei 101!! They have these characs called Damper Kids!! hahahaha.. ref to the big damper ball located at the top of the building to to counter-balance and sway it back to eqm when there are strong winds/earthquakes bcos it's so tall.. .. but who cares, they're cool to take photos with =) 3rd row: views from above, which seriously ain't anything great lah.. but for the damper kids- super worth it! hahaha.. also go to the 91st floor where they allow you to step outside: it was soooo windy! DON'T WEAR DRESSES!! reveal all!! hahahahha Last row pics: first 2: with our Tour Guide Yao- she's really experienced and respected among the tour guides in taiwan, everywhere we go ppl know her, even guides of other groups will greet her. i love her explanations when we visited the museum abt the jade bai chai.. and she speaks PERFECT chinese- i couldn't understand fm958 djs when i came back! Last 2 pics: Taiwan's mrt map! we took mrt to wu fen pu, but it was closed!! it's only open in the afternoon!!! so we went back Xi Men Ding (last pic) which was near our hotel to shop and eat ah Chong Mian Xian & drink bubble tea again!! =)  *Taiwan continued..* More Food...  first row is dedicated to the dearly-missed 烤地瓜！mum really loved the stuff!! it's juz roasted sweet potato - both the orange and the purple type! it's SUPER sweet!! look at the intensed color! it's almost like candy! but fragrant! lolz, it's mum's indulgence.. We went to afew night markets- in tai chung (2nd row); shilin (3rd row- 1st 2 pics: smelly toufu and the famous chic chop!!- super big and yummy we went back for second helping!) and Kao Shung's Feng Jia (3rd row- back 2 pics- roasted seasoned corn! - get to choose which corn you wan and wad flavour: original, pepper, curry, etc really chewwy and nice!; - charcoal grilled chic chop!) Feng Jia mkt also has the BEST bubble tea! the brand's 大拇哥(Thumb Boy)! Super super must try!! *gal serving also very chio! haha* Last row is of bamboo rice: muz knock the bamboo till it breaks to get to the rice. good if angry at ppl.. last 2 is of dried salted sotong! - juz like hebi- but sotong..  i was infatuated with this little piglet- caged in a pet shop at the Tai Chung night market. it's super super cute, place ur finger and it'll come and try put it's pink snout to it and try to lick it! hahaha.. v clever! and will wag it's little tail as it chases your finger around... i pray that it'll end up as a beloved pet by some vegetarian owner... pls pls pls. such sweet innocence.. the same pet shop also sold ducklings.. i hope they dun become someone's meal.. ... the taiwanese realli love to eat duck- esp if it's stewed.. Also another prob in Taiwan is the number of stray dogs- esp those that were once pets. Many are abandoned to roam the streets in search of food, and it's really heart-wrentching to see some sit in front of the night market stalls sniffing at the food above.. these are domesticated animals which don't know how to hunt nor scavenge, used to having their dinner dished out to them, sit obediantly to obtain treats.. ... worse are those tt seemed broken by abandonment- it really struck me when i saw this thin one who was following his master happily, which was vast constrast to the forlorned ones.. dogs value companionship more than anything else.. if you don't wanna look after a pet, don't even get one in the first place! - i hope Taiwan will one day extend that kind awareness and compassion tt i see in their mrt posters to their animals too.  My fav pics from the trip!! Really enjoyed going taiwan with Mom!! Hope next year we can go Jiu Chai Gou! =) *%*%* Happy Birthday & Aniversary! *%*%* Dear Pa and Mummy, Happy Aniversary!! Dear Mummy, Happy Birthday!!  Previously, the Jiu Chai Gou's tour we would have missed & spending both overseas.. Thus a change of plans has it's plus points too! Why we chose Taiwan (the other choice was Japan), so tt we could come back in time for this!  Dinner at Straits Kitchen! ~Yummy food! hahaha Happy days & good company! =) Your girl wishes you both happiness and good health! May all your wishes come true! Lotsa love!! |
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