Archive for December, 2008

Early morning, we were herded on the coach to the train station.

We almost missed the train cos we went down the wrong platform, but good thing we realised it before it was too late.

The inside of the train is damn clean and nice okay!

They even have attendants going down the aisle with a tray of condiments, ala flight stewardesses. Shiokness.

At our destination (cannot remember where… Chia Yi I think…):

There was a 7-11 there! It may not seem like big news, but their 7-11 trashes Singapore’s FLAT.

They sell actual, edible food unlike the mashed up rubbish that they attempt to pass off as “Quick Bites” here. Eurgh.

Every receipt is also some sort of a lottery ticket.

I couldn’t figure out how to enter the lottery because, erm, I couldn’t read the 繁体字. Sweat. Ahem.

So we got on the coach (…again) and headed to Alishan!

Had “bian dang” （便当） for lunch and it was quite eh, interesting I suppose.

At the place we ate:

The mum while we were walking along the streets (notice her doing the finger twist – she twists ok! hip or what!):

They have cars like these that resemble artifacts:

The only reason I can think of that the villages can’t figure out how to get it down the mountain, so they just leave it there and pray for it to decompose.

There was also a dog that was so huge I almost mistook it for a bear:

The owner damn unfriendly though. I asked if I could pat it and he just stared at me and said no. -_- Zzz.

Oh yah, before I forget, this was our resting ground for the day:

At the “hotel”, they made us do all sorts of boliao stuff that was supposed to entertain us and you know, culturfy us.

I wasn’t entertained. But I guess some people were. Like ahem. *points below*:P

Making some agar agar type of thing:

Standing on stilts (the man on the right actually stopped some of us from playing basketball, claiming it was the wrong way to play – and tried to get us to stand on stilts to kick the basketball around – no one entertained him):

Making some windmill sort of thing out of bamboo things:

Into the night it got a wee bit more interesting. We went on a night walking trail thing, which was super cold, but we saw fireflies!

The way they glow is not like what we see on TV! They don’t glow like faint tiny dots; it’s more like huge luminous bulbs.

We also made muah chee:

We were supposed to like pound a gluttinous rice paste until it became muah chee.

The end product:

It turned out super delicious, probably cos it was so fresh. Yums.

And that concludes Day 2!