Whoa~! Guess what?
I said I was gonna upload photos of my taiwan trip but ~ Tah DAAH~! The glorified camera we used to take almost 98.55% of our trip went bust and screwed up the SD card. Or it was the SD card's problem in the first place. Or it was the netbook we loaded our data in, or it could be a number of other things like for example, the main culprit of all unexpected events - global warming - or Skynet's cyber mainframe of cyborg hostile takeover, because I HAVE NO PHOTOS.

Yes~
We lost 98.55% (that's an accurate percentage, mind ya) of our photos.
Luckily, I did take some snap-shots with my 3.2 Mpx phone camera so all is not lost. Well, actually - it is. But, Argh! I don wanna remember.

So here~! Enjoy with my deepest condolences *sniff*.

Sis armed with a big black, but white elephant of a camera. Ready to Rock n Roll baby!

Visited a nature park in *insert chinese name here*

At Jinguashi. That's me taking a shot of my sis taking a shot at my mum taking a shot at some sea-bed moss. I hope.

At the Volcanic crater at YangTai Shan. Man, you don't get scenery like this in Singapore.

Orange juice and a Cow-tongue biscuit. The biscuit is sweet and pasty. A simple snack while breathing in sulphuric fumes from the crater.

Curry rice dinner at Eslite mega bookstore. Kinda like our Popular back at home, but 12x bigger and stocks everything from books to cutlery.

Went to a Lutheran church on Sunday (last day) there. English service, of course.

JUST CAME BACK FROM TAIWAN, BABY .

Actually it was yesterday.

Just thinking of all the photos i'll have to upload gives me a headache so I'll just type about my trip (like anyone cares) and edit the pretty-ed up entry when I have the time (which i don't).

Taipei in 100 words (195 actually) :

Arrived at airport with neck cramp from ride. Check in to 20°c & zero humidity. See three 7-11’s within 400m – they’re everywhere. Visited a national park and see plants. Nice plants but no animals, it’s winter anyway.

Shopped like hell, really ~ shoppers paradise. Fail to find a single overweight female on the streets. Everyone look like they just came out from an Elle photo-shoot. Look at my Bermudas and sandals & feel massively out of place. See a Show Luo-looking guy applying foundation on the bus. Check my sexual orientation – yep, straight. Proceed to vomit after bus-ride. Taipei buses are like jelly. Wobbly as heck.

Visit a mountain that smelt like rotten eggs, see (hear) fellow Singaporeans. We are as ubiquitous as 7-11s, seriously.

Eat mango-milk ice with small tangyuan ~ divine. Eat it 3 days straight. Eat at Shilin, awesome. Eat at Shida ~ heavenly. Eat at the Toilet Restaurant ~ cute concept, atrocious food.

Basically, Taipei is THE place to shop and eat. And ogle at Barbie doll manga-esque ladies (if you’re the crass sort who notices such things). A bit lacking on the scenery factor, but hey – that’s what Australia is for.

Listening to Chris Garneau's Music for Tourists .
Simply divine music . Makes me wanna reach for a guitar i do not have, and strum a song of getting old.