Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Briana Carpenter

//Briana Carpenter//




I think I found my favourite idol on Australian Idol this year, especially after a very disappointing year of Canadian Idol.

Apart from her slightly weird looks, I loved her audition and I loved her semi finals performance. Hope she gets through tomorrow to the finals.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Reminiscence

//Reminiscence//

For some unknown reason, I decided to look through my Taiwan immersion photos again...and it brought back so much memories...

I think it's the whole prelim thing...that made me kind of nutty nowadays...random thoughts keep popping into my head, which is very very irritating especially when I try to mug...it's like my brain have this "immune" system against mugging, everytime I try to mug, my brain will trigger off this mechanism and all the random things will start popping out to distract me to prevent me from mugging...

Even what I just typed was random...but back to the topic...I realised I never really posted about what happened during the trip...so I finally decided to post some interesting photos...they are in chronological order by the way...I guess this photo entry made up for it...at least when I look back at my archives in the future...I will be thoroughly reminded of TIP 2006.

And please scroll down to read the entry before this...about the songwriting competition and vote if you haven't! Thanks!


It was their election at that when we went...look at all the flags...


007!


The st john in me couldn't resist taking this photo


Fabulous barbequed mushroom!


Ice-cream + peanut


小笼包 + 锅贴 from one of the 便利商店, can't remember which one.


It's during times of mugging like now that I really really miss those times in Taiwan. That's us eating outside the 便利商店 at 2 a.m in the morning, after we kena ostracised by the person inside...haha


I love 背影 photos...


Interesting stone found by Koonyu at 七星潭


Hilarous translation...


Isn't this so cute??!!


The bus services there are very messy...from colours to numbers...I even took a bus called S before...


成品书店!张惠妹 shoot part of her "我要快乐" MV in front of this building.


Funny quote I saw in one of the cuibicles in the toilet of the bookshop.


And this is written by ME! Though it's not like super nice, it's still quite unbelievable given it's me...


And of course, how can you not eat 臭豆腐 when you are in Taiwan?


Another MV was shot here, 孙燕姿's "我要的幸福". (This is 莺歌by the way)


Interesting concept isn't it, I still have the cup with me.


Everywhere you go, you see students! They are either loitering around after school (which ends at 5pm), or they are rushing home after tuition at 10pm.


The recording of 我猜我猜我猜猜猜


Snorlex! Reminds me of mitchell...



多喝水!


六福村!


Another funny translation...


This also needs parking?


Long John Silver!


Singapore Food! Which of course I didn't eat.


English lessons.


One of their two 福利社,something like our welfare room I guess.


And they sell all sorts of 奶茶!


Someone came up with this crazy theory that as long as we imagine we are holding on to a pole, we would not fall, and we tested it out in a crowded train...ji malu...


The lengendary 士林夜市!


The REAL 大鸡排!


FRIED Ice cream...


BIG BIG sausages...


棺材板!Which is super nice...


Crispy on the outside and creamy inside...


A sausage inside a sausage? Actually not, it's actually sausage wrapped in glutinous rice.


This is for you 大炳哥!


Ice cream again...


Sleeping during lessons...


And this is called sleeping right under the teacher's nose.


A water cooler in every class....


Sleeping during PE lesson...


And sleep again during Maths...and OMG...I am so tramautised by maths...


Cooking lessons!


Fried 汤圆! It looks ugly, but it actually taste quite nice...

The process of frying...

Organic Chemistry lesson...IN CHINESE!

Mister Donut!

With such a wide variety of donuts...there are actually much more..that my cam didn't manage to capture...


Home sweet home!
The living room...


The stairs leading upstairs, and down to the basement...

The guest room...which is for me...

Ooh...and it was 马英九's last day as 台北市长...

满载而归!I went with 2 bags (1 luggage and 1 handcarry) and came back with 6!