Thursday, August 17, 2006  

haha w00t back home. but i didn't post in a long while so.. here we go. final installment of the eng's asian adventure 2006

8/12. later that night, i gave steven a call briefly, and i go to play with my 2 litto twin nephew-cousins XD they're about shawn's age, but they have singaporean accents!!! hahaha so cute. i need to post pictures. XD they have another baby brother XD man that family is going to be a fun one. mm after the huge gathering, we went back to yap goh goh's to try and make this dragon beard candy. first step: melt sugar. yea didn't go so well. i kept burning it (go figures) so that failed miserably. haha

8/13. airport! ate roti prata for breakfast and kaya toast =P on the plane i played harvest moon and watched a hilarious korean movie "crazy first love". the main guy actor is the same guy from my sassy girl. hahaha its really funny. oh yea i was on plane to taiwan XD mm wen we arrived, we were greeted by 2 cousins i've never met before. their english names are ariel and shelly. ariel has 2 daughters, vivian and jane, and shelly has one son, tim. ^ ^ their husbands are vick and steve. xD such kute families. but there's a catch! they cant speak english. hahahaha T_T i could understand the mandrin and everything, but i couldn't respond. sad. so my mom was a translator most of the time. and amanda stared off into space.

they drove us to our hotel where we settled down for a bit, and i gave tiffo a call :D mm then my family had dinner with my cousins at a nice restaurant. i ate til i was sooo full and then they ordered MORE food. i was like !?!?! T_T after dinnnerrr, we met tiffo back at our hotel! XD i was very happy to see a familiar face ^ ^ i didn't get to see her legs, but she had quite a few mosquito bites on her arms :3 she took us to a busy night market XO took the MRT deal. she ate some oyster egg deal and we all ate cotton shaved ice cream XD yummy. i got a tummy ache later that night but its all good >_> uhm then to the streets! very very bz. and crowded. i think i bought a few earrings and amanda got gay shoes.

8/14. we awoke early in the morning to head for our taiwan glamour photo shoots. holy crap. T_T so we picked 4 outfits or w/e we'd want to wear... amanda picked all these sappy happy cutsy stuff. i could tell she was fULLY enjoying the whole make up and hair styling portion of this whole ordeal. for me... uh. i fell asleep a lot. like i remember towards the end, the lady was putting on white stuff on my eye lids so i closed my eyes, naturally. but before long, i felt myself dozing. hahaha T_T narcoleptic even on the other side of the world. *raises fist* we took family pics too. xD i think my most favorite thing about this thing was my photographer. he poses the way he wants me to pose... hahaha i'll let you.. envision that for a while. :D after the 7 hour photoshooting, we took a 2 hour nap back in the hotel. had outback STEAK for dinner YUMMY!!! hehe then we looked around taiwan ikea (much smaller, same price), bought some magazines, and cup noodles. DUDE at their 7-11, they sell anime figurines by the cashier. T_T that just blows my mind. we houstonians wait twice / once a year for anime cons to get this stuff, and in asia, they can go to their local 7-11 and buy however many they want. PIFF...

8/15. we ate those cup noodles for breakfast, and went back to the picture place to choose the pictures we wanted to keep. amanda had an extremely difficult time chosing which pictures she wanted T_T... very difficult time. >_> i kinda rushed her a bit and i believe she got quite mad at me for the rest of the day. >< sigh kids. mm after that we went to taipei 101. w00t. the elevator is fast. haha mm the view is alright. i mean.. i looks like how most cities look like from way up high in an air conditioned observatory. oo oh yea on the taxi ride to 101, i think the taxi driver overheard me and my mom reasoning with amanda to not get so worked up over pictures. haha the taxi driver asked for our zodiac animals x.O! he sed dragon (me) has a mind of its own and doesn't like to listen and more stubborn or something. and he sed sheep (amanda) is obedient and patient. HAAHAH so funny cuz the opposite was actually occuring at the moment. well.. at least for the sheep. >_> anyway yea i thot that was random that the taxi man butted in like that. hahaha oh yes there was an anime con going on in taipei world trade center that day as well. i didn't get to go but i saw lots of kids with huge galleria sized bags with bleach and naruto all over them. xO they have cooler cons than us T_T back at the hotel, i played gameboy for a while until shelly came to visit us with her other sister, angel! XD so for everyone who's really confused, i have a total of 3 cousins in taiwan: ariel, shelly, and angel. angel is only 22, so that makes her cousin number 24 (im #25, amanda is #26). then we went to "tea lounge blog" for dinner. its cool! its a restaurant styled place but its also an internet cafe i guess. there was free internet and manga all over ^ ^ i didn't use internet long enough to blog but i emailed a bit. they had a lot of pot manga.

8/16. in the morning, steve picked us up to go to the taiwan national museum. they sure love kitchen ware, cuz it was a bunch of bowls and plates and stuff. haha very nice art though. its always amazing to see ancient vases and utensils ^ ^ we also drove to a sulfur mountain place. apparently there's a dormant volcano in taiwan x.O i did not know that. we walked aroundd and my mom got tired. haha mm then we drove to an old dutch fort that became a tourist thing and there's a nice view of the sunset. unfortunately, it was cloudy. XD sounds like a repeat of that gay sunrise i woke up early for >_> then we met up with shelly, and walked along a pier type place. my mom sed that tiffo sed she came here some time ago. *shrug* i forgot the name. we ate some weird fishball stuff, some noodle in tofu stuff, and "iron eggs" x.O sorry but i like my eggs to wiggle and jiggle, white and tender, with a yellow middle. hahah XD it was quite dark now, so we went to buy a rice cooker? (random)

and then went off to the airport. T_T it was here that i realized... my precious and ancient tiny green pencil bag which has been serving me for 3 years... *sigh* has gone missing. along with my 7 year old "eng" charm. T_T fortunately, i randomly bought a new pencil bag in singapore and a similar "eng" charm in taiwan. sigh. it will be missed and not forgotton, but i must move on. *tearz* on the flight from taiwan to LA, i watched a lot of movies. "stick it" was.. interesting >_> "over the hedge" had its moments. "my kung fu sweetheart" is a canton movie. heh it had funny moments. xD then we hung out in LA for a while til our 1am flight back to houston. on this flight back, the movie showing was "duma" i think. its about some boy and his pet cheetah. sappy and bad. bad abd movie. cheetah was kute. bad movie. XD finally got home but had to drive around to get our car and key back from relatives who were borrowing.

but its all good! got home and hugged the ground, unpacked, somewhat sorted stuff, went online to catch up a bit on the current events, and here i am blogging and i still have a long list of things to do. XO well anyway, this concludes the eng's asian adventures. pictures will come someday. i will not say soon, cuz thats a lie. haha thank you few and faithful readers! i hope you enjoyed my chronicles. XD

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