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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

INTERESTING ENCOUNTERS IN TAIWAN

DAY 2: TOUR IN TAICHUNG

Stop 1 - Confucius Temple

It was quite an arduous journey to the Confucius Temple.

Unfamiliar of the road and public transportation.

All we could rely on were the map in our hand

and some directions given by the hotel conceirge.

In the end we had walked down and up a stretch of road,

in search of the bus stop,

only to flag that particular bus we were looking for in the middle of the road,

because, there wasn't any bus stop there in the first place.

Confucius Temple,

the temple to visit if you are praying for intelligence,

and to do well in your exams..

An intriguing discovery, told to us by the temple attendant,

was that some people would do their study revision in the temple.

Although others would be there to read books, newspapers, etc.

Never in my thought that temple would be a place to study, hehe..

Stop 2 - Taichung Metropolitan Park

Basically, it's just a big park.

Nothing specifically special.

Stop 3 - Yue Lao

Ah... before that was the Place of Intelligence.

Now we made our way to the Place of Love,

where your love wishes are said to be heard,

where the cupid arrows shoot in your favour.

The Auntie at Yue Lao mentioned an instance of a heavily pregnant woman

personally travelled to Taiwan

to thank Yue Lao for granting her wishes,

now that she's happily married and expecting a kid.. =)

[this is the place where Miss Wendy & Justina directed a video of me & wj.. dotzz]

Stop 4 - Feng Jia Night Market

The first night market we went!

And I guess one of the best ones we had visited.

Ma la stinky beancurd, ji pa, 棺材板, etc

Yum yum..

But I met with a mini accident.. boohoo..

while outside one stinky beancurd stall,

I reversed myself and accidentally brushed my right leg calf against the exhaust pipe of a motorcycle.

No ouch though cos there wasn't any pain.

Just a mere stunning sight of a small patch of my flesh being burnt out,

revealing the inner surface of my skin...eeks..

Then it turned a little red, but still no pain arh... (thankfully)

So there went my hopes of going to the hot spring.. =(

~~mngtalk~~ ^___~ _{1:37 PM}