壓馬路in Kaohsiung....

Our cousin David came back home (Tainan) from Taipei AFTER we visited grandma....so I told him to come hang out with us in Kaohsiung on Sat....and he did...here are the photos we took while we went to various places with the new subway which we never tried before :)

We waited for David at the train station...and then took subway from there....Ivan and Clement also tagged along of course....They were our photographers for the day :)


The 1st place we went was called 新掘江, which sells a lot of little things for the young people. 1st stop for us was the sticker machine...took these funny photos...not sure how I liked the patterns that staff picked...but we would not really know what to do with all the drawings anyway....


Those are called "pearl" sausages...very cute and convenient size for eating :) We got some fried tofu too, but David does not eat tofu...lol

We ate lunch at this Greek themed place...One of the country that I really want to go...well....those paintings were surely fake enough....orz

Central park in TW? amusing....:)

We went to the biggest mall in Taiwan (Ivan said it's the biggest in south eastern Asia too...but I don't know about that....) They have a lot of food at the mall, and way too many stores to go through....Last time we came back we only went there for a meal....this time we spent more time walking around....Look at those ice cream cones!!!! and the puff was pretty big even though the taste was only ok I thought....

We were tired after a lot of walking. Had some green bean milk shake and rested a little...

Last stop for the day was at 六合night market...which....was actually my 1st time there too....so we had three people as the tourists (Billy, David, and me) and two as the tour guides (Ivan and Clement...) This subway station station for the night market is built in memory of the 228 memorial day in TW...

We had milk tea at this place where Ivan always studies at....I know....how can you concentrate at a cafe? but that is what he does....and I guess Clement's head is indeed bigger than mine...2nd photo here is the night market view....and there are way too many food photos that I just decided to skip....Long but fulfilling day I have to say....and I got so fat after the whole day too....sighs...

Photos from the pillow shootout....TW 2009

We went to the park right in front of home one day. We were there to take some photos so we can have a family photo to put on the pillow Billy made at LA. There were flowers newly planted at the park so we just picked a spot to take some photos....

Clement brought his tripod back and that helped us to have everyone from the family in the photos....Ivan was the photographer for the group shots..

We were all looking at the 1st few shots and giving some opinions....

We took several shots and I think dad and mom were already having problem kneeling at the end....lol...We picked the last one here....


After the group photos we took some more in the park before dad picked us up to go meet our cousin....


This is how the pillow turned out to be....We went through a lot of trouble to finally print it out....anyway....that is the final product sitting on the sofa at home :)

Day 1-3 in TW, 2009

Our trip for TW was sure very tiring for the 1st week. The flight was kinda long to start with, and got longer with the more than one hour delay from LA to Taipei. We almost didn't make it for the flight from Taipei to KHH because of the delay too.....Sleeping pills kinda got me through the 1st few days, but then people waking up around 6ish in the morning really wasn't something I am used to....Anyway...Here are photos from the 1st few days....

Dad and mom wanted to take me to places where there are still sakura around, but then all the places were too far away I thought. We ended up going to this place called "Teng-Zhi", which is somewhere in the mountains at Ping-Dong....and guess what? We did NOT see any sakuras AT ALL....lol....

This was the only group pictures we had since we didn't bring either Clement nor Ivan to the trip. A stranger took this one for us close to the entrance of the park....

Well....this was the so called "artificial waterfall".....but I didn't expect it to be so small....lol....

Even though there were no flowers to see, we saw whole bunch of tall trees and leaves full of morning dew :)

The only thing we really did in the park was hiking....in hope to find some left over cherry blossoms in the park. Well....the hiking turned out to be a lot more energy consuming than we thought. Mom was smart to stay down at the visitor's center cuz we only got up about 1/3 of where we wanted to go and felt dead tired right at the "bird watching" place....

We had to drink to make up for the sweats....

We ate at this place which has a view of the mountains, and it was very foggy around lunch time...



They grew their own coffee beans...kinda interesting...

We went to visit grandma and some aunties and uncles at Tainan....Clement went with us since he got home Wed night to meet up with us...Grandma was talking for the whole day and lost her voice at night. I was entertained by her life time stories, but thought she really should of rest her throat more. I guess old people really need to talk when they live alone most of the time and have nobody to talk to during the day....Dinner was at this place dad's classmate owns. I think dad's classmate was drunk since he was acting weird when we left...