The extended holidays, they call it.

This week I am having 3 days school off - Wed, Thurs, and Friday. However, since my other course and teaching are not off, I can't go anywhere far from Taipei. -_-".

Wednesday, just felt to spend the day at home. So I didn't join my friends to go out. At night still had to go for French class.

Thursday, I decided to go to the Park behind my house to exercise (a need to burn some calories..). Spent about 2 hours there [running and walking]. The weather was very cold yesterday and days before though. In the afternoon, I went to work, till night. I haven't gotten my salary yet though. Was expecting it last night, but my boss didn't say anything even til I left the place. -_-". Oh well..

Friday [today], at first I thought of taking a friend of mine to Danshui since she hasn't been there before. But this morning she said that she's going to her friend's house. So then, I randomly thought of going to Fulong beach (heard it's a nice beach) and with the sun up there, how beautiful that would be. =) But it didn't happen. Oh well, will ask more people to go with next time, with a proper planning bien sur.
In the end, me, Nia and Rm. Pras decided to go to the Miniature Museum of Taiwan. It was nice. The museum is not big but it took us -+ one and a half hours to finish it.
From there, I straight away went for class.

Tomorrow some of us are going to have lunch with Sr. Valentine [Indonesian]. I told her that we're gonna cook for her (yea, right.. haha). But now I am still thinking about what to cook tomorrow, and HOW we're gonna cook the dishes, and esp. HOW to bring it to the University, since we have no containers at home! ah, God will make a way.. We'll find it out somehow tomorrow ^^, I hope I am not gonna screw it up. :|

This sunday, I am planning to visit my family in Taipei. It's been more than a month since I last visited them. Upps... hehehe...

Ximending

Today I decided to chill-out, shopping for some clothes for the Spring/Summer time here.. (since I did not bring a lot of clothes to Taiwan cos I thought I was just gonna be here for 1 term, during the Winter).
Besides, it's been some time since I last shopped for clothing. =P

At first, I was supposed to meet up with a friend, but it was cancelled due to timing problem.
Today I didn't have the mood to cook also. =(
But anyways, I decided to go to Ximending with a Korean friend. and we shopped together. I feel good for today's shopping. hehe. Especially because I could share with somebody the price of the clothes by buying more than 1 piece. =) For all the 2 places where we bought the clothes from, we got cheaper than what we'd have to pay if buying only 1 piece.

Then we also went for dinner together. I felt so bad, because I wanted to go for a more reasonable price dinner, yet, I ended up ruining my ... [Lesson to learn: don't try something that will cost you a lot more.] My friend could not (still) take Taiwan food. And I ordered something famous from Taiwan for her to try, but instead, she couldn't take it.. [really sorry..]. Thinking what a waste it'd be, I ended up finishing her meal. [yes, I ruined my.. -not diet, ok-]
Then we went for Cold Stone Ice Cream (Lebay, I finally tried it! hehe). It was nice =)
Overall, I guess today was a pretty relaxing day.. We'll see how it will be tomorrow. Gotta finish up my Reseach Proposal.. Pray for me. ^^,

(This is Ximending.. but the picture was taken a long time ago.. like.. end of last year? =P)

Yang Ming Shan

When the winter has gone and the spring has come..

The most impressive sight captured in my eyes..

Have a beautiful day,
the.fridz-

Korea..

I am so into Korea now!
How not? ah, okay okay, temptation... =P
But it's not something bad, right?
How do I not want to fly there, with flight $$ for (only) NT 5,984.. Fu Yoh!
Once I get my ARC, I'll soon book my seat!! yahoo..!! hehe.. Hope this time it works! ^^
And hope I can soon get over from all this complicated-stuff-to-do for Masters. (peluh the sweat..)
(Lebay, wish you were here, together we'll fly there!..)

Sansia

During last Valentine's day. Gaby and me decided to spend the day at Sansia (since we have no one to date with =P). We heard that it is a nice place to visit, especially with its olden street and architectures..

After a long wait and getting lost at Wugu, we eventually decided to stick on to the first plan, which was Sansia. So here it is..

The old street..

The famous Croissant..
Posing for the arts..

Gaby and me, with the shadow arts. Does it look like us? ^^

To conclude , I'd recommend you to visit this place whenever you come to Taiwan =)

Cheers,