Day One Part II

After ranting on day one of our trip, the rest of the evenings once we reached our hotel, there's hardly any energy left to blog. Hence apart from the first entry, the rest are post entries.

Day One
We were pretty adventurous, despite this is our first trip here, we opted for a bus and finding our way to the hotel rather than taking a cab. It was a pretty long walk (and aimless one as well) to our accommodation from the Taipei main station.

With a map in hand, the two helpless souls finally reached our destination. Well, not forgetting to snack as we wandered along. The night market outside the station served the best BBQ squid outta all the ones we tried during our entire stay (damn do I miss it).

Dropping off our bags at the hotel, the two of us (still with plenty of energy left) headed off for more food. Walked for half an hour and we landed at the "Zhong Xiao Xing Shen Station" (忠孝新生). Yes, the rest of the night would bore you, more food, more spending on random shit, which I'll spare you the details.

Day One in Paradise

Alighting the flight, it was like I've stepped into ghost town. The terminal was empty,... apart from my fellow travellers on the same flight. A sigh of relief after seeing another crowd waiting to fly out, other than that, occasional small number of staff at the DFS...

Took a bus from the terminal to town, Taipei Bus Terminal. The buildings that flashed passed seemed gloomy, cold, lifeless, drab.

While trying to figure out our way to the hotel, we landed ourselves with a nice bowl of mee suah (面线), stinky tofu(臭豆腐), BBQ caramelised squid (鱿鱼), corndog and a nice hot cup of almond tea. One word to describe the food,.... nice XD.

The roads here is relatively easy to figure out for newbies like us, though the traffic takes a bit of time getting used to, the swamps of scooters are pretty intimating at first, but that was ok.

Checked into the hotel and off we went again, more walking and more food as we walk some more.

Along the way, we adopted some ophans, fried chicken bits (香酥鸡)(no pix, the food was all gone before my hands can reach for the camera), zhu xue gao (豬血糕 pig's blood cake, with peanuts, shallots, ginger -- not that great), tea egg (茶葉蛋) from 7-11. Oh picked up a nice pair of boots as well.

As you can see, we've take the approach of eating which ever food that appears in front of us, pretty random. No room for main course, we just wanna try EVERYTHING.

Despite the cold looking buildings around us, I totally fell in love with this place. Reason? I love the people here, everyone I spoke to (be it asking for direction, salesperson, passer-by on the street) are so genuine, helpful and friendly. Even the gal who was giving her boyfriend a good tongue leashing, sounds pretty civilised lol.

The service level here is excellent as well, they don't push sales but are more than willing to answer all queries.

Side note, the temperature is around 17- 19 degree, alright for me. The only thing is that my immune system is still pretty weak, and great thanks to the cabin temperature on the flight over, I'm down with a cold. The drug I took caused drowsiness, but that is not gotta ruin our holiday, even if it means I've to walk with my eyes closed. Chao for now, more food awaits us.

Apologizes for the poor quality of the photos, its winter here (short daylight), and also we were more pre-occupied with what goes into our mouth rather than our view finder.

Cats on the Loose

My security canine had been busy on patrol before she left for her nanny's, now that she's not around, the annoying felines are on the loose.

All those noise, those cat fights, all the commotion just at our doorstep, just because Yumi wasn't around.

My head has been killing me since this afternoon, fingers crossed its not another ear infection or something, I've been downing loads of pills to help me nap over the pain, and the aspirin did help a lil, thou not a great deal. I'll be away for a couple of days, hope I can get wifi to upload pix for the Christmas holiday.

If not, then here's an advance Merry Christmas to which ever bored soul is reading this entry.

Ungrateful

She's gone, without even turning back, without even realising that I'm not beside her.

The ungrateful gal galloped off when her nannies took over her leash.
The ungrateful gal hopped into the back seat once the car door was opened.
The ungrateful gal didn't even look back when they drove off.

I'm glad she enjoys the company of her new friends, but can't change the fact that I'm a nobody to her... sigh.

Moulting

At the dinner table, Cow found Yumi's fur in his soup,... went to the washroom and he can easily pick her fur off his underpants.

Yes, I'm glad its coming to the end of Yumi's moulting season, no more tumble weeds hoovering across the living room. I'm quite certain that with the amount of fur I collect throughout each season, its enough to make another of her.

That's the thing about having a canine companion, I've grown too accustomed to her furiness, finding fur on my lips as I sip my morning coffee, in my rice, wallet, the magazine I'm reading, on my keyboard, you name it.

Sigh, side note, Yumi's nanny is dropping by tomorrow to pick her up for her vacation camp. Oblivious to it all, the canine is snoozing away, not knowing how much I'm gotta miss her...

This is why I'm getting fat (Dinner)

A month of MIA and now three entries in just one day... I'm finally getting back on my feet.

Yumi got poked

Poke, poke, today is the day Yumi got poked by needles again.

Much to our (more of mine) relief, her blood test came back negative for heartworm. Has place order for her Interceptor tabs.

Following that, she got poked yet again, this time for a rabies jab.

The vet was happy that our gal is so "healthy" that she has no problem what so ever when she tried to pinch the canine for fats to inject the shot. Yes, our gal is in fact overly "healthy" in the field of body fats, so much so she might need to go on diet soon.

Just outside the vet's was this lil pup for adoption, its overpowered with cuteness and I couldn't resist taking out my digital cam.

Changes

This space has been due for a face lift for more than a year, its only now that I've managed to get any sorta motivation to start some work. Am still trying to come up with a decent banner to go with it, and the pain of going through the previous entry to move all those photos that are outta alignment.

I've got another three days to complete the spring cleaning in amidst of all my errands. Hope all goes well. Nope, no photos for now (another load piling up on my memory cards), maybe later tonight perhaps?