Votre Coeur: February 2009

Significant Day

0 comments Posted by Mastermind at 3:08 pm

Today is the day where I will have an MRT station in service about 5 mins walk from my home. Want to come over for Mahjong? Haha..

More streets of Taiwan

0 comments Posted by Mastermind at 8:19 am

Every inch can be used for advertising..

An army of motorcyclist waiting in line at the traffic lights

Local shops out of the city area at Miao Li district. A restaurant at the middle and a betel nut shop on the right. No.. I didn't see any betel nut beauties

The view of Taipei city from Taipei 101...

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Haha.. just watched a movie, Suspect X, it's a movie with a great plot that's very engaging. It can keep you thinking if you pay attention to the words they use. Most important of all, it's about a physicist challenging a mathematician in solving a crime. Unfortunately, most of the movie goers couldn't appreciate the movie. Well.. it's my first movie in many months... I have my deserved break and it's time to get going again... chiong ah...

Taiwan - Danshui

0 comments Posted by Mastermind at 8:50 am

Long time no blog... perhaps since I came back from Taiwan, I go to work before the sun rises and return home after the sun sets daily. Nonetheless, it was an enriching trip. Time for some photos and interesting observations of a foreigner in Taiwan.

This is the old street at Danshui, where they sell loads of local products like 铁蛋 and freshly grounded almond powder and all sorts of other stuff. The signboard inbetween the streets will dazzle you while motorists and pedestrians share the road haphazardly. I learnt that motorists from Taiwan don't even bother to slow down for pedestrians even when you are at the pedestrian crossing.

Motorcycles or 机车 as they call it in Taiwan, is the main mode of transport. And I wonder if helmets a must for motorcyclists. Look at the image above, it reminds me of the scene I saw at Cambodia where a family shares a motorbike. Many motorcyclists also wear a face mask due to the highly polluted air and streets of Taiwan too.

This is another interesting image of the motorcycle culture in Taiwan. Along the side of the roads are parking lots for bikes. You can see a never ending stretch of bikes on the left side of the road but it is empty on the right side even though there are designated lots (white boxes) for them. Uncle Ma, the local who brought us around, told us perhaps the vans/trucks uses the right side to unload goods so to prevent damages to their bikes they cluster to the other side. As I travel around in Taipei, I notice more of such unwritten rules. Nonetheless, parking on the side of the roads is very common in Taipei compared to Singapore.

We saw a Christmas tree in the junction of the old street even though its February and Christmas is over for more than a month. Yet it is only a few days after 元宵 and we can't find lanterns around the streets anymore.

Second Award

0 comments Posted by Mastermind at 12:56 am

Woohoo.... great results... there's room for improvement but we are almost there...

Crappiest Thing that can happen

0 comments Posted by Mastermind at 12:46 pm

Is to change your nus password just before flying off to Taiwan and forgetting it now. Sigh.. all those efforts on ensuring our password security really back fires in terms of productivity at times. Worst thing is I need to personally go down to NUS to reset which is something not feasible now and I really need to download homework online to work on.

Arrghhh!!!!

Should have just written down my passwords (which defeats the purpose of changing it in the first place)

Going to Taiwan soon...

2 comments Posted by Mastermind at 5:43 pm

Maybe in the future I will have more time to blog... perhaps in March. Maybe I will have more time to blog when I'm in Taiwan... woohoo~~ will this be the highlight of my career in school or will there be greater heights for me to climb?