Okay, okay… I know the cobwebs abound on this blog so I’m here to give it a good spring cleaning. And I’m back with some nice pictures of places I visited just this past weekend.
The picture you see above is a nice little mountainside town known as ä¹åˆ† (Jiu Fen). It has wonderful views of a harbour below (you can find panoramas of the view here) and a pretty long shopping street filled with knick-knacks and good food (see picture above). Made the trip up with a colleague and her friend, who’s visiting Taiwan.
The trip up was long. We took almost 3 hours just to get up there. Firstly, an hour’s train out of Taipei to Keelung followed by another 40 minutes by bus up the mountain. Of course, we took our time eating lunch at Keelung and hence the almost 3-hour journey. Aside from the view, the weather up there is fantastic. If you’ve been to Genting Highlands, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
And of course, the food was very good as well. Check out the stick of potato chips I have on the right. It’s not exactly chips. Rather, it’s a continuous spiral of potato. And you eat it by breaking off piece by piece. Interesting isn’t it?
So much for ä¹åˆ†. The next day, the three of us headed to æ·¡æ°´. It’s a township just outside of Taipei and it’s about an hour’s journey by the MRT. The main attraction there: æ·¡æ°´è€è¡— and the Fisherman’s Wharf. The former is a night market just next to the æ·¡æ°´ MRT station and the latter is a quick bus ride away.
Fisherman’s Wharf is a wharf situated at the mouth of æ·¡æ°´æ²³. According to what I’ve heard, the views of sunset from there are pretty fantastic. But alas, the day we went, it was overcast skies and light rain. And we took a boat out on a guided tour of the river. Wasn’t too bad, except for the very choppy water and rain. And not to mention a very strong wind too. The wind was strong enough to sway a bridge (see picture at right) by a very tiny bit.
It was good to go out and take in some sights around Taipei. All work and no play makes Jack, or in this case, Suci, a dull boy. Let’s see when I’ll have to motivation to go out on another round of sightseeing.
An update on life. Second week in Taipei. Time is flying by rather quickly and have been busy for most days. I’ve also managed to accumulate enough miles to do a free upgrade to business class for my trip back to Singapore on 2 November. Just too bad that I ain’t flying Singapore Airlines. The last time I flew Business Class on SIA was ages ago.
Quite glad that Debbie made the switch from the Sunday team to the Saturday team. I’m going to sound a bit selfish here to my CHCTV mates from the Sunday team but I’m really glad that we can serve in the same team again. And that means I can spend a bit more time with her on Sunday when I’m back in town. To all the Sunday team crew: I’m sorry but I just have to be selfish this time round… Hahaha….. :p
Pray that the rest of my time here will swing by quickly. I’m off to relax and stretch out on my bed while watching a bit of TV. Until the next time, cheers… :Þ