Fish's Underwater World

lazy day 6 July

Woke up late cos had a late nite or was it an early morning? Ktv plus world cup. So we had buffet for brunch. The place was called xi3 duo1 wu1, located at mingyao department store. There are two sets of lifts at the department store. One set does not take us to the top floor with the buffet restaurant. We asked a salesgirl and were told to take the transparent lift. Ah wat transparent lift? All the lifts had opaque doors lor. The transparent part could only be seen from outside the building. Eventually we did find the correct lift. Happily, we arrived at the restaurant. But it was not opened yet. Had to come back later.

When we were back later, there was a queue forming at the counter. This showed that this restaurant was indeed very popular. We were worried that all the seats had been reserved. Luckily, there were still tables available. This place served japanese food and seafood mainly. But you can get Chinese food as well. So what did the buffet queen eat? She could not eat as much as before. Only tried a bit of most of the food. Example, one small piece of chicken, one small bite of fish etc.Mainly sashimi. Salmon was too popular. Only two slices left. There were tuna, swordfish sashimi. The oyster was yummy. Lotsa food. The aunties not very polite. If you tried to get sauce (not food) she would think you were cutting queue and ask you to queue up. Another auntie tried to cut in front of me. She told me to hurry up. Gosh. The chinese herbal soups. Longan red date, eel soup, frog soup....

Some of the desserts. The fried thing was durian. Green tea mochi, custard and red wine. I had some beer as well. Was worried about pairing wine with durian. Some deadly combination? (you will find out later why i said this)

It was one plus when we finished gorging ourselves with food. Then, it was an afternoon of shopping. We wanted to find sogo department store. Again, we asked passers-by for help. Sogo department store is high-end shoppin in taipei. All the branded goods. This was where i had diarrhea. Very bad diarrhea. It's the explosive kind of diarrhea. Luckily, no one was in the toilet. This was not the end of my woes.

We decided to walk back to the mrt station. There was an underground mall at zhongxiao dunhua. More shopping. Actually shopping is a good form of exercise to compensate for eating too much. The downside is you will burn a hole in your pocket. We bought more stuff. Next, we set off for guanghua st. Supposedly there are cheap electronic goods and manga. I got my second diarrhea. Yikes. Wonder what was the cause. Oyster, beer, red wine, durian--things that Mich did not eat.

Anyway, I did not see cheap pda phones. Wanted to get one to complete my IT gal collection. Have a mp3, laptop, digital camera, dvd recorder....Maybe should get a 3g phone. Mich bought more comics and vcds. I din get anything. The korean dramas they had were not the new ones. Singapore has a better collection.

In the evening, we were off to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. It was 7 plus by the time we got there. Surprisingly, the place was still full of activity. Students practising dance, people jogging (jogging in hot weather? something i cant understand. I only jog on cool days) and others who were just sitting and chatting.

Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall with taipei 101 in the background.

View of the memorial hall from where i entered.

The statues. Thought it looked eerie in this photo.

The front which had the name of the place. We had started to walk back to the mrt station when we saw a map of the place and realised we were at the back area of the memorial hall.A plant sculpture in the garden. I still could not find the pond. Found a carpark instead. Upon consulting the map, think the pond was near the school side which was near the mrt. I had diarrhea again. Decided it was time to get charcoal pills at taipei 101 later.

We took the mrt to taipei cityhall. Once we stepped out, we could not see taipei 101. Isn't it supposed to be the tallest building? We tried to locate taipei 101 using a photo i had taken previously. Taipei 101 was blocked by some building. Then we started to walk towards it. We walked and we walked. We were still not there yet. It was another case of so near yet so far. The first thing we saw was the fountain show. We were very lucky as the show was on every two hours. To see the show, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEbKofzRIQ
Queuing up to take the lift up to the observatory tower on the 89th floor of taipei 101. It is the world's fastest lift.
The tickets. Different colours. Raining and sunny day. We were wondering if there was a four seasons edition as well.
View from the top. Typical night scenery. Me and 101.

The tuned mass damping pressure. to resist wind pressure for high-rise buildin.

By the time we were done, the food court was already closed for the day. I tried to buy charcoal pills. But the pharmacy did not have charcoal pills. So, we took the bus shuttle back to taipei cityhall mrt station. We din wanna walk again. the so near yet so far. However, the cafes at ximending were closed as well. Bought white sausage (din realise white sausages are stuffed with rice-bad for my diarrhea) and instant soup from 7-11 for dinner. The soup was quite delicious. Better than the instant soups in singapore.

posted by sunkissfish @ 1:16 PM