Haha... Finally, I'm back from my class chalet and it's time to blog about part 2 of the Taiwan trip. Well, where were we last time? Let me think... Oh ya, it's the Miniworld Theme Park. So, I shall continue with day 4 in Taiwan...

It's one of the most enjoyable days I had in Taiwan as I was told that I'd be able to meet my idol, Michael Wong(Guang Liang), the one who sings 'Tong Hua'.


I was brought by my friend(A Taiwanese) to the China Broadcasting Cooperation where Micheal had his interview by radio stations. A shot at their entrance.


Fortunately, we met another artist, Zhao Zhi Bi. Maybe Not many of you knows her, but she's a singer and currently a DJ under China Broadcasting Co.


Finally, we managed to meet Michael and took a photo with him after he had finished his interviews. By the way, that's the very first time I saw him in person. Lol...


After meeting Michael, my friend, Jing Wen brought me to a famous temple, Xing Tian Hall near our previous destination. I look a bit unwilling... : P


The statue of the founder of the China Republic, Sun Zhong shan at his memorial hall. For that time, I was at the real memorial hall but not the mini version of it at the Miniworld... Lol...


A shot with a gendarme(The soldier behind me) carrying out duty at the main hall of the memorial. These soldier are not allowed to move a single bit during their duty. I repeat, they are like almost petrified. Poor thing... Sometimes, there will be naughty tourists who try to disturb the soldiers by touching them or tickling them. So bad.... : (




After much of the visitings in Taipei, Jing Wen and I went to meet the rest of our friends at Taipei Train Station. They are all Taiwaneses and I was the only Malaysian at the time. Haha... These are the shots taken after we had our karaoke session. So funny, some of us were even holding on to Micheal's albums when we were taking the photo. Looks like some kinda advertisement. Fro left, Ling, Jing Wen, Ya Wen, yours truly, Jako and Wei Ren.


Now, it's the fifth day. I promised my dad to be with him that day and thus we went on a jeep ride with his friend who's also his business partner, Uncle Huang. That's the scenery at the countryside where we set off. It's really misty and that's the coldest day we had during the trip... not more than 15 deg C. I was shivering all the time that day.


That's the jeep we were on. Looks cool with its giant tyres. Our route of the day was starting from Guan Yin, we drove along the beach(not those beach where people go to have fun, instead, it's those rocky and hilly ones) until we reached Yong An Port. On the way, we climbed rocks, hills and even staircases(OMG...). It's fun but it's freezing at the same time as the jeep was without its cover and we were exposed to strong and cold winds from the sea.


Day 6... I went out with one of my best friends who's currently studying U in Taiwan, Xin Ting. If you've read a post about our band, Popteens eons ago, you'll know that she's one of our members. We went to Yang Ming Mountain and this was how the path on the mountain looked like in the early morning. Misty... but still there were lotsa tourists.

Visiting Yang Ming Mountain for a tourist usually it's only to look at the beautiful flowers bloomed during the Spring. So, it's the same for us. Thus, many of the photos below will be featuring flowers only...


The Sakura trees or some people refer it as Cherry Blossoms.


Photo of me taken by Xin Ting.










Sakuras, sakuras and still sakuras... Lol... They are so gorgeous, aren't they? This is the first time I ever seen a sakura in real life... It's like having a hanami(flower viewing party in Japan)... Haha...


Simple shot...


We were so enthu in taking photos and so we even took this shot of a stream... Lol...








Carrying on, it'll be a series of photos of flowers. The first one is known as the Giant Taro, that's how its flower looks like. It's nice right? To me, it's as elegant as a Lily...
The second and the third will be Ume or some call it Asian Plum(I hope I didn't read the sign wrongly XD). It's the National Flower of Taiwan.
The last one features some unknown flowers look like cabbage(!?). I forgot to check out the signs and thus unable to explain about it. Eh... all the flowers are food associated... taro... plum and cabbage... LOL...


Now, let us have a look... What's this huh? Ahah... It's actually a giant clock made up by various types and thousands of flowers!! If you are observant, you'll be able to notice the pointers and small blocks indicating different hours.It's amazing, isn't it?? Haha...


Oh yeah, that's Xin Ting and I in front of the giant Flower Clock...


Melon with the giant(again...) advertisement board-like thingy behind... And so happened that the thing was also..... MADE OF FLOWERS!??!?! Lol......


Xin Ting and I again...




The fountain found on the square on Yang Ming Mountain.


After our visit to Yang Ming Mountain, we proceeded to Ximen Ding, a paradise of youngsters. You'll find all the IN stuffs there. If you are lucky enough, you'll be able to meet celebrities there too. This is a shot of the Hong Lou(Red Building) Theatre nearby. Most of the Singers promotes their new album here!! Unfortunately, there wasn't any activity on the day we visiting.

All those will be photos I taken during the trip to Taiwan. Now, here are somemore on things I took back from Taiwan...






For this 2 photo, they feature an instrument called ocarina, which not many of us know about it. It's made of clay(very very fragile...). I've been crazy about it for quite some time le. However, it's hard or almost impossible to find it in either Malaysia or Singapore. I got this one from my dad's friend in Taiwan who knows that I love it a lot. Haha... By the way, those who played Zelda - The Ocarina Of Time will know what actually is this instrument and how does it sounds like. In a nutshell, it's a wind instrument la.


And... This is the latest album of Michael, Commitment, with Michael's signature and my name on it. I got it when I met him at the radio station... So happy :P

Finally, I've finished this entry. So, this concludes my trip to Taiwan during my holidays. I hope you all enjoy it... : D Tata...