Last weekend was a weekend full of longings and post-travel blues. Unrequited ones. Woes. ( So I decided to sleep it all off and stay awake long enough to crave crispy fried chicken from Shihlin before falling back to sleep )

I am now back from my six days long trip to the capital of Taiwan. Mainly for Mayday’s D.N.A.’s World Tour concert with Rachel and Emily. For those who really knows me, I guess it’s not much of a surprise anymore to know that I have the tendency to attach ‘concert’ and ‘traveling to foreign country’ together in one big happy package :3

So, Taipei. Have a picture of Taipei. ( My personal view of the 101 Building was not half as good though XD; )

As for the rest of the pictures and notes from my trip, it shall have to wait until they got off from the stringent QC-ing ( and meticulous photoshopping ) from Ms. Rachel ( so that we don’t look like half-dead sleep deprived zombies; which sad to admit, we were ).

Until then ~!

( btw, Mayday’s D.N.A. concert @ Taipei was just so awesomely amazing; more coherent and eloquent words failed me kaaay? )

 
And wow, I just realised it had been a two month gap between the last I posted here @.@; Whooops?

Oh hay. I’m still alive. It had just been a rather busy week at work and I tend to spend my boring nights locked away in my room playing Suikoden Tierkreis obsessively ( PS2 controller died. Need to get replacement. My heart ache for Persona 4 ~~~~~ TwT )

Also, being sent here and basically works and stay in the factory in a far off industrial area with nothing much for miles is giving me valid excuse to be an obsessive gamer with no life. Whooops?

Since I’m lazy to blog about the daily oddities ( and I ever feel so out of place sometimes … ), I hereby present random observations I had in point forms :D

#1. Donkey meat easily breaks. Like that of a fish. Tastes not like chicken.
#2. Even if I have nine lives, I will not drive in China. Ever.
#3. Maybe it’s just the small outskirt town area I’m in at the moment, Ah Beng/Lala fashion are everywhere.
#4. Chinese advertisement here involved too much text, idgi. As someone who studied media design it confuses me a bit. Or maybe it’s just the fact that I can’t read Chinese. Billboards, bus ads, signages… they are all mostly text and gives me a bit of a headache.
#5. It’s pretty hazy here where I am. Maybe because it’s in the industrial zone? Ach, it dampens my mood
#6. I think the big boss here thinks I’m a small kid because of how I look. He gave me a light pat on the head @.@ which was rather hilarious and awkward.
#7. It’s getting warmer and warmer already. The cold spring weather last week is totally gone. It almost feels like Malaysia =.=; I missed the colddddd
#8. China’s KFC is weirddddddd. They don’t have Original Recipe chickens and they serves roast chickens?! @.@;; I missed my Malaysian KFC waaaa

So this is week two. I don’t feel too homesick yet though I was ranting profusely two days back at Rach about the sort of Malaysian food I’m starting to miss :\ so uhmmm … I’m food-sick? But the food is really rather good here so far. ( It just doesn’t taste like home :( )

So, Lian Hua Mountain. Which I think translated to “Lotus Mountain”.

There was this famous local delicacy called the “Ox Milk Pudding” here. The texture is like a mix between Tofufah and steamed egg :3 My relatives gave us a bunch of those to bring home ^^v

Random pictures from LianHua Mountain.

#01. The Golden Guan Yin statue towers over us. The entire outdoor area is filled with smokes from the incense. There was a huge bell that you can ring yourself too. It’s kinda soothing to hear. ( And also, the vegetarian food here is sooooooo goooood )

#02. Temple guardian. I’m not sure what it’s called in English but my little brother’s name is based of this mystical creature. And he’s born in the year of the Dragon XD Double the awesomeness

#03. I can’t resist feeling so stupidly happy. The first time I saw the gate of this miniature fort I just went “AN ENEMY OFFICER HAD FALLEN TO MY SPEAR!” Damn you, Dynasty Warriors.

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Wow. Thank you Jeff for reminding me that I’d been letting this place to collect dusts. Those who don’t know me IRL might had thought I’d disappeared in Guangzhou XDD ( Guangzhou was EXCELLENT, and I really fell in love with the food there I almost wished I didn’t have to come back )

Photo taken when I was walking towards my Grand Uncle’s house

Seriously, the food. It’s AMAZING aaaaaaaa ( also, my relatives there really indulged us ;A; And I get to eat roast goose nearly everyday *lovessssss* Best thing since sliced bread? Possibly best thing even before bread was invented ♥ )

Also, don’t ask me about the various unidentifiable animal parts that I’d eaten. Anyway, it felt like a thousand and one things had happened since I got back from the trip and I’d been too lazy to write. Namely :

☆ Catching up with work in the office *headdesk* Is not really good especially since I’d been away on a fun week-long holiday.

☆ Fion and Darren’s wedding. They’re my hometown schoolmates and I was part of the sister entourage. Much lulz ensued when the brother entourage were pretty much pwned upside down by the girls. Also, meeting up with friends I had not seen in YEARS was so strange and yet so heart warming ;A; Plus it’s hilarious to see your ex-classmates whom you’d known for so many years drunk XD

☆ Dad’s birthday! Happy 50th birthday this year, Dad! ( We went out for dinner and had a small celebration. His god-son brought cake ) Sorry I spent like most of the time at home playing Gundam 00 : Gundam Meisters with lil’ brother and not doing much else ^^;;

☆ Mel and Jijoe’s wedding! This is the first Malay wedding I’d ever attended. The atmosphere was wildly different from the rowdy Chinese weddings I’d attended so far XD Congrats to both of you!

☆ Is still playing Hakuouki like the fangirl I am. Only now I can distract myself combo chaining in Gundam 00 when I feel particularly destructive ( the combo chaining was funnn albeit kinda stressful ). Toudou Heisuke full CGs GET! <3 Two.. more... characters to go..

☆ I’d got a bunch of stuff over last weekend. My VAMPS’ Birthday tour pamphlet from Azuzora ( yaaaay thanks! ), chocolates from whiterabbit who got it from Singapore and ELIZABETH’S PLUSHIE from Jeff XDDD

☆ Watched a bunch of movies in the cinema over the few weeks. Hana Yori Dango Final ( it’s light weight fun but it ended up booooooooooring because it’s TOO DAMNED LONG. And not enough Rui and Naohito Fujiki ;A; ), Tropics Thunder ( LOVED IT XDDD It’s so sad that Malaysian cinema are so behind with these releases :\ ) and Quantum of Solace ( WTF. I hate the title sequence and song. But the movie was pretty entertaining )

☆ Penang trip with my ex-colleagues over the weekend. Awesome AWESOME fun food filled short trip! Will hopefully post pictures later? 8D;;

☆ I may be the slowest j-rock fan in this part of the world but I’d just discovered that X-Japan will be having a concert in Bangkok on 31st January! BANGKOK, THAILAND! WE’RE PRACTICALLY NEIGHBOURS!!! is totally plotting and saving money to haul my ass over there already

☆ Sam’s coming back to Malaysia this week! I missed her so much and I hope we’ll both find time to hang out before she has to fly back to Australia

☆ Coincidentally, today is November 18th. Marking a full year since I cheered, laughed and cried at beloved Siam Shade’s reunion concert in Japan last year. Time really does fly ;A;

Also, I’d finally sorted through my Guangzhou photos folder. I’m probably too lazy to write about it in details, so expect photo-log to kill your bandwidth? 8Dv

Heading off to Guangzhou early morning tomorrow for a week. I’ll be visiting my Grand Uncle there with my Mum, Grandaunt and Aunt. So … this means I’ll be behind the Great Firewall of China with no ready access to the internet nor the PC 8DD;;

I hope Guangzhou has good food :3