Too cute!!

The Mind of a Triathlete

Heard about the recent death of a teen triathlete, which a "super-athelete" wrote her response to in this article. (Scroll down to read the article "The Mind of a Triathlete")
Certainly thought-provoking, in a sense that it's so true we never know what our limits are, being blinded by the desire to reach our goals, that when tell-tale signs show, we ignore them thinking that recognising such signs would be equivalent to admitting defeat.
Until the limits are crossed unwittingly, and when they are, either something lousy can happen or we could be immensely rewarded.

It's unfortunate this guy din make it, but the article also made me feel morbidly inspired nonetheless.

台北 与 台中

more of them self-explanatory pics. the brain is not functioning well at the moment now.. 2 weeks of waking up at 11am is messing up my body alarm clock.. *yawns*

waiting for a sushi roll in 士林夜市, which was wrapped on the spot with charcoal-grilled seaweed

retro chinese kungfu movie, screened against an appropriately chinese setting

the audience

hotel 73 , a spanking new hotel that has a similar branch called City Inn along 怀宁街. Mostly importantly, they gave 50% off listed prices cos of a promotional offer. Luvin them ohohoho...

中正纪念堂, a stone's throw away from hotel 73. As informed by the taxi uncle, there seems to be a debate to remove 中正 from the name cos of a realisation that Mr Chiang Kai Shek wasn't really a hero that people made him out to be. Read more here

At 淡水, on a maddeningly hot afternoon, with a cuppa mango ice

i duno wat she's thinking. !!!

Up up up on the ferris wheel, at Miramar Shopping Centre

More 士林 bites: 蚝煎 and 咖喱鸡饭, not forgetting the bee-lu! (dat's how the locals refer to beer)

红烧牛肉面（半精半肉）
yarmy!

清炖牛肉面（半精半肉）
yarmilicious!

谭咏麟 !! at the same beef noodle restaurant!
it's Alan Tam, fyi.

leaving taipei and going back to taichung

movies galore on the bus back

tuna neva tasted better *blissful grin*

春水堂 if u've got to have bubble tea, it's here n nowhere else! highly recommended. but slightly pricey, kinda like starbucks prices.

all things goosey and yummy.

緑島 - 台灣

As i write this post, i'm trying my utmost to comprehend the webpage commands which are all in traditional chinese. Take a look here . Grr. I never thought my command of the chinese language would be so poor until the little boy below showed me his little picture book and there i found out wat a stapler was in chinese. heh. For the benefit of those like me who din noe, the anwer is 訂書機.

Below are the pics from our weekend getaway to Green Island, Taiwan.

1st day morning. Preparing to set off.

Greeted by thunderclouds on the 1st day. Btw, "the day after tomorrow" is called "明天過後", n not "後天"!

still groggy

AB in my bimbo sunglasses

driving by the sea n stopping to take in the view

having a heineken in the outdoor sea water hot spring - as informed by Zhicheng, there are only 3 places in the world with sea water hot springs, green island being one of them! Read more here.

the lighthouse

still trying to look cool, though thorougly ass-kicked from carrying our bikes through a 1+ km 古道

look carefully n u see Confucius taking a leak at the wall. the locals say it is 孔子在面壁思過. but i prefer the former. hehe

AB n his flabs

My New Frens: (from left) Jianzhong - Mr Nice Guy, Jiayi - Iron Lady, Zhicheng - Mr Animated Bike Shop Owner

海草檸檬冰
imagine having this after a ride in the sweltering heat... yummilicious!!
fyi, the green stuff is seaweed! it's so aesthetically pleasing i was telling AB they could make an alcoholic drink out of it.. like a pseudo mojito, replacing the mint leaves with seaweed!

it's milky counterpart - 海草牛奶冰

A cuttlefish. The locals just hooked one off the sea every few minutes, like they were swimming in abundance below.

BBQ on the last nite. this was taken b4 the electricity got cut off n the fans din work n we weren't allowed to take ice from the fridge. t'was maddenningly hott... luckily the food was scrumptious.

Jetty where we took a morning swim

e bald uncle who kept calling me 美媚 n insisting that i take the crab he caught

the crab he caught.

on the boat back to 台東