Day two in Taiwan.
Yesterday we were staying in this hotel smack right in the middle of ximending, which is something like Malacca's Jonker street on weekends, except like about a hundred times bigger better and much more noisier and full of people. The things you can buy there are like amazing, does anyone want highlighter yellow socks?
When I go out of the hotel I can either turn left or right or walk straight cos wherever I go there will be stuff to eat. Delicious street food. And like, all sorts of other things. A bag that looks like a spiky tortoise shell, a sock shop, a place selling weird looking arm bands.
And it wasn't so different from home too, there was (and I saw) adidas, Nike, converse, everlast, the body shop, étude house and skin food opposite each other so they were highly competitive, you can see that. And what was different was they were all in shoplots, not shopping malls. There was a street full of cinemas too, and THEY WERE SHOWING HARRY POTTER! IN ENGLISH! But it was like, 240 yuan, which equals to RM24, an who the hell's gonna watch a movie for that price? It's not even in 3D! And they also had 711, but the things they sell, completely different.
Oh and speaking of buildings. If you've seen my fb status then you probably already know. All the buildings are covered in tiles. Dull coloured tiles. Tiles so dull, they make me wanna scream. No yellow no purple no sky blue no bright red. All dull shades of white and brown and grey. And more brown, and some burnt sienna. And the buildings which weren't tiled, were covered in bricks or terra cotta or panels or glass. And other buildings which walls weren't covered in anything wasn't painted either. Their walls were greying with age. It's like all of them hate paint or something.
And their clothes. I used to think long sleeved shirts were ugly. But apparently everyone wears them here. Long sleeved shirt with jeans and sneakers. Or long sleeved shirt dresses with see through (or not) tights/leggings with high heeled knee/mid calf length boots. Or jackets. But hey, if you wore jackets everyday, won't you have a whole wardrobe full of jackets at home?
The weather is just fantastic. It's like, and to quote Looi: someone turned on the air-con in the whole place. Not too hot, like Malaysia, not too cold, like other places.
Hah. The cartoons. They all speak chinese, even teen titans and spongebob. And you know what's funny? They call spongebob 海绵宝宝, which means spongebaby, and mojo jojo 摩人究究, which means.. Something bad, I'm sure. And now I'm on the train to Hsinchu, and I will end this here. Goodbye, ciao.
Oh this is Taiwan. So (and with slang) 再见！
