Flashback

So I was going over my old photobucket account the other day, and I was squeeing and jumping with joy when I found these:

Boo, I dunno why they ended up so small. :( These piccies were taken at Canberra, the college, Lanyon Homestead, Bondi Beach, Sydney when I was on my study trip there.

Miss them lovelies! At Bondi Beach.

WOMBAT!!! :D Awwwww I love them.

KOALA!!! I love them too!

It was in that same wildlife park that I got chased by an emu. Hahaha! I cannot find the other piccies, I have the prints but I can't find them on my online albums. Boo. I'm too lazy to scan them.

But I... Uh, I have this. *blushies*

:)

Aww, the memories. I love love love that place and the people. I vow that someday I'll be back in crazy beautiful Australia. Yes. *nods*

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Taiwan - Day 5!

Our last day! We had time to spare in the morning as our flight was still in the afternoon, so we went to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Plaza. Chiang Kai Shek is a former president of Taiwan. It was beautiful. And the weather was beautiful too. I loved it there. Again, excuse some of the camerawhoring. :)

The National Concert Hall

The National Theatre. Weeee

The Gate of Great Centrality andUprightness. Again weeeee

I really like this shot
erm, I chased pigeons haha
his turn :p

The building where the Chiang Kai Shek monument is
the monument
view from the topmy brother took this, in the MRT

Before we went back to the hotel, we passed by a bakery. Taiwan is known for its yummy pastries, cakes and breads, so we sampled them too. I bought a yummy danish, and a slice of black forest cake. We also bought tea eggs again.

the danish, I almost forgot to take a pic haha

tea eggs

It was time for us to go to the airport. We passed by the Grand Hotel, Taipei. It's supposed to be a tourist spot, it's the grandest (hence the name) hotel in the city. It is also known as The Dragon palace. It was built to accomodate foreign ambassadors who were visiting Taipei. Apparently there are secret passages all throughout the hotel made for Chiang Kai Shek. Boo that we didn't have time to check it out anymore :( Besides, it was too far from where we were staying.


We ate lunch at the Tea House, in the airport. Wonton noodles, siopao and milk tea for me. Then it was time for our flight home.

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Taiwan - Day 4!

Day 4.

It was cold again, 14-15 degrees with slight rain. Again, I didn't have warm clothes with me, lol.

Mom and I roamed the streets in search of good breakfast food, we were tired of the hotel buffet and McDonald's. We decided to be adventurous and tried every single food item we saw on the carts along the streets. We sampled different kinds of buns, dumplings and sandwiches. My particular favorite was this roast pork and omelette sandwich, with milk tea of course! Too bad I forgot to take pics of all the food.

We then went to the Taipei Zoo. I was so excited about the Pandas but I was very unlucky, turns out that the Panda exhibits were closed on every first Monday of the month. :( The zoo didn't disappoint though, there were still lots of interesting animals to see, and the landscape and trails were just beautiful. We spent a good 5 hours there just walking in nature and seeing everything.
Also, we ate yummy food again! We had siopao (pork buns), tea eggs (eggs cooked in a secret tea recipe - super yummy) and beef noodles.

Piccys! I practiced my skillz with the camera again. I hope I'm improving. I only chose some. Ok there are a lot, but there are way too much more. And I, uh, camerawhored a bit, haha.

cute squirrel

the grizzly black bear was lazy :(
hello there Mr. Owl

one of my attempts using the macro lens (whatcha think?)
and another one
just because I love butterflies and wanted a pic with it on my palm

just because I love my hair in this pic haha
another attempt
and another one
this black butterfly was just too beautiful
sleeping koala!

because I was desperate to see the pandas I had to make do of the giant stuffed one
my brother and I goofing off
lemur! I like to move it move it (it was really hard to take pics of them, they kept on moving)
hippo conference
hello camels
white rhino bum
king penguins! *squeee* (I had to choose only one or else I'll end up posting them all)
more of them, african penguins this time (stupid glass panes)
I had to console myself with the red panda who was too shy
again excuse the camerawhoring, I like my outfit
I loved the lamp posts, too cute

It was almost dinner time when we finished our trip to the zoo so we decided to eat at this yummy Chinese fine dining resto at Shinkong Mitsukoshi to celebrate my dad's birthday. :)

meet my family :)
some of the food

And then we went to the Shilin Night Market again for more shopping. There were more street food there and I tried these yummy candied strawberries on a stick. They were fresh strawberries dipped in strawberry syrup candy. My mom, dad and brother found it too sweet, but I didn't. I loved it. We also bought more cuttlefish. I guess its obvious by now that we love to eat, no? :)

walking around the night market

the candied strawberries <3

Back in the hotel, I couldn't help myself and ate some custard again. And also fresh strawberries. And vodka! Wooo! And then I remember Valencia killing me with joy. I was watching the highlights of the game, with Silva and Mata killing me with their teaming up on that goal. Also Albiol's goal and celebration. Guh. Sweet.

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