Freedom Alas !

It's been a while,eh?

It feels so good to feel the soft keyboard under my fingertips again, god how long haven't I typed on a keyboard.
The cons of smartphones, they neglect laptops.

Today marks the end of my almost four weeks long end-of-the-year exams.

I have a whole two months before I have to even think about studying again, how wonderful is this ?
Now, it's back to full time drama watching, novel reading and relaxation.

During the Deepavali holidays, I went to Taiwan with my family for a holiday.
Here's the update eh eh eh :

At the National Palace Museum where we learnt more about the Chinese history and stuff.

All of a sudden, my mum wanted to take a selfie with me.

My mum is getting more modern than me, yikes.

At Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall to watch the changing of guards which occur every hour daily.

I actually asked my mum, "Why would they train special guards and change duties every hour to protect a statue?".

Still don't get the point but eh, the performance was interesting to watch.

The guards are really serious when they march and they don't laugh although I was making a rather funny face.

Professional enough.

At Xi Men Ting, a shopping place .

At the top of the Maokung station's mountain where we sat down to have tea and coffee,

here's me with my latte on a cold, windy mountain.

We saw many people lining up outside this dim sum shop called Tim Ho Wan which was suppose to be Hong Kong's most famous dim sum so what did we do?

We lined up too.

Finally got in after one hour and this is me and my younger cousin sister.

I can't believe we lined up for Hong Kong food in Taiwan when we can eat it in Malaysia too .

We did it anyway.

This was me in the Maokung Gondola, on the way up to the Maokung Station.

If you realise, the bottom of the gondola was crystal clear.

which basically means you can see EVERYTHING beneath you while you are a thousand metres above ground.

It wasn't as scary as I imagined and the view was really pretty because we rode above mountain grounds.

The grounds were filled with growing yellow and white daisies, it was like in a movie honestly.

Why do I always look like the most excited one?

At the Thermal Valley at Beitou,

the smoke is actually the vaporisation from the boiling hot spring water.

It is not possible to enter this place because obviously, you go in and you're pretty much toasted.

You can smell the strong sulphur from 10 metres away.

People in the olden days call this the ghost lake because ignorant people fall into the lake accidently and pretty much die.

I read that it was allowed to boil eggs with the hot spring water last time but not anymore since, they want to protect the water quality and they don't want you to fall in and get boiled.

You basically experience how it feels like in hell here.

At Dan Shui ,

The signature jumbo ice cream which melted faster than I can eat.

and gave me real bad cramps after that.

Picture perfect tho !

This place is a must if you are planning to visit Taipei anytime soon,

among all the night markets (and trust me, Taiwan has plenty),

I find Rao He Night Market sells the cheapest stuff.

We actually went back again because we couldn't get enough of the cheap stuff ohmgee.

At Taipei Zoo where we got to see loads of preschool kids running around screaming and butts of famous pandas.

Pandas are forever sleeping, we can be best friends.

That's pretty much the end of it.

Overall, we sat the 11o'clock pm flight back to Malaysia from the Tao Yuan International Airport and reached around 4:30 am.

We ate breakfast and waited until 6 am to get a taxi because taxi charges are double before 6 am.

Fell dead on the bed and slept until 2 pm since I didn't get any sleep on the plane.

I would do it all over again.

Currently reading this book called "And The Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini,

I heard it's a good book so I'm going to give it a go.
I might do a book review if I like it .
Until then, toodles.