-: March 2008

Day 5

My journey start late that day since I woke up late in the afternoon. My initial plan is to head to jiu fen early and make it in time to Dan Shui in the afternoon. then go to Wu Fen Pu to do some last minute shopping in the evening.

In the end, I only get to Jiu Fen and Wu fen Pu after that since I woke up late and the train and bus took longer time than I expected to reach Jiu Fen.

However, this trip is probably my most memorable trip throughout my Taiwan tour.
Not only did I got to see great scenery and nice buildings, I also made some new friends along the way (while asking for directions) who brought me to nice foods. We had a game of dodgeball with the strongest dodgeball team (primary school) in Taipei too. Sidenote : Our team which consisted of guys and girls in the upper secondary, including me, was completely wiped out.
When the game ended, it's just about time to view the beautiful sunset.
Took a few pic of the sunset, then we are heading to the nearest bus stop to bring us back to the railway station. Along the ways, I also brought some tai yang bing to bring back Singapore for my colleagues.

During the train journey back, my new friends taught me a casual game, similar to what we played when we are kids in Singapore. The rule of the game is you sing to a melody and when the melody ended, put out your fingers, your finger may range between 1-5 and then someone need to total up the number of fingers and start to count the person in either clockwise or anti clockwise direction. It happened that I was being pointed to once and I need to be punished for that. My punishment: to do a dance with another girl in our group on the train. The public eyes would make you feel alittle embarassed. But who cares, it's in the foreign land, not like anyone know me here. hehe I just need to get over with it quick and put it over my mind after that will do.

Very soon, I reached my train station and need to get down before my newly made friends. Time really flies and I already begining to miss them and can't bear to get off the train... but still, I have to get down.

No time to think more into it and I channeled whichever sad feelings into shopping mode at Wu Fen Pu.
The day ended with some bargain I got from there. =)

我这天的行程开始得有点晚。本来，我打算早起去九份，然后中午到淡水走走，晚上再到五分埔作最后的购物。
可是，由于本人贪睡与搭火车/巴士的时间超出我的预定时间，我只到九份与五分埔。

不过，这趟九份游带给我的，无可置疑地是我在台湾最难忘的回忆。
我不仅有机会游览到九份那令人着迷的景色与陈年建筑，还有缘结交到一群友善热情的朋友(问路是认识的)。
我随他们走访充满特色的九份老街，沿途品尝美食，也跟当地被誉为“台湾就强”的小学朋友进行了一场躲避球赛。注！我们的队伍成员虽然都是高中生级的青年，可是都败地惨不忍睹。

当游戏结束后，很快的，太阳也下山了。
我拍了几张夕阳照后，我们就准备搭巴士回火车站了。
途中，我也买了两盒太阳饼准备带回新家玻给同事。

搭火车的路程中，我还学到了一种点兵类的游戏，游戏规则是每人得唱着“数枝，数枝，最多五枝”然后伸出手指（一到五根手指），总计全部人的手指数目后开时点算，被点到的人要受罚。我被罚在火车上与一位男生共舞，（有点丢脸，不过愿玩服输，没办法）还好我自己没录下我笨拙的舞姿，所以我就当没这回事吧。
这一天，就以我在五分埔买到的购物战利品而告一段落。=）

This is my lunch; an instant curry chicken cutlet set with red tea. It's tasty.

Cost 65 NT for the curry chicken set and 10 NT for the drink.

These olden days architecture are really beautiful to me.

while inside the sourvenirs shop, phototaking is prohibited. But I still managed to sneak out a few shots with my camera.

Jiu Fen Special Beef Ball. The meat is okay but the jelly like ingredient taste weird to me. It's not a bad dish though. Cost 40NT

Another Jiu Fen's delicacy. Its taste is abit sweet, not my kind of food. Cost 35NT

This is nostagic. Remind me the good old days when I will buy one of these and keep blowing up bubbles. Burst them after that.

Now you don't see this kind of bottled coke in Singapore. But it's pretty common to see them in southeast asia. Usually you need to drink on the spot and return them the bottle. They will tell you its for recycling purposes, but its more like they can earn back a few bucks from the old bottles.

We climbed up to the top of Jiu Fen Old Street and discover this really nice dessert stall.

The taste of it is heavenly. It's cold and refreshing with every scoop into the mouth.
You just feel that it's never enough and wanted more of it.

See the lovely smile on them while they savour the delicious dessert.
No one is really complaining.