Valentine's Weekend at Hsing Chu 新竹

Dear took me to her formal university, National Tsing Hua University  in Hsing Chu (新竹) on Valentine's Day. Pretty cool university, really love the environment there, it is a great place for sight viewing as well. Below are some pictures of the university:

The Pillar at the Front gate

One of the human made lake

Sakura!!

Memorial

Art!

Some random new building

After walking around her university, we decided to have dinner at the food court there. Then we head to dear's "bro" house. He lent us a home for a night =) Thanks Ah Zhong!! I presented a gift to dear, is a video that I took some time to create =D and dear loves it so much!!! Don't cry so much la~~ Later panda eyes lor... Soon after that, we head for cinema!! And watch Red Cliff 2!!

In Cinema

So different right?

Red Cliff 2

The movie ended around 3am in the morning! Hehe.. Anyway is darn worth it to watch la... Love it so much, I wonder what will happen if I watch this alone =.=

As soon as the sun rised, we went to a beach near the city. One of my dream is to walk along the beach with my gf. It finally came true!!!

Beach side..

Pose!

Emo~!!

After that, we head to the Flower market! They sells flower as well as food!!!!! I just love to eat!!

Lake beside the flower market

Many people eh!

Stinky tou fu!!

My moustache

Next trip to Newan (内湾), we stopped by at a very famous railway station along the way.

Beautiful Sakura!

Posing!

Train!

Ignore me!

Here! We finally reach Newan Old Street (内湾老街) !! Here goes!! Food food and food again!!! This place is filled with cultural stuffs!! Love it!!

Old Theather

Old mailbox

Old movies sold inside the theather

Sausage!

I love this so much!!! Lamb stick!!

At last I rode scooter back =P

The best night market 饶河夜市

This is one of the best night market that I've ever been 饶河夜市 (Rao He Night Market). Below are the pictures:

Behind me is the entrance

The entrance

Famous Lamb Soup 

( I still prefer the one in 罗东)

My favourite!! Pepper Biscuit!!

The making!

Tou fu fa (豆花)? So different right?

This tou fu fa (豆花) is with red bean

Taipei Lantern Festival 台北灯会

At first we suppose to go for Yi Lan lantern festival, however we found out that Taipei is having one too and so we went there =) We head for dinner first near dear's office.

Tada~!! Taipei Lantern Festival.. There are mixture of lanterns, so many types!! Made by Junior high school, senior high, teachers and family. Really impressed with their skills!!

Also, there will be having Deaflympics too. It is Olympics for deaf people. Its International as well~!! They have one Nintendo Wii in every booth such as badminton, swimming, tennis, etc.

The Lovers latern street~!! I love this place la~!! Its so romantic especially the background changing effects on Taipei City Hall, below are the pictures:

Day 3 in Taiwan

Sorry for lack of updates. Time passing really fast, and I wish to spend more time with my dear actually =P So sorry ya.

11.30am - Left Taipei bus station, head to Luo Dong.

Luo Dong paddy field

12.30pm - Reached Luo Dong. Gosh it was raining again!! We head to a place where they rent scooter. Our initial plan was to go to Taiping Mountain, but because of weather restriction, advises from taxi drivers and the rent shop owners, we changed our plan completely. We rented a scooter though, it cost about 250 yuan per day o.O We pumped petrol and headed to Luo Dong park!

We are all wet =.=

Below: The scenary of Luo Dong Park

5.30pm - We left Luo Dong Park, headed to Luo Dong night market!! I love the food there man!!!

Look at the queue!!

Fried onion biscuit

Famous lamb soup stores

We chose this store =)

Lamb soup

Stinky bean curd (Chou tou fu)

Look at the queue man!!!

Tou fu fa o.O a bit different right?

I guess we spend total 20 minutes + just to queue up for famous food haha.

8.30pm - After eating dinner, we head for a short road trip to Yi Lan. 

Dragon!!

National Center for Traditional Art

Photo before we give back the scooter =P

9.20pm - Took some photo at Luo Dong station, then head back to Taipei 

After we went back, straight away we bathe and head to bed. Really tiring and great experience trip. Despite the bad weather, we still had so much fun!! Yet again, thanks dear for bringing me to so many places in Taiwan =) Love you~!!

Day 1 and 2 in Taiwan

Day 1

Arrived at Taipei around 6.50pm, it was way dark here around that time, thats the different I noticed when I arrived, it turns dark here past 6pm, well I was stopped by one of the entrance, I guess they sensed that I carried bacteria over from Malaysia, I went through some basic medical check up and thank goodness I was through, the lady just told me to drink more water thats all =P After check out, I went to pick up my luggage, it was pretty fast finding it! huh! As I know Amber will be waiting outside, as I getting nearer and nearer the exit, my heart beating pretty fast, as I met her, my heart burst! Gave her a nice tight *hugs* After that, we sat bus back to her rent home at Min Sheng East Road.

Day 2

8.30am - Walked to Zhongshan Junior High School MRT station (5-10 minutes walk) and travel to Taipei Zoo MRT station.

9.00am - Reached Taipei Zoo MRT station, met dear's friends and had breakfast at McDonalds

9.20am - Visit Taipei Zoo

Took our first photo!

Panda!!

PandaSsss!!

Together with dear's friends

Koala Bear!

Penguins!!

This penguin's head got cut off

Lazy Bear!!

Group photo with red bull

1.30pm - Left Taipei Zoo, took a bus to Pingsi !! Taipei County Pingsi Sky Latern Festival 2009!! Woo hoo~

2.00pm - Reached Ping Xi, queue up pretty long just to get free lanterns 

2.40pm - My dear's friends all spreaded off to look for accomodation and both of us went to look around and buy some foods to eat. Night market!! Yum yum~~

One of the oldest railway track

Rain doesn't stop people from going

Night Market

Can't believe a black smith still exist!!!

More and more people as the day goes

6.00pm - Ate dinner, then go straight right up to the place where the lantern festival was held. We waited for our turns at 7.30pm

People coming down after releasing few 4th batch of laterns

Posers!!

Night view =)

Waiting for our turns (6th batch)

Some performance

Me and my wishes

Our group lantern

The other group lantern

Off to the sky!!!

We all queue up again to take the bus while dear's friends looking for accomodation to stay because they are from Hsin-chu which is very far away from Taipei. I really wanna thank them spending so much efforts to look for accomodation for us to stay as well as accompany us to take bus home half way =P Thanks dear so much for planning such a eye opening outing for me ^^ Really had so much fun in Taiwan!! Next post: Day 3 and 5 in Taiwan