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真興奮！　又有機會來台了…雖然這次是為工作，但是哈哈去的地方有不同的。而且這次會到农場，所以所去的地方應該會更偏僻…更可以體驗到台灣人的生活…應該會很好玩。
想在周末時去爬 阿里山，知道現在是櫻花季節，會很多人去阿里山，那的飯店都滿了…不知誰可告＝訴我該如何去呢？
中國有句話“不登長城非好漢”…那我就說　“櫻花季，不爬阿里山是笨蛋”…希望這次不會做笨蛋。

http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/china_woman_lets_50912.html

The article states that someone saw a China lady bring her son to pee inside the MRT train and took picture of her. There were 2 pple standing near where the son is peeing but none stop her. In the end, since its peak hour, there were lots of pple getting into the MRT and unwittingly step on the puddle of urine and create a huge mess in the train.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1Story20080226-51588.html 

I wonder what has the world becomes to...Father used to be a figure children will admire and trust. But recently there has been too many such cases....Ok..in this case, it was Father rape stepdaughter...but so what? Doesn't such act be considered as bad just because there's no blood relation?  Why can't a father behave like how he ought to behave? Didn't he think about the consequences when he is in a need? (But girls ought to do self-reflection as well...not that we should flaunt our assets by wearing less; if so, it will also be our fault that we cause other's to create sin) How about the permanent damage done to his own daughter? How can the girl stand up in the society again? How is she going to heal mentally? No wonder there are more and more people with abnormal thinking these days....

最近報導火熱的正是陳ｘｘ和幾位女名星祼照事件。本人對此也有些感觸…現在的年經人真是難想像中的開放（雖然我也是年輕人，但必竟受過道教育的我應該不可能做出這種事！）。
雖然整件事情看上去，陳ｘｘ卻實也是受害者，但受最多批評的也是他。但在我本人眼裡，其它女星雖是受害者，但也應遭受和陳同樣的眼觀才對。但眾人的眼裡，罪如海深的是陳。
對于陳ｘｘ，感覺他不是笨，就是不夠小心，不然他就是電腦白痴…怎麼會有人明知自已電腦有些不可告人的秘密時，還自投羅网的將自已電腦放心的交到修理電去呢？！不知這是不是天意…還是命運做弄人…也不知道會因為這種事件，引響了多少人，尤其年輕人…必竟現在很多的年輕人都是無腦的有樣學樣吧！如果是有智慧的人，一定不會做這些事的。

今天一位同事告知昨晚在參加銀行的召待晚宴時，贏了一張$1000(NT21000)的購物禮券。真替她開心。雖不愿分享那些禮券，她也買了几張toto(樂透樂透)送給大家(今天的開獎是SIN$10 million, NT210,000,000), 心中想的是雖不分享那小錢，但必竟希望能給我們更多的錢。一像來對這種沒興趣的我，自然就沒拿那一張，反正或許真中了這比錢，相信生活也不一定會比現在好過（因為煩惱也許更多，想著得換更大間的屋子，買部車子等等，好多手續要辦。况且每几個月就要送車子去檢查等瑣碎事情更多。我是一個怕麻煩的人）。雖是如此,心想若他們誰中了，分我一點就好。 但這些都不是重點。
重點是一位經理級的同事竟然提意將這事告知老板，并應當問老板是否這些禮券應該歸公司所有嗎，因必竟他們是代表公司去參于的。
聽了這位中獎的同事向我訴苦，我第一個反應竟是，怎會這樣，心中竟然産生憤憤不平，雖一切和我無關，也感覺那位同事是因為嫉妒才會這樣提出的。以前當公司還小時，大家像一家人。但當公司大時，個各都開始有自私的想法，包括自己在內，都只顧著自已的利益。安慰得獎的同事，告訴她這種事無須讓老板知道，我家那老大是個愛面子的人，怎麼會貪圖我們窮人家這在他們眼裡是几塊錢的禮券呢？但那同事為了不讓經理跟老板說，自已就乘著機會先向老板透露了，并問老板是否是歸向公司的。老板的反應是“當然不是（這是我們預料之中的）…這是因為你幸運才能贏的，當然是屬於你的。”

不知為何以這做主題，我想在我們生活中有太多太多的芝麻緣豆事件了。但也往往因為這些事，一個一個種子漸漸在我們心中生根發芽。有些當然是好的…但也有些會造成我們的命運在無形中惡化…有時看著報紙上不幸的新聞就會想：忍過不就雨過天晴了嗎？怎麼一個這麼簡單的思想也不會嗎？你看，現在將面對慘痛的後果。
最近美國在短短一周內發生了四起校園槍殺案，而大多都是因為一個爭吵，在非常憤怒之下，開槍把同學給殺了。很多人覺得他們很傻，自毁前程，為何會因為芝麻綠豆的小事就要把對方殺死呢？難道天底下就沒有不能解決的事嗎？其實這些人也是很可憐的。因為他們做了一件他們永遠都不能挽回的事。我在想如果他們有結識一些能夠改變他們思想，引導他們往正確思想的朋友就好。
有時想到這，也非常慶幸自已是華人，是有幸受過道德教育的人。必竟如果你能西方人講孝，他們使中跟我們所理解的還是會有一段距離吧！

Today I shall list down my tips for the trip:

Guide book for preparation: The rough guide to Taiwan, bought @ Borders (A very good guide. It shows quite detailed way of getting to a place and entrance fee etc, a must-buy book if you are planning free & easy trip).

Today is our final day in Taiwan...abit sad...I really love the place and the people...most of them very friendly...I guess Singapore still has a long way to be a gracious society. In Taiwan, people automatically stand on the left side of the escalator, they don't anyhow throw rubbish ( i even saw one lady, very beautifully dressed, picking up a scrap of paper from the MRT seat and put it in her paper bag waiting to be throw away), they even give up seats for the old. 
Anyway, today being our last day, I had to grab books...so off we went to 書街 which is just 2 streets away from our building. Chinese books are considered cheap and of better quality than China (but of cos' books from China are even cheaper, but very poor paper quality). 
I also bought alot of facial masks which is very cheap. One box cost NT160. I'll put all that up in my next post with the links all shown.

Today is free & easy day...we woke up late, did abit of packing and off we head to Wufenpu(五分埔）for shopping... One thing about shopping there is most of the shops do not allow you to try on since its a distributor area where pple buy in bulks for sale in night markets or internet. But i had a lucky grab for jean skirt which i had already wanted to buy in Singapore, but didn't manage to spot any suitable for me as its all very short. But there, i went to a shop that sells only jeans material....
Wufenpu is huge and you can take entire day to shop there. We almost lost our way as well...But as a warning note, most of the clothes are free sized and since most of the ladies I saw on the street are slim or thin, it would be difficult to get clothings if you are buying L size in Sin.

Today was again another day to be rushed...need to go to Yeliu, Jinguashi, Jiufen. Original plan was to catch a bus to Yehliu from the bus station. However, a cabby offered to bring us there for NT600. It was again another good offer to us since bus fare would have cost close to that per pax and we dunno how long we have to wait. 
Yeliu Geopark is indeed a place worth visiting. Again we have got cheaper rate with the youth pass, NT40 i think...Normal rate should be NT60.

Today we travelled back to Taipei via High Speed rail. By the time we reached and settle down, it was already 1pm. There was some event going on @ our building downstairs...It was some sort of album promotion by a group "快樂幫"... Didn't stay for the concert as we had to go to the National Palace Museum (故宮).  
Entrance fee to 故宮 is NT160，but with youth pass, its only NT80. Again we took MRT to Jiantan and transfer a bus to the Museum. No camera is allowed inside, but outside is free for shooting:

Today is hectic since we need to packed our luggage and leave it @ the train station and rush down to Taichung. There are a few types of locker compartment. The one we used to put our big luggage is located at the left end of the ticket counter for Highspeed rail. It cost NT100 per day if i'm not wrong. Anyway, this locker calculate by per day whereas some locker is by per hour which will be very expensive (those lockers calculated by per hr are usually the smaller type). Remember to keep more shillings for such use.
For the high speed train, we bought the standing ticket which is much cheaper (NT555) to Taichung. Standing ticket doesn't mean that you have to stand. It just simply means that there is no fixed seat. So if the compartment is full and no more seats available, then you have to stand.
From Taichung station, we took a bus (NT160) to Sun Moon Lake (SML or 日月潭). Better go to the loo first before boarding the bus cos' the journey is long and there's no stopping for toilet in between. The bus will pass by Puli etc, so it also goes to Formosa Aboriginal Cultural village. 

After all those late nights, waking up early in the morning is indeed a struggle...but good thing is first thing we are going for the HOTSPRING!!!! Following, all the instructions, we alight at Xindian (新店）MRT…A cabby called us on...One good thing abt this trip is there are 4 of us, just nice to fit into a cab n share the costs...cab cost ard NT300 to reach there. Cabby recommended us to this hotspring (情人溫泉）which is popular among the locals. Cost NT300 for a room, shared max by 2 pax.

We took Jetstar. Flight cost $561 inclusive tax. Not exactly cheap, since we are travelling during the peak season...
Anyway, by the time, we reached the airport, its already dark....of cos' we headed as per instruction to get our youth pass, who knows how much we can save using it...
By the time , we reached Taipei Main station, it was more than 7pm...we had to fumble around since the hostel that we are staying is not obvious at the direction we alight..Anyway, its located at a building where the 1st floor is selling IT stuff...i was just wondering why they did not indicate the name of the building 元氣館 in the address...

Very happily preparing my Taipei...Wow...its my first proper own planned trip afterall... Heard from friends that vegetarian food is not easy to find there, i make sure i took my printed list of the vegetarian stalls in whole of Taiwan.. Exaggeration!! But that's how nervous I am..afterall, i'm considered the only one in the gang doing homework for this trip! Also, not forgetting another important thing I have to bring...my CONVERSE shoes...this shoes has been to a few places with me, including Great Wall of China...so I shld bring her for this trip.