Taiwan Days 14-16

Dec 11th 2008

We went to a City Council place to get out Identity Cards done. It's like a mini-passport you can use within Taiwan only. The lady was real nice, we were able to get it done without Dad having to be there in person, partly because we had all the stamps and documents needed. Heh, lots of forms exchanged hands, were stamped, signed (when they say 'sign here', it actually means 'write you name here', not actually sign your name) and stampled again. While we waited our new cards got printed and laminated, much faster than NZ where you probably had to wait a few days. Yum.
Nice shiny new card, but I'm not gonna post a pic of it because of security issues and such.

Dec 12th 2008

Today was the first day of the Technology Exhibition that came from Taipei to Taichung. There was a money scramble at the opening ceremony but since I didn't know which gate it was I missed it. :< Acer, if I remember correctly. After consulting the stand people he left and went towards some other stand which I can't remember, and then Asus, ending with Vaio/Sony. I told him to look at Sony, because it was a exhibition and you'll never know, but he said that it'll be too expensive. And what did you know, they ended up being fairly reasonably priced. According to an overhead advertising board. Ha.
After that, we wandered around some more, and looked for our 4th Uncle who's in the organising committee. We found him but he was talking to a bunch of other people in the same grey suit as him, so we waited a bit. Then, he was free and we got to exchange a few words with him.
Deciding that it was time to fill my stomach, we left by foot to go back to our 4th Uncle's shop. OH MERCIFUL HEAVENS, it was soooooooo hot, the sun was blazing on the back of your neck, do you even call this winter??!??!?! Ha, funny if someone got heatstroke in winter. It felt like we would, anyway. I felt like "-OVERHEAT- -OVERHEAT-" all the way. /inside joke.

After chilling out in the shop and checking out the grubs, we went to a Chiha Shabu Shabu place. $298 NTD till you're full. I chose the Miso hotpot and ate a whole lot of other stuff there.

• 3 plates of fries with ketchup
• 2 waffle cones
• 1 butter in the middle egg cake
• 1 plate with a selection of shabu shabu ingredients
• 3 marshmallow dipped in chocolate on a stick (DIY chocolate fountains!)
• 1 small cup of hot chocolate
• OM NOM NOM

I got pretty full, I can tell you that, yum.
After that, we ended up going to a Department Store's book clearance sale. There was a whole lot of random scattered book collections and such, and a lot of The Da Vinci Codes and a random Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (British ver). They had a selection of Mandarin, Japanese and English books, along with DVDs, CDs, overdue calendars and other random stationary.
I ended up not buying anything. We went home and that was pretty much what we did for the day. Phew~

Dec 13th 2008

Today, well, nothing happened so far. Ya, *nods head*. Though I did take an afternoon nap with my cousins since they sleep on the same bed, and I thought it was funny. I woke up a bit drugged, like last time, so I sat up in bed for a bit before getting off. That was fun though, sleeping in the same bed. Every night, the whole family sleeps together in the same bed because there's simply not enough space in Gran's apartment house.
We might go out tonight to that Taichung Animanga House though. Hehe, we shall see.

So, we did end up going to the Animanga house, and they were two of them as neighbours. How nice! I boguht a Katekyou Hitman Reborn! flask for a friend, and a Katekyou calendar as well. Total cost, $257+299=$556.
Saw some nice things there, gonna buy buy buy at the next chance, hohoho.