So, this blog is mainly my life during September. Here goes:
So, I was really down one day, so my friend took me up to the Yang Ming Mountains located in Northern Taipei to check out the night view. The awesome view is located behind the Chinese Culture University, and has a breath-taking view of Taipei. A lot of young people go there for romantic evenings hahaha
The view. I always enjoy relaxing and watching city lights at night. Really helps take your mind off things and puts you in a better mood, something i REALLY needed that night.
On the subject of being sad, whenever I'm having a bad day, I eat certain foods to perk me back up, including slurpees, Oreos, and Ice cream. Here, I had a banana split! YUM YUM YUM
Throws the frown upside down in just one bite. hahahh
So my cousin, Melody, recently had her FIRST baby!!!! Her name is Olivia and is frickin' ADORABLE! Here's my grandmother and Olivia. Grandma was giving me the "oh, here she goes again!" face since Olivia was fussing for milk. haha
ADORABLE!!!!
One day, Simone and I decided to not be fat-asses, and to go HIKING. I looked up a trail that was located near Taipei 101, known as Elephant Hill, which also proposed a good view of Taipei.
Haha, just a random picture of statues outside 101 (the second tallest building in the world)
Taipei 101. There is shopping (name brands I can't afford) and a few restaurants on the top floor to give a good view of Taipei. Too bad the restaurant has a minimum charge of about 1000NTD per person (32USD) and has nasty food :P
There's a LOVE statue outside of 101, so Simone took the time to give her modeling skills a try. hahaha. Ohhhh girrllll. WORK
So to get to Elephant Hill from 101, you start going East (make sure you don't do what I did, and start walk the WRONG "east" direction 15 minutes without realizing haha). Then you cross the street when you see NY Bagels. A few steps forward, you'll see signs pointing you to "Hiking Trail" You'll pass a little park on your left (pictured with the already exhausted Simone) and just walk along the outskirts of the park...
...until you see the Golden Global Plaza. Follow the upwards hill on the right of the building, and you should be able to spot the trail entrance
The trail is located next to a big temple
When I saw this little art piece, I thought to myself "how random, why are there so many elephants?" and walked past. Then it hit me that we were looking for ELEPHANT HILL. I'm so stupid sometimes. ahahhaha
Yeah, don't feel like typing this, so you can read it if you want.
I made Simone pose sexily with the elephant. FIERCE, GIRL! Like ANTM!!! THINK TYRA
...mmmmm not so much
"You're fucking kidding, right? Can we just go home?"
After taking a look at the steps
haha how encouraging!
There were little messages all over the trail. This one is asking "Are you TIRED yet?"
Almost reaching the top and being eaten alive by mosquitos
Get it?? get it?? ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN!
The view of Taipei from the Elephant's head. Well worth the short climb.
Of course, we celebrated our healthy accomplishment by being fat and getting food. Here Simone is munching on Korean food
and me and my cartoon face chows on Japanese omelette Rice. yum yum yum
This is A Don. He's my care taker for the singing competition I am on. Great friend to have in Taipei.
This is a little restaurant in the East Section (downtown) of Taipei known as Rabbit Rabbit. It serves good burgers and pasta.
Always nice to get my dose of American food. Here is coleslaw and a Hawaiian BBQ Burger. YUM YUM YUM!! The price is not bad either! Under $10 US!
For Mid-Autumn Festival (aka Moon Festival) which is every year on the 15th day of the eight month on the lunar calendar, celebrating the first day of Fall (hopefully signifying cooler weather) my god-mother invited me for dinner outside of the Yuan Shan (Round Mountain hotel) one of the best hotels in Taipei. The lobby is quite nice. Here is a shot of the ceiling
And Lobby
The Yuan Shan Hotel
The not-so-great band playing at the buffet BBQ. Eating BBQ is a tradition that people in Taipei have on this occasion. On the day of the holiday, just walking through the streets, you see store owners and their workers chilling on the sidewalks, grilling meat and having a good time. Made me hungry walking through Taipei! ahah
Also, another tradition is to eat moon cake on this special occasion. Moon cake is a REALLY rich cake with random things inside, such as egg yolk, lotus paste, red bean paste, and other things I generally don't like. Egg yolk is so nasty!! But I'll leave you a shot of the Moon and the Cake. Together you get MOON CAKE!
GET IT?
