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Taiwan Day 11: Lunch with aunt and cousin
Filed in The Day Events, June 12, 2009, 4:11 pmIn a yummy Japanese restaurant near their house! At night we went to a beef noodle restaurant in Dan Shui. Very clean!
Taiwan Day 10: In The Mountains!
Filed in The Day Events, June 11, 2009, 3:58 pmI have a hard time remember names of places I go to, but this was a trip to a mountainy area. There are lots of mountains in Taiwan and places that have names. We went to the King Car factory first. They’re the ones that make Mr. Brown coffee! And Green Time gum. No pictures there…I’m not sure why I didn’t take a lot of pictures this day @_@. We went with a bunch of people from the same building I live in. At night, we went to see fireflies because they are only around for a few days in the beginning of May. In the picture they are the little blue swirls at the bottom.
Taiwan Day 9: Shilin Night Market
Filed in The Day Events, , 3:39 pmNight Market! So many yummy foods and so many vendors. The place where you can eat, walk, shop, walk, eat, walk, shop, eat, walk and shop some more in that order! My favorites are oyster omelette, pig’s blood rice cake, and grilled corn (grilled with sauce on it sooo good). My mom really like the cuttlefish soups though.
Taiwan Day 8: Teppan
Filed in The Day Events, June 5, 2009, 5:50 amMet up with my aunt for some teppan action. At this point, as you can tell, I was getting pretty guilty with food. Later this day I bought some new Nike running shoes that are compatible with the Nike+ thingy. I’ve only uploaded two runs so far but I plan on using it more often.
The lobster was moving its legs while being cooked but I’m pretty sure it’s just muscle/joint reflex stuff going on there. Pumpkin soup is sooo yummy.
The first picture is of street food! Rice noodle bowl. Also, they have Costco in Taiwan. The last picture is of this huge flat bread packaged like money. Yum!
Sims Apartments Part II Complex: Asian house
Filed in Droolworthy, Gaming, May 22, 2009, 7:22 amI’m always fascinated by making the sliding door, separated rooms, lofts. This one was really hard to get two people to live in this space.
The first floor has a small bedroom in the middle. Bathroom is on the bottom floor.
The second floor is interesting. There is another bedroom in the middle with open space on both sides of the room. Imagine living in a room where your two sides are open to the first floor. Open up a window, “hello down there! Can you bring up a coffee?” Maybe even install a pulley system with a basket to transfer food and other items (I had a friend in middle school who did actually do that with her parents. Her parents amused her. How nice!) The second floor also contains the tv. The interesting part is that the second floor bedroom and the second floor itself have their own set of stairs. The bedroom stairs led up to another private room on the third floor that has its own private balcony. The stairs on the second floor lead to a balcony that guests can enter and use. Pretty nifty! I’d love to have my own private space. So exclusive!
In the pictures, the balcony on the left is private (for painting and meditating), the one on the right is public. There is a bookcase and a lounge chair!
For sure, the person that gets the second floor bedroom should pay more rent.
The decor is really asian. Bamboo, sliding floors, paper lanterns, and asian art on the walls.
Sims Apartments Part II Complex: City house
Filed in The Day Events, , 7:05 amThis was the first house I designed in the complex. It’s not amazingly creative. The first floor has a bedroom and kitchen.
The second floor is the living part of the house. TV, music, and the wood floor reaches around the edge of the house, but not the middle. The narrow edge near the windows is where you play darts.
The third floor is another bedroom. You’ll notice that guests can walk all the way up to the third floor and to the balcony without going into the bedroom, so there is privacy.
The walls are a cityscape. This is a bachelor’s pad. The balcony has star tiles, like the walk of fame!
Sims Apartments Part II Complex: Doll House
Filed in Droolworthy, Gaming, , 6:39 amThis is one of my favorte houses in the complex I made: This is a clean girly doll house. Ribbons, pink and offwhite. I love the second floor; there is a big grand piano and it’s open to the first floor with the ledge near the window. I really love lofts. The third floor is just the bedroom, with two balconies: a big one for exercising (treadmill), or stretching, and a little balcony to sit and read Stephen King books at. Perfect. My inner girl squeals with delight.
Taiwan Day 7: Family time means food too
Filed in The Day Events, , 6:17 amYes, lots and lots of food. At this point, I was feeling reeeeally heavy and fat. Every day, lunch and dinner, heavy stuff. If a little starving African kid went on the food tour I was on, he might have died by now.
This day my aunt on my dad’s side and her husband came over to our house to sit around and we later went to 8 Orders (Ba Dian). Their menu contains just eight different entree sets. Mmm Japanese food! Miso soup is refillable. The best part is that these entrees are only 200 NT each. That’s roughly a little less than 7 bucks. Cheap!
Then we drove around Dan Shui.
Finally, we met up with my uncle on my dad’s side, and his family. I haven’t met my cousin Danny in a long time. I don’t meet my dad’s side of the family very often, actually. They’re in Taiwan or Australia, not really in California though. I know my mom’s side a whole lot better. We ate at this restaurant in Dan Shui that is the only restaurant my uncle will go to. He has cancer so he trusts this restaurant to be light and delicious. Emphasis on the light.
Taiwan Day 6: Food and 101
Filed in The Day Events, May 21, 2009, 7:52 pmI went to the dermatologist this day. I have these little milia seeds in my skin that don’t seem to ever go away. After painful lasering carbon powder on my skin (think tiny explosions), my face was all red.
And then we walked to Taipei 101 building, yay! With my red splotchy face……yaaaay!
We went to eat lunch at this restaurant that had birds in their cages hung around the place. The atmosphere was really light and asiany. Lots of….asian artifacts placed around.
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