the rest of 花莲

after tarako gorge, our taxi driver, 王先生, bring us to the next location, which is 七星潭. 七星潭 is a very popular place in hualien, with a very beautiful beach, majestic sea waves, and pretty stones, which you can take them home. when we get there, dark clouds are looming and looks like it is going to rain, but lucky for us it din rain.






听~ 海哭的声音


these are the pretty stones that we picked from 七星潭:




after 七星潭, 王先生 bring us to eat 爆炸葱油饼. when you bite into the 葱油饼, the oil, egg yolk juice will explode in your mouth, and at the same time you can smell the fragrance of the onions. wah damn delicious and damn shuang.

and then he fetch us back to stone house, and hand us over to the 老板娘. haha.

she bring us go eat dinner, and recommended a shop that sell very nice 碳烤鸡腿饭. then we went to eat 黄金蛋. the egg is hard-boil egg on the outside, but once you bite inside, you will be in for a surprise, cos the egg white and egg yolk is still 半生熟, and you can see the egg yolk juice flowing out. btw my dad knows how to make this kind of egg too!

the highlight of the night is watching 原住民 dance performance. the whole performance is very nice to watch, and some of the guys are very handsome, and a few of the girls are very chio. haha. the guys also very fit, alot of them have six pack. make me so envious.





and then rite, the performance got one item that needs audience to go up on stage, and they want a couple, so me and darling kenna sabohed. hahahaha.

when 原住民 get married, the guy must carry the girl in a special way.

demonstration:




so now its our turn. haha.



yay! success! but hor carry already not enough. i must still carry her to walk around the stage. haha. heng we got many pple holding on to darling, so that she wun fall. actually halfway during the walk, i can already feel that she is going to slip.



after the performance, we took pictures with the 原住民.




ok that marks the end of the 花莲之旅. btw there is another very popular tourist activity in 花莲, which is 赏鲸. but the whales wun appear in winter, so this activity can only be done in summer. the reason why whales can be seen in 花莲 because its seas are connected to pacific ocean. and stone house also got sell 赏鲸 ship tickets.

the next few posts will be about taipei. :)

and sch is starting soon... a bit sian... :(

goodbye 2008, hello 2009

here's wishing everyone a happy 2009.

remember, life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.

may blesings sprinkle on you like confetti, sorrows disappear like fireworks, and joy stay with you for as long as the stars twinkle in the sky.

(sound familiar to some pple. haha.)

now let's recap on a wonderful 2008.

firstly, its my career. i had a really good time teaching in *ahem ahem* sch, learnt and saw alot of things.






secondly, its my relationship. i reached the two year stage with darling, and our love for each other only gets deeper and deeper.




thirdly, i found a new passion in dance, and made many new friends, with some becoming close friends. i will definitely miss the supper sessions we had after the dance practises. and i am also happy to pull in darling and my good friend hw into the dance family. :)





lastly, i also travelled quite extensively this year, going to batam, su-r-a-ba-ya, hongkong, macau and taiwan.







2008 has been quite a good year for me, and i hope 2009 will be a good year too, and a good year for my loved ones.

once again, happy 2009!

tarako gorge 太鲁阁

when you make a trip to hualien, you must definitely go to tarako gorge. its an awesome place with amazing scenery.

tarako gorge is a national park, and has 7 different scenic spots - 三栈溪, 长春祠风景区, 燕子口步道, 岳王亭, 九曲洞步道, 慈母桥 and 水濂洞.

we went to all the scenic spots except for 水濂洞, because of insufficient time. heard that 水濂洞 is quite cool, because inside the cave, is totally dark, got water dripping on you from the top of the cave, and you have to bend and crawl at certain places inside the cave, so you must wear a raincoat and have a torchlight when you are inside the cave.

we booked a taxi driver to bring us to these places. it cost us NT2200, which is around 110 sing. damn ex lah. btw the standard charge is between NT2000 to NT2200.

we reached the entrance to the national park, and got down the taxi to take a picture. all tourists will take picture at the entrance.



三栈溪





长春祠风景区 - there's a spring, and the water is drinkable.









燕子口步道 - at the end of the 步道 there is a rock shaped like a indian face. indian as in red indian, not our ah neh.




can find the red indian in this picture?


岳王亭 - a pavilion to commemorate 岳飞将军. there is also a 吊桥, and the scenery from the 吊桥 is also very nice.








九曲洞步道








慈母桥 - near the bridge there's a very special rock called 青蛙石. the top of the rock is 黑绿色片岩，bottom part of the rock is 白色大理石. the pavilion is like a crown which the frog is wearing.



we reach hualien at 1115 am, and started the tour of tarako gorge at around 1145, and finished the whole tarako gorge by 430 pm. our taxi driver told us the 水濂洞 takes around 2 hours to tour finish. so for those who want to tour finish all the 7 scenic spots in tarako gorge, its best to start the tour early in the morning. :)

btw did you see the tshirts both me and darling are wearing? we are great ambasaddors of singapore, yes? haha.