My drinks at 9%

What did I drink at club 9% tonight?

1. Sea Breeze
2. Blinker
3. MIAMI (ABO)
4. Cornball Joke
5. Strawberry Emily (shot)
6. BLUE Emily ( 4 shots worth)
7. RED Emily
8. ABO voka/gin
9. 小夢 Tokyo Iced Tea (vodka, gin, rum - 1.5 shots)
10. ABO blue
11. 小夢 Red
12. Strawberry Emily (shot)
13. ABO Mai & Sauce
14. B-52 (shot)
15. Men the in top (小夢)
16. ABO not sexy
17. Strawberry Emily
18. Oasis
19. Strawberry Emily
20. ABO - FIRE (shot)
21. ABO- special
22. ABO- shot

爽. VERY 爽. Worth the 600 nt and more.

Bartenders are nice.

The rest is just soso.

Econ night out

What's the name of that drink again? You know... the one with:
- 1 shot vodka
- 1 shot gin
- 1 shot Bacardi 151
- 1/2 shot triple sec
- rest with lime juice

Anyways, thanks Stephen for the drink!

Also learned a couple new dice games. Haha. Fun times. Now I know 4 dice games. :P

I didn't know JJ Cheers was such a popular place among professors. Well, it IS the only bar in the whole area.

We should do it again!

東眼山國家森林遊樂區, 綠光森林 (2 days + 1 night trip)

A nice trip with 4 older sisters.

Lots of exercise.

Lots and Lots of exercise.

An overnight trip is the best way to know someone really quickly.

Weekend at 南庄

There's really only two major attraction areas in Miaoli, and we went to one of them over the weekend: 南庄. There's not much to do there - we went to 南庄老街, 東江溫泉, 向天湖, and 神仙谷. Those are basically the major attractions there.

I think 內灣 beats 南庄老街 any day, and that 靜心湖 beats 向天湖 any day.

There was one good thing though: the stars. At 12/7 1am, I saw the most sparkling star-filled sky in my whole life. If only that could be captured by my camera.

I heard there's gonna be another episode of shooting stars sometime mid-December!

Sharp Darts

For Halloween, we went to this newly-opened bar called SharpDarts (opened by my friend Juliet's brother). You guessed it ... it specializes in DARTS. I held a dart for the first time in my life yesterday. Heh, I sucked. I wasn't bad at hitting the target, but my darts were always at an angle such that it bounced off instead of sticking. They had different dart games of different levels. The overall atmosphere was pretty good. 100nt Blue Girl was nice too, especially for a bar in Taipei.

Okay, off to comedy show again today! And tomorrow, I'm gonna meet my high school friend.

Comedy Club, Hypnosis Show, Canoeing

Eventful weekend.

I went to the Comedy Club for the first time and saw a Hypnosis Show, except that nobody got successfully hypnotized. What a pity ... I was expecting some funny stuff to happen.

In order to get hypnotized, one needs to "want" to be hypnotized. Some people are "highly hypnotizable", while some are not. Heh... I could never do it ... I am too logical.


I went underneath the 大直橋 for canoeing on Sunday. They only let us canoe in a small area, but it was a good change of event.

Ah ... time to add to the Marketing Project.

Swing Dance

I went to this Swing Dance event in Taipei today. The last time I did Swing Dance was ummm... 8 years ago, when I was a sophomore in college. I love the music, and I love the dance. Too bad we only learned a little bit today. For some reason, I soak in the moves really quickly and I'm always wanting to learn more moves.

Dancing makes me free, and makes me forget about the "trouble", at least temporarily.

Ah... so first Salsa, then Tango, and now Swing. More and more dances are imported to Taiwan. ;)

I wonder when there will be a Swing community in Hsinchu?

"Nine" Village (九族文化村)

This weekend, I went to 九族文化村 with 3 other friends (I was the driver, of course). It was my first time there. It's basically a cultural/amusement park. We checked out each of the nine original Taiwanese tribes and enjoyed some performances. I'm no expert, so they all look the same to me. There are like 4 or 5 amusement park rides that has nothing to do with the 9 tribes, so I have no idea why they are there... maybe they want to position themselves like Leofoo village or something. Maybe that way they can charge 700nt. But from a marketing perspective, they seem to be losing their focus. The parking lot is basically empty. I think it's a place no one likes to go the 2nd time.

By the way, my car keys flew outta my pocket during one of the rides. Heh... had a scare there!

Stuffed Myself

This afternoon, I went into Springclub to ask a few questions about their dating service (gee, 180 degree attitude change as soon as they knew I wasn't gonna buy anything), then grabbed a quick lunch at a nearby Burger King.

When I came out ...

MY CAR GOT TOWED!! Gosh, I was away for less than 1 hour!!

2200nt byebye.

I got no income now. This hurts.


Hurts so much that I decided to comfort myself by stuffing myself (hence my tummy).

Gorden Biersch. By Warner Bros theaters at the Hsin-yi area. Awesome restaurant. Really good Pepperoni/Sausage Pizza, Chicken Ceasar Salad, 10-oz juicy bacon cheeseburgers. (yep, I stuffed all of them into my tummy).

Not to mention a huge glass of German beer. Oh so yummy.

Now I'm too full to sleep.

Damn ... so full.

Guess I'll use this time to organize my findings into a nice excel file.

Cape No 7

The movie "Cape No 7" (海角七號) is all the rage now.
Such a rage that I actually went to see it last Sunday.

When you get your hopes too high, it's easy to get disappointed.

Have you guys seen that movie? What do you think?

Sheng-Hsing Train Station

Last Saturday, I went to Sheng-Hsing train station with my friends. That train station, no longer in service anymore, is said to be the highest train station in the whole west coast. It is now a tourist site in Miaoli county. People say I'm Taiwanese ... yet there are still so many places I have yet to visit in Taiwan.

They have a long & dark tunnel there. It's a good place to bring your date there. ;)