i feel like a little child again
after watching transformers.

then again, after paying S$13
i'm reminded that i'm grown up.

just came back from a 4-day summer tour to hualien in eastern taiwan and though it was somewhat boring cause we went to mainly farms and markets (it was meant to be educational -_-") it was a good thing cause it was really a time for me to know more people here. considering that i'm new, it helped definitely. back to the tour. it was a tad boring cause we spend a load of time on the bus getting from one place to another. i think the max we spent on the bus was when we were on our way back to hukou. we went through the mountains as it will supposedly shorten the journey time but in all we were in that bloddy bus for nearly 5 hours non-stop. and if not for me who asked the driver and tour guide to make a detour for myself to take a very urgent leak, the whole bus would reek of that horrid smell. not just me i soon realised, but nearly all the guys on the bus.

now, that was funny.

seeing the guys queuing up in a really long line to use the two-man-at-one-go toilet. and also taking into consideration the fact that it would take about another hour to get from the place we detoured from back to base, everybody just went down and took the leak. it was as if there was a Great Singapore Sale for male undies for male aunties then. haha.

anyway during this tour i managed to fulfill one of my desires, well at least give me a rough idea to what my actual desire will make me feel when i do achieve it. i went RAFTING! fantastic experience. rafting in the valley of a million bends, it was uber difficult to steer and move that stupid balloon-raft. but it was fun, really really fun. now i'm just fantasising about my desire to go to new zealand and do a full white water rafting down some awesome river.

anyone, care to join in?

went to many places, but one thing i noticed was wherever i went during this tour i saw the bloddy mountain. it just wouldn't disappear from my sight! from what was an awe soon became a sore, cause everywhere you go you just see that irritating green tall looking thing in front of you. and don't even think of a lovely sunset behind the mountain face, most of the time i don't even see the sun setting cause we're all sleeping on the bus. tiring journey it was.

very very tiring.

did quite a number of exhaustive activities like cockle-picking in some pond which was quite an experience. we all had to roll up our pants no matter how short they were unless you were wearing fbts but obviously nobody would be wearing those in the middle of a tour right? so we rolled it up, changed out of our shoes and into the slippers made available and into the pond we went! we had to dig into the soil to find those cockles and boy were they difficult to find! there was this rule that allowed us to bring home one full kilogram of whatever we picked BUT i'm telling you, you will never pick one full kilogram simply because there is no time, secondly there it is back-breaking and thirdly you'll just be super bored unless you are intending to major in farming or cockle-agriculture in university.

that's that.

what else did i do? hmmm. OH. we went to this lovely valley where the river flows with the colour of jade. really lovely sight that was. and coupled with the mountains, yes mountains AGAIN, it was really quite a sight. we had to walk for about 20minutes before we reached this point where we could go all the way down to the river and just walk in it. and that means, if it still hasn't hit you, take off our shoes and wade in the maximum knee-deep water. i was just thinking, if everybody takes off their shoes and stick their stinky smelly feet in the jade-blue water, will it make the water really grey with not rock sediments but rotting skin or something?

ewww. i rather not think of that.
destroys the lovely scenery.

hmmm, i think that was the really major things we went and did. i'll try to upload the pictures as soon as possible. but cause i'm using wireless, it's a bit slow and i'm really scared i lose all that i've written here. i think i'll just upload it some other time, when i'm more confident of the wireless system here.

till next time fellas,
toodles from taiwan!

PS: missing you vjchoir peeps and hotbulbs!
ALOT.