taiwan

something wrong with this week. a supposedly hectic week with in-house testings for all m&e equipments, gensets, bomba pumps, fire alarms go very smooth, too smooth indeed. no start-up failure, no transformer malfunctioning, soft starter failure, change over failure,etc. just ok. i just have this bad feeling coz either the contractors are coning me or things will blow up in the actual authority inspection.

so this taiwan place i went last month, it's just as what i expected, over-hyped and downright boring. i went there after our parliment backbenchers came back from their agro tours. i dunno what they learned there. i see a lot of fruits there: pineapples,pamelos,nonas,jack fruits,star fruits but its all available in our country. we also have durian,langsat,cempadak,etc. which they dun have. anyway, i am no agro expert.

i dun why but taiwan never been on my wish-to-go list, maybe their crap tv shows are too crap so the country must be crap too. but my gf insisted we must go,she is brain washed by their cook shows and fashion news. they keeped promoting their pasar malam delicacies on tv, u know, like some tv stars or singers sampling food from 1 stall to another with a lot of 'oooohh...waaahh...hmmm' expressions and some retarded jokes which they considered humour.

I was there for a week, went to taipei,jie-fen,nan-tau,hualien,taichung,kaoshiung. too lazy to eloborate coz there's nothing special. let's see what is good and bad on this ah-bengs island.

good
1) cloths and shoes is way better than malaysia, and very cheap. good news for the girls.
2) lots of cute dogs on the street
3) very few polices on the street, so u do anything u like on the street
4) a lot of pale & stick thin chicks around, and friendly generally
5) street is clean. ppl bring own plastic bags around.

bad
1) the pasar malam food is tasteless, lots and lots of variety but taste alike. nothing compared to penang hawkers, or even petaling street's.
2) road & traffic is crazy, the town planners and council engineers should be shot in the head
3) weather is crap, just like malaysia, with additional typhoons and mudslides'
4) taroko national park, my only hope, is disappointing. muddy river, dry-up waterfalls, panaromic view from cameron or fraser is better than this.
5) the imperial palace museum, is disappointing. those kmt buggers steal so many treasures from beijing in the 30's and this is what they put up for show? where is the 3 million pieces of artifacts they smuggled here. maybe sold by their stupid ex-president ah bien d...
6) politics of course.. which president in the world is as stupid as taiwan's? makan wang also clever a bit la, masuk dalam personal account.. they must learn from our premiers...
7) lots & lots of temples, all private and force ppl to donate money, wtf. the temples archi is crap and of no historic value.. crap