Friday, April 27, 2012

International Food Festival

It's nice surrounded by international friends during international food festival. 

I was joining the thai group, and I am the only non thai people.
Our menu will be:
Thai chicken green curry $30NT
Roti Prata                         $15
Tom Yam Soup               $30
Thai Ice Tea                    $10

We need to make it ourself, and each of group get $1,000NT for free. 
We have more than 12 groups that serve main dishes and 4 groups for dessert.

The preparation was not easy since we need to cook at someone's house.  Majority of us are living at the dorm with no kitchen.  We found out that the kitchen had no light and very limited space to move around.  Many stuff in the kitchen with small and packed refrigerator. The worse part, it's hella messy and dirty.

It took all afternoon preparation from cutting, chopping and cooking.  I left around 11:15 pm since I was the only one living at different dorm. 

We arrived school on Friday morning around 8:30 am and hoping everything will turn out well.  Guess what! what's a day, our mentor teacher did not give us any direction what and what.  We are on our own! yes, we are experts so just DO IT!

Our food was sell very well and very fast, within an hour we were finished.  And by the time are done and ready to go to different classes to buy food, their food was gone too.
Did we prepare too little or people really to try since our dishes are so delicious and cheap.

All of us were dam tired.  It was a great experience and all of us make around $400NT

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

i don't like it!

I don't like it when people is not telling me and I found it myself.
It made me very very upset especially it's my closest person.

I might look strong but I am weak inside.
I cried at night for being lonely at this loneliness.

I share all my pains and joys in this room.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Mira and Julian

Yeap, Mira visited Taiwan for easter with Julian.

It was very nice of her to come all the way from Australia to visit me in Taiwan. I don't remember when is the last time I saw her, must more than a decade.  She has not changed a lot, sure I will recognize her if I saw her randomly in Indonesia.

She is best friend in Junior high, and she was the best student in our class.

We went to have a tea drink at Chuan Shui Tang, one of my favorite tea shop.
We talked a lot, so many things. . . I don't even remember anymore.

I brough them to traditional market in Taichung which is pretty clean compare to the one in Indonesia. And Julian was very exciting to see black chicken with head and claws.

I took them to Feng Chia night market, and Julian was able to smell stinky tofu a mile way.
The market was not that packed with people since we arrive pretty early around 5 pm, but according to Julian, it was packed.

We had a great time, but too bad, time was clicking.

Time to say good bye and I am sure I will miss her. The friendship continues and keeps in touch as always.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

poor student

stinky tofu hot pot $100NT
Yes, I love Feng Chia night market. . . I love it!
But not anymore after living closed to Feng Chia.

Yes, the food is cheap and tasty, but NOT healthy.
I really miss my home meal cooked with my honey.
Let me share some of the food and the experience pictures
Duck bun $40NT

Yes, it's a bathroom bucket!

Duck Rice $50NT

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Break time

Break time. . .
Time to play. . .
five days long weekend for Ching Ming Jie celebration.

Alishan is a famous mountain in Taiwan.
Seriously, it's not easy to manage 15 students for one day trip.
But overall was a fun and tiring trip.

KaoShiong, here we come.
It's a south part of Taiwan and the place is very very hot even on beginning of April.
The trip was a chaostic in the beginning since we were planning to take bus instead of HSR. 
We arrive Chao Ma station at 8 am.
However, no more buses until 12 pm and it would take roughtly 3 hours.
Darm it! we did not expect many were going to kaoshiong for Ching Ming Jie (respecting the elders and visiting the graveyard)

Finally, we decided to take HSR which is much faster yet much expensive

It's my first time staying in the hostel with a very very warm host. It's a brand new hostel, six bed in  a room with a bathroom. Each person was $330 with breakfast.

Kaoshiong was hella hot and humid, the city was so clean and has MRT.
We had hard time finding places to eat.

We rent a bike and cycled around the port and went to ZuJin to eat fresh seafood.