Hey, today the title is very explaining right? I met some YEP Students again today.
Actually, I bumped into Fredrik and some of his new YEP friends in Ximending this Monday so I that's where I got some of the network I expand further today.

There were actually really a lot of people. I mean YEP's. Shilin night market wasn't really very populated because this is wednesday, but of course there were still a lot of people. I know you probably shouldn't go to shilin night market on fridays, saturdays or sundays, since it's quite overcrowded on those days.

It was quite chaotic for me today. There were really a lot of people moving around, splitting up and shouting at eachother through their cellphones whenever someone decided to jump out of the big group we were to get a drink or whatever. Also, I was not really feeling very safe because my mobile phone was only on 15% battery and almost out of money too, plus I didn't really know anyone. Only met a few of them this monday and talked with one on facebook before.

Just so you know, the sign in the background sais Japanese style Korean food. That's the kind of restaurant we went to. Luckily it's identity crisis made the food quite cheap. I paid just 100 NT$ for a dinner, and I was stuffed, actually. Not like I was about the explode of course, so right at the moment I'm writing this, I'm eating a quite delicious... some strange Taiwanese bread-thing with meat and stuff inside.

Hey, I did manage to get an almost sharp picture from the night market. (People walkt very fast.)

If you see people selling DVD's at a night market, you can be pretty sure it's actually pirated stuff.

Should've bought one of these shirts, really. It's in Japanese but still.

Back home in my room in Denmark, I have a pack of Originality Paradise. I'm not planning to make a collection just yet, though.

You can have a lot of fun in Shilin Night Market, really.

Okay, let me just finish this off with an unrelated funny picture I took this tuesday:

Want to look like a lolita? Taiwan's got the beauty product you need!

And that's all for today. Someday there's probably going to be a link from this blogpost to another article I am going to make about Shilin Night Market when I know a little more about it. For now: Live well, love well and mentality well, k?

Today I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures that I took not more than an hour ago.

I don't really have much to tell about these cakes, because I didn't taste them and they're not really regarded as a Taiwanese specialty.

I was just thinking: maybe you don't see this culture of displaying cakes at the cafes in your country. Of course they sell cakes at the cafe's in other countries, but here in Taiwan they all look quite expensive yet costs only about 35 to 45 NT$ a piece. That's around 1-1.3 US$ or ~6 Danish Kroner.

Hey, this evening I just uploaded a video I took while shifting trains in Taipei Main Station (for MRT) some days ago. I hope that especially people who have been here before or even lives here normally but are in a foreign country for a long time, can perhaps feel a little nostalgia or like they're home or however you want to describe that feeling.

Perhaps some day soon I'll tell a little more about the MRT in Taipei.

There's always a lot of people in the MRT. - Or rather - there's always a lot of people anywhere in Taipei. But if you come at the right time, even more people are going to be there.

Cake. Is naic.

A picture not as blurry as the yootoob clip. Also in Taipei Main Station.

Fancy light at the entrance to "The Wedding House" where I went to another rotary meeting. Indeed a fancy place I tell you. Mirrors, windows, aluminium bars and lights everywhere inside so that you could barely find your way out again.

Okay. That's another random post for you. See you.

Earlier this week, I went to a KTV for the first time. This was last tuesday, where I was busy with writing about that wicked trip around Taiwan with all the old peeps.

So in this post I'll try to write short about karaoke here in Taiwan.

A KTV is actually a kind of karaoke bar, where you rent a room for yourselve instead of singing with a bunch of old peeps you don't know.
Since no-body's looking and you can make all the noise or sing as bad as you want without getting angry stares, the KTV's are more popular amongst the young people here. If you go to a karaoke bar, you'll be more likely to meet a bunch of old and mostly single people looking out for a date or just liking to sing old songs.

At the KTV there's a bunch of nice stuffs for controlling the song that is playing. You can - of course - pick your own song with a remote control, and then you can manage the songs a little better with a touchscreen that Joni is currently operating. Opposed to just karaokeing at some party or bar, you can also edit the tempo and pitch.

But KTV is not just for singing.
There's usually also all-you-eat buffet plus you can order cold beer so you won't run out of energy from several hours of singing. Don't expect the buffet to be too big if you're going to one of the cheaper places though.

Also: There's usually not a lot of english songs to pick from if you don't know a lot of oldies and then a few newer songs that were very popular in Taiwan some years ago, so before you go there, you should probably find out if you know some of the beatles, abba, the carpenters or other old stuff like that. (Michael Jackson stuff can usually work aswell.) If you're planning to go to a Holiday KTV, you should click the above pic to get a larger version in which you can get some suggestions for songs you can train. Atleast I know that this quite famous song is probably something you can find in most places.

Hey, this one is a much shorter blogpost than the other.
I hope you had a nice week. Good night.

Today, we wen't to a Taiwanese barbeque. Right now we're in the mid-autumn. So this day was actually called mid-autumn festival. However, and this is very important, this is not the real mid-autumn festival. The real mid-autumn festival is on the 3rd of October, but this is kind-of a barbeque before of that. I think this work in a way similar to the danish culture of holding christmas lunches, as I have been invited to more of these already.

This is the sight that greeted us after ~3 hours of travel, (of which the latter hours were in a karaoke bus again,) since appareantly, taiwanese don't mind using their whole day for driving around in a bus as I have already learned.

I can just tell you now already: This was of course the most freaky barbeque I've been to in my life. It sounded more like a danish football game, just the way people grilled was... funny.