Allow me to be a little achronological again today. I'll get back to the stuff I missed the past week.

Went for some karaoke again today. A big KTV hotel it was. As you can see, all my friends are rotaract now.

A bunch of strange stuff was going on that I didn't get too deep into as I am still not exactly fluent in Chinese. Seems like fun though. I heard lots of "不要不要!", when the guy had to kiss a girl on the cheek.

We sang a bunch of songs, mostly chinese. Surprisingly many english songs were available, but surprisingly many of them are some that I've never heard of. I could sing as many as was needed though, which were not many, as others were quite eager to sing chinese.

Later I went with some of my older homies from rotary to an expensive japanese restaurant in Sheraton Taipei Hotel that I walk by every day when I go to school. It's appareantly a much bigger place than it looks like from the main street. Got lots of large stuff I didn't take pictures of unfortunately.

But I did manage to snap a few pics of the food there. It doesn't look as good as it tastes, actually. A meal almost interely consisting of raw fish, miso soup and other stuff that your stomach can accept really easy. Too bad it's overly expensive, otherwise I could go there instead of eating lunch at school 10mins away.

Japanese green tea and japanese 'alcohol', also known as sake, (in chinese it's not called wine, it's just alcohol. For example red alcohol, beer alcohol, apple alcohol...)

Finally, saw this when I got home. Then I smiled, took a bath, wrote a blogpost and went to bed.

Didn't finish the sequel to the Wulai trip just yet. It's a lot to cover, and I haven't a lot of time. I still need to get to some of the other stuff such as mountain climbing and stuffs, but I guess I can just write quickly what I did today.

7am - going to school, getting a few minutes late but gets ignored by the military there as they probably don't know (or dare) how to explain in english, that I they're unhappy about my lack of hardcore discipline.
Then: Sit in the class for two hours staring at a math teacher talking chinese, then going to a website-design class to draw stuff for a drawing competition by the MRT Amdministration. (I guess that's website design in some Taiwanese logic as you have to find the rules for the competition on the internet.) And I am not exactly good at using a chinese version adobe illustrator on a chinese version MAC. (Ever only found out how paint works on my Windows, that's my graphics experience.)

Okay, that's a standard school day for me now more or less, the more interesting part comes here:

Wow, what's that? About 1pm I was sitting at Starbucks eating danish candy.

While talking danish with some Irish looking beard man. His name is Ciarán Knakkegaard McLoughlin and he currently lives in Taoyuan.

Well, you should be able to tell the outline of our day in the title. Sadly, he's not in Taipei City too much as there's a bit long to there for him and also because he goes to Taiwanese school all day. Apparently he has a problem with people telling him he looks like Leonardo DiCaprio too, which is even more ridiculous than telling me, as you should be able to figure from his picture above.

Actually I just knew Gundam was some robot stuff before we bumped into this place just outside Taipei Main Station. Now I also know that Gundam is based off of some old anime series and immensely popular. Maybe even bigger than those warhammer figures you can paint by yourselve I'd say. They're quite cool, and honestly, I wouldn't mind having one standing in a glass box in my room. I doubt that it's inexpensive though, both money and timewise.

But what's Mikuru doing here? Took a break from that dominant god somewhere in the future without us knowing?

Gundam Base Taipei, eh? Well, now you can find it yourself with some Google skills I guess. I have to be carefull about going there again though. Already got a serious addiction to that arcade game Jubeat. If I start to look out for figures like this, it might very well hurt my pocket a bit more than just a few percent of my expenses.

So well.. Didn't take so many pictures except for a lot of the figures there (we were just there shortly, went to buy shoes and chinese versions of the lucky star manga and other japanese stuff. (Yeah, I might not write a lot about it, but I do mostly do taiwanese stuff around here.) By the way, I also peed in a urinal with an advertisement LCD screen ontop today. Wicked.

It's cooler now. And isolation is not really good around these parts, but I'm ok. It's not THAT cool, just somewhere down about 13 degreees celcius outside when it's really extreme.

Today nothing much happened. After school I just went to the Taipei Metro Mall again to look at figures. I ended up buying Haruhi below.

For the time being I am mainly just trying to learn mandarin as much as I can and helping out here and there. For an example I've been helping with my host brother Alex' preparations for his interview with rotary this weekend. He's going to be an exchange student next year and he'll have to make a good expression if he wants a better chance to get to Europe, since that's more popular amongst the exchangees from down here.

Today I ate sashimi and homemade crab (so watched a couple of those getting a chopstick poked through their head even).

Yesterday and the day before, I ate in Tianmu though, so if you want to see some of what has happened recently, go check out my photostream on the soon-to-be-portal site. (Click the picture below and click previous untill you get bored.

Also today, I went to another class at my school to speak English with them for two hours. I guess I was kind of an instrument in testing them also but anyway, the guys asked me to go and play basketball with them this Sunday. I guess can do if I didn't forget some super important meeting there.

Nite guys, it's been so late when I get to bed every day in this week. I'm looking forward to the weekend.