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Went on mission with the rotaract guys today to look at cakes in a big cake factory.
One of the core values of this rotaract club is to search and gain the knowledge needed to create a better society in which you can improve life for everyone.
And I mean: What's more logical than anything if that is what you want? Methods of regulating the population of the upperclass obviously. Without much explanation of what is going to happen, I delve into another day of randomness in Taiwan. And this happened during Sunday 10th of January.
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A lot of comrades were to be seen around the factory. So many in fact, that I was beginning to wonder if there were other than rotaract visitors.
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And that's Choco boy. One of the factory's many mascots. That kid really gets some attention. We actually kind of had to wait in a line to get to him.
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His friends over there were less popular. Maybe because they were playing some creepy music while turning around for no reason.
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Story box? I love story box!
But what is story box? I have absolutely no idea, frankly.
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But we're taking some pictures while standing next to it, just in case.
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Inside, our honorable countrymen are working for a better future to all of us.
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As always, when you visit your comrades, you'll have a long political discussion amongst friends and good people in comfortable surroundings. And the leader of the commune will give you a talk about the progress of their work and show us all the medals he received from the chairman.
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A really cool thing about this place is that they have these (I think they're) Japanese lamps with little posters under them. Obviously they make japanese cakes here too. I'm in Taiwan. If there's something that's Asian and edible, you can find it here.
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I wonder what this awesome furniture has to do with cakes. They're probably there to make the feng shui balance right.
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Making cakes is serious business.
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You should know already that I love taking pictures of cakes from this other post about cakes.
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Taiwanese wedding cake not looking quite like the one you're used to eh?
Actually, when you're going to be married in Taiwan, the groom will have to buy a box of wedding cakes for the bride, to send to all of her friends. There's a similar tradition about childbirth and on many other occasions, the Taiwanese will also buy cakes for each other in accordance with the calendar and alike.
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That's just wicked. I'd never eat something like that. Would ask the people to bring it with the glass box that it's already in and use it as a decoration.
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This guy is so cool. He wears his hat like a 15 year old and is short like one too, but has the look of a, well, in Taiwan optics, adult.
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For my female readers: If you see someone that fulfills my promise of good looking Taiwanese boys make sure to let me know, so that I can prey a bit more on those.
And by the way, that's my (going to be) fourth host sister knowing what she's doing for great justice to get a better shot of the guy next to Mousse Angel. She's using Nikon btw.
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My external harddisk is making a lot of noise right now. It's a mystery to me why it makes so many different noises depending on whether I take files from my desktop or documents folder. Got my Windows 7 quite a while ago, but I'm kind of a forgetfull person you can say.
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I can make a cake like this too. Actually I did already, just in a smaller version. That's coming in a moment.
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Sorry to hold you up like this. Have to make the world a better place for everyone and all, you know. You can click some of the cake photos to get to boonbot.com and look at even more cake photos if you're that kind of person. I know I am.
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Wow, what's going on here? Everyone is in this big room with lots of tables and that guy is dressed up as a cook.
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Taiwanese people love to stick loads of people together in one big room and let one person teach everyone. I've heard lots of rumors about buxibans, (a kind of cram school mostly targeted at junior high school kids,) where there'd be over 200 students in every class. But well... Then you won't have to pay too many salaries, right?
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Using this stuff.
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- And this thing, I will create a cake all by myself. Becawse I can DIY (sic). Or well, that's what the Taiwanese love to say, even though there's not much to do. The actual cake is already done, but if we make the decorations ourselves, we can eat it with much mor pleasure for sure.
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First some people.
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And then, while the guy who's dressed up was talking about how many inches a 25cm long cake might be and letting people guess (come on) to get presents. All in Chinese, Maxine, my momentarily camera-shy host sister, has made a flower without any instructions. I mean: What's going on here. I only understand every other word the guys says, and she's losing attention before me? I gotta do some more effort!
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And there you are. A few seconds later, the guy picks up a few "petals" and crafts a few flower while saying a lot of stuff about it that doesn't have much to do with how to actually handle it. Everyone just does it by themselves without thinking, and suddently we're done in a few minutes. I guess, if you bore people for 40mins with empty talk and suddently bursts the bubble of built-up creativity, you're going to see some pretty awesome stuff being made. It was all, as usually, quite hilarious for me to see. They just do everything in a way so different you'll wish there were more synonyms with crazy.
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The Brazilian girl is of course also an exchange student. Juliana de Rosa she is.
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That Nikon I mentioned before. Seems it's a D80.
Later that day, I got to try it out for a short while to see how it is to use. I wish I could get some of the photos into a computer to see more detailed what it's actually outputting.
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Finally, people are readying up for taking some of the last group pictures together with some artificial cakes outside the factory before heading home.
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What an incredibly clear shot of so many people moving around. What kind of magic is this? I can assure you it's not camera quality.
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Alright. I guess it's done then? No? Well, I'm not going to bore you with the whole story. Taiwanese love to take photos of everyone grouping up nearby somewhere as a proof that they've been there. Especially rotary. They like it very very much.
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Ah. Hot pot. Since it's cold, I am eating this several times a week, and I've grown to like it a lot. I remember Joni treated me to one or two while it was still warm in the weather, but at that time I weren't living 5 meters away from a restaurant like I am now. This rocks.
And now: Allow me to Windows7ify this thing before I get too used to Vistas glitches.
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