Thursday, February 01, 2007

3rd day of 2007 Taiwan trip

19 Jan 2007 (Fri)



Had their local 豆浆&水煎包 for breaking before leaving for 西门町。



Planned to have 阿宗面线 for lunch & find out where the Sophisca Candy Shop branch is located at Ximending .





As stomach is still full for the breakfast , went to walk ard and take some pictures. Suprised I could still remember the location of some somes & buildings, eg 玫瑰唱片行，好口杯 bubble tea shop. Still, there were some chances over the year -- eg saw a new Mister Donut shop in the last stages of renovation, the signages of 好口杯 bubble tea shop used too be blue and white but now it was like this:

Walk further down and saw a deserted building filled with graffiti. Seems eerie even in broad daylight. Walked back to the MRT station and capture a pic of the temperature of that morning.

Had 阿宗面线 for lunch with janet and as I had taken a pic of it durng the last trip, I din take any pic. Wanna enjoy my orh-lua-mee-suah. hahaha.

Managed to find Sophisca candy shop with the help of Janet. The melty chocolates I craved for now comes in a new packaging.

Biought a lot of candies and chocolates, which include :



and these:




Could have bought more if i have more budget & baggage allowance. ;P


Then went to 台北地下街 -- an underground shopping mall at Taipei Main Station. Bought another pair of shoes for CNY. S$10 only. hahaha.




Had dinner at a Thai Restaurant at 西门町红楼. (a memorable one).

Too bad the lighting was not good, i gave up taking pics after seeing how the best this月亮虾饼 turned out:




Heard abt the rumoured gay restaurant beside the Thai Restaurant. Saw that there were a lot nice- fit guys there. hmmm.

When I went to the washroom and walk pass the restaurant, something on their noticeboard caught my eyes:


Well... need I say more？


Then went to the outdoor café (奥多咖啡)永和仁爱公园，which is some distance from 顶溪 mrt station.

Cos Sally wanna watch the performance by 萧煌奇。
萧煌奇 is visually impaired ( i dun want to use the word that starts with B) singer, like Singapore 's own 陈伟联。 However he is not as lucky as Chen to have been shot to fame through a singing contest. If you had come accross this song "你是我的眼“ ( i think i might have heard it over 972 or 958 cos it sounds familiar), then you will know he is the singer of ths song. 李圣杰在他的第二张专辑“痴心绝对”有收录他与萧煌奇的合唱曲《看见》。


Back to outdoor cafe. It is like our hangout place-- 木船，except that it is at outdoors and much cheaper. There is only a requirement of minimum spending of NTW$60 （ard S$3) per pax (be it drinks or food) and you can hang ard and enjoyed the performances from 8-10pm. The only thing-- pray that it wun rain.


Really full of respect for 萧煌奇 after watching his performance. Due to his visual impairedness, he have to work harder than any other singers. 自弹自唱，hence have to memorised a lot of scores and lyrics as he can't be refering to them.

I dunno how's 陈伟联's arangement when he was performing at Muchuan, but for 萧先生，there is an "angel helper" who will collect the dedications from the audtion. After some time, she will read out the dedication list & 萧先生 will try to memorises what are the songs, choose a few and make them into a medley.

I can only recalled he sang 大海，黄昏，痴心绝对，眼底星空，你是我的眼 , and some 闽南语歌曲。 see my memory is failing me。

Haha took a pic with him too. Found him to be friendly and humourous. 一点架子都没有。


Here is a scanned pic of his upcoming concert. Can check out the urls listed (click on it for larger view)；





I tried visiting the Outdoor cafe website but it was down. Meanwhile can check out this website；

http://blog.yam.com/outdoorcafe

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