Taiwan - Day 5

Day 5 Kick Started With Great Breakfast Outside The Hotel. And First Stop Of The Day Was A Visit To King Car Group.

Hearty Breakfast To Start The Day. 招牌套餐.

Peanut Butter Toast, Meat Patty, Bacon And Eggs.

Yet Another Gesture To Show Their Hospitality. 

Or Maybe They Just Want To Promote Their Products. Maybe Both.

But The Coffee Tasted Well. Or Maybe It's Just Free. (I Sound Like Some Cheapoooo Blehhh)

Roasted Coffee Beans!

Okay So What's So Special About King Car Group? The Name Of This Conglomerate As Well As The Logo Has A 'Car' In It, And Yet You'll Be Surprised They Do Not Produce Cars At All. They Produce A Huge Variety Of Household Products And Specialise In Beverages Production Such As Mr Brown Coffee And Pocari Sweat. Basically The 'Car' Sort Of Represents Them Delivering Goods To Customers On Time And 金车 Sounded Like A Very Prestigious Name Or Something Likeeee That. 

Kang Kong (Non-Spicy)

Miso Soup.

Sweet And Sour Pork.

Assam Fish (I Think?)

宫保鸡

Lunch Was Pleasant. Pardon Me I Can't Remember Every Single Thing I Ateee Because I Ate Too Much And I Think I'm Fatttt (Just Kidding).

Arcade Just Next Door.

A Visit To A Stock Broker Firm In The Afternoon. And It Was A Really Interesting Visit. Taiwan's Stock Market Generally Closes At 1.30 PM Everyday, However There Is One Final Trade Window Between 2-2.30 PM Each Day For Urgent Trades To Be Completed. The Trading Website Also Provides All Sorts Of Tools For Free. This Tools Allow You To Study The Trend Of A Specific Stock Better. Most Of These Tools However, Are Available In Singapore With A Monthly Subscription Fee. In Addition, It Is Surprising To Know That Most Of These Stock Broker's Income Do Not Come From Commissions, But From The Difference Between Firm's Interest Payout And Bank's Interest Payout. Therefore It Is Important To Go That Extra Mile To Retain Each And Every Client.

Our Lecturer Mr Zen Low Singing On The Bussss! 

WOOHOOO *Claps*

A Visit To Yet Another Night Market. 绕河街观光夜市(Raohe Street Night Market) Most Of The Night Markets Are More Or Less The Same. Just FOOOOD Everywhereeeee. So Therefore When You Go To One, All You Do Is Eat And Eattt. 

And Grow Fat.

This 饭团 I Got From Seven-Eleven Was Really Delightful. 

Surprisingly, The Wasibi Inside Has A Sweet After-Taste.

Lovely Day 5.

Taiwan - Day 4

Day 4! Started The Day Off With A Visit To Ming Chuan University.

For The First 3 Days I Did Not Post What I Had For Breakfast. 

But Basically, We Had Buffet Breakfast At The Hotel 

And Everyday Was More Or less The Sameee.

I Find This Especially Coooool. 

This Is A Calories Chart Based On How Much You Eat 

And How Much You Can Burn Off By Climbing Steps. 

(Oh Did I Mention That Ming Chuan University Was Built On A Hill? Oops!)

Welcoming Speech And Video Played By The Host. 

After Which it Was A Tour Around The School.

This Is The Broadcasting Room, 

Where Key Messages Are Broadcast Across The School. 

(I Think? Can't Remember Clearly. Bad Memory)

This Is The Media Room, Whereby Students Read Live News 

And Put Important Information To Their Very Own Self Published Newspapers.

The View From Highhh-Uppp, After Climbing 

What Seems To Be A Thousand Steps (I'm Just Exaggerating)

Whenever There Are New Collections In The Library, 

They Would Be Put On Display To Attract Student's Attention.

This 'Book Recommendation Station' Actually Helps Students Find Books 

They Might Actually Have Interest In Reading With Ease.

Tonnes Of Facilities In The Library To Facilitate Students Learning. Very Much Like Our Very Own NP's Library. They Also Have Book-Reading Stations Whereby The System Can Scan The Specific Page Of A Book And Read Them Out Loud To You.

They Even Offered Each Of Us Bubble Tea. 

Just One Of The Many Gestures Which Shows That Taiwan People Are Really Hospitable.

We Were Given A Talk After That. Ming Chuan University Actually Offers A Huge Variety Of English-Taught Degrees And They Have Students From All Over The World. This Means Studying There Would Definitely Require One To Be Able To Communicate Well With All Kinds Of People. And Communication Is Key Especially In Businesses.

I Remember This Foreign Guy Student Talked About His Experience In Taiwan. He Was Invited Over To His Friend's House And How He Realised His Friend's Grandma Has Alzheimer. (A Common Form Of Dementia Which Worsens As Time Goes By) But Even So, She Served Him Tea Over And Over Again With A Smile. Yet Another Action Which Shows How Hospitable They Are - One Of The Many Reasons I Love Taiwan. But To Add On, Alzheimer Is A Really Scary Disease And Those That Gets Hurt The Most Are Usually Your Loved Ones.

This Is One Of The Highlights Of The Trip. Modern Toilet Restaurant! HAHAAA! Trust Me. Your First Thought Would Be - Ewwww Disgusting. Imagine Sitting On A Toilet Bowl And Eating From A Toilet Bowl. Oh By The Way You Wash Your Hands Whereby The Sink Is A Toilet Bowl Tooooo.

But The Food Was Simply Too Delicious. It's Like 1000x Better Than It Looks. Because It Probably Loooooks Bad Anyway. Especially The Ice Cream. Looks Like A CUTEEEE Pooooo But Trust Me, Give Me 10 Servings And I'll Still Finished All Of Themmm! (Sounds Like I Like Eating Pooo Oops!) Pardon Me For Sounding Greedyyyy. 

A Visit To NEXTMedia Station. Quite A Cooool Experience. We Had An Insider View Of How It Was Like To Be A Reporter As Well As Learnt About How Things Work. For Example, The Commercial Break And Types Of Commercial Played For Each Channel Is Adjusted Specifically According To The Duration Of The Running Program As Well As The Types Of Viewers (Male/Female And Age Group). 

Basically The Key Of This Visit Is To Teach Us That Information Is Most Valuable When It's Timely.

And Finally A Visit To 士林夜市 (Shilin Night Market) FOOD And FOOOD EVERYWHEREEEE! (: I LOVEEEE FOOOOD! Even Tried The 臭豆腐 Which Tasted Great If You Mixed It With Cabbage And Some Chili Sauce. Their Mince Meat Rice Was Also Delicious, However I Don't Really Like Their Oyster Omelette. Doesn't Suit My Taste Bud HAAHAA! I Still Prefer The Ones I Can Haveee At Chomp Chomp! The 猪什汤 (Pig Organ Soup) Was Really Goooood Thoughhh.

Bye Day 4.