Seriously!! I went to all the night markets and there were great buys, but there were no dustbins. NONE. Except for the food area. SO. Don't bring your food purchases around to nibble and shop, cos the disturbing lack of dustbins is well, disturbing. Hahah..the taiwanese people have resorted to depositing their rubbish by the roadside. ): While brain washed Singaporeans like me (SINGAPORE is a CLEAN & GREEN ENVIRONMENT!) goondu-ly hang on to the said piece of rubbish for AGES.

Oh and everyone gets around on scooters. Hahahah...I find it rather hilarious la...the roads have no straightforward 'green man= cross the road while vehicles stop for you' sign. Although their green man really is rather cute (in my sister's words). It doesn't flash like in Singapore. It RUNS. And it runs FASTER everytime the counter ticks down. That means it's actually sprinting when the countdown is at 5 secs. LOL. Anyway, I have to get back to the main point. When the green man comes on, it means 'look left, look right, and look again to make sure there's no auntie on a scooter impatiently inching her way towards you, itching to zoom off to some urgent appointment with the dentist'. REALLY! Scooters go ANYWHERE. Even when you're squeezing through the throng in the Night markets, a scooter is liable to squeeze with you, no matter how crowded or seemingly inaccessible the area is. ((:

But I'm not here to complain about how bad Taiwan is...it really is quite an interesting place, and the people we were travelling with were highly interesting too. HAHAHA...

I learnt the Rubik's cube within one night!!! ((: Pro or not...cos there happened to be this family made up of really really smart people (RI, Cat High, St. Nicks o.O ) whose oldest son (whom my youngest sister affectionately calls Ah SAM) is also addicted to the cube (he does it within 1 min or so) and both families sort of bonded over it. I wouldn't say we were extremely friendly with one another, but it was HILARIOUS.

We started talking (abit) cos I was absorbed in trying to complete the cube when I looked up, and saw him staring at me (doing the cube. Not AT me.). SO. I stared back. He saw me staring at him. He turned abruptly around and said to his brother 'SHIT!' HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! OMG. I nearly burst trying to control my laughter. Then he turned back and asked me why I started with the yellow side first. Like, what kind of question is that?!

Ah Sam: how come you all do the yellow side first?

Me *in a deceptively calm voice*: What's wrong with yellow?

(knowing me, I take offence with people who seem to have a problem with yellow. ((: Hahah..)

Ah Sam: There's nothing wrong with yellow...but it's abit OBVIOUS isn't it?

Me thinking: wth is so obvious about yellow!?

(and it must have shown on my face cos he started explaining himself in this totally mumbly-mo manner)

Ah Sam: Cos right when you do yellow...*mumbly sounds*....then the white...*more mumbly sounds*...*mumbles all the way*

(I gave him one of my thousand and one expressions. This particular one consisted of me arching my evil eyebrow and smiling politely like I know what he's talking about)

Ah Sam: I think I'm making all this up, actually. *turns away abruptly again*

HONESTLY!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! He was christened 'xiao shuai ge' by the tour guide. LOL. So everyone talks about him in 'shuai ge' terms. And his family in 'shuai ge's family' terms. Poor thing.