A small night market in our university!

Yesterday and today there are many food stall in our university because of the celebration of our university's 17th anniversary. Eve and I were coming back from work at around 10 p.m and so we stopped by to eat something because we had our dinner quite early. We ate many items and visited many food stalls and then at around 11 o'clock, we went back to our dormitory. It’s a pity that we have to work and so we didn't see the different clubs performed on stage. When I see our university lit up, it reminds me of Chinese New year that I spend in India. We all have our houses nicely decorated and the roads are also lit with colorful lights. It also reminds me of the Christmas celebration we had in our church in India. It reminds me of many occasions! I am missing all of it too!

Cooking myself!

     I bought an electric cooker. It's very good to use and we can fry, steam, and boil things with it. It cost some 800NT$. I brought that cooker because at times I really longed to eat some food that's not available in Taiwan like some of the Indian parathas. I also brought the cooker because outside food adds too much ajinomoto to it and so that would make us feel thirsty all the time. Own cooked food is a lot healthy to eat. These days my hair falls a lot and so I thought it would be healthier to cook my own lunch and dinner if I have the time. Today I made fried rice myself. I boiled some Thai rice and then went to our school canteen and brought some already cooked ingredients and then I add that to the rice and fried it. Own made fried rice is also less oily than the old sold in restaurants.

      If I have some curry powder then I could cook some curry myself. Indian curry taste very different from the curry that I ate in Taiwan. I guess it's the way the people in Taiwan cook curry that's why it's not so good to eat.

Went to Chiayi with classmates as a class picnic

    Our teacher, Mr Yang organize a class picnic for us to go to Chiayi's plant garden (植物園) and also to nice plaza (a big plaza in Chiayi). We all gathered at our university's activity centre and the bus is stopped near there. We all got into the bus when it's almost 8 o'clock and then we start out journey to Chiayi. When we are on our way to Chiayi plant garden, we sing songs and tell jokes in the bus.

    When we reached the plant garden, Mr Yang introduced us to two guide who would be telling us what kind of plants or trees it is and all. We were divided into two groups and then we followed the guide throughout and at around 12, we all went to a tall building to have our lunch. Our lunch is prepared already by our teacher and so we all sat there and enjoyed our lunch and the view of the scenery from the 10th floor. After lunch, we clicked many photos and then we start off to go to nice plaza. It's really a big plaza and when we reached the plaza we saw that the singer, 羅志祥 is going to perform live outside the plaza that evening and we were all so eager to see him in person. Then we all went inside the plaza to see what we want to buy. There are many things that's quite costly for me and so I didn't buy anything much and then when we waited for other students outside the plaza, we still didn't see羅志祥.. When everyone is out and it's time to go back to our university we all went into our bus and we were all so tired after a day walking. I did had a nice time with all the classmates.  

Went to Taipei after a long time!

        We had two weeks of break from writing our blog and so I didn't write in my blog that I went to visit my aunt in Taipei. That was my first visit to Taipei after classes' starts. I went and stayed in Taipei for four days and three nights. We were having two days off from our work, which is on 8th and 9th November
 
       On 9th November, after our Japanese class, I went back to the dorm and prepared my things to take back to Taipei. At 3:45, Ellie, Phoebe and I walked to our university's bus stand and then we went to the train station. Phoebe and Ellie took the train while I took the solar bus to Taipei. I waited in the bus station till 5:30 for the bus to come and then when I reached my aunt's place it was already 9:30 or 10 p.m.

      I didn't go out on Saturday because it was quite cold in Taipei and I spend my days chatting with my aunt. We’ve got so much to chat that I feel our conversation is endless and then one day just passed like this. On Sunday, I went to church with my aunt and after church; we went to the market to buy some vegetables to cook lunch. At night my aunt took me to one of the night market that is near her house and I brought few winter clothes and then we went to Geant, a supermarket. We brought few things and then we went back home.When we reached home, my aunt and I had our dinner first and then she removed the peel of the acorn squash. After she finished removing the peel, I cut them into thin long slices and chopped a little bit of ginger to make fried acorn squash balls. It's a hakka dish and we eat them quite often as breakfast or as snacks. I then add some flour, sugar, salt and the chopped ginger to the sliced acorn squash. My aunt prepared the wok and put oil to it for frying. I fried the acorn squash balls while my aunt attends to her guest. I really had a nice time!

          On Monday morning, I went to the solar bus station in Taipei taking buses from my aunt's place and then I sat in the bus for more than 3 hours and then at last I reached university. That's how I spend my few days in Taipei. Whenever I go to Taipei, I spend most of my time chatting with my aunt. I am thinking of going to Taipei again, to celebrate New Year with her. Hope I could!

Spend 700 NT$ unnecessarily!

     Today I decided to go to Watson (the one near the train station) to buy some washing powder and stuffs. I parked one of my friend's motorbike outside Watson and after I finished buying my things and came out. I was shocked to see that the motorbike is missing from the place where I parked it. I saw many people looking for their motorbike too. I came to know that the motorbike was towed away and we have to pay 700NT$ to get it back. I called up Phoebe and told her about it and then it's almost time for me to go to work and so Ellie came to pick me up from Watson and drop me to work while Phoebe inquired about where we could go and get the motorbike back and then Phoebe and Ellie went to get the motorbike back. In just few minutes, my 700NT$ flew away like that. I've learned a lesson not to park the motorbike in a place where no one parks it.

Overloaded!!

During the Spoken English Practice Class on Thursday, the teacher told us that our mid-tern exam is to act out some part of the script of the serial ‘Friends.’ We have to memorize the script and act it out as well. I’ve never acted after elementary school and so don’t know how it would feel to act. I’m nervous!
Again in the Linguistic class, the teacher told us that we’ve got class test next week and we should be prepared for it. On Friday, during the Japanese class, the teacher told us that we would be having our oral test next week, I was very shocked since the things that we are going to study don’t have cd that we can listened to. Next week, we’ve got one presentation, and two assignments to submit. I’m now feeling overloaded and don’t know what to do first. I’ve never feel so overloaded when I was a freshman. Hope I can do everything well under God’s guidance!

Went to work on Wednesday!!

I don’t have to go to work on Wednesday but Teresa was not feeling well so I have to take her place and so I went to work. I can choose to go or not to go, but since I thought we don’t have any class test on Thursday, I went. If I were tired I would have refused to go. People would think that I want to earn more money and so I went. I think there is nothing wrong to take someone’s place when that person is not well. I can be sick one day and want people to take my place and so there’s nothing wrong about it. I enjoy my work that is more important than anything. One should love what they do and not feel pressurized because if you don’t like what you are doing then you would feel very boring and tired.

Mid-term is just around the corner!!

Mid-term is just two weeks from now and I don’t know how to study all those subjects. Suddenly I felt that there are too many things to do and I don’t have enough time to complete it. These days when I feel so stressed, I prefer to listen to music and sing along with lyrics in front of me because listening to my favorite music really keeps me stressed free and I started to feel better. I believe that music heals our soul and it takes control of everything. Music means a lot to me. Just can’t live without music. Though I don’t know what’s the latest songs that’s on net, but I feel old ones are still one of my best.