Night Market @ 麦寮

After sticking around for almost 10 days, my work here is finally done. Taiwan is nice and all, but when you are away for that long... and I must admit that my productivity was on the decline.

One of the guys at work offered to bring me to the night market at the nearby town. While I was initially hesitant, the trip turned up really fun. The company was great, and there was a number of interesting sights.

There were a number of game stations, that I had not seen in night markets before. There were a lot of small pinball machines, and a row of basketball tossing machines. The latter had been featured in some Taiwanese variety shows, where the guests would challenge each other on the maximum number of successful tosses within the time limt.



There were also some game stations where people needed to catch fishes or prawns with nets or with small hook devices.


There were also plenty of food stalls, serving all sorts of delights. It was a lot of eating, a lot of looking around, and a lot of laughter. This was really what I had needed.

常州 - Second Look

Returned to China again to complete the work, and stayed at the Fudu Traders Hotel for the full 6 nights. It was certainly a lot better to be staying in 1 hotel room throughout, rather than moving every day... which was what happened in my previous trip ... 3 hotel rooms in 2 hotels for 3 nights. Changzhou was such a busy place that week.







I had no mood to go touring around the city even though I had more than a few nights of free time.

There was a time when I heard that the Chinese culture is strong on tea, and will not allow coffee to assimilate that quickly. However, a lot of people in the cities are beginning to indulge in a cuppa more and more. There are plenty of coffee clubs and houses in Changzhou, serving western food, local chinese food, and beverages galore. I had heard about Bread Talks in Beijing, and was not too surprised to see an outlet in Changzhou as well.

The shopping scene is quite nice and if I were in the mood to shop around, I would have probably gotten quite some stuff. But I was quite amazed by a nice-looking mosque that was along the shopping belt. It is a "寺", and I only realized it is a mosque after seeing the crescent and the star.

too much time ... thinking too much ...

sometimes, when i have too much time with nothing i'd really want to do, the tendency is to return to some memories of the past, to haunt myself... to revisit the hurt...