Izzit just me, or are more ppl being sent up to heaven this yr? I just got word that a classmate’s father just passed away from liver cancer, and we are going to the wake tml. Including him, that makes 4 friends who have lost their father or mother this yr alone. Adding KB, that makes 5 wakes I have or could have attended. Didn’t go for 2 cos i was away.

The thing about growing up, graduating from uni, getting a job etc is that at our age, we are starting to see the generation before us, ie our parents’ starting to move on to a better world. Most of our parents would be in their 50s or 60s, not really old enuff to die from old age but definitely more vulnerable to illnesses, especially terminal ones.

I used to tear quite easily at funerals and reading about sad news in the papers. Like the tsunami and its victims moved me, but now i’m kind of numb. I guess you have to be in the person’s shoes, if not you would never be able to understand how he/she feels about losing a close family member, esp the parents. It is scary about how i am becoming numb to death, how i never even teared when KB passed away. All that was left is a surge of 心酸 and worries about his family.

This is a daily chronicle of my trip to Taiwan from 9th to 24th May 2006 with Ronghua and partially Boon Liang. I am trying to blog about all 15 days, so it takes time..sorry.. If you wanna read all that have been posted, pls click on Taiwan Adventure category here, or on the left sidebar.

Leaving the hostel @ 7am, we proceeded to Taipei Main Station, and the place looks freaking big.

This was the main atrium and ticketing area, upstairs are the offices of Taiwan Railways. All the tracks in and ard the station are fully underground, they dun emerge @ ground level until the outskirts of the city.

We planned to take a train to Ershui (二水) which is very near to Taichung, before changing to a small train on the Jiji small railway line to this town called Shuili (水里), where we are supposed to find transport to Sun Moon Lake (日月潭). Again, the keyword is supposed, means that we never check in reality, fully trusting the lonely planet guidebook. (more…)

Video 1 cos i’m sure there will be more to come…haha!