Taiwan Banking

My sister and I decided to take it easy yesterday. Hah! As if that could really happen.

I did my first batch of Taiwan laundry yesterday morning. I'm still at the honeymoon stage, so even doing the laundry is fun. Hahaha!

Come lunch time, we walked around the hostel area and ate beef noodles. It was a bit pricey at $110 but was really really good and filling. Yum!

I then left my sister in the hostel and headed for Shida, where I met up with Jen and her cousin. We had our ying1 chang2 (chinese name stamps) created so that we could open an account in the postal bank for our scholarship. I already have two name stamps at home (Philippines), but I didn't bring them to Taiwan. (Sucks to forget things like that at home. Haha!) We created our bank account on the same day.

Went back to the hostel and fetched my sister for a little site-seeing. We went to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall where my sister, to my irritation, insisted to visit every nook and cranny of the place.



Taipei 101 was near so we decided to go there, too. Once again, I got frustrated because it was already dark we reached the building. Last year, I was able to visit Taipei 101 at night time, so I was hoping to visit this time during day time. Anyhoo, it was still enjoyable except for the cakes that we had at 88th floor which were so-so but very pricey!

After visiting the top of Taipei 101, we went to its mall on the lower floors. We spent a lot of time in the bookstore and I was even able to buy myself a new camera for $1000! It's a newer version of Vivitar UWS (Ultra Wide and Slim) camera which I have been hankering for a long time now.


We were not yet hungry when we headed home, but we decided to eat a late dinner anyway. My sister was craving for rice because we have been eating noodles for the past few days. Since all the nearby eating places were closed, we headed for 7-11 to eat microwaveable rice meals. :D

Today, we're planning to go to Jay Chou's Secret-themed restaurant and to do more site-seeing. I'm so excited to use my new cam. Hahahaha!

PS. I want to put in Chinese Characters already but my laptop OS needs to be updated for Chinese support. Pfft!