Before I proceed.. I need to state to the world that lots of these photos were taken by SH (coz he was feeling imbalanced that people might think i took all of these when I didn't..) =P
excuse my lack of creativity in blog titles.. but its functional enough to be understood
continuing with my photo blog! here goes... what we did while we were there, including the ffh concert =)
Off we went happily to 101.. hoping to look down from the top most floor of the tallest building in the world. But with the tallest buidling, and the fastest elevator, comes the most expensive ticket in the world just to ride an elevator up to not the top most floor but the 89th floor and enjoy the view from there. So of course, shocked by the price, we didn't go up afterall.. ended up exploring the bookshop there haha
Did I mention that tpe was really really hot? Yes, it was terribly horribly hot...
And look at the crowd in this photo... danshui that day was not just smouldering hot but it was packed with people meandering down the streets. When we reached a little local cafe.. it was like an air-con oasis that we wished we never had to leave.
That same night, I met up with S (my sg colleague) and J (my tw colleague) for dinner.
Took an extremely long walk to J's house because he made it seem so close to the MRT station =_= when it really meant walking up to 20mins or even half an hour (it was so long that I can't remember). Anyway, getting down to this picture above...
Its J's dog. Finally met her after J showed us her photo while in Shanghai.
This dog doesn't stay put... and I couldn't manage any single good photo of her
On the day we were intending to take a train down to Ruifang... the station was packed...
Signs plastered on every ticketing window read 'seats fully sold. standing only' (not the exact phrase). Took us pretty long to finally get our tickets, which we had to wait around an hour for the train to leave.
Lesson learnt.. never attempt to take the train out of the city on weekends, including fridays!
Hopping onto the train.. we just laid our butts down on any seat we saw, not very sure whether they were meant to be occupied by someone else.
My source of entertainment on the train... wanwan's book.
Although I dozed off after a while from waking up too early.. and SH got chased out of his seat by an old man who wanted to sit down (till now we suspect if he was the true 'owner' of that seat or he just found SH good to bully hahahah)
The long flight of stairs up towards the main street of Jiufen.
We will definitely remember these stairs. Despite the heat and us perspiring like nothing after making it up... it was fun =)
What greeted us when we got up, was this great view! And my attempt at pieceing together my own panorama shot haha. Inspired by SH's phone camera hehe.
And this pig head as well! heheh.. a very cheery looking one.
Don't really know what its for... a coin bank? Or useful for loansharks who don't like the actual gory pig head =X
Jiufen not only has coffee shops as Cheer sings... but its got this too
Never underestimate small towns. They've got everything planned ;)
Moving on with the mafia to KeeLong where we went in search for seafood.
And we found it along this long street of food, Miaokou night market
The seafood was good... really good. Even the fried rice was the best fried rice I've ever had.. Just like how I described then, the taste was 'special'
The first performance that we watched in tpe was wonfu.. at the witch house.
Wanted to go there to eat and wait for the show to start but we were kept out, so we had our dinner at the restaurant next door (had really lousy noodles) then returned half an hour later to see a very long queue.
Crossed our fingers as we slowly waded towards the entrance half an hour after we joined the queue. But we ifnally made it in.. only to standing space, with all of us squeezed in a corner
What can I say? The performance was simply excellent and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves through and through. The laughter, the music, the corniness, the silliness, the sing alongs... a band that knows how to have fun.
Small scaled shows in such environments always brew great performances. By the way.. xiaomin (the lead guitarist and singer) has a goose cap on his head... as part of their finale song 'hen duo er' (lots of geese) hehehe. I miss the performance already... when will we ever watch them live again? I really wonder and look forward to it.
And one of the main reasons for this trip (apart from the HHY that was our very intial plan but got cancelled at the last min... )
The F-FFH.....
The concert begins! We weren't very near to the stage.. neither were we very far =P
There were extensions all round the stadium and towards the middle of the stadium was another platform. You'll see it below...
Close encounter of a 3rd kind...
A kind where the platform goes so high that being too near.. you only see the bottom of the structure and the rest of the performance is left to imagination hehe.
The very cool laser lights reflected by Stone during Qing Gong....stretching across the stadium..
The crowd at fffh. Was surprised that day to learn that S & B were there watching the concert as well. Of course, they wouldn't make B stand all throughout the concert... but still, they left early. All the better hehe.. but still I couldn't escape the stupid question when I returned to sg "So, did you also wave lightsticks ?" =_=
All in all, I did prefer the sg concert more.. because there were less extensions to make watching the show less confusing trying to watch them run round the stadium. And it was a little saddening to know who was the focus of everyone's attention (so much so that he felt like a magnet indicating north and most of the crowd were the compass).
As nic said, it was like a farewell concert. We don't know what holds after this world tour spanning 2 years finally ended that fateful day. Will they be still playing as one band? Will there be more concerts in future? Lots of questions linger...
But I prefer to let them think for themselves... just as we all have dreams. They have their own individual dreams as well.
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