I'm not supposed to blog today BUT Lev came into my room a little bit ago and brought a baby chocolate cake and I happened to be on the blog and so he said I should blog and the least I can do when people bring me food is return a blog post.

So Taiwan culture has been intensifying in the area of mosquitoes.  At last count, I had eighteen new mosquito bites today and I know I wasn't alone.  However, we got some swords made out of popcorn stalks.  I think.

The Hakka dinner we had tonight reminded me of the typical dinner I usually have when I come to Taiwan since my dad is Hakkanese.  What I had thought was typical Taiwanese food turns out to be Hakkanese food.  Fascinating.

Okay, I'm sorry I have nothing of interest to post.  But I am surprised our trip is coming up so quickly to the end.  I'm really tired and full of chocolate cake and will peace out for now.

After the inspiring speech from Stanly Yan, and the hotel with strange pole (which similar to college dorm- the green tile floor (= =”)….finally, I got one day to get rid of my dark circle @_@!!! Which was also the day Simon found out his “lovely” aboriginal Taiwanese girl. The National Museum of Prehistory was little disappointing, cuz the guide didn’t give the answer how people should react if they got bite by snake. ~”~
Way to get away from snake in Taiwan
1. You should have a umbrella or stick on your hand
2. Use your stick searching ground, let snake notice human is there
But if you get bite by snake than~~~????
Please give me an answer!!!!!!

The Glazed beads making was also different from what I expected. I saw how people made glazed bead in YiLan DIY center. However, I love sleeping hour during the long drive in Nan Hui Gong Lu except that I hit my head sosososooso hard on the window more than 5 times. I was so glad that no one saw me hit the window and the bruises.
A memorable thing in 7/25 is the girl night in our room; we had small birthday party for Kristine with little cute pudding cake. J Lo got his hot pink nail polish at that night.

July 28, 2010

Today, we went to visit the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan. I have learned that after more than thirty years of hard work, ITRI’s tra

dition of excellence in industrial research is entering a new stage of technological innovation and radical change. In the past, ITRI has attentively pursued the global industrial t

echnology current, learning and absorbing the worldwide standards. However, as consumer and business demands become more fluid and dynamic, ITRI aims to tackle the dem

ands by spearheading original and innovative industrial research, transfer of technology, and product developments, thereby proliferating domestic and international industries. Therefore, ITRI has three core objectives: “Industrial Technology Research”, “Method and Kn

owledge Transfer”, and “Derived Value-Added Methods”.

It is such a pleasur

e that we get to go and check at this place and the products that they made. I get to see so many amazing technologies that can help us lessen our expenses on electricity and some medical equipments that can help us easily gets the results. It actually made me realize and inspired me on getting to know much more about the coming up technologies.

Afterwards, I had a great experience making mochi and grinding the tea at Hakka Tea House. I love drinking the tea that we made this afternoon (it’s like a black sesame with a bit taste of green tea) and of course the mochi. I have this thing that I have to eat mochi everytime I come here to Taiwan. We don’t have great mochi taste back home. I was so excited and contented with the feeling of doing it (except that the place is full of wo

rms which I really ha

te it so much). I can see that everyone enjoyed making the mochi especially the first step which is grinding the sticky rice (If that’s what it is called J ) until it went totally they call it QQ so that the mochi will be perfect. It was ti

ring really. But after knowing that you made a great mochi just felt everything is worth it!!

I will be posting some amazing pictures from todays activities..