Cinnamon Sugar Crepes

That's the organization that my mom and I were walking for this morning. We went with my mom's co-workers at like 9. It was interesting. It's kinda awkward though cuz there's not much to talk about with them, but I was just there (x Anyway, the walk is for awareness about mental illness, and how it's just like any other kind of disease. It's really sad how mental people are treated like they have the plague or something, except they can still walk around people. So they're hoping to get more funding for mental health programs and raise awareness ^^ so I thought that was a good cause.

OHOHOHOH guess what? :D so we had Steve Lopez speak at the Opening Ceremony. He's the guy who met the violin player and wrote the book The Soloist :O and the guy was even there! He played, and it was interesting, but they had to cut him off because he was playing too long :/ Which is kinda sad.

Santa Monica is so beautiful!!! It's amazing. Everything is just so pretty and it's by the beach, and it's all modern w/ lots of stores and lots of trees (: I honestly want to live there someday, or at some high-end beach community type place (: And there are lots of hot white people there :D and some Russian evidently o.o but I'll tell you about that later.

We need to go to Santa Monica's beach next summer :] it's so pretty, but the waves aren't too big. But it's really really nice!

Anyway, so after the run we went to lunch at this Crepe Cafe. This is where I met the Russian people. They were speaking Russlish or something, but they were complaining about this girl's boyfriend and the guy had gotten divorced :/ kinda sad. I had this really good cinnamon sugar crepe though :D and eggs and bacon. <33

Then we went to A. Eagle to look around before we went home. They were having a BOGO 50% sale, but I didn't get any clothes (: just some sunglasses that I'm sure you guys will laugh at when I wear them to school xD cuz you always do. they were cheap though :] so I could always get more. I'ma go to to mall later to look for a jacket (: funfunfun.

Now I have something VERY important to do, and hopefully I can finish (:

bye~

The Big City. (8.1.09)

So every morning, it's like a tradition now I guess [x my cousin Tony and I play foosball [x and he's super good. but this morning I got up to 9:8, but then he beat me 9:11 =[ but it was super close :D alright, enough of that. So I ate a HUGE breakfast today [x I had the same thing I had yesterday, only I was still really hungry, so I walked over to 7-11 and bought more food xD the guy didn't give me a funny look though :D I think it's cuz I spoke to him in chinese, so he prb though I was an exchange student or something.

TAIPEI TODAY :DDD

So we decided to go to see Harry Potter today [x (yeah I already saw it), so we went all the way to Taipei. Evidently it's like the most popular place on the whole island to watch movies. So we got tickets.....oh my goodness the lines were SOOOO LONG!!! D: and then we went to go eat lunch [x so we went to this big building called A9? and we went to this really expensive looking Japanese restaurant. We had like a 6 course seafood lunch O_o it must have been soooo expensive!!!! but it was sooooo good [x I have some pictures of it [x but I kinda don't know how to put pictures on my blog [x oh wait. ok so yeah I'ma put them on the bottom (:

After the super expensive lunch, we saw Harry Potter. You know that in Taiwan u get free popcorn and soda w/ ur ticket? :O and they have kettle corn too :D and churros [x i love the little things. So yeah. The theatre was packed, and they have assigned seatings cuz it's so full. o.o

Then we drove around, and around, and it took a long time [x and then we went to the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, and it's really pretty (: and we saw some white people :D a teen girl and her mom =] Then we went to a NIGHT MARKET :DDDD

You know that jeans at department stores are like $15? =] I got some at this one place you've never heard of [x Giordano. we got them custom tailored too [x hehehe so much food =]]]] and cheap clothes. this one shoe store was having a sale. The entire store was 95NTD. that means......about $3 for anything in the store? not bad right? (: it was mostly girl shoes though, and their shorts were very FOB. My sister isn't much of a girl >.> she couldn't find anything she liked out of maybe 200 stores. they were all cheap too. oh well.

then we went home. and I was dead tired >.<>

~Chris

p.s. Taiwan's not so bad is it Alice/Sarah? ;D

Taipei 101. Ex?-tallest building in the world.

our lunch (:

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

So yesterday....today....I don't know how to blog anymore xD cuz the times are so different, and I'm not sure whether blogger is gonna put the times I post as Taiwan time, or PST. (Pacific Standard Time for anyone who is........nvm [x) so.

I freaking love LAX :D it's really pretty, but it was under construction =.= so it was kinda ugly, but still nice. (: I don't like getting there 4 hours early though x] you win some, you lose some. Oh FYI you guys, there's no free Wi-Fi in the airport XD I learned that the hard way. And there was this little kid charging his DS and playing it. and he kept looking over at my computer...and I'm like O.o uhhhh kid I'm right here. and he does it a few times [x it was odd. OHOHOH and there were these German people :D seriously you have to hear German spoken fluently. It sounds really really nice. They say Spanish is a romantic language (I know right >.>), but German is nice (:

Anyway, so we got to the gate on time, and they board 20 minutes late =.= and they say to be at the gate 30 minutes early. We got to sit on the upper deck :DDDD cuz iono. but yeah =] it was still economy class, but it was like half empty! So I got a whole 3 seats to myself ;D it was SOOOOOOOO NICE!!!! Why get first class when you can get 3 economy for the price of 1? =]]] so that really made the flight nice.

This was actually the first flight where I wasn't at some time begging for it to be over. I watched....let's see. CSI-NY, Spongebob, 90210, Push, 17 Again, and another movie but I forgot [x uhh....yeah. and I played some games [:

The flight attendants were really nice (: one of them looked like Catherine [x

13 hours later......

In Taiwan (: and after a 30 minute car ride and a stop at a 7-11 (they're everywhere. seriously), we get to my aunt's new house. IT IS SO FREAK'N BEAUTIFUL!!!!! 4 floors, 3 inhabited, cuz top floor is laundry and solar panels :O. I get my cousin's room :D which is super super nice. You'll be seeing some pics of the house on facebook soon. It's BEAUTIFUL! not even a year old. We stayed up until 12:30am talking and eating [x

7.31.09

Ate some dan bing (like chong yo bing) for breakfast, and played some foosball and WiiFit XD it's so much harder than it looks!!! no lie!

Theme Park today :D it's called....Leofoo Villiage Theme Park (: IT'S SO FREAK'N HUGE!!! I think they sent a spy to Knott's Berry Farm. Cuz they had a "Montezuma's Revenge" type thing, a "Big Foot", a "Log Ride", and just so much of it was similar o.o but the decorations are 1000x better. It's incredible how much money they put into decorations alone.

There was this operator lady in a swinging ship ride (better than the one at Knott's though cuz it went all the way vertical), and she looked like Sarah Ko and Tina mixed together O_O at first I thought it was Sarah Ko cuz she looked more like her. but scary!

We were there from like 10-3? and my feet hurt. I had this really big cup of shaved ice and mango (: so I'm kinda tired. maybe I'll update this if something happens tonight.

~Chris

p.s. If you're white and you go to Asia (and for some reason you read my blog.........) people STARE at you! like you're albino or something. Especially operator ladies and people in restaurants.