short trip

aura: anxious
audio: lifehouse - you and me

i went to taipei last may 3 to may 7, 2005.. it was just a very short trip.. i only had 3 whole days of going around taipei city.. i wasn't able to go to southern part of the country.. hopefully someday i will be able to go to locations i missed the last time..

here are some things that really caught be about this country:

- free of polution.. air, land, i wasn't able to see a single river there, but i guess they also are polution free. hehe!

- weather's quite cool compared here!

- the traffic system is very accessible, effective and efficient.. the majority use scooters.. the road also has a lot of busses and taxis also.. busses doesn't wait and collect passengers.. if there are no passengers in the bus stop then the bus proceeds with its route. people really fall in single line when waiting for the mrt train. even during rush hours. there are video cameras on every corners of the street to monitor the traffic, to be accurte in monitoring traffic violators and, to assure the security of taipei... oh by the way, their taxis are mostly luxury cars.. mosly toyota camry.. hehe!

- people stand on the right sides of escalators.. left sides are for those who are in a hurry..

- no street children. going around the city for 3 days, i only saw 2 beggars.. and nope they weren't children, they weren't old neither.. just middle aged and both of them are handicapped.

- the malls are huge, clean.. i think they always seemed newly openned... the floors and walls will tell you that.. very well maintained and the interior is very very good..

- cops look respectable and approachable.. and they don't have a big bellies..

- hospitals are clean..

hmm what else? well it's a completely different country.. i just wish people here would start thinking not only of themselves.. but more importantly the welfare of the whole country.. i believe that we are in a beautiful country.. people just manage to destroy it.. i mean physically and mentally.. nature are slowly despirited.. and the repution of the country's not something that we could be proud of.. but i don't think filipinos care.. i just wish that we would.. before it's too late...

thanks by the way to my friend for bringing me around the city..