Taiwan Women

Disclaimer

I am going to make a whole bunch of generalisations and probably piss off many women out there. Just I just want to say these are just pure observations and I would probably change my perceptions of them if I had met them or spoken to them. No harm is intended to anyone who might be affected by what I say. These are only my personal views.

Taiwanese Women

From my few days here, I have noticed a few things about the women in this country.

1) On average the women here are similar to women from where we come from and pretty much most other asian countries. Many people have said that taiwanese women are pretty. Like how we have the notion that korean women are pretty too. From what I have observed, the average women here are, well just average, like average women any where else. What taiwan has however are more of the prettier women amongst the population. On a normal outing, you might see maybe 5 women that one would call pretty. In taiwan, you would see probably 10-15. They are also not anymore prettier than the pretty girls in our countries. This might be due to the higher population. I won’t go into that. Too long a discussion…:)

2) The women here in taiwan are more daring than most places I have been to. Granted, I have not been to Japan in a long time (at least at an age where I know whats daring or not) or korea. Despite the cold weather here (17C) many women are going around in really REALLY short mini skirts. I do not know if they are wearing shorts undernearth or not (I think it would be illegal if I did find out), but they are so short they would not be misplaced if they were on my head as a headband. Another thing that many wear are pants/shorts that are much like 3/4 pants but tapered to end above above the knees. Some end very high above the knees and some not. Still all showing some really shapely legs.

3) The women here seem to be very aware of whether they are pretty or not. From what I have seen, the best dressed and the most daring women are usually of the above average looks. In most places, we have seen women who are, i guess not shape advantaged, wearing outfits that are tight and short. Overall not eye candy. Here in Taiwan however, I have yet to see something like that. Women of the not so pretty kind, tend to cover up more and wear very conservatively. Women who are slender and prettier tend to be more daring.

There. All my rambling. Apologies for having no photos. They walk really quick here, and are very aware of you looking at them. Basically me chicken.

Taiwan 2007 – Day 2

The server is finally working properly, so I have added the photos to the previous post, for those who are interested.

On the second day we found this interesting little drinks store. Taiwanese bubble tea has been making its mark on the world for years now. In some places, its has even come and gone. This quaint little store serves home brewed wintermelon tea instead of the standard black tea. Its a rather refreshing take on the familiar drink. You can still get the usual pearl, jelly, pudding or sago in your drink. At about TWD30 (BND1.20) is reasonably priced.

One of the things that has always gotten my taste buds going, Taiwanese Sausages!!!! We were recommended, by a very friendly cab driver to one of the most famous Taiwanese Sausage in Tainan. Black Bridge Brand!!

These sausages are rather special, they are made from black pigs. This apparantly gives the sausages better and greater texture! Ha! Well, they are alright. Tried some that they cooked.

Everyone knows there a few things to try while in Taiwan. Taiwanese Beef Noodle soup and the Minced Meat Rice. Both of which are a staple meal for the Taiwanese. We found a cool looking noodle shop near the Black Bridge Brand Sausage shop.

They even have a website. I thought the minced meat rice was really good and the noodle soup ok only lah. Eventhough the soup is supposed to be cooked with scallops and stuff.

However what was very interesting is not the food, but this statue that sat outside the restaurant.

Now thats a real “Got Milk?” Ad

Taiwan 2007 – Day 1

Been taking some photos, so figured good excuse to write a post and put them up.

Well arrived in Taiwan on Sunday 8th April, and immediately made our way to the High Speed Rail (高鐵) and travelled the 271.6km from Taoyuan (where the airport is) to Tainan. First impressions of Taiwan, its really really flat. Taoyuan is in the outskirts of Taipei, which is probably why, but all the buildings in Tainan are still really flat.

Taiwan High Speed Train Station – Taoyuan

Inside however, everything is modern and sparse. It seems that all the train stations have a 7-eleven and a Mos burger joint. The beauty of franchising.

Inside the Train Station

The train itself is quite nice, but the tickets are very expensive. The economy seats were all taken, So we had to take the business class seats. NT1990!!!!!! thats like BND91. Economy seating is half that, which still does not make it cheap. I guess its reasonable for the distance we were covering.

Train arriving at the Station


The dude is enjoying the sound of the train..:)

Most of the land between Taoyuan and Tainan are farming land, or at least the parts the train passed through were. The train stations are built quite far from the city itself. We had to travel about half hour from the Tainan Station to our Hotel.

We went to the night market in Tainan on our first night. Its like a mass of people, smells and sounds not unlike our pasar malam, just multiply everything by like 10 or 100. It was funfair games mixed in with a flea market selling clothes and such and then put food stalls in between them. “Organised Chaos” is what my sister called it.

There were a couple of stores which sold some very interesting corn. The corn were red. They usually coat it with a peanut (satay) sauce and barbeque it.

Then in the middle of all the chaos was a prawn fishing store. The prawns are in a tub, and they give you a stick with a bit of string with a loop in it. You get to “fish” for your prawn, which you can immediately barbeque it to perfection.

Overall, an interesting first day. Tainan reminds me much of China, with all the low buildings and the way people dress. Even the so called fashionable young crowd looks like they stepped out of the 1980s. Jane Fonda and all. Instead of bicycles, everyone seem to have a scooter and lots of them are vespas!

Science-Fiction without the Science???

 

Just came back from watching this movie with my cousin. He mentioned something. Why do the movies he watches with me sux so bad?! This movie does sux really bad.

This is a sci-fi movie with an impressive cast, with the likes of Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Chris Evans (Fantastic Four), Cillian Murphy (Red Eye, Batman Begins) and what I would imagine an impressive budget. The end result however is not much to be desired.

I won’t even go into technical details like, the acting or the cinematography or even the science behind restarting the sun. Like many other sci-fi flicks, there are things which most people will take as given. Such as, if the lightsaber is a laser sword why doesn’t it have a endless blade, instead of just stopping at a certain length. Its a lightsaber, it just works that way. So, can humans re-start the Sun with a bomb? Its given, it just works.

Now the killer thing is, in the movie, they were trying to dock one spaceship with another spaceship (to retrieve life-giving oxygen, as usual) while being very close to the Sun. The ships are protected from the sun by a huge mirror, shield kinda dish mounted on the front of the ships. So if one of the ships comes up behind the other one, won’t the light reflected off the shield, fry the other ship from behind where there is no shield?

I would imagine something like this would be common sense. It does not take a rocket scientist to see this and have great bouts of laughter. From the Sunshine Website, I found out they had a science advisor which gave them advice regarding the science behind re-starting the sun and they missed this?

The viewing public of science fiction movies don’t usually ask for very much. We do not ask for everything in the movie to be backed up or proved by scientific theory. A little common sense will do.