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241 pictures from taiwan!!!!
didn't take pictures of clubbing and drinking. that. would be bad. and mel would kill me. clarification!
FIRST TWO WEEKS WITH RELATIVES
janice looking clueless at the airport *snicker*
me excited! plaaaane. flying. all that spiffyness
gate gourmet. i think they're on strike now or something? look at those honkin' engines
hooray we're taking off. airport lights are pretty
food. some was good. some was. not food
janice and me.
the girl representatives of my mom's side. waiting for the uncles to bring the cars over
3rd aunt and janice. it was verrry windy. and hot wind at that!
sleeping on the 3rd floor of my 1st aunt's house. i got the bed cuz i was the only guy in the room :D
my 3rd aunt at 3:30 in the morning hahaha. yeah i felt sorry for all of them for staying up to pick us up.
next day aunt took us to eat hot pot for lunch. that's my cousin's older daughter on the right. cute. but annoying as hell.
that afternoon we went to 3 department stores within like a 1 mile radius. looking for random stuff but mainly a matching watch for me and mel. they had these cool tv's just randomly around
i thought the bathroom was cool. not as cool as another one where the faucet was a waterfall
hahaaahhah i love cool ads
i have that jersey now! beckham looks ferocious. i wish i could be ferocious.
a glass elevator that my aunt was too scared to go on.
artsy fartsy shot of a restaurant's exterior
there are many many escalators in department stores. cuz they're all typically 7 stories
some stores on the street. colorful
underground passage that takes u underneath the street to cross it instead of having to jaywalk and die by crazy drivers
janice and my aunt went shoe shopping. i got tired so i sat down and then realized i was surrounded by shoes. girl's paradise, guy's hell.
giant chandelier they have in shin guan san rue (forgive my pinyin)
a random swatch ad
the busy square
typical taiwan: a modified corolla ALTIS and a camry taxi
you can take public transportation and get. ANYWHERE
one of the department stores, FE'21
lots and lots and lots of mopeds
later on in the week we went to taipei (we were in Taoyuan, about 45 min away) to where my 2nd aunt lives. she took us to this hiking trail that's filled with butterflies and that's what it was famous for
my uncle, the most hilarious man alive, driving us there
this is one hot hot hot picture
girl on a coke can?
i love my mom's hat. yesiree
my 2nd aunt being really excited because she walks the trail every day
butterflies literally everywhere. they come out and swoop at you and land on you and yeah. you were supposed to wear a hat so that their empty cocoons dont' fall onto your head from the trees above.
my cousin's other kid. her name is lo-lo. she's..almost 2? i think. cuuuute. and big cheeks
group picture after the hike. i'm actually not that tall. tippytoes >.<
lunch in the mountains somewhere
the university at the top of the mountain that my uncle is a professor at
laura's car wannabe!
damshui. very cool shopping place
i LOVED these excited mannequins (sp?)
she whined until she got her 20 dollar toy
cute
hehe
my new watch! blurry
onto the mrt. which looks exactly like bart
inside. the cars aren't separated so its like one lonnnng bendy room. kinda cool
my two lovely aunts
while we stayed at my 2nd aunt's house, they bought us shaved ice desserts one night. HUGE. filled to the brim. i couldn't finish this. they added so much crap in it too. uugh sooo goood i want some now
the giant ferris wheel on the side of a department store called miramar
my aunt just so happened to have 2 promotional tickets for a free ride on the ferris wheel. me pretending to be scared. when in actuality i was shaking the cage everso slightly to scare janice. she is oneeee big baby.
at the top you can see taipei 101, the tallest building in the world, in the distance
houses on the hills/mountains
inside miramar cool trendy restaurants and waterfall settings
there were about a billion of these food joints in the food court. literally like at least 30 of em.
then it was off to tainan, 3 hours away by train in the south of taiwan to visit my dad's side of the family.
my cousin bought me 2 ferrari hats that are awesome. and i bought my own fake puma hat (you can't tell!) for 50 NT which is like. $1.50 US
my cousin's family has 2 houses cuz theyre too rich. one new one one old one. we stayed at the new one and all the rooms look like this. its like a freaking hotel. all the rooms are carbon copies of each other. same tv. same giant bed. same everything. i played my other cousin's gamecube every night hahaa
the old house is scary. the bathroom on the second floor is especially scary. its the japanese style hole in the ground. except its at the end of a very very dark and small corridor.
LOVE BOAT!!!!!
okayokay before i went on the trip i was like. why in the world am i going on a trip called Love Boat. but it beat out all my expectations in the amount of funn to the nth degree
me and mike normal
me and mike acting crazy after eating our 3 dollar cafe lunch
pearson devouring his
i totally cleaned my plate. the sunflower shaped jello was next.
first tourist attraction they took us was yang ming shan, a sulfur geyser thing. it was hot that day. very hot
a temple that we just used the bathroom for
a cool pond they had outside. semi artsyfartsy
pearson in our dorm-style rooms with fake boobs.
here are some of my roommates
kenneth, the pretty boy from texas that all the ladies wanted but had a gf
dennis, his best friend also from university of texas, teaching lauren, the girl from PRINCETON, how to two-step. lauren wasn't my roommate. guys and guys only.
they danced to country music! i was like holy crap.
jack, the guy in the back, is the crazy Canadian who can drink and party like hell. he's a good bball player and we call him "The Exterminator" because he singlehandedly got rid of all the mosquitoes in our room. never got bit in my room. hoorayyy. his gf goes to mcgill and is the one offering me something.
the grand hotel close to us. very big. very expensive to stay in and eat in.
a museum of really old things. supposedly its ranked number 4 in the world under the louvre and stuff like that. pretty cool
me and mike wanted to stand next to the lion cuz we're cool losers like that
taipei 101. or just 101 for short
the front
okay so a little bit of explaining. 101 is composed of actually 2 buildings. the main tower. the big tall thing. and a side building connected to it. the side building is what u actually go into. its only like 5 floors. if you want to go to the top, you gotta go to the tower and take the express elevator for like 10 bucks US. all the way to the top in less than 45 seconds! fastest elevator in the world. anyways. so the side building is just a shopping center almost. the basement floor is food. the 1st floor is for normal ppl shopping. 2nd floor is for slightly richer ppl, 3rd floor even richer, 4th floor is for ppl who've got way too much to spend. the 4th floor is all like louis vuitton and prada and gucci and dior and all that. like the real stuff.
a food court
most of the guys plus dchu
pretty cool
one of the restaurants had a replica of guernica. why? i don't know
i was at the toy store
same shot as the one from a few back but from 1st floor
our tour bus! actually for most of the trip they rotated buses so it was only this time we got the super new and nice one. they all had semi comfortable seats with mini tv's for movies or kareoke. one of them apparently didn't have AC. which is death. yep. death.
back at chien tan (the youth center we stayed at for the first 3 weeks) we had some shows we had to attend. chinese dance
a fan dance
two of our counselors. forgot the girl's name. she yelled a lot. and joe. joe is hilarious! he just looks hilarious too. his email is like iamamongolian hahahhh
at the museum of pottery or something. they had a cool waterfall
at a temple when it was RAINING! i thought this was a cool pic
the temple
a dragon encased by glass. who knows.
why so famous? "cultural and somethingsomethng center at one point" and it was pretty and gold on the inside
more performances at chien tan auditorium. flag dance
TORNADO!
circus acts sorta
two funny guys doing the spinning the bowls act
HARDCORE chinese yo-yo'ing
crazyass guys jumping through swords and flames
plate spinning
crazy gymnast who built himself a chair tower to the top of the auditorium. then proceeded to do like gymnast moves at the top. crazym0fo
fancystuff
we were at chang-kai shek (basically taiwan's founder)'s garden palace thing. but we didn't go in and just stayed in the cafe. there was a movie star right outside getting a photoshoot done. she was pretty. me and frances were bored so we used the erasable pen they use to get orders from and drew ourselves a battle. picture's kinda cool cuz every1 seems to be moving so fast around us
the chang-kai shek memorial. it was big.
inside we found this science and technology exhibit. one of the exhibits was this mirror thing that made it look like u had no legs
frances acts better
me REALLY too excited about an exhibit with an F-16 in it. it was actually pretty shitty. reason for the black square. i was simply too excited. hahahahah
chang-kai shek with reagan?
when i walked into this room i was scared shitless. i was like WTF I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD. yeah wax figures scare me.
me out in front
the taipei zoo!!
koala
ellyphunts
it started to rain. HARD. artsyfartsy sorta
agricultural design
i don't know when on the bus eric took this. but it looks pretty cool
at the BEACH!! it was hot that day so we were all excited. i didn't bring my swimsuit stupidly so i stayed on the beach taking pictures of my buddies. that was fun in itself haha
eric stayed with me for a while cuz he felt sorry for me. he wanted a picture of himself. hahahahhahha
my turn!
wonder why its so messy? because the tide kept freaking washing part of it. so i had to hurry up and write it and then snap the picture
the tide
they found a banana boat
HAHHA okay i love this and the next picture together. this is a regular group picture. i dont know what's up with eric's random act of manliness
then a semi-big wave comes in! and look at frances' expression ahhaha
burying someone
the gang
pearson chasing eric. both get tackled by mike later on
simply fun.
float picture. i think pearson gets stung by a jellyfish..right about...now.
me and my roommates minus 1 guy. look at my fob shirt i bought for 1 dollar!
passing this while walking back to the bus
one of my roommates in our room. he graduated from UCLA this year so i talked a lot with him about school and stuff
ALL the roommates
the formosa carnival! basically our camp at chien-tan was one of 4 or 5. we were the biggest ones. the carnival was to unite all of us so there were like close to 800 ppl there? we were 1 of 2 camps that started in taipei. other ones were starting from taizhong and all that. we had camp cheers and stuff. and we hella owned the other ones by sheer size and obnoxiousness. "WHO IS THE BEST!?" "kjklahf..CHIEN TAN!!"
street vendors came. a lot of em. and we got free food!
the cool wavy things.
they invited guests like the best lion dancers in taiwan
xgame kinda ppl
us being quirky
every year they have a guest of honor. last year it was the vice president and the year before that the president of taiwan. this year it was one of the two gold medalists from taiwan. the taekwondo girl
it was a concert-like atmosphere
aboriginal drummers
glowsticks!
we had our own fireworks just for us and we were right under them. aweeeesome. since we didnt' have any the 4th of july
we're getting ready to leave for the round-island trip. it started raining that day because the giant typhoon was coming. the biggest typhoon taiwan had seen in like 3 years. it was so big it was bigger than taiwan hahahah.
the ocean getting tempestuous
eric sporting my new headphones, looking like an egg
they took us to a european style village that had lots of shopping
taffy maker
our awesome japanese-style hotel
complete with huge down pillows and comforters
misty outside
modern art museum
one of andy warhol's marilyns
THE MOST POINTLESS day ever. it rained out so they made us visit a powerplant.
the shitty place we stayed that night. actually it was pretty nice for the guys. but the girls had like bug infested beds.
see?
the guys room though rocked. japanese style again. with slidey doors. frances ended up sleeping over in our room cuz it was so much cleaner haha. i started to get sick this day. i blame justin. see those ugly green, yellow and red bags? those were our CYC bags. required.
HEY GUYS! its brian yan! actually its me and pearson's roommate forever who looks disgustingly like brian. constant drinker. but drinks by himself. kinda odd.
on the bus somewhere. justin drank that whole bottle of super supau in 20 minutes. the next bathroom break wasn't going to be for another hour.
angry weather
we went to a sugar cane plantation. we had to ride their ghetto train. obviously bored out of our minds
artsy picture of a farmer
the countryside
awesome awesome sky shot
ONE OF MY FAVORITE DAYS: air force academy visit. i totally wasn't supposed to take a picture of the front gate but i did anyways. i wanted a picture with the giant eagles :( beware. extremely boring shots of planes but i get excited about
yes. call me a loser. i wore my wingman shirt that day.
don't mess!
whoooooosh!
whoever's idea this was was a genius. we all pretended to be missiles. eric failed.
i had to try the fob pose just once
canopy
teehee. PUSH UTTON
if you ever wondered what that was on the side of a fighter jet, its a machine gun
air museum
okay we drove all the freaking way down to tainan and stayed there for like half an hour. we visited this building built by the dutch while they occupied taiwan
as fake as this setup was, it was pretty
FUNTIMES ON THE BUS. hahaha. eric was sleeping so we put his least favorite food, dried fish snacks, in his mouth. we got like 4 in the end before he started spitting them all out
what hours on the bus does to ya
national science and technology museum. bubbles
frances.....on a toilet
hooray!
the plane that started it all
the cool simulator that i wanted to kick ass in but the line was so long and we had to board soon.
museum's floors
SINGING CONTEST
we were all like. why. are. we. here. but it turned out to be oodles of fun. and BUS B TOOK FIRST PLACE YEAYUHHHHHHHHH
the asian pride gang from bus A did their rendition of "Ugly Girl" i love how his dragon tattoo matches
one of pearson's roommates, another geoffrey, doing their act and pretending to be nerds. that geoff is hella funny and can diss ppl like no other
another bus
dchu leading on his bus with a solo performance to backstreet
jasmine's bus. she's second from the right
THATS RIGHT. BUS B. we got a trophy and hella food. later on our trophy was stolen by another bus to be used in their talent show skit. turns out. they lost again and we got 1st in creativity
in kaoshiong we visited the Love River, where couples take walks and stuff. too bad the river stunk. me and pearson were like. LOVE STINKS! haha okay that was sad. the lights were pretty though
frances and pearson
the guys were feeling lonely so we were like. let's show some loooove
they lit up the trees all awesome with purple lighting
i was really sick this day. i coudln't even walk up to the top of this pagoda
hiking in the woods
scenery
the finger. and the super finger. and eric's expression
hiking
where the trail led to
kind of like a clearing. pretty cool
okay i am. SO PROUD OF MYSELF for taking this picture. artsyfartsy fo sho
more trees
the cabins we stayed at
our bus practicing for the talent show. we did a thing called body works? basically we acted out a story but all the furniture and props were done by ppl.
our bus looking on
that's mimi one of our counselors. one of two from the states (she's from frisco) all the rest were from taiwan. she's just..being mimi hahah.
the aquarium scene. our bus leader eric (very funny very talented) feeding his fish and octopus hahah
the tv scene. "mi amor mi amor mi amor. ohhhh maria i laaahve you" hahah spanish soap opera. howie, the big guy on the very left. actually knows harold! he's from canada, but they're like practically brothers.
the gang being the toilet scene
that's robin! our other counselors. she hella knew our names. haha
scott our third and last bus counselor. he was pretty cool
kevin? i think. goes to berkeley. AWESOME hair. dreadlocks. took him 3 years
an amusement park with really cool rides. like. an actual roller coaster that rivals top gun. and other stuff
yummy free food
frances: i wanna go on the slide! pearson come with me!!!! pearson: damn.
i think the director of our camp purposely put all the fun stuff towards the end of camp haha. this one actually had space mountain almost exactly like it. because they got the copyright permission. basically it was a conglomeration of like rides from all over the world
this dinosaur one. ppl got off and posed with the dinosaurs. like humping a few and punching a couple haha
eric on the love boat ride they had. too happy.
pearson trying out this kiddy game that he had to squeeze into
cute dog!
he put his hair up
giant european fountain
funstuff
giant house
we were excited cuz we got beds!
yeah we started staying in really nice places towards the end
fancy
okay gotta explain this part haha. remember drinker version of brian yan? well one night he found a girl to drink with! hoorayy. only he got a little bit too drunk. around 10 shots of bacardi. and he took them double shots. shit. and so he's famous for his snoring. like. its world war 3 when he sleeps. i have video. but this time he was snoring and he wouldn't wake up. usually we kick him so that he wakes up. then we sleep before him to beat it. but cuz he was so out at 3 AM, me, pearson and frances had a little field day. we decided to shame him that night. and took all the free samples out of the bathroom we could find. and stick them on him. ehehheheehee. coulda been worse but we didn't feel like being THAT mean
at first it was just tea packages and papers in his toes
then..we stuck all 4 toothbrushes in his perfectly cupped hand. and 3 combs in his hair
showercap on his foot. later on it became both feet and his hand
frances made a box penis from the toothbrushes and toothpaste as glue
next day. ANOTHER amusement park. all the rides were pretty much kid oriented, except for this giant water ride. and it was GIANT. i didn't go on it cuz i was wearing jeans. neither did eric or frances hahah
yeah that's the HUGE wave that the ride makes. not standing in the protective glass room will get you soaked. i've got video from the room. freaky as hell!
the guys after the ride. justin needs to eat.
on the bus semi-on the way back
mike and pearson waiting for ppl in the bathroom. my aunt bought them all mcdonalds! she's too cool
giant schedule board at taipei int'l airport
my fan club! not really. but my relatives that love me so much all sending me off at the airport
and now i'm HOME!!!
WOW i feel accomplished. that took me a week to finish. but i've got some more later. of like LA orientation and random hangout days with mel and friends
didn't take pictures of clubbing and drinking. that. would be bad. and mel would kill me. clarification!
FIRST TWO WEEKS WITH RELATIVES
janice looking clueless at the airport *snicker*
me excited! plaaaane. flying. all that spiffyness
gate gourmet. i think they're on strike now or something? look at those honkin' engines
hooray we're taking off. airport lights are pretty
food. some was good. some was. not food
janice and me.
the girl representatives of my mom's side. waiting for the uncles to bring the cars over
3rd aunt and janice. it was verrry windy. and hot wind at that!
sleeping on the 3rd floor of my 1st aunt's house. i got the bed cuz i was the only guy in the room :D
my 3rd aunt at 3:30 in the morning hahaha. yeah i felt sorry for all of them for staying up to pick us up.
next day aunt took us to eat hot pot for lunch. that's my cousin's older daughter on the right. cute. but annoying as hell.
that afternoon we went to 3 department stores within like a 1 mile radius. looking for random stuff but mainly a matching watch for me and mel. they had these cool tv's just randomly around
i thought the bathroom was cool. not as cool as another one where the faucet was a waterfall
hahaaahhah i love cool ads
i have that jersey now! beckham looks ferocious. i wish i could be ferocious.
a glass elevator that my aunt was too scared to go on.
artsy fartsy shot of a restaurant's exterior
there are many many escalators in department stores. cuz they're all typically 7 stories
some stores on the street. colorful
underground passage that takes u underneath the street to cross it instead of having to jaywalk and die by crazy drivers
janice and my aunt went shoe shopping. i got tired so i sat down and then realized i was surrounded by shoes. girl's paradise, guy's hell.
giant chandelier they have in shin guan san rue (forgive my pinyin)
a random swatch ad
the busy square
typical taiwan: a modified corolla ALTIS and a camry taxi
you can take public transportation and get. ANYWHERE
one of the department stores, FE'21
lots and lots and lots of mopeds
later on in the week we went to taipei (we were in Taoyuan, about 45 min away) to where my 2nd aunt lives. she took us to this hiking trail that's filled with butterflies and that's what it was famous for
my uncle, the most hilarious man alive, driving us there
this is one hot hot hot picture
girl on a coke can?
i love my mom's hat. yesiree
my 2nd aunt being really excited because she walks the trail every day
butterflies literally everywhere. they come out and swoop at you and land on you and yeah. you were supposed to wear a hat so that their empty cocoons dont' fall onto your head from the trees above.
my cousin's other kid. her name is lo-lo. she's..almost 2? i think. cuuuute. and big cheeks
group picture after the hike. i'm actually not that tall. tippytoes >.<
lunch in the mountains somewhere
the university at the top of the mountain that my uncle is a professor at
laura's car wannabe!
damshui. very cool shopping place
i LOVED these excited mannequins (sp?)
she whined until she got her 20 dollar toy
cute
hehe
my new watch! blurry
onto the mrt. which looks exactly like bart
inside. the cars aren't separated so its like one lonnnng bendy room. kinda cool
my two lovely aunts
while we stayed at my 2nd aunt's house, they bought us shaved ice desserts one night. HUGE. filled to the brim. i couldn't finish this. they added so much crap in it too. uugh sooo goood i want some now
the giant ferris wheel on the side of a department store called miramar
my aunt just so happened to have 2 promotional tickets for a free ride on the ferris wheel. me pretending to be scared. when in actuality i was shaking the cage everso slightly to scare janice. she is oneeee big baby.
at the top you can see taipei 101, the tallest building in the world, in the distance
houses on the hills/mountains
inside miramar cool trendy restaurants and waterfall settings
there were about a billion of these food joints in the food court. literally like at least 30 of em.
then it was off to tainan, 3 hours away by train in the south of taiwan to visit my dad's side of the family.
my cousin bought me 2 ferrari hats that are awesome. and i bought my own fake puma hat (you can't tell!) for 50 NT which is like. $1.50 US
my cousin's family has 2 houses cuz theyre too rich. one new one one old one. we stayed at the new one and all the rooms look like this. its like a freaking hotel. all the rooms are carbon copies of each other. same tv. same giant bed. same everything. i played my other cousin's gamecube every night hahaa
the old house is scary. the bathroom on the second floor is especially scary. its the japanese style hole in the ground. except its at the end of a very very dark and small corridor.
LOVE BOAT!!!!!
okayokay before i went on the trip i was like. why in the world am i going on a trip called Love Boat. but it beat out all my expectations in the amount of funn to the nth degree
me and mike normal
me and mike acting crazy after eating our 3 dollar cafe lunch
pearson devouring his
i totally cleaned my plate. the sunflower shaped jello was next.
first tourist attraction they took us was yang ming shan, a sulfur geyser thing. it was hot that day. very hot
a temple that we just used the bathroom for
a cool pond they had outside. semi artsyfartsy
pearson in our dorm-style rooms with fake boobs.
here are some of my roommates
kenneth, the pretty boy from texas that all the ladies wanted but had a gf
dennis, his best friend also from university of texas, teaching lauren, the girl from PRINCETON, how to two-step. lauren wasn't my roommate. guys and guys only.
they danced to country music! i was like holy crap.
jack, the guy in the back, is the crazy Canadian who can drink and party like hell. he's a good bball player and we call him "The Exterminator" because he singlehandedly got rid of all the mosquitoes in our room. never got bit in my room. hoorayyy. his gf goes to mcgill and is the one offering me something.
the grand hotel close to us. very big. very expensive to stay in and eat in.
a museum of really old things. supposedly its ranked number 4 in the world under the louvre and stuff like that. pretty cool
me and mike wanted to stand next to the lion cuz we're cool losers like that
taipei 101. or just 101 for short
the front
okay so a little bit of explaining. 101 is composed of actually 2 buildings. the main tower. the big tall thing. and a side building connected to it. the side building is what u actually go into. its only like 5 floors. if you want to go to the top, you gotta go to the tower and take the express elevator for like 10 bucks US. all the way to the top in less than 45 seconds! fastest elevator in the world. anyways. so the side building is just a shopping center almost. the basement floor is food. the 1st floor is for normal ppl shopping. 2nd floor is for slightly richer ppl, 3rd floor even richer, 4th floor is for ppl who've got way too much to spend. the 4th floor is all like louis vuitton and prada and gucci and dior and all that. like the real stuff.
a food court
most of the guys plus dchu
pretty cool
one of the restaurants had a replica of guernica. why? i don't know
i was at the toy store
same shot as the one from a few back but from 1st floor
our tour bus! actually for most of the trip they rotated buses so it was only this time we got the super new and nice one. they all had semi comfortable seats with mini tv's for movies or kareoke. one of them apparently didn't have AC. which is death. yep. death.
back at chien tan (the youth center we stayed at for the first 3 weeks) we had some shows we had to attend. chinese dance
a fan dance
two of our counselors. forgot the girl's name. she yelled a lot. and joe. joe is hilarious! he just looks hilarious too. his email is like iamamongolian hahahhh
at the museum of pottery or something. they had a cool waterfall
at a temple when it was RAINING! i thought this was a cool pic
the temple
a dragon encased by glass. who knows.
why so famous? "cultural and somethingsomethng center at one point" and it was pretty and gold on the inside
more performances at chien tan auditorium. flag dance
TORNADO!
circus acts sorta
two funny guys doing the spinning the bowls act
HARDCORE chinese yo-yo'ing
crazyass guys jumping through swords and flames
plate spinning
crazy gymnast who built himself a chair tower to the top of the auditorium. then proceeded to do like gymnast moves at the top. crazym0fo
fancystuff
we were at chang-kai shek (basically taiwan's founder)'s garden palace thing. but we didn't go in and just stayed in the cafe. there was a movie star right outside getting a photoshoot done. she was pretty. me and frances were bored so we used the erasable pen they use to get orders from and drew ourselves a battle. picture's kinda cool cuz every1 seems to be moving so fast around us
the chang-kai shek memorial. it was big.
inside we found this science and technology exhibit. one of the exhibits was this mirror thing that made it look like u had no legs
frances acts better
me REALLY too excited about an exhibit with an F-16 in it. it was actually pretty shitty. reason for the black square. i was simply too excited. hahahahah
chang-kai shek with reagan?
when i walked into this room i was scared shitless. i was like WTF I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD. yeah wax figures scare me.
me out in front
the taipei zoo!!
koala
ellyphunts
it started to rain. HARD. artsyfartsy sorta
agricultural design
i don't know when on the bus eric took this. but it looks pretty cool
at the BEACH!! it was hot that day so we were all excited. i didn't bring my swimsuit stupidly so i stayed on the beach taking pictures of my buddies. that was fun in itself haha
eric stayed with me for a while cuz he felt sorry for me. he wanted a picture of himself. hahahahhahha
my turn!
wonder why its so messy? because the tide kept freaking washing part of it. so i had to hurry up and write it and then snap the picture
the tide
they found a banana boat
HAHHA okay i love this and the next picture together. this is a regular group picture. i dont know what's up with eric's random act of manliness
then a semi-big wave comes in! and look at frances' expression ahhaha
burying someone
the gang
pearson chasing eric. both get tackled by mike later on
simply fun.
float picture. i think pearson gets stung by a jellyfish..right about...now.
me and my roommates minus 1 guy. look at my fob shirt i bought for 1 dollar!
passing this while walking back to the bus
one of my roommates in our room. he graduated from UCLA this year so i talked a lot with him about school and stuff
ALL the roommates
the formosa carnival! basically our camp at chien-tan was one of 4 or 5. we were the biggest ones. the carnival was to unite all of us so there were like close to 800 ppl there? we were 1 of 2 camps that started in taipei. other ones were starting from taizhong and all that. we had camp cheers and stuff. and we hella owned the other ones by sheer size and obnoxiousness. "WHO IS THE BEST!?" "kjklahf..CHIEN TAN!!"
street vendors came. a lot of em. and we got free food!
the cool wavy things.
they invited guests like the best lion dancers in taiwan
xgame kinda ppl
us being quirky
every year they have a guest of honor. last year it was the vice president and the year before that the president of taiwan. this year it was one of the two gold medalists from taiwan. the taekwondo girl
it was a concert-like atmosphere
aboriginal drummers
glowsticks!
we had our own fireworks just for us and we were right under them. aweeeesome. since we didnt' have any the 4th of july
we're getting ready to leave for the round-island trip. it started raining that day because the giant typhoon was coming. the biggest typhoon taiwan had seen in like 3 years. it was so big it was bigger than taiwan hahahah.
the ocean getting tempestuous
eric sporting my new headphones, looking like an egg
they took us to a european style village that had lots of shopping
taffy maker
our awesome japanese-style hotel
complete with huge down pillows and comforters
misty outside
modern art museum
one of andy warhol's marilyns
THE MOST POINTLESS day ever. it rained out so they made us visit a powerplant.
the shitty place we stayed that night. actually it was pretty nice for the guys. but the girls had like bug infested beds.
see?
the guys room though rocked. japanese style again. with slidey doors. frances ended up sleeping over in our room cuz it was so much cleaner haha. i started to get sick this day. i blame justin. see those ugly green, yellow and red bags? those were our CYC bags. required.
HEY GUYS! its brian yan! actually its me and pearson's roommate forever who looks disgustingly like brian. constant drinker. but drinks by himself. kinda odd.
on the bus somewhere. justin drank that whole bottle of super supau in 20 minutes. the next bathroom break wasn't going to be for another hour.
angry weather
we went to a sugar cane plantation. we had to ride their ghetto train. obviously bored out of our minds
artsy picture of a farmer
the countryside
awesome awesome sky shot
ONE OF MY FAVORITE DAYS: air force academy visit. i totally wasn't supposed to take a picture of the front gate but i did anyways. i wanted a picture with the giant eagles :( beware. extremely boring shots of planes but i get excited about
yes. call me a loser. i wore my wingman shirt that day.
don't mess!
whoooooosh!
whoever's idea this was was a genius. we all pretended to be missiles. eric failed.
i had to try the fob pose just once
canopy
teehee. PUSH UTTON
if you ever wondered what that was on the side of a fighter jet, its a machine gun
air museum
okay we drove all the freaking way down to tainan and stayed there for like half an hour. we visited this building built by the dutch while they occupied taiwan
as fake as this setup was, it was pretty
FUNTIMES ON THE BUS. hahaha. eric was sleeping so we put his least favorite food, dried fish snacks, in his mouth. we got like 4 in the end before he started spitting them all out
what hours on the bus does to ya
national science and technology museum. bubbles
frances.....on a toilet
hooray!
the plane that started it all
the cool simulator that i wanted to kick ass in but the line was so long and we had to board soon.
museum's floors
SINGING CONTEST
we were all like. why. are. we. here. but it turned out to be oodles of fun. and BUS B TOOK FIRST PLACE YEAYUHHHHHHHHH
the asian pride gang from bus A did their rendition of "Ugly Girl" i love how his dragon tattoo matches
one of pearson's roommates, another geoffrey, doing their act and pretending to be nerds. that geoff is hella funny and can diss ppl like no other
another bus
dchu leading on his bus with a solo performance to backstreet
jasmine's bus. she's second from the right
THATS RIGHT. BUS B. we got a trophy and hella food. later on our trophy was stolen by another bus to be used in their talent show skit. turns out. they lost again and we got 1st in creativity
in kaoshiong we visited the Love River, where couples take walks and stuff. too bad the river stunk. me and pearson were like. LOVE STINKS! haha okay that was sad. the lights were pretty though
frances and pearson
the guys were feeling lonely so we were like. let's show some loooove
they lit up the trees all awesome with purple lighting
i was really sick this day. i coudln't even walk up to the top of this pagoda
hiking in the woods
scenery
the finger. and the super finger. and eric's expression
hiking
where the trail led to
kind of like a clearing. pretty cool
okay i am. SO PROUD OF MYSELF for taking this picture. artsyfartsy fo sho
more trees
the cabins we stayed at
our bus practicing for the talent show. we did a thing called body works? basically we acted out a story but all the furniture and props were done by ppl.
our bus looking on
that's mimi one of our counselors. one of two from the states (she's from frisco) all the rest were from taiwan. she's just..being mimi hahah.
the aquarium scene. our bus leader eric (very funny very talented) feeding his fish and octopus hahah
the tv scene. "mi amor mi amor mi amor. ohhhh maria i laaahve you" hahah spanish soap opera. howie, the big guy on the very left. actually knows harold! he's from canada, but they're like practically brothers.
the gang being the toilet scene
that's robin! our other counselors. she hella knew our names. haha
scott our third and last bus counselor. he was pretty cool
kevin? i think. goes to berkeley. AWESOME hair. dreadlocks. took him 3 years
an amusement park with really cool rides. like. an actual roller coaster that rivals top gun. and other stuff
yummy free food
frances: i wanna go on the slide! pearson come with me!!!! pearson: damn.
i think the director of our camp purposely put all the fun stuff towards the end of camp haha. this one actually had space mountain almost exactly like it. because they got the copyright permission. basically it was a conglomeration of like rides from all over the world
this dinosaur one. ppl got off and posed with the dinosaurs. like humping a few and punching a couple haha
eric on the love boat ride they had. too happy.
pearson trying out this kiddy game that he had to squeeze into
cute dog!
he put his hair up
giant european fountain
funstuff
giant house
we were excited cuz we got beds!
yeah we started staying in really nice places towards the end
fancy
okay gotta explain this part haha. remember drinker version of brian yan? well one night he found a girl to drink with! hoorayy. only he got a little bit too drunk. around 10 shots of bacardi. and he took them double shots. shit. and so he's famous for his snoring. like. its world war 3 when he sleeps. i have video. but this time he was snoring and he wouldn't wake up. usually we kick him so that he wakes up. then we sleep before him to beat it. but cuz he was so out at 3 AM, me, pearson and frances had a little field day. we decided to shame him that night. and took all the free samples out of the bathroom we could find. and stick them on him. ehehheheehee. coulda been worse but we didn't feel like being THAT mean
at first it was just tea packages and papers in his toes
then..we stuck all 4 toothbrushes in his perfectly cupped hand. and 3 combs in his hair
showercap on his foot. later on it became both feet and his hand
frances made a box penis from the toothbrushes and toothpaste as glue
next day. ANOTHER amusement park. all the rides were pretty much kid oriented, except for this giant water ride. and it was GIANT. i didn't go on it cuz i was wearing jeans. neither did eric or frances hahah
yeah that's the HUGE wave that the ride makes. not standing in the protective glass room will get you soaked. i've got video from the room. freaky as hell!
the guys after the ride. justin needs to eat.
on the bus semi-on the way back
mike and pearson waiting for ppl in the bathroom. my aunt bought them all mcdonalds! she's too cool
giant schedule board at taipei int'l airport
my fan club! not really. but my relatives that love me so much all sending me off at the airport
and now i'm HOME!!!
WOW i feel accomplished. that took me a week to finish. but i've got some more later. of like LA orientation and random hangout days with mel and friends