ENTRIES
Welcome to Eric Cheng's online journal! You are not logged in. [ Log in ]
«  :: index ::  »

Taiwan: Taipei & Taichung

:: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 @ 1:01:49 am

:: Tags:

Photos while visiting my mother in Taiwan last week. Text later.

| Oakland, CA | link | trackback | Sep 20, 2005 01:01:49

Mom and Chris Fan
Chris and Ming in the temporary lab/office
Mom, in her new office
View from Academia Sinica
Mom, Ming, Chris, Jessica and me in the elevator of the Academia Sinica
Mrs. Fan cooks us an amazing meal (as usual)
At the Tsunah office with Mr. Lin
Taipei 101, the world's tallest building
View from Taipei 101
View from Taipei 101
Passive dampeners help the building to be stable
Taipei 101, the world's tallest building
Mom in 7-11
Self portrait in mirror with Mom, Mrs. Kao, Mrs. Fan, and Ming.
Lunch at a nice Japanese restaurant in Taichung
Li-Chia, playing video games
Suu-min and Li-chia on a scooter
Li-chia pretends to lock the restaurant door
Yang Li-Chia aggressively eats a chicken wing
Yang Li-chia
Dinner at our relatives' place near Taipei. We're related distantly through my mother.
Dinner at our relatives' place near Taipei
Dinner at our relatives' place near Taipei
Dinner at our relatives' place near Taipei
Dinner at our relatives' place near Taipei
Dessert at a fancy restaurant in Taipei
Longshan Temple
Longshan Temple
Longshan Temple
Snake Alley, Taipei
Squid products in Snake Alley, Taipei
Mantis shrimp in Snake Alley, Taipei
Mantis shrimp in Snake Alley, Taipei
Fresh (live) seafood in Snake Alley, Taipei
Fresh (live) seafood in Snake Alley, Taipei
Mom, at a restaurant
  • http://tontamoo.weblogs.us Janice

    I was just in Taipei a week ago, and it’s interesting how it looks so different through your lens.

    Also, I love the self-portrait in the mirror. Everyone looks so happy. =)

  • http://ihatepink.com Caroline

    I loved that mirror shot too. I also love the pic of the little girl looking up at you.

    Should I wait for the text before asking why you and Mr. Lin are holding hands in the picture? Or should I just ascribe it to Taiwanese / Chinese-style show of affection?

  • echeng

    yeah. Dunno about the hand holding. But it didn’t seem weird at the time, and he insisted. :). It was hard to communicate because my mandarin is better than my taiwanese is. Anyway, out families have history, and he seemed excited that I was in town.

  • http://[email protected] cyn

    our old home (and now my aunt and uncles) is right near that 101 building. he hates it. he’s convinced it’s bad feng shui and if there’s an earthquate, they’re doomed! love the fotos! can’t wait till i can go visit taipei again.

  • rc

    maybe it’s just me, but I find that 101 building to be quite an eyesore. It’s a bad mixture of traditional Chinese and modern architecture design elements. Kinda like bad fusion food (a la Ming Tsai). The other bad tall building in Asia that comes to mind is the strange tower with the balls in Shanghai. But that’s just me, I’m sure many others think those buildings are very nicely done.

  • http://pizustar.no-ip.org pizustar

    Eric
    I think the word “snake” should be “snack”,isn’t it?
    Star from Taiwan

  • echeng

    no — in fact, it is “Snake Alley“. Although, my father does sometimes make the two words sound the same (in English). ;) (hi, dad!!)

  • daff

    hey, it might be a tad weird looking, but its not totally ugly. i have to speak up, for my uncle was the architect for 101.

  • echeng

    daff! your uncle should have taken me on TOUR! :)

  • http://www.guppieluv.com/ andrey

    those mantis shrimp look ferocious! did you try any?

  • stevec

    I echo daff’s comments. My friend works for the construction company that built the building. ;)

    Anyway, it’s cool you got to go up to the top of 101. Back when I was there in January this year, the top wasn’t open to the public yet.

  • Rod S.

    We’ll have to meet up in Taipei and Taichung sometime. I’ll start to travel there once a year for work :)
Echeng.com has been forced upon Can't find file, check '$file'
0 victims since 8/26/99
Copyright © Eric H Cheng. All Rights Reserved. [Terms of Use]
ARCHIVES
Journal Home
Where is Eric? (password)
Stuff for Sale
April 2013 (3)
March 2013 (1)
February 2013 (2)
January 2013 (3)
November 2012 (2)
October 2012 (3)
September 2012 (8)
August 2012 (8)
July 2012 (8)
June 2012 (8)
May 2012 (5)
April 2012 (8)
March 2012 (15)
February 2012 (7)
January 2012 (6)
December 2011 (8)
November 2011 (10)
October 2011 (12)
September 2011 (8)
August 2011 (14)
July 2011 (9)
June 2011 (9)
May 2011 (11)
April 2011 (11)
March 2011 (12)
February 2011 (23)
January 2011 (22)
December 2010 (16)
November 2010 (17)
October 2010 (26)
September 2010 (24)
August 2010 (24)
July 2010 (30)
June 2010 (26)
May 2010 (21)
April 2010 (26)
March 2010 (19)
February 2010 (17)
January 2010 (29)
December 2009 (21)
November 2009 (23)
October 2009 (32)
September 2009 (19)
August 2009 (34)
July 2009 (21)
June 2009 (30)
May 2009 (23)
April 2009 (18)
March 2009 (6)
February 2009 (25)
January 2009 (5)
December 2008 (6)
November 2008 (22)
October 2008 (27)
September 2008 (25)
August 2008 (34)
July 2008 (34)
June 2008 (32)
May 2008 (26)
April 2008 (15)
March 2008 (19)
February 2008 (31)
January 2008 (43)
December 2007 (33)
November 2007 (29)
October 2007 (29)
September 2007 (9)
August 2007 (19)
July 2007 (10)
June 2007 (17)
May 2007 (26)
April 2007 (38)
March 2007 (39)
February 2007 (13)
January 2007 (35)
December 2006 (35)
November 2006 (14)
October 2006 (6)
September 2006 (20)
August 2006 (24)
July 2006 (32)
June 2006 (17)
May 2006 (23)
April 2006 (16)
March 2006 (16)
February 2006 (26)
January 2006 (34)
December 2005 (17)
November 2005 (21)
October 2005 (18)
September 2005 (17)
August 2005 (5)
July 2005 (15)
June 2005 (20)
May 2005 (25)
April 2005 (7)
March 2005 (22)
February 2005 (20)
January 2005 (38)
December 2004 (6)
November 2004 (24)
October 2004 (16)
September 2004 (22)
August 2004 (12)
July 2004 (17)
June 2004 (15)
May 2004 (11)
April 2004 (35)
March 2004 (40)
February 2004 (29)
January 2004 (36)
December 2003 (20)
November 2003 (18)
October 2003 (10)
September 2003 (18)
August 2003 (10)
July 2003 (34)
June 2003 (12)
May 2003 (49)
April 2003 (42)
March 2003 (42)
February 2003 (15)
January 2003 (7)
December 2002 (17)
November 2002 (19)
October 2002 (24)
September 2002 (22)
August 2002 (20)
July 2002 (21)
June 2002 (14)
May 2002 (15)
April 2002 (11)
March 2002 (13)
February 2002 (20)
January 2002 (17)
December 2001 (16)
Even Older Journal
Travel Journals
CATEGORIES / TAGS
(25) (2) (1) (3) (1) (1) (1) (6) (2) (3) (11) (8) (3) (1) (1) (4) (2) (4) (2) (1) (6) (1) (1) (1) (6) (2) (1) (1) (3) (1) (5) (1) (1) (21) (1) (1) (1) (1) (14) (1) (10) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (27) (6) (3) (2) (4) (4) (1) (41) (11) (10) (4) (38) (1) (3) (2) (4) (1) (1) (1) (2) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (10) (25) (8) (3) (2) (3) (2) (1) (5) (1) (1) (2) (1) (1) (14) (1) (4) (1) (1) (5) (43) (1) (3) (24) (1) (1) (1) (1) (5) (1) (4) (1) (1) (10) (3) (1) (1) (1) (1) (6) (5) (1) (1) (1) (3) (1) (3) (1) (1) (1) (69) (4) (3) (7) (2) (1) (16) (6) (1) (28) (1) (7) (1) (3) (4) (4) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (10) (4) (3) (2) (1) (89) (14) (1) (2) (77) (2) (2) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (3) (2) (3) (1) (1) (24) (3) (5) (3) (1) (2)
MOST POPULAR
Most Popular Posts of All Time

Eric Cheng's RSS Journal Journal RSS
Eric Cheng's RSS Journal Comments RSS

proudly powered by wordpress
script exec time: 1.01s
i hate computers.