oct 2009 tw trip

i’ve been looking forward to this trip for a long while… i needed to get away frm all the shit at work. overall, the trip was gd, other than it drizzled for 2-3 days, kinda spoiled my mood a lil. i dun like rainy weather, i dun like holding an umbrella, n i dun like wet floor. we walked alot for tis trip, visited alot of places. i went to almost all the places i’ve been to in my last 2 trips combined, and some which i’ve never been to!!

joe din change enuff money, so i changed my tw dollars with him for sgd$200. in the end, we spent all our tw dollars on the 5th nite!! no money left, no money to buy more clothes, dun even have money to take cab! so at 11+pm, we had to take the mrt back to the hotel. sad! stupid joe, in the end he spent more money than me, hahaha. the thing abt tw, they don’t have money changers, u have to go to the bank to change. n guess wat?! the banks arent open on sundays! so i changed some tw dollars w ric on sunday so i can do some last min shopping at ximending.

anyway, i tot this time round, it will be different, there will be no ‘baggage’ to bring back. i guess i was wrong, i came back to singapore feeling the same way i did during my last 2 trips. i met him at shilin nite market on the 4th nite, he was late as usual. brought joe n i to dinner at a 涼面store and then to the famous dessert store to eat their shaved sliced ice. i ordered the matcha shaved ice with red bean, yummm.

joe wanted to have a feel of taipei’s nite life, ric, being jus like me, doesn’t club, so he brought us to his usual hangout with his drinking buddies – mop. we joined a couple of his frenz there n drank till abt 3am. beer + shooters r lethal, at least to me. guys being guys, drank like there’s no tmr. joe, being joe kept drinking, bcoz of face, duh! hahaha. ric was high by then, but still dragged us all down to ktv at partyworld! ktv at 3am!! 13 ppl in the room, singing, dancing n drinking like there’s no tomorrow.

ric got really drunk halfway thru, n he fell asleep leaning agst me. suddenly, he jus grabbed my hand. i was shocked, i din know hw to react. i mean, he’s attach, how wld his frenz react. so i jus sat there n din bother much abt him. his frenz din seem to bother either. some time later, i pulled away, but he grabbed my hand back again. he stroked my hand, used 2 hands to hold it, it felt nice. so i tot, who cares abt wat others tink. by 5ish, 6, joe basically couldn’t make it anymore, and i was deadbeat, so we decided to leave. i was reluctant to leave frm my cosy corner actually, haha.. but i was really tired. we slept till 1pm the next day n thus our plans for the day were screwed, we skipped yangmingshan in the end, no hot spring for me, sobz

met ric again for lunch prior to leaving for the airport on sunday, he brought us to eat 烤肉, helped me carry my luggage from the hotel n sent us to the bus terminal to catch the coach to the airport. on the way to the airport, he sms-ed me. so i asked him he if recalls wat happened in the ktv, he said he knows n he remembers. i guess tat was enuff. wat needs to be discussed was discussed after my previous trip. his status still remains the same, so there’s really nothing more to say is there? i’ll jus remember the moments we’ve had all these yrs.

sometimes, fate plays a cruel game.