Things that annoy me

( Figure skating irritation )

( Kill Bill irritation )

Ok, am done ranting now. But yes, if Dick Button admires the way a skater looks one more time instead of directly connecting the "gracefulness" to the power to actually hold your leg up without wobbling, I will throw something at the TV.

Taiwan trip part 3

Finally, I get around to posting more pictures. One more post after this, and I will be done, sadly, nearly a full month after my trip!

All these pictures are from New Year's Eve, which is when you eat dinner with your dad's side of the family and stay up till midnight waiting for the new year. Not that different from 12/31, although we pass time by gambling with red envelope money, heh heh. I won a grand total of 8 NT playing mahjongg for three hours! (that's about thirty cents. At least I didn't lose.) My mom and I first went shopping at Taipei 101, which was amazingly uncrowded, it being New Year's Eve and all, and I got pretty clothes and a book on shoujo manga (in Chinese, woe) and a knitting-sweaters-from-top-down book (also in Chinese, more woe)!

Then it was off to dinner, in which I attempted to help around the kitchen and mostly ended up wandering around and taking a million pictures. I also wrapped spring rolls! We had so many that they were just piled in random places around the kitchen. Then I watched my cousin learn how to knit from her grandma (who taught me how to knit) and was happily warmed by three generations of knitters, and then there was much mahjongg.

My cousins also wanted to set off firecrackers at midnight, but they're banned in Taipei. Not that that actually stops anyone, though. I think he accidentally set one off around the bedroom, because there was much yelling and tumult and the smell of gunpowder, after which my aunt put her foot down and said no more.

Like before, some pictures are friends-locked, apologies for the broken pictures.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 4

( Really huge pictures )