Double Tenth 十十

How's my 5-day holiday is like? Hm... let me see... I got ofF the plane around 3pm on the 6th, got the rest of work done and emailed out from my place, then straighted toward to my grandma's house for a family dinner for moon fest. A great news from my family, that my sister-in-law is pregnant, and we're going to have a bady in our family in 7 months!:D It's a great gift for my 83 year old grandma this year, and i'm glad to see her joyful smile again.

After dinner I went for an ourdoor beer at Le ble d'or (金色三麥), the moon was covered by the building but it was nice to hang out with my lovely friends again after 3 weeks away. Then we continued drinking and clubbing at the new pub next to roxy99 (forgot the name). It was packed with local college kids and the music was just ok. I drank too much and left with drunk sleepy muddy head at 3am, but no matter what i was more than happy to have fun here with my friends than go to Lan Kaui Fan (蘭桂坊) in HK (where my HK coworker planned to take me to if I stayed longer.)

The next day I went to Hsin Chu for Terry's friend Vivian's dinner party. She's a great host and we had a great german dinner at her cozy house. Everyone in the party was pretty funny and the whole night was just full of cold jokes from different coutries. That night I saw the biggest full moon this year from her balcony on high floor (can't remember which floor...:P).

On the 8th I decided to chill out 1 day after having been working partying travelling this and that. I slept till noon and then finished watching a series of japanese tv drama. Ah... what a great rest...

On the 9th in order not to waste of God's gift of a sunny holiday, we went out hiking on Tsao-Lin historical trail (草嶺古道) in north coast. We started at Fulong where a new trail was just re-organized a couple of year ago to link to Tsao-Lin, where we used to have to walk on car lane for 40 mins or so from Kon-Liao (貢寮) to the trail entry. The new trail actually crosses a mountain (虎子山) and is more like a bike lane for locals and farmers, but comparing to Tsao-Lin it's much more quiet and with countryside atmosphere. Tsao-Lin old trail was, on the other hand, full of tourists and families as usual. From 虎子山 to 草嶺 then 2 hills to Tao-Yuan Valley (桃源谷), we hiked for over 5 hrs and again we had to find ways out in dark trail and scary nighty jumgle.

On the double ten my coworker Micky had an engagement party. We got closer when we were on our working trips in China & HK. She's been with this guy for 11 years since college, and the photo album showed their footprints around the world, with each other. Amazing isn't it? The first and the last in life, this connection must have been made in thousand years' rotation. I would give up everything to exchange a thousand-year connection with someone like that.