Thank you my ♥ for the very expensive lunch.

I know I should look forward to the vacation like all the people around me do but their lives are more confirmed than mine. Even if they have nothing planned, they get to be happy with their loved ones. I am really tired of being alone most of the time. Yeah, whatever.

and cracked a toe. It was so shocking to look down and expect, at worst, a bleeding toe, and saw a twisted toe instead. I was so confused that for the first minute I was in a complete daze. I tried to pull the toe back in place by using a finger but it did not work. I waited for the excruciating pain to hit me hard and leave me unconscious but nothing came. It was just me and my twisted toe, staring at each other as I recalled in horror, the crack I had heard when I accidentally walked into the wall. It took me another minute or so to realize that “I had broken my toe!”. It was the scare that made me cry and all the while I was thinking “I am so screwed! What am I gona do with nine toes?!”. I woke my bro up and and upon seeing my twisted toe, he jumped out of his bed and without any question, got ready to take me to the hospital. Thank god I have my bro who came to my rescue twice when I needed to go to the hospital. What would I have done without you, lil bro? Anyway, he was not very much for the idea of me going to the hospital. He suggested going to our family doctor instead and that was where we went. My family doctor said my toe was dislocated and he pulled it back to its original position. In less than 10 seconds, it was all fixed with a pull and a crack! It has been two weeks since and my toe is still swollen. Sigh.

It was his second time making whole fish. The ingredients are olives, stewed tomatoes and onions. I love olives to my grave. Oh I feel like making my own whole fish too but too bad I do not have my own kitchen.

Another long weekend just passed and I had a really good time with the boyfriend and the birdfriend. We had beef pasta on Friday and pancakes on Saturday. It was all nice and lovely. The boyfriend did all the cooking, I did all the washing, and the birdfriend did all the lying around. It was a very odd get-together but it was all fun and hearty.

It has been more than half a month since I last blogged, and I am terribly guilty about it. I still read the comments on my blog every now and then, and reply to them whenever I could. I love badtzies, fairlady and tiffy for visiting my blog, still! Thanks, babes! You are the bestS! By the way, badtzies, do you have a facebook account? If you have one, add me to your friends’ list ok!? I have fairlady and tiffy on my friends’ list! Frankly speaking, I am spending all my free time on my favourite social games on facebook. I am so addicted to Pet Society, Restaurant City and Farm Town. They are slow and decorative games, and I have come to realize that I am into slow and decorative games!

I have pictures from two weeks back when we had dinner at Al Dente Trattoria, some nice Italian restaurant near Esplanade.

Kus, baby.

With Good Friday falling on Friday - duh, we had a long weekend last week. I had a good time playing games and watching telly with my bf. Long weekends are loves, or are they? I suspect that they are evil. They make you think that life is better than it really is, and when the weekend is gone and you are being thrown back into the wells of horror, you feel the blow at double the intensity.

I was back at work on Monday, and after two meetings, I was totally wretched. My body was aching so much and my nose was starting to give me crap. I left my work place earlier than usual to visit the doctor and to get some medicine and a medical leave certificate only to have to spend the next 1.5 hours queuing up before it was my turn to meet the bloody doctor. In fact, there were four bloody doctors in the clinic but I guess there were just too many patients. After waiting for 1.5 hours, my number was finally called and I went to the room only to find that he was the doctor whom I gave a disgusted face to when he left his room earlier to go to the washroom. Anyway, he had the cheek to tell me that I was having a fever. Of course I was having a fever by then. I fell so much sicker just standing outside their rooms and waiting for 1.5 hours. I thought my ordeal would end there but nono. The facially and probably mentally confused clinic assistants were spending so much time just floating around and doing at most half a task at any one time, and I am not trying to be mean. After 15 minutes of waiting and seeing that it was not like they were busy giving medicine to other patients, I went up to them and asked them about my medicine. One fat-a-s-s finally squeezed herself into the drug room and got my medicine. I left the clinic in a condition worse than I was in before I visited the clinic. So Tuesday I was on leave and it was rest for the whole day.

I should really stop whining. Back to last long weekend, I made a nice dinner with my bf. I made a salad with lettuce, bell pepper, mushrooms, avocado, eggs and chicken. My bf made grilled salmon with carrots. It was a very nice dinner.

I made this salad but I have to admit that my bf stir-fried the bell pepper, the mushrooms, the avocado, and grilled the chicken.

Look at my bf’s sexy a-s-s.

It was a nice dinner. The salmon was so good and the chicken in the salad was so good too!

By the way, have you tried or seen Meiji’s Rich Strawberry chocolate bar? I bought one the other day and guess what?

My curtain is so pretty. Nono, the chocolate is in a dark shade of red. It tastes very strawberry, a bit too sweet for me. I still prefer the original milk or dark chocolate from Meiji. On the same shelf in the mart, I saw green and gold coloured wrapper Meiji chocolate bars. I think they are green tea and pistachio.

On the second day of our trip, we joined a tour that took us to various major attractions in Taipei, of which, one is Jioufen, a mountain town in Taipei County. Jioufen is my second favourite destination, after Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe. I love Jioufen’s Kyoto-like upward streets that take us to the top of the mountain, the red retro lanterns that are hung outside the shops, and the view from the top of the mountain.

This is where most coaches and buses would stop at. Most people start their journey to the top of the mountain by foot mid-way from here. On the way up, there are many shops that would catch your eyes and delay your time. Good delay, of course.

This is one of the pictures I like most. I like the retro red lanterns! Most of the shops sell interesting but weird-looking food and most of the food are made by the villagers of the town.

These pictures were taken at the top of the mountain, at the end of the streets. You have to love the view. It is so beautiful.

Lastly, this is a picture of me with my other boy.

Short story long, we bought many bags of mochi from a shop which was recommended by our tour guide, only to find out later that she has a share in that shop and all their mochi are brought up from Taipei city. I did not care that much when she first admitted it to the coach-load of us after we bought their mochi and were back in the coach for departure. When I came back home, my colleague said that I should have bought the mochi made by the villagers instead. That makes sense to the max. Why should I take care of the stupid tour guide’s extra pocket money when she and all her cunning accomplices are just big bullies to the villagers?

I think my enthusiasm at blogging has reached an all time low. Honestly, I love my blog, all my previous posts and all our existing exchanges of comments. I treasure all the fun I had with my blog. Every single post I have on my blog meant a lot to me, and they still do, and I cannot imagine losing them. I want to continue making a new post every now and then, just like before, but when I see the number of hits I get for my blog each day, I get very discouraged and then, I do not feel like writing anything for it anymore.

Sadly, my lack of enthusiasm does not stop at blogging. My enthusiasm for everything has reached an all time low. I am so lethargic these days I sometimes lose myself. I do not even feel like doing anything anymore. I am just waiting for each day to pass so that I can move on to the next day and then, I will be waiting for that day to pass. I guess I really need a change of life.

When I am online and have nothing important to do (which happens most of the time), I will just stare at Facebook and wait for any update from anyone, or play silly Facebook games. Life gets so much easier and more entertaining on Facebook. I do not know which is true, that I am bored because I am always on Facebook or I am always on Facebook because I am bored. I would usually not notice how time flies until the remaining evening reaches its end, and I would still be at it. Lying in bed after that, I would regret wasting away my day and in bigger pespective, my life, on nothing, but I would be relieved that the day is over, only to be up again the next day doing exactly the same thing. It is almost like I am looking forward to living in another dimension because I do not know what to do in reality anymore.

I am so tired of this.

Manufacturer of Cosmetics, Make-up Arts Cosmetics (widely known as M.A.C), recently launched the limited edition of Hello Kitty cosmetics and accessories. They come in four categories: Hello Kitty Kouture, Hello Kitty Wild, Hello Kitty Mild and Hello Kitty Accessories. Check them out! Some of the items are still available!

This is one of my happiest days in life. My dream has come true! It has been less than a week since I visited Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe in Taipei and I am missing it again! Hello Babe!

We walked from Taipei 101 to Da’An Road, where Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe is at. The cafe is not exactly near to Taipei 101 but we decided to walk there since we had quite a bit of time to our reservation. When I finally saw the cafe, I was so exhilarated I thought I flew to the moon, but I maintained my cool and smiled calmly.

This is the Hello Kitty display on the left side of the cafe. I want to hug them all! Check out their eyelashes! Such lovely sweeties!

This is the fridge display on the right side of the cafe. Such lovely Hello Kitty cakes! I want to eat them all but it seems almost inhumane to poke a fork into the head of a Hello Kitty.

This is another fridge display in the cafe. I love everything here.

This is the counter where they prepare cakes for serving. Check out the Hello Kitty Swiss-roll! I would love to have a set of these every weekend. How I wish we have something like this here.

We got a Hello Kitty sofa table! There are only three such tables in the whole cafe and they are all at level 1! I went up to the second floor later and saw that several tables were occupied so we were really lucky to have it. I suppose the people who were using one of the Hello Kitty sofa tables at level 1 left just before we arrived so we were given that table.

I love their menu! I stole one of them! Kidding! I stole both of them.

This is the happy me on a Hello Kitty sofa! It was almost magical!

Our first order is a Hello Kitty cake. Check out the candy ribbon!

It was such a lovely cake until…

…until it became like this. I do not know what actually happened…

This is my drink, rose latte. It is so thick and so good. They have strawberry latte too but the bf only wanted normal latte. BFs.

After our cake and coffees, we had our main dish. This is what the bf had, Hello Kitty beef burger. Check out the shape of the burger!

He is going to kill me for this…

This is what I had, pasta with bacon. I am a tad disappointed that the bacon are not in the shape of Hello Kitty head. Pfff.

When we were done with our main dishes and were a few kilos heavier, they served us our dessert- fruits and more cakes! I ate the fruits but not the cake. I was so filled to the brim!

This plate was placed on our table. So Hello Babe was there with the chef…

…and this is the chef.

This is the payment counter and I bought a Hello Kitty magazine!

This is the other side of the cafe at level 1.

This is the second floor of the cafe. Check out the ribbon!

This is the end of my first trip to Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe. Till next time!