Chu Chu

- November 28, 2011

This song is called Chu Chu by moumoon, and it's damn cute. Just look at her luscious lips!

Okay. This post isn't about a girl with cute pink lips.
It's about taking trains.

I always liked buses and trains since young. I can always remember which bus goes where and recall all the stations along a train line etc. Just a living street directory and bus guide.

But I've never had a serious trip on the train proper, like 火车 instead of 地铁 or 捷運. I did travel from Xi'an to Beijing when I was 6. Or was it Guangzhou instead? See, I can't even remember.

So I was in Taipei, and decided to go Tainan with my travel-pal Pak Chuen.
First, you need to take the MRT to Taipei Main Station 台北車站.

台北車站 is unique because it is a three-in-one station: the High Speed Railway 高鐵, the MRT 捷運, and the Taiwan Railway 台鐵.

台鐵 had an exhibition on its heritage.

Liu Ming-Chuan 劉銘傳 was great man who transformed Taiwan into a modernised society.
He built a government-owned railway and installed electric lamps in Taiwan, which was the first in China.

ARCHITECT!!!!!!

See that amulet on the lock-key? It's so cute, hahaha.

So we moved on to the High Speed Railway (HSR) platform.
The advertisements are all very cute!

The HSR Stations are all very high-tech... They all come with Wi-fi and free Internet usage service!

I love Onigiri. See my retainers?

Weather was really bad at Taoyuan. Thank goodness I wasn't going there.

Tainan is very sunny and warm!

The HSR station was called 台南站 Tainan Station, but the connecting Taiwan Railway station is called Shalun 沙崙站. The station is damn ulu, surrounded by grass and padi fields...

100 years of nationhood!

等無人

Me the Sleepyhead.

You don't see this in Singapore anymore, do you?

Life's full of noise yeah.

So ulu!

And finally, we reached Tainan Train Station. Right smack in the middle of Tainan City.
Tainan City looks a bit like Tampines by the way.

Taiwan Railway has a lot of fans, who will take their trains just to collect the train tickets and gather chops from every stop.

Here in the lobby, there is a table with the chops for this Shalun Line (with 4 stops), and you can see, elections are coming....: