Chu Chu
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.
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| 台鐵 had an exhibition on its heritage. |
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| 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. |
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| ARCHITECT!!!!!! |
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| 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!
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| I love Onigiri. See my retainers? |
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| Weather was really bad at Taoyuan. Thank goodness I wasn't going there. |
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| 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...
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| 100 years of nationhood! |
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| 等無人 |
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| Me the Sleepyhead. |
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| You don't see this in Singapore anymore, do you? |
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| Life's full of noise yeah. |
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| 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....:
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| Old Japanese architecture |
Taiwan is so fun huh!
