what a buy!

edit: pictures for this post will be up later!
edit #1: pictures are sorta up. i will take pics of my swim suits later =)
edit #2: pictures of my awesome swimsuits are up!

I went back to shilin last night, because the first time I went, it was with my dad's friend to go eat. the second time I went, it was mainly to jewelry shop. this time, it was to clothes shop (yes. I have finally succumed to clothes shopping even though you all know I hate it, but the prices here are amazing). I walked around and found a shop that was selling 2 pieces (swimsuits) for $190 NT. Pretty decent price, they are usually around $150NT -$190NT for the cheap ones. I didn't really find any that I liked, but on second glance, I saw one pieces. (I wasn't planning to buy them here in TW #1. the prices are like $45-$70USD, which I might as well get in the US #2. I already have quite a few, though most are pretty worn, but enough #3. I dont own any 2pieces, never did) Keep looking... TYR suits... hm, not bad, not like some crappy china brand "Luck-Dog" or something. haha. TYR suits are not the best kind of swim suits, but they definately aren't bad either. and the best thing was, it was $190NT each (wait! did I read it wrong?) I comfirmed with the sales lady, and yes, infact it was $190. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where in the world would you EVER find a swimsuit at that price. That's less that $6 a piece!.

one of the streets in Shilin! so pretty with lights
Since I have not been swim suit shopping for like 3 years, I totally forgot my size. I asked the lady if I could try it on, and she said no =(. Hehe. I looked around and pretended to look at shirts I liked. I grabbed two to cover the swimsuits and went into the changing room. to try on the suits only, I didn't even bother with the shirts. bad Jen. bad Jen. Found my size, put the incorrect size back, and then proceeded to look for all the swimsuits that size in colors I liked. Unfortunately, there were only 2, same pattern different colors. I wanted a third one with the same pattern, and my favorite color scheme, but it was too small. oh well. Two swimsuits for $380NT is such a buy.

Shilin Night market "food garage" as I would like to call it. I took this while waiting for the MRT. The chinese letters ( the lighted) part didn't come out as well as the other pictures. But the only way you could see the English writing is in this picture. oh well. you can't always have best of both worlds. so compromise!
here's a "day" view. much better!
I forgot to bargain. I forgot to bargain in danshui as well. I don't know what my problem is. whateves. still a good deal. I will post pictures of my suits when I get around to taking a picture of them.

here is the long awaited pictures of my swimsuit!
Shilin wasn't that great last night because there were police around, so the "middle of the street illegal vendors" kept having to hide. I actualyl got to see them run away, it was pretty interesting. they ran so fast I didn't even have to to pull out my camera and record it. I don't even think I shopped all of Shilin, I couldn't find all of it. On the other hand, I found the "food garage" I couldn't find last time.

oh yea. so I get home at like 0000 and went to bother LJue so that I could use her phone charger. I think my parents gave me the wrong charger, the charger doesn't charge the phone o.-?!? Since it is my "emergency phone" it doesn't matter too much. but I am glad I have it. The phone that Mr. Tseng lent me went spastic the other day and I had to use my emergency phone. the point is, my emergency phone needed some battery so that I could use it if I needed it, otherwise, it would be a quite pointless "emergency phone" haha. we ended up talking until 0130. uh oh. my sleep schedule is already wack and I am beginning to think I have insomnia.

I get up to my room and discovered that my toilet leaked water when I flushed it. I went downstairs to file a report and when the lady asked me for my phone number, I didn't know it (again) A few days ago, I had to complete a form in order to get my housing deposit back and didn't know my number, so I called LJue to tell me. (I was using the emergency phone and didn't have my own number saved in this particular phone). this time I couldn't call LJue cause it was so late "so early." The lady made fun of me and was like "you don't know your number every time" haha. yea. she knows who I am now. she probably remembers me as the chinese-looking-but-crappy-chinese-girl. whatever, I get around fine. She asked if I wanted it fixed right away or in the morning. I said in the morning, since I needed to go sleep, even though I probably couldn't.

I scheduled them for 0900, but they didn't show up until 0930. the dude was cute though, so its ok that he was late.

oh yea. squat toilet = 2 : me = 0. i really had to pee.

I should probably get back to work now.

我不想工作!
>.<