We took a rest on the small island. Staying at a cool place, we talked with many local people. I met a sweet baby girl, whose name is Lai-Da. (I don’t know how to spell her name in Filippino.) She was very cute and sweet. Her eyes were twinkling, and her smile was lovely. I played with her and took lots of pictures for her

Later, we had rice balls and fish for lunch at Balicasag Island. Actually, I thought the rice balls are much like the Chocolate Hills. It is said that a foreign tourist saw the place and called them chocolate hills since they looked like Hershey’s kisses. In my opinion, if I can give them a name, I will call them Rice Ball Hills :p

After walking around the Balicasag Island, we went to a small island that even much smaller than Balicasag. Although it is tiny, with idyllic beaches, I think the Virgin Island is one of the most beautiful island in Philippine. It’s a tropical paradise indeed.

That day, I met a South African. We had a short talk when taking the moving walkway. He worked for a ShangHai company and came to Taiwan for business. We exchanged the impression on ShangHai and Taipei.
ShangHai is more crowded and busy… It doesn’t mean that people in Taipei is not busy. Actually I think that ShangHai people are CRAZY busy.

During the first time I took a taxi in ShangHai, the driver honked almost all the time. He drove vary fast in a zig-zag manner. The traffic signs seemed to be nothing important. We even went against the roadway! What a crazy taxi experience!!

However, the taxi rate is not expensive. The first 3 kilometers cost only RMB 11. After that, every kilometer costs RMB 2.1. Comparatively, taxi rate in Hsinchu is much more expensive :Q The rate starts at TWD 90 (RMB 19).

By the way, I guess that most of ShangHai taxies are Volkswagen Santana. Volkswagen seems to be popular there.

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Anyway, I found my English is still not good enough.
I frequently found the grammer error just after I spoke something.
My first words to the South African was, “where ARE you come from?”.

從不知道幾年前開始,
似乎在每年只要吃過一定數量的荔枝之後,
就算身邊早沒有荔枝的影子, 還是無時無刻聞到荔枝的味道

像是剛把荔枝剝開的時候聞到的甜香,
是一種很甜蜜, 很 juicy 的味道…

晚上要睡覺的時候, 早上來學校的時候,
中間休息的時候…
甜甜的荔枝香味無時無刻存在著。

早上沖了一杯咖啡, 是荔枝的味道
下午喝了一些綠茶, 是荔枝的味道

打開晚餐的豬排便當, 還是荔枝的味道… >”<

人生充滿了甜蜜的荔枝味, 這真的不知道是幸還是不幸

今年, 這種情況又出現了…
我決定不要再被荔枝口味的粽子困擾…
我一定要解決這個問題。

於是我噴了一些 Escada 的 Tropical Punch,
還很囂張的灑在耳後,
希望熱帶水果 (梨子, 芒果, …) 的甜美味道可以干擾我的嗅覺
希望新的味道可以讓我暫時遺忘荔枝的香味…

結果…

我現在覺得….

熱帶水果的味道,
和荔枝好搭 orz

太陽很大，浪很平。
天氣非常好，這天四支氣瓶都是船潛

蘭嶼大致上來說都是大深度，
幾乎每支氣瓶都到了三十幾米深的海底…
在潛沈船的那隻氣瓶上岸之後，我開始檢討：
還沒有潛水錶的我，還是不要一直下大深度好了[註1]。

前陣子迷上了手沖咖啡, 很久沒有煮義式了
端午節假期, 心血來潮又開始玩起拉花…

這次拉的是天鵝公主 (有人說是尼斯湖水怪 Q_______________Q )

同場加映：
不是很對稱也畫的太過刻意的小浣熊

The most beautiful part of Orchid Island is the underwater part. Ha… I think I was NOT biased at all.
In these three days, I nearly didn’t go anywhere else except the hostel and the sea.

The marine life in Orchid Island is similar to it in Green Island. Comparing to Philippine, where I went diving last time, there are huge kinds of various colorful living things… but not that many schooling fishes. The water is so clean that the visibility is very very high — I think the range of visibility may be more than 40 meters.

I had 7 (or 8 ) dives in this trip. During the first dive in old 開元 harbor, we luckily saw the turtle!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well begun is half done (好的開始是成功的一半… 亂用成語？). The luckiness brought the following wonderful dives!

八代灣沈船 wreck

獅子魚 Lion fish

去蘭嶼的交通其實不太方便,
飛機一班只有 17 個位置, 並且早早就被訂完了…

除了飛機之外只剩下船…
我們打算搭地一班從後壁湖出發的船(7:30) 到蘭嶼,
於是前一天就先在墾丁過夜!

晚上十一點多, 吃完時間上應該算宵夜的晚餐,
(據說這裡的鴨肉冬粉很有名!)

一行人在恆春老街散步….
映著微弱的燈光看著古蹟旁邊立牌的解釋,
想像著牡丹社事件時發生的種種,
(人生第一次半夜還有興致發思古之幽情!!)
恆春古城的城門和城牆保存的還算不錯,
我們從西門走到南門,

順便找尋海角七號的場景們…

很輕易的找到恆春郵局,
接下來往阿嘉的家前進！
一路上偶而會出現路標，只是阿嘉家的方向。
往這裡！沒錯！
往那裡！沒錯！
咦？路標呢？
繞著繞著…. 已經第四次回到恆春郵局…
我們鬼打牆的找不到阿嘉的家

在心灰意冷之下問了一個路人大叔…
(這個時候應該十二點多了…)
路人很熱心的帶我們去!!

…..但是他騎機車… >////////////////<

一群人一起在恆春的巷子裡狂奔,
真是太 high 了 XDDDD

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延伸閱讀：牡丹社事件

突然想聽音樂會。

看了接下來在交大演的幾個場次,
發現有一場蘇顯達老師的小提琴獨奏會…

老實說我本來不知道蘇顯達是誰 >////////<
只有覺得他很顯達!!!!
單單是對皮老的 Tango 有興趣而已.

唉呀, 這個優柔寡斷的女人。

雖然。
小草莓很棒, 率真熱血浪漫體貼;
學長也很棒, 溫柔專情穩重成熟

一直遊移在兩個人之間的無雙, 真的很優柔寡斷啊…

曲：Gesang Martohartono  詞︰周禮茂 編︰倫永亮

我愛梭羅河　又再哼起老歌
這夜煩憂都淡忘　明月光一再相和

我愛梭羅河　讓我想起太多
故夢重溫一夕尋　甜蜜心內如重播

Chorus
聽到醉了我沙上仰臥 看著晚星閃閃問我
笑答應我會找個新愛伴 然後唱新戀歌

這晚愛梭羅河　就似溫心被窩
有夢全都只是甜　原諒今夜人忘我

這晚愛梭羅河　懶得開花結果
愛情由它怎樣來　明日只又隨緣過

〔我愛梭羅河〕　我愛梭羅河
〔我愛梭羅河〕　仍難像最初