Saturday 11 November 2000

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Here is a little poem in Chinese. Fenny says it's some sort of religious group. Notice the number of repeated characters. I was actually able to figure out it was a poem from that. Probably nothing too difficult to do, but it amused me.

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Cool. This girl's got the whole Japanese style going. Sorry for the blurriness. I only got two pictures of her, and this was the better of them. The Nikon CP950 isn't meant for spur-of-the-moment photography.

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Here is a building outside of some train station. Nothing too special, but it kinda looked cool to me, so I snapped a shot.

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These are various pictures of a park that I saw while driving by on a bus. I told Fenny I needed to go there, so here we went. Fenny says this park isn't anything special, that there are a lot of parks like it.

Naturally, I snapped some photos since I've not seen too many things like it in the US of A. Mainly only the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco looks similar to me.

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More photos of the same park... A couple of funny shots with Fenny, too.

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The same park, still. Just getting the feel for this place.

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From the park, you can see the 'tallest building in Taipei' and another building that was built recently.

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Mood photos. I like taking pictures of Fenny, and she mostly lets me take pictures, so you get these. It was drizzling a bit that day, so the umbrella isn't just a prop. The final picture was taken using the timer on the camera.

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A cool walkway in the park. The trees on the right had many hundreds of little birds in them.

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In the park, there was a cool, wierd sculpture. There were a lot of tourists taking pictures, because this is a tourist spot listed in the Taipei Tourist pamphlet. I actually had wanted to come here, but didn't know I'd done it 'til I saw this sculpture.

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In the park, a little amphitheatre where a jazz band was playing a free concert. But it started to rain a little harder before they started playing, so I actually skipped out and didn't see them play a single song.

Fenny says they were aboriginal Taiwanese in the band. The common wisdom is aboriginal Taiwanese people are more musically-gifted and have better singing voices than the Chinese-Taiwanese.

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I like this little pond with the dragon in the middle.

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All penguins get their pictures taken by me, period.

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More pictures of the nifty pond.

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A playful cat, playing on a big yellow truck. There were about 5 seconds of better picture opportunities before this one, but the Nikon CP950 is hideously slow from the time you see a picture you want to actually recording the moment. I've decided the camera is almost useless for anything but photos with static subject matter or where you can plan on the subject's behaviour ahead of time.

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The park from the street.

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Off to the museum. A children's museum. Here is a rock that was outside of it.