Alice found this Tamkang University 淡江大學 building in Taipei extremely intimidating.
There is one entrance, but where are the windows? It is a huge blue box with no windows!
It looks very impressive from the outside, but Alice doesn't think she wants to be inside the building!
Alice took this photo for the steps to the giant door of National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. In the good old days, every imperial Chinese architecture (or at least those official one) has to have an impressive set of steps. Ordinary people had to walk up those hundreds of steps to pay honor to the emperor or deities (or officials). These steps are supposed to humble the ordinary citizens and remind them the greatness of whoever is inside the building.
It was a very different mindset back then.
On the subject of kindergarten kids, this sign is taken outside another kindergarten in the same neighborhood.
'About 300 kindergarten students took the Cambridge Young Learners English Test, and their average score reached 86%'
WTF?! Alice always thought that attending kindergarten meant making friends, learning social skills, having fun, sharing (and fighting over) toys and breaking cookies! Now kindergartens are advertising their international test scores? FYI: A lot of parents in Hong Kong do send their kids to take the test, a test designed for second language learner. Seriously, testing our preschoolers? There is something wrong with our society and values.
This is the door to a happy kindergarten. There is something slightly wrong though...Is that supposed to be modern art or peas in the pod?
Alice likes this picture: Battle of the Fast Food Shops. In the same corner, you can choose from the Colonel's chicken or Burger King. The entrances to the fast food shops are right next to each other. To spice things up a bit, there is even a 7-11 convenience store there! This must be one of the most visited block corner in Mongkok.
Is it really a good idea to have a KFC on top of Burger King?
Alice found another mysterious door today. On the first floor of an old building on Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Alice saw this door. The door got a big sign 'Mystery' and there are those electricity meters and graffiti, it does look mysterious!
This all look promising until Kaz pointed out that 'Mystery' is just a brand name for skateboarding products. Well, one has to be a skateboarder to know this.
Alice went to the temple on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year. On her way to the temple, on Hollywood Road, she found this nice door.
Hollywood Road is a nice district in Central with lots of antique shops and stalls. It is nice to stroll around, but she wouldn't buy anything there, except second hand vinyl records. Everything else could be fake!
Alice just wondered whether this particular antique shop is charging its customers more for this nice door?
