Dentist Visit - CowParade Taipei 2009

Activities/Actions:

• A bike ride to and from dentist office at Zhongxiao Xinsheng.
• Visit Cows on Fubun Financial Plaza on Ren-Ai Rd. (2009 CowParade Taipei)

Stat & Course condition:

Date: 02/09/2009
Start Time: 09:26:00
End Time: 10:06:00
Time Taken: 00:40:00
Route: dentist office to Sinica
Total Distance: 6.89 mi.
Burned: 260 (kcal)
Pace: 05:47 (avg)
Speed: 10.34 (mi/hr) (avg)

Date: 02/09/2009
Start Time: 12:15:00
End Time: 12:41:00
Time Taken: 00:26:00
Route: dentist office
Total Distance: 5.40 mi.
Burned: 195 (kcal)
Pace: 05:32 (avg)
Speed: 10.8 (mi/hr) (avg)

(the biking direction is reversal of the previous dentist-visit bike trip).

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)
Physically 4
Mentally 5
About my nutrition 5
About my sleep 3


How hard did I work? 7
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
Arrived in lab early this morning to get ready for a ride out at 9:25A to a dentist office at Zhongxiao Xinsheng Junction for a half-year clean up after a flawed visit last time [วิ่งไม่หยุด: Walk and eat]. A cleaning was quick and there was nothing unusual. However, the dentist suggest me to clean gently in some area of the gum. Meng-shin and I had a lunch at Beard Chang Restaurant near the MRT Station before I rode back.

A group of fiberglass colorful cows in front of Fubon Financial Plaza on Ren-Ai Rd. drew my attention to park the bike and snapped photos of them. I recalled Chicago's Cow On Parade in 1999, when a heard of cows visited Downtown that Summer. Although I did not visit that event in person, I read of their visit in a commemorative book (I had a copy of this book somewhere).

Ten artistic imaginary cows are standing around the plaza inviting passersby to take a look at them. I am sure that more of their friends will be scattering around the City to welcome the Year of Ox. I will plan my own parade on bike to follow their hooves caravaning this year CowParade Taipei.

Photos:

眼球先生的異想世界 (Mr. Eyeball's World of Fantasy) has more than two eyes expressing multi-emotional withins in real and fantasy dimensions.

"My t-shirt pattern matches with 哞哞花花 (Moo-Moo-Hua-Hua)'s horns, and I am posting as beautifully as 水水牛 (Beauty Cow) standing behind."
(水水 is used in the Island's 閩南 dialect to describe the beauty, especially of a girl).

The bike parked right by the relaxing 悠悠牛 (Leisurely Cow) during a City's chaotic lunch time when office workers taking their lunch on Ren-Ai Rd.