- Biked to Taipei Main Station for Lunch with Wayne, Xiao Bing-bing and Pang-pang
- Biked back along Zhongxiao E. Rd and Civic Blvd. with CowParade Taipei 2009
Stat & Course condition:
Dry at noon and early afternoon, but drizzling in the evening with strong wind throughout the day.
How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)
Physically 5
Mentally 5
About my nutrition 4
About my sleep 3
How hard did I work? 7
(the 10-point scale)
Note and reflections:
(see other CowParade Posts at CowParade Taipei 2009)
I thought that I would bike to get on MRT at Nangang Station but I ended up bike on the way to Taipei Main Station for lunch with friends. After lunch, I thought that I would go back to lab and work but I ended up biking around following CowParade on Zhongxiao E. Rd. and Civic Blvd. It was a good bike in a windy day, though.
I met a cowboy to take care of the cows on Parade near SOGO cleaning all five cows there. I mentioned to him about the fenched-off cows at National Palace Museum, but he said that many cows have been damaged and showed me photos he took. After gave me a brochure with a map of CowParade, he suggested me to go to HuaShan Creative Park to see five cows and especially the only "live cow" in this CowParade. I did follow his suggestion as I was planing to stop there but was not sure about the place. I got lost because the map showing Huashan Creative Park located between Bade Rd. and ZhongShan N Rd, near Hi-tech Plaza Mall. It was totally wrong! The park was located near Xingsheng N. Rd on Bade Rd. Well, well, this was not the only mistakes on the brochure; locations of the cows were not correct either.
The park itself was quite interesting with many run-down buildings with graffiti. I saw many people came with camera and took photo shoot there. I guess the location was intended to be in this artistic atmosphere (need to find out why later on). I caravaned around the park to meet all those four cows and the "live one" (含笑 -Banana Shrub) because of plants and flowers on its back.
I later continued my way on Civic Blvd. to FuBon Financial Business Park, back down to SOGO and Taipei City Hall for Dinner with Meng-Shin. After dinner I biked back to the apartment. This part of the story will be told in the next post.
Due to strong wind today, my bike was fallen down three times in its parking position (once at SOGO, Fubon Biz Park and near Eslite Bookstore in Xinyi).
Photos:
Surfer Cow (on a remote controller) by Chunghwa Telecom.
扭力+牛力 (Pump the MooPower) in its daily cleaning up session by a cowboy of FunCapital.CowParade needs cleaning up every day.
扭力+牛力 (Pump the MooPower) being checked its engine.
Nokia 5800觸控牛 (Nokia 5800 TouchCow) in front of Zhongxiao SOGO.
奔牛 ‧ 白布丁 (White Pudding Cow) is one of kids' favorite. A girl in pink says "Look at my face!"
火花 (Spark) at Daylight will spark when Daylight disappears.
金庸武俠牛之笑傲江湖 (the Smiling, Proud Wanderer) at Huashan Creative Park
"The live Cow."Among over-100 cows on parade, 含笑 (Banana Shrub) is the only one that breathes.
Let's "peep" inside to see how the inner of the 窺 cow moves.
Another view of 含笑 (Banana Shrub)!
Bullfighter Warrior!阿美族的勇士牛 Amis Bullfighter depicting a warrior society of Amis indigenous people.
Expressive art on 被肢解的奶媽 (The Baby Sitter that be Disassembled) Cow telling how hard a cow produces milk to feed a human child (in addition to its meat).Continue reading the rest...
