100 years before the birth of Doraemon Exhibition in Taipei

Doraemon!! Who doesn't love this Japanese cartoon character, I guess he is every child's best friend. FYI he's having his birthday this year, 100 years early. In order to celebrate it, there's traveling exhibition around the countries, and it drops by in Taipei starting on Dec 29,2012. So I went there on Dec 31, right before the New Year's Eve. It wasn't a good idea actually, so crowded at that time =.= yet we still enjoy taking pictures like a child :P

For those who want to visit, here is the information...
It will open from Dec 29,2012 to April 7,2014
Venue: Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei
Visiting hours: 9am - 6pm
Fee entrance: NT$ 220, student NT$ 200
How to get there by MRT:
Take the MRT blue line to Taipei City Hall Station, exit 1 or 2 and walk for about 400m or to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station, exit 5 and walk for about 500m. 

three child-wannabe

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1 day off

there was an invitation to this International Muslim Culture Exhibition 2011 in NTUST, Taipei. i was curious how muslim in taiwan present our religion to others. i mean, very few of taiwanese know about Muslim including my roommates.

we had 1 day off on last wednesday. so i decided to go here with five of my friends.

we supposed to gathered in front of ILCC building at 9 am. i was a bit late, because i went sleep very late like at 3 am, but then when i get to ILCC building, there was only one of my friends. where's the others??? ahh~~ the boys TT

while waiting for them, i took some pics of the sport event at that day. but i'm not sure about this event, when we were there, there was a bunch people grouping and standing around the field, but nothing to do there. n it was drizzling. i think u should learn from the expert, indonesian, we use 'pawang hujan' for important date like this. haha.

after the ceremony

balloon decoration at main gate

At 10.00 we finally get ready to go. we took train from Neili to Taipei. we arrived about 40 mins to taipei main station (TMS). from there we should take another MRT to reach NTUST.

Gongguan station (the nearest MRT station to NTUST)

took some pics on the way to NTUST.....

cool.. i thought only basement parking lot using this kind of sensor XD

small shopping centre near station

a musical play in NTU. next to it is Yamazaki, Japanese bread store, they sell good stuffs :9 been there once.

cute car.. *just a random pic

finally we arrived!

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

about the exhibition...

an information of haram n halal food

Hajj (pilgrim to Mecca)

this, for those who want to try wearing a hijab. some foreigners and taiwanese were interested to try. n they were looking good on it:)

musical performance.. i think they are indonesians. so many indonesian students in NTUST, but too many i guess. not cool.

it was not a big exhibition, but the main idea of this event was to introduce our religion to others. so..two thumbs up for this event. i hope someday we can organize one in our campus.

After taking a free lunch at the exhibition, we walk around NTUST campus.

on the way back to TMS, someone suddenly said "let's stop by at C.K.S memorial hall station". so there we were..

C.K.S Memorial Hall

science exhibition inside C.K.S Memorial Hall

this technology was created for stroke people, it can move things to another place by looking at the direction light (right, left, up, n down)

giant brush. i tried to write my chinese name but it was disaster.

modern toilet? it was informing many kind of poop

i thought they were dolls

just random pic i took at MRT station on my way back home. I got back to my dorm at 9.30. so tired:( but the good thing is that i got new story to be placed here:)