National Museum of Natural Science Taichung

Terra Cotta Warrior

    Sorry friends for the late update. I am too much excited after looking at those exhibits. Of course all those were not new and no need of any introduction except for few exhibits. But I was lost  and spent time in recollecting my  memories and remembering the concepts I learnt because description of the exhibits were in chinese language partly but certain sections like alligators, history and origin of feathers, great migrations etc.. were in English.  Anyway I spent lot of time and at each exhibit and couldn't finish the whole museum by evening. The museum has two buildings one is Science exhibition hall and the other one is life sciences exhibition hall apart from temporary exhibits like Chocolate exhibition. At first i visited Chocolate exhibition. It is really awesome to watch. Terracotta warriors, Alladin, Buddha, etc.. impressed me a lot in that section. After that I entered Life science section where I saw exhibits about the origin of human life, alligators, an exhibit showing phases in the growth of Child in mother's womb. I learnt something about tissue engineering and the common disease with which Tiwanese die. Any Guess? It is Malignant neoplasm.

Chocolate Exhibition entrance

Buddha

Whole Monument oF TerraCotta Warriors made with Chocolate

Dedicated to My Angel :-)

    

          After this I entered temporary exhibition about Culture and religion( i didn't finish whole life science section but somehow I lost the track and entered this section) Here I saw models depicting culture of Tao people and some other villages like Honan Lungshan people, Ho-Mu-Tu Villagers, Pan-Po Villagers. These models really showed me the difference in the life style of those tribes in early days. This is the first time I really got interested in understanding cultures and arts... I took a close look at the art exhibits  also. I spent some good time.
Then comes Great Migrations exhibition stall. This is a mini series right now on air in National Geographic Channel. This really inspired me. I am in the process of downloading the episodes telecasted so far.  I like the journey of monarch butterflies.

I entered into some zoology and anthropology exhibits but I have only 20 mins. So I couldn't enjoy much so I rushed into them  but couldn't enjoy because time is running.

     Gardner Wheel : According to Him humans have eight types of intelligence and every body has one unique intelligence. This wheel asks me rotate to check mine. I rotated thrice with more or less same speed and I got the same result as anticipated i varied the speed it showed something different may be music intelligence( if my memory was right) anyway this is something i tried.

This wheel says My Unique Intelligence is interpersonal Intelligence...
But I don't believe it.

Guess Who is this? What is his age?

 The only access I have after i came out of life science section is botanical garden but my camera battery charge discharged. So I couldn't introduce that in detail except speaking about the concept of the garden. The Garden is a kind of triangle and the inner part of the garden looks like golf court and the outer part is like mountains.As we walk on the outer part we will encounter various forest we see in Taiwan like Northern lowland Tropical forest, Central lowland Tropical Forest, Eastern Low land Tropical forest , Southern low land and many other types. I couldn't appreciate it at the beginning. As I started crossing from one section to other I could really appreciate the concept. Once I entered southern forests they are really bushy and dark. One can understand very easily about Taiwan forests from here.

Returned back and many things happened these days... because of delaying this post I lost chance to blog others. I tried several times to blog but I couldn't concentrate because I was too ambitious to write whole story with too much details. So I waited until I lost my enthusiasm to write everything :-D
Finally, I am done.. yay!!!!!!

NeYearEve's Count down party

     This is my third New year's day in Taiwan. For the past two years I couldn't make it for the count down party due to reasons. This year I made up my mind strongly to watch that spectacular event. I invited few of my friends. Pola rejected and rest turned up. I didn't anticipate I will be going with 10 people to Taipei. I imagined I will be going with Pola, Srikanth and Raghu if he is willing to join us. It is very hard for us to persuade Rahu to join us in any social gatherings but some  how he showed up. Along with him he brought a localite from Taipei. He is Perry. He helped us all the way. Anyway as the news spread others joined us. I am a bit happy for that.

Gang at HSR

    
     We started at around 6:20 in Hsinchu HSR station. Even though we didn't reserve our tickets we are lucky enough to get seats in the non reserved compartment.

HSR arrived

Inside HSR

  As soon as we arrived Taipei MRT we saw a herd moving towards City hall.

Crowd at Taipei metro

 Now started messing up things. In our group there are many people who are first time visitors to Taipei and few are not fluent with topography. Everybody got down at S.Y. memorial hall station except one guy. So we had to call him to find where he was. Networks were very busy. Finally he told he got down at city hall and was looking for us at city hall exit 2. We walked to city hall exit2 and still couldn't find him in that huge crowd. Somehow after 20mins we find him. After this we went to Nirala Indian store, purchased some Indian snacks and grocery. We had our dinner in some Pakistani restaurant. The restaurant is inside a dinning hall. So it became very difficult to find a place to sit and eat. OMG! may be after 20mins standing beside the people who were eating we could get seats to eat. After we finished dinner we came out and saw the crowd number was increasing. We started to move towards city hall. Suddenly one guy was missing. He is new to city. He neither has a balance in his mobile nor we could  call him due to network problem. I asked others to wait and went in search of him. Finally located him after 10mins and we started to move  again. Meanwhile I received a call from one of my friend stating he was missing. Then once again i went back and got him. We resumed our walk. Mean while I heard one of my friend was speaking over phone and rest were moving away. I waited for  a while but I felt I may miss everyone and I moved to locate the passing group. Once I saw everyone I asked them to wait and came back but these people were not there. This time 3 people were missing. Finally we reached the building at around 11:30 and found a suitable place to sit at around 11:50.

Finally found a place to sit after we start from Hsinchu and they are glad to be the part of count down.

Fire work summary

                          

Music Concert

                      
   Then I managed myself to send sms to missing friends. Finally the countdown began. I couldn't hear huge noise as I imagined. Of course they counted but the noise was not sufficient for me. Once the fireworks started everyone just looked at it spellbound and noise and no disturbance from anyone. Among various fireworks the fire work displaying 100 on air attracted most of the crowd.

     Once This was done everybody started dispersing silently. Ofocurse there were few energetic guys who said hello and happy new year to us here and there in between our journey to Hsinchu. They are curious to ask us from which country we are from.. but couldn't ask i don't know why? While returning we gathered at SY memorial hall station at around 12:20. The announcement in Chinese asked us to walk to Taipei main station or else wait for 30mins. But Raghu decided to stay there which was a bad decision. We stood there for 90mins literally on the same place. It not only wasted time but killed our New year's day. I slept whole day after returning. We finally returned at 6:30am in the morning

   The facilities provided by Taipei government are to be appreciated. They gave a metro round the clock with a frequency of 1metro for every 3mins or something. Even the crowd were very patient enough they didn't caused much trouble to the volunteers who is controlling the crowd and giving instructions. I saw Europeans sitting on the dividers, enjoying their drink and clapping hands and passing New year wishes to everyone.

   Next time if i go i will not return after the event I will just stay there and enjoy the concerts or sit in any garden until the traffic clears.. lol