10/12-10/15: Sum up week 5!

10/12: Haircut Day!!! Emily took me to Taoyuan to get a $270 haircut. It ended up being really awesome! The woman who cut knew what to do really quickly and just went to work even though i was still unsure about what i wanted. but then i ended up buying this haircream for $450 and now i regret it because i haven't used it. sometimes i shouldn't listen to emily, but most of the time something good comes out of it anyway, it was my idea to begin with. then we walked around taoyuan cuz there's tons of shopping around there, but we just looked at the little stores. i saw a winter coat that i loved but long story short, i'd have to come back another time to get it so i was sad. oh but i got some steamed buns that were AWESOME

10/13: Taoyuan and Search! In the morning i was debating whether i wanted to go on this Chinese Geography trip to Hsinchu and Yingge. Then I called Jerome and found out they were going to Taoyuan with Jerry so I invited myself so I could go buy my coat! I got Josh to come with me since they had already left. Good thing emily told me how to go the night before. We took the bus and it was really easy, just $15 (50 cents) and it went straight there. We walked through 2 dept stores (also got food at the top of Far East 21 which was yummy, a bowl of noodles and meat sauce and wonton soup and a chocolate bubble tea). it was chaos in Idee, but the belgians all bought 3 piece suits (for only about $250!!). then went to my store and I bought my coat, plus a short sleeve jacket and a button up short sleeve that was awesome! then went to hunt down some food. josh wanted an omelette thing so i got turnip cake from the same place. the belgians and jerry got this sandwich thing. the egg stuff was pretty good but they add this starchy stuff that makes it chewy that the guys dont like. they make it with oyster or shrimp. then we went back and got ready quick for Search again for Johnny's birthday. They got a VIP room but this time no all you can drink and the music wasn't as good as first. but then they had some dancers and the "best DJ in asia" who was really good and rapped a song to Johnny for his birthday. got back late again

10/14: Woke up early to meet my Sanyi in Taipei for lunch. I was so out of it!! but met my aunt and got there right on time. The restaurant was cool, its t he 85th floor of Taipei 101 so you get a crazy view of Taipei from the comforts of a restaurant. There's even a view when you go to the bathroom. Then got picked up by Eryi to go to her house and we stopped at the Jade and Flower Market. The flower market was AMAZING. They have beautiful orchids (many that i've never seen) for about $150 ($5US). i was so sad I couldn't take them home. I also saw a cool plant that you can hang, but I thought maybe it'd wither in my room like my turtle :( They have amazing bonsai there too. Then walked through the jade market (the REAL one, not the one i went to last time) and they had cool stuff too. iwill have to go back for gifts for people! then went back and got ready for the taiwanese wedding. the wedding itself was not that amazing. just a really long dinner. the actual marriage part was like 5 min and not very emotional. the best part is the girl gets to buy 3 dresses: 1 for wedding, 1 for toasting everyone, 1 for saying bye to everyone. the dude next to me kept getting more wine and his face was real red by the end. then went back, i was so tired that i lost patience with my aunt internally and really wanted to go home. i cleaned my room and stuff too.

10/15: Happy Birthday Johnny! Johnny's real birthday, and me and Adeline planned to cook dinner for him at Spike's house. It became larger with 10 people total. I went shopping with Chris, Gigi and Spike then picked up Adeline and we went to work cooking. Adeline knows really tasty but easy recipes!

Apple Crumble:
Slice up a bunch of apples in a pot, add lots of cinnamon and brown sugar and a cup of water and simmer on the stove til a bit tender.

Cut up butter in a bowl and add lots of flour and brown sugar and use your hands to mix and knead it til it looks like crumble.

Put apples in a cake pan and add the crumble on top. Put in the oven for ~30min. Serve with ice cream!!!!

Pasta:
Cook cubed chicken, add a lot of cream and a bit of dijon mustard. That's it for sauce!
Cook pasta...add sauce! Really good!