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This is a pagoda in a small ravine town Tensho.
We took a bus from Faren station, where we visit at the new year eve after we spent a few days in Taipei.
From Faren station to Tensho, it took us for 1 hour.
As you can see in the picture, it was located deeply in a mountain.
As we went into the montain, the road was winding and getting narrow.
There were not thrilling spot so offten like the bus was almost about to fall off the road.

Tensho was the final stop, and I felt a bit of tired.
We started sight seeing and roaming around the area.

We could easily find some temples and a pagoda.
There were steep stair ways and slopes which led to those spots.



The stair in it was like this, spiraling, as same as other pagodas we occasinally see.
This spiral was double spiral though.Like a DNA.
We started going up the stair, from this side or that side, which ever you want to go.
But I recall, if we want to switch the ladder, we have to complete the one to the top.
Once you got the top, you could get full around view.

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Festive atmosphere in the night market in Taibei.
Like "Bon odori festival" in Japan.
Hot weather ,high humidity, steam come from food stands.
This is not actually a festival, but a daily life.
This night market is under a roof, all food stands and restaurants ,bars are arranged in a grid order.
Once you get into the market you will find yourself put in a maze.


Narrow streets are crossed each other, a lot of small food stands are lining in lines.
People's voice.Filled with fiverish atmosphare.

My diary.
I have kept the best effort to get the best career available to me for nearly 3 months.
I have trained myself in these term.
If this time, I failured in the job search, I will start a part time job, this is a compromise in a course of searching the best job for my life time career.
I only need 50,000 yen for a month because I am living in parents house right now.
I am likely to get stressed out if I keep staying in the house and doing this training.
I need someone to talk to not only money.
I am buying alcohols every week so I spend money for drinks and foods mostly.
Occasionally, I am going to an English saloon and use just 2000yen or so.
Sometimes, I buy English text books that will take 1500yen or so everytime.
Just to keep the daily life in parents' house and buy books sometimes, I need 50000yen.
I only have to work 12hours a week to get the amount of money.Not difficult.
Still there are enough time left to spend for training and job hunting.

A pursuit of an odour.

This is a Taiwan's capital Taipei's local shopping area.
Everytime I feel sort of peculiar smell when I walk in a street in Taiwan, Hongkong, Shanghai or China town in Sanfrancisco or Van.
I assume that they are smell of herbal medicines or spices.
Even in Vietnam I didn't find this kind of smell not to mention in Japan.
Except for China town in Japan I have never found this smell.
So I conclude that this peculiar smell comes from something used in Chinese cousin.
When I went in Shanghai, I also pursued the source of the smell.
So I stopped by some grocery stores in the city and perchased some that was a Kozo(Chinese herbs).
After I came back to home I souted the Kozo, which looked like spinaches, in an oil.
I added gingers and leeks to it and fried.
It was really close to the odour I smelled but not identical exactly.
We time to time mention the smell of Narita air port as one of the soy sauce.
Same as that case, I found odour of shopping streets in those area peculiar somehow.

I like local areas not downtown areas.
Especially with good old smell, wall with full of stains, dusty and people working with sweat.
As for me, I barely understand Chinese or Taiwanese so those signage on the buildings viewed as kind of designs.

Taipei has night markets, which I went once.That had an atmosphere I like.
They viewed festive to my eyes.
I surely understand they are a part of their daily life nothing special.
But that had a nice atmosphere, that was really close to the one of Bonodori festival in Japan.

I had a penpal( exactly it was an Epal).
She met me exactly in Taipei and had a kindness to show me around the city.
She brought her friends and that was clever for her because I am male and she is female and more I am older.
I met her at 10 o'clock or so and I asked her to take me to the most favorable place to tourists that was a shopping street like Shibuya.
I supposed that she at least understood that I am a Japanese and sorrounded with all these kind of stuff everyday.
I wonder she thought I would get excited by all those Shibuya like stuff.



In a course of a job hunting, I went to "Hello work".
And there was a job I wanted to do so I asked a staff to give me a recommendation letter and he did.
He made a phone call to the school and the school( Kinder kids located in Yokohama and office is in Osaka) answered that means I am qualified to the job.
And I sent a resume to the school Kinderkids without delay.
A day later, I got an Email from the school.
That said I was failured and there was not any reason.
That pissed me off.They even didn't meet with me in person.
And they should tell me the reason why it was not good.
And today I got an envelope in which the resume I sent was.
There was no cover letter of any kind.
Just they sent me back the resume I sent.
They should show some apology.
They should attach a cover letter.
I felt so pissed off with the school.
If they think much of its reputation, they should treat the potential new staff members nicely.
They can never underestimate people's words of mouths.
Those bad reputation can dump its reputation down easily.
Kinder kids, that sucks.
If you consider those kind of school, don't go to Kinderkids in Yokohama.
They must owned and run by young imature person otherwise this couldn't happen.

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I prefer so called down to earth places to fancy sight seeing places.
Wherever I go I would visit the place which we can feel local people's life.
There is no point to visit the place with full of tourists even if you visit an exotic place.
Most of interesting things that is worth seeing lie in local areas.
People's way of living diverses from country to country.
And mostly people are showing their real lives in local areas not a down town.
By and large, the way of being a downtown is similar usually regardless of the place in which it located.
If one goes to Hongkong for instance, what make it possible to happen that he/she is heading for Disneyland without experiencing its local area?



People's energy is shown mostly in its local area where small restaurants, bars and shops are lining in narrow pathways.
Once you wondered well into local street, you will experience people's energy, real lives, atmosphere, voices of people laughing and smell of sweat.
Steam may come out of the ventilation fan of restaurants, which may smell like peppers and we go through the steam then people playing Mahjang or Chess might be appeared at a narrow street.
I would imagine what will be seen when I turn a corner left or right.
That would be also fun to make yourself wandered into a deep intricate street intentionally.