The National Palace Museum was one of the top three museums in the world, according to the guide. Two others were the Lourve and the British Museum, which I already visited! :) Had a better understanding of some of the precious pieces such as the "jade cabbage" and the "fatty meat". So, there were three pieces of jade cabbage in the world. I saw the one in the Palace Museum in Beijing. This one, according to the guide, it was the 嫁妆 of 谨妃. 1.5 hour visit definitely had not done justice to the place; however, the huge crowd would be one factor that put people off (for a longer stay).
The changing of guards was the reason to go to the Martyr's Shrine. It was a good one, hm.... more to see compared to the one at the castle in London.
For lunch, we thought there would be a pleasant surprise when we saw the restaurant served frogs. Anyway, no luck :(
A fair amount of time was set aside for the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, which we thought a third of it would do. Anyway, we were saved by the exhibition put up by the education authority. Though the large part of it spoke about the Education Journey since its early days (e.g. the establishment of the first school, etc), there were things that we could associate with... For instance,
(i) Thinking of Sun Yat-Sun about education... his philosophy and beliefs...
(ii) The old chinese primary school textbook. Though the ones I used were different, but I could see the similarity in the drawings! The style of drawing, too... the "Asian" flavour :) Of course, we had more, like the Malays and Indians. Some of the most commonly used name were 阿里 Ali, 美方and 小华.
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