22 October 2006: Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall

Francoise and I visited the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall（国父纪念馆）today. On our way there, we dropped by the Puppetry Art Centre of Taipei unexpectedly, and were in luck to have caught an exhibition there.


We saw many puppets on display. The art of puppetry has become almost obsolete in Singapore, as we seldom watch puppet shows unless some Chinese festivals are round the corner. Thus it had been quite an experience for me here. Some parts of the exhibition hall appeared ghastly, and we often had to grope our way from spot to spot.

Later, we walked to the Living Mall, which is the biggest dome-shaped shopping mall in Taiwan. Like this also can. Build something different and call it biggest or longest. Hee.

This is the office tower of the Chinese Television System (CTS; 中华电视公司）, famous for the production of a past variety show called 超级星期天:

We finally arrived at the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. However, bad timing! Many parts of the Hall are currently under renovation, and we had few spots to explore there except for a lush beautiful park in the site compound. The park had proven to be more of an attraction, as we saw Taipei's urban dwellers in their leisure moments relaxing by the ponds and flying kites at the central square.