Inspired by Prof. Rhenald Khasali, I assigned my students last semester to write a post in their own blogs about their holiday.
Because of that, I feel obliged to write my own post too. As usual, I had this plan for quite a while, but never really take any action to do it. So I would write this post as a draft and complete it from time to time.
I had the chance recently to go to Taiwan with my father to attend my brother's graduation ceremony. If there hadn't been any graduation ceremony, I wouldn't have traveled there too. I have always thought that if I have to travel to some country far away, it should be for a more permanent immigration purposes. That I would find a job there, not just a temporary holiday.
Taiwan was the furthest country from Jakarta that I have ever visited in my life. For me, I knew that it would be a new and exciting experience. And it was.
The biggest canteen that I have ever seen. Possibly the biggest monastery canteen in the world.
Supposedly the most beautiful MRT station in Taiwan. But the locals are quite skeptic about it.
Besides Taiwan, we had the chance to visit Hongkong too. It was a great country too. Lots of tourists. And great landscape. And similar with Taipei, they have a really great subway system. All of my life I have thought that subway system in KL/S'pore was really good. And now I get to experience something even better. Maybe one day if I get to visit the Tokyo subway, I would say different thing again.
We visited the Big Buddha, the biggest Buddha statue (sitting position) in the world. Although I am not a Buddhist, I have always wanted to visit this statue. Saw it from a scene in the Amazing Race TV series. It's amazing. The stairs are like those in the temple in Kungfu Panda movie. It's really great.
Next statue should be the Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, or the Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Bali, once it is completed, it will be the biggest statue in the world. Just search in Google that there is a Spring Temple in China with the current biggest statue in the world.
