Jason Roberts's Adventures!: Opening Ceremony was awesome...

Last friday, I went to Deaflympic Opening Ceremony. It is much more than what I expected, which is actually a professional halftime sport show-like. They had a huge Japanese drum team (about 80 people) performing along with the world renowned deaf female drummer, Evelyn Glennie. It was an amazing performance. Then, we had different acts of performance related to ocean and rice fields in their culture. Overall, it was so amazing with about 9,000 volunteers along with firework shows. Here are some pictures of the show.

Fire Accident from the firework display!!

There were so many staffs trying to put out the fire. I was worried little when I saw all taiwanese freaking out about the fire as I don't want to deal with a stampede! lol It was all good when it was put out.

the waves of ocean...

the rice fields...

Yesterday, after watching the event of cycling, my friends and I decided to go to Taipei 101 for lunch. One thing that is funny about my lunch is that when I ordered a beer, I didn’t expect to get a mini-size can (135ml). You will see it in the photo. After lunch, we went up to the top floor in Taipei 101, which is the world tallest building as of now (Dubai is scheduled to complete their tallest building this fall/winter to capture the title). One thing that I didn’t realize is that their elevator is the world's fastest one. It went to floor 5 to floor 89 in 36 seconds (top speed is 1100 meters per minute). I could feel my ears popping for few seconds once we are close to the top. If you have gone to Sears Tower or Empire State Building, then I would highly recommend you to visit Taipei 101 to ride the elevator. Beside that, they do have a giant yellow ball inside the building which is a wind damper as it helps with the building being stable from all strong winds. After spending time to go around the mall under Taipei 101, we went out to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant at another mall. It was just nice and simple. Now my friends and I are tired as hell from all the walking around. We are going to look at more sport events today as I will take more pictures.

this has to be the world's smallest beer can...

It is official! I just bought this grocery store business and changed the name to Jason's. :)

Those two photos are of the food court area as they have beautiful interior architecture design/foundation.

It say it all...

This was taken on outdoor observatory floor..

Can you imagine this is from 89 floor as I'm looking down to 1st floor? can you really see the 1st floor there? I couldn't even see it when I looked down there in person. The security guard got really nervous when I was joking about dropping a coin down there. so tempting...