Dinner and Newspaper Happiness

Dinner at Mey-Lin's

Last Thursday, (August 6, 2009) the TECO scholars were invited by Director Wei to get together at Mey-Lin's Restaurant in Jupiter Street. We were treated to a yummy Chinese dinner; the patatim was S-U-P-E-R among the other great dishes! Director Wei even ordered bao fan (泡飯) when I told him how much I loved it from when I visited Taipei last year. (Thank you, Director Wei! It was very good!)

Standing from left to right: Diet, Shar, Ms. Happy, JP, Joel.
Seated from left to right: Me, Heidi, Riza, Director Wei, Paolo, Rinka.

The venue was also used to collect the contact information from everyone (Thanks for initiating this, Heidi!) so that we'll be able to keep in touch with each other. We plan to have regular meet-ups with each other so we can get updates on each other's Taiwan lives.

PS. We missed you, Jen!


Newspaper Happiness

While partaking on the delicious dinner, Ms. Happy mentioned that the scholarship awarding was announced in a couple of news publications! So cool, right?

Here's a news-clipping sent to us by Ms. Happy from Malaya on August 7, 2009:


There was another newspaper that featured the awarding prior to Malaya but I can't seem to remember the name of the newspaper. (If anyone knows, please tell me. hehe!)

We also got a space in Manila Bulletin yesterday (August 9, 2009); but I don't have a scan of it yet. I'll update this entry as soon as I can to include the Manila Bulletin clipping. Thanks for sending this to us, Ms. Happy!


13 more days before I leave for my Taiwan adventure. I can feel the panic and the excitement escalating as the day draws nearer and nearer to my departure. Woot!