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| my homemade work of schedule |
As usual, I walked to the main road and I supposed there should be a lot
of buses that goes to the Taguatinga Shopping.
Truly enough, I confirmed with a youngster when the next bus came very shortly. Taguatinga is a busy district. The bus cut through the heart of the
residential area where shops and restaurants were everywhere. I caught a very gigantic Brazilian flag on
one of the alley, and thought I should come back to this place again and have a walk. Following the Google Map, I reckoned it was
time to alight. The shopping was just
across the road.
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| The little lady fingers were marvelous! |
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| Fancy a game of Bluffing over beer? |
Taguatinga Shopping was much bigger than I thought, for a
neighbourhood mall. There is even a
cinema too. I went up straight to the
food court to first of all satisfy my huunger!
Sometimes I wondered, how could there were so many stalls when
most of them were basically selling the same food! I walked by this Divino Fogao where you
pick your own dishes, like an economic rice stall back home. There were many variety and looked pretty
good! I went for it and picked two
pigeon eggs, some broccoli, my favourite lady fingers, some beef in gravy, a
slice of fillet beef with onions together with white rice and beans. Also ordered some kind of sour orange juice,
which I learned from my neighbor later that it should go together with sugar. Nevertheless, the lunch was marvelous,
especially the little lady fingers!!
Love it so much. And for the
first time, I saw people drinking a tower of beer in a food court! In fact, patrons with beer in a food court was a common sight here!
After filling up the stomach, it was time for “work”, and that
was patrolling all the stores inside the mall again! Personally, I preferred this mall, because
the design was a rectangular shape and this made it easy to cover
all the stores without missing one! If
you asked me, why wouldn’t I want to miss any stall when one can find easily what’s
available from the directory, I also couldn’t answer you! This was probably what bored people do.
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| Protesters at the bus terminal! |
Coming down from the 3rd floor slowly till the 1st
level, I was just about to go through every stalls and wondered where was
Melissa. The last one I had yet visited
indeed! The shop attendant, Larissa, was
really nice, trying to find out, if they have all the different models I was
looking for. When she finally did, I had
some colours issue to reconfirm. Hence,
I told her that I would be back some other day and that was when she told me
her name, probably to make sure I look for her again for the commission.
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| Protesters moving to the main road! |
It was about time to go downtown. I grabbed a McD ice cream cone and walked to the nearby subway
station. The station was a few
stops further away from Shopping. I
reached Central, where the bus terminal was, and saw a demonstration just
started. They were heading probably towards
the stadium, occupying the main road, and blocked the traffic. Later, I found out from Fernanda that these were mostly Indian's protesting a new law that reduces their land. There were also other protesters, including those against the World Cup gathering together.
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| Sunset at Brasilia! |
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| It actually looked better than in photo! |
I took a bus to the JK Memorial and passed by the
stadium. There seemed to be some event
or celebration held outside the stadium.
I walked passed JK memorial and came to an open area called the Cruzeiro
Plaza, where there was a cross in the middle. At 1172m
above sea level, the cross was the highest point in the urban area of Brasilia. No wonder this was the
best place to "catch" the sunset. Seems
like there were really people gathering for that purpose! I checked my watch and the compass on my Iphone
too. Somehow, the sun set at northwest
in Brasilia! More people came as it got
closer to 5:30pm. Some started to take
pictures. It wasn’t really fantastic
because the view was pretty much blocked (hence the "catch" in inverted commas) But, that was probably the best you could ask for in a city like
Brasilia. The sun went down pretty fast
in the final minute. By 5:40pm, it was completely
gone.
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| JK Memorial... |
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| A lame effort to capture the sunset! |
I took a long long walk back to the bus terminal. Thought of passing by the stadium to check out
the event I saw earlier, but unfortunately, it has already ended. Instead, I met with lots of heavily armed
policemen around and eventually realized they were actually confronting the
protesters right in front of them next to the main road!! A guy walking along with me, turned his head and
talked to me in Portuguese. He probably
suggesting we should walked faster and get out of there soon! As we were getting closer to the protesters side, a middle-aged lady walked passed while pointing her finger at me! I was still wondering if she were trying to entice
me then!
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| Awful dinner!! |
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| I wonder how, I wonder why Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky... |
According to the map, the Chinese restaurant should be next
to the bus terminal. I crossed over to
the other end and followed the Google Map, but when I reached where the map
pointed to, it was a quiet building with no restaurant at all! Then, I tried to follow the map I downloaded
from the web, which showed it should be exactly at the Hotel Nacional. I found the hotel in front of me and moved
over to check out the area. After
circling around twice, there was no sign of any restaurants, let alone, Restaurante Dragon! Shortly, I came back
to Boulevard Centre and gave up my Chinese dinner. Walked to the food court at Conjunto Nacional
shopping mall and by then, my legs badly need to be sent to the ICU!! After the great experience this afternoon, I went for the Divino Fogao again!
It was a terrible mistake! The dishes were probably leftover since morning and hence wasn't fresh at all. Even the taste of my favourite little lady fingers were way too far off!!
It was 8:30pm and there were fewer buses. I had to wait for a while longer than usual at the bus terminal. After showered, I thought of catching the NBA
on TV, but NHL was shown live instead. I switched to Roland Garros but only after a short while, I could not opened
my eyes any longer and went to bed at 11pm!
Today, Fernanda’s mom showed me the honey that her cousin brought for her
from her farm!
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