Rally

Not sure if I picked the right time or the wrong time to visit Taipei, over their National Day. There's been a month-long rally to depose C.S.Bian, peaking on Oct 10. Hordes of people wearing red take to the streets around the Taipei main station. There are people selling red shirts, red head bands, red handfans, stickers, etc. Despite the crowd, people come with the mentality to carry out peaceful demonstrations so the affair is surprisingly peaceful with loads of people just seating around, shouting slogans "Chen Shui Bian step down!" as led by their leaders.
The atmosphere is almost carnival like with people taking their dogs out, turning up with friends and family of three generations. The streets are floaded with a sea of red. Even at traffic junctions, the people continue to cry their slogans and give the thumbs down as they cross the roads. Their cries echoing down the corridors of the streets. Very drama.
Quite an eye opener for me at how well organised this is overall. It is very impressive and I am almost ready to spent the whole day in their company, figuring my chance of getting arrested for meddling in Taiwan politics is probably slimmer than for voicing partisan views in sgp...Then suddenly a thought interrupted that I still have that Eslite shopping center to conquer which is more challenging and so lah lah lah, I flitted away...