Day 1 ( Singapore - Kaohsiung):
Departed from Singapore Changi at 3.30pm and reached Kaohsiung at 7.45pm. I was so damn angry with my camera!!! Think my camera doesn't like to take aeroplane. Last time when i went Hong Kong, my camera was spoilt when i took it out during my flight journey. This time round, i took it out agn, praying that the same old thing won't happen. Haiz... Who noes?! It happened agn!! Why!!!!! Why must u do this to me?!!!!
Haha... Seemed like 1 whole day has gone. Where can we at this time? Of course to the famous Leo He Night Market. Hahaha.. Ate alot of local Taiwan delights.
1) Orh Ah Jian/ Orh Ah Mee Sua
2) Zha Bing (Fried Chocolate Ice)
3) Cheese Hotdog+ Sweet n Spicy Sauce
4) Dan Zai Mian
5) Hu Jiao Bing
6) Cao Mei Niu Nai (Strawberry Milkshake-Although Papaya milkshake is famous in Taiwan.)
7) Yu Dan (Fish Egg)
8) Fried cuttlefish
9) Seafood Porridge
10) Ai Yu Bing!!
11) Niu Nai Bing!!
Shumin having seafood porridge, me having Niu Nai Bing and penny with Ai Yu Bing!
Proceeded to Gear Hotel. Hmmm.... shared a room with Penny one the first day while Jieying and Shumin shared another. Hahaha.. We went over to the their room chatted n watched TV together. Oh my. Taiwan has got 100 over channels loh. So many!!! Dun even noe which channel to watch. Juz keep switching around.
Day 2 ( Kaohsiung - Taichung):
Took the coach from Kaohsiung to Taichung.(Abt 3 hrs? ) First stop is to the Spring and Autumn Pavilions. Oh my god.. Taichung is super hot. Hotter than Singapore!!! Going to melt soon.
Visited Fo Kuang Shan Monastery. Wah.. Climb up so high so far. Hahaha... But we can have a good view of Taichung from Fo Guang Shan.
Wrong positioning of hands!!!
The small 1 is so cute!!!!
After which, Heh.. Will be the Chi Lin Fong Hot Spring. Whoo Hoo.. First time leh! The water is either super hot or super cold. For me i prefer Cold spring. But actually no.. Hot also not bad. LOl... for the post Spring activity, all of us are supposed to eat eggs. I also dunno the reason for doing so. It's not by eating. It's by sucking!!! Using a straw to suck the half boiled egg out, with some salt in it. Hmm. Quite nice... But i still prefer the traditional way of eating. Which is to match with soy sauce. LOL..
Headed to Feng Jia Night Market after that. Another street of local delights. Eat and eat agn. Bought 1 pair of shoes there. ONLY that! Nth else. Cos we got too little time to shop. Only abt 2.5 hrs of eating and shopping. Already spent most of the time eating le.. So left little time to shop. Sob Sob....... Went to Da Zhong Chang Pian (A famous CD shop in Taiwan)! Whahaha... Feels good to walk into Taiwan Cd shop. Hee... But nv buy anything. Not able to decide which CD to buy. LOl..
Wat a long ice-cream!!! Guess how much is that?
Ans: NT$ 250 (S$ 1.25)
Went to Twinstar Hotel after a day of activity. Hmm.. Quite early though. It's only 8.30pm i think. So we juz went to the shopping centres near our hotel. Whoo hoo.. Bought a shirt there. Hee.. So happy. It's so cute. Popeye's brand. LOL.. CARREFOUR was our next destination. Hahaha... Taiwan is very particular abt SAVING THE WORLD- Recycling. No plastic bags will be given to u even u buy tons of things. We have to bring our own plastic bags loh. Hah... So we carried our tidbits, our magazines, our drinks with our pair of hands back to the hotel. Luckily our hotel is not very far from that place. We were like so paiseh when we stepped into the hotel. Kept our heads down at all times. Whahhaa.. Cos 4 pairs of hands were all full of things...
This day i shared a room with Jieying. LOL.. The four of us juz keep changing partners lah.. then it's fair ma. Whhaha...
Day 3 ( Taichung - Yilan):
After our breakfast, we depart for Miaoli for it's fruit orchids. Before that, we stopped at a stall that sells Tai Yang Bing. Bought 3 big boxes. For my family and friends of course. Hahha..
Whoo.. hoo...We got the chance to pluck fruits and taste them. Of course at our own expense loh. Lol.. I juz pluck a tomato and put it back. Lol....
Look carefully at the cactus!!! It's so nicely decorated!!
They look so fake.. But they are real!!
After that, we went to Shen Keng Tofu Street. Oh my god.. The whole street of Smelly Tofu. It's as if u walked into a SHIT STREET. Whahahaa..... Cannot tahan the smell loh. However, we still tried the famous smelly tofu there la.
After that, the coach brought us up the sloppy road to YiLan(exactly like the path to genting). On the way up, we watched Jolin's concert and Shrek 2. Oh my god.. Shrek is so nice. Btw, it's in chinese. I think the chi version is nicer than the eng ones. aiya! Shld have bought back that vcd. laugh till u pengs! We checked into at Shangrila Leisure Farm. It's a farm-stay u noe!!! So cool! And it's up right at the mountain area. Imagine how cold it can be. Especially at night. But many mosquitoes.
This is the farm stay we live in. Look! That's my good fren, Piggy!!
After our dinner, we had a chance to participate in the farm activities such as learning to make 'Tang Yuan', playing 'tuo luo' and also releasing Heavenly Lantern. (Tian Deng). It's interesting! We wrote all our wishes on the Tian Deng and then with the help of fire, it juz flew up into the sky. Hope that god has got all our messages. LOL. The tour guide even told us that there's translator up in the heaven. So it's ok if we write our wishes in English. Hahahaha... Juz to play safe, i wrote them in Chinese. In case ma.... LOL.
It's still quite early when we got back to our room. The rooms there are like chalet kind of rooms loh. One whole stretch. We can only keep ourselves in our room, munching our tidbits and watching tv. Like wat i mentioned earlier... Too many channels..
Day 4( Yilan - Taipei)
Jiu Fen was our first destination of the day. Wah... This is the place where i bought lots of good stuff. Bought mango and lychee pudding. oh my! Damn nice sia... QQ de.. LOl. Bought some souvenir keychains, 2 陶笛 and many other things. Took picture with a wierd obasang that sells sausage. Haha.. She is very very famous 1 loh. I even saw her on TV-少年特攻队. 5566 went there b4. That's how i got to noe her. Hee.... Oh! Saw 樱桃帮 too! COOL!
Next stop- Fisherman's Wharf (渔人码头).
The weather is cooling at Taipei. LOl. Love it! Have been wanting to go 渔人码头 cos alot of singers held there concert there. One of them was Fish Leong. Also, there's 1 LOVER's BRIDGE. Stretching from 1 end to another. The bad thing about 渔人码头 is that the wind there is super duper strong. So strong that u can't even stand properly. We dun even have to go hair salon to make our hair. The wind will do wat ever kind of hairstyle u want!
Look how messy our hair are!!
After that, we went to 淡水老街. Bought 1 more 陶笛. This is really cute. A tortoise 陶笛! Oh ya.. ate Bean Flower here too. Hmm.. However it's incomparable to the 1 at Selegie. Hee....
Next is 中正纪念堂! Energy's very first concert when they stepped into the music industry was held at this place! Whoo Hooo........ It's great to stand in the middle of that place. I actually stepped onto the same ground as ENERGY! Whahahaa.... LAME.
Next stop is Xi Men Ding. But too bad. It's already too late when we reached there. We reached there at 9.30pm. And most of the shops closed at 11pm. Sianz..... Only shop 1 stretch of the shops Sianz lah! But lucky, the next day we visited Xi Men Ding agn.
This day i shared a room with Jieying.. And sth bad happened the next day... LOL
Day 5 (Taipei):
The both of us couldn't wake up. 1 Morning call at 7am and another 1 at 7.15. Jieying picked up the 7am call and i picked up the 7.15am 1... But in the end we slept till 8am. When we are supposed to meet the rest for breakfast at 8am. Whahaha.. Which means to say we have to skip our breakfast! Argh... Tao Yan!!!
First Stop is Chiak Kai Shek Memorial Hall where we see the armies 耍花枪. COOL. SHUAI. After that we proceed to 诚品书局. 6 levels of books and magazines. Whahaha.. Of course i went to the magazine section str away! LOL. Walked over to 新光三越 cos it's juz beside. Juz when we are abt to walk in, the security stopped us politely at the entrance, saying that the shopping mall will only be opened in another 1 min's time. Feel like boxing the man. 1 min also dun let us in!!!! Whahaha... I dun think i will ever stepped into 新光三越 agn.
Two reasons:
1) It's a very exaggerating shopping. the staff will line up in 1 str line. Once u step into their area of merchandise, they will bow to u and say 欢迎光临 at their top of their voice. U will feel that the whole shopping mall is urs and u r the general manager or wat.... Though it's shiok, but it's very scary. LOL
2) The things there are super expensive!!!!
Another shopping mall which we will nv step into is Taipei 101. Oh my god.. I dun even dare to step into the shops. All are over 150 bucks. Wah lao.. How can we afford?!!!!
After that, we went to the National Museum of Taiwan. The world's largest assemblage of riceless chinese art treasures.
We proceed to a place after that. I forgot wats that place called liao. But it's a kind of place where they do fortune telling. They will ask u to write down ur chinese name and count the number of strokes for u. Hahaha.. This is the conclusion they did for me:
1) U r a very smart girl (hmmmm... like not accurate leh.. )
2) U r a very stubborn girl (hmmm.. ya abit true)
3) U r a very indecisive person! (Ya!!! this is very very true!!!)
They asked for my date n time of my birth. And did another conclusion for me:
1) U r born on a very good day! (30th June... Hmmm.. Ya good. Very easy to remember)
2) U will marry a good guy... ( OH my god.. sure bo??!!!)
3) But i will not have a very good wealth. Will 'Po cai' (Broke money) Cannot participate in buying Toto or 4D or stocks ba...
Proceeding on will be the Shi Lin Night market. FOOD FOOD FOOD!!!!! 1 whole stretch of FOOD STALLS!!! Ate the 士林夜市鸡排!!! Oh my god.... Shiok sia.. And the queue is so damn long. Luckily we have the priority! Hahaha.. Tour guide used abit of technique to help us buy! Ate many things here as well. After which, we took the Taiwan 捷运 to Xi men ding!! Ah!!!! Yesh.. Finally got to try the 捷运 at taiwan! LOL so happy!
Haiz........ When we were on our way back to the hotel, i realise sth was missing. I was initially holding on to 3 paper bags. In the end, i'm only left with 2 paper bags! 1 was gone!!! And inside that bag was Chris's present. Oh my god.... This is so zhun! the fortune teller said i will 'Po cai'. and true enuf.... Shit......
Day 6 (Taiwan - Singapore):
Sob sob... Early flight at 9am. So have to reach airport at 7am. Woke up at 5am. Argh.... Leave hotel at 6am. Sianz.. 6 days Taiwan Delight became 4.5 days nia.. Tao Yan! Haven even enjoy enuf loh!!!
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