IM BACK FROM TAIPEI YO













- took a MERCEDES "cab" from the airport to our hotel. because the driver couldnt drive into the small streets, we had to pull our luggage and ask where our hotel was in the crowded XiMenDing.




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- toured the memorial hall...

vintage, baby!

- went to Gong Guan hoping to find uber cheap sports apparel but we couldnt find any !

- lunch was beef noodles with no beef (??!)

- WuFenPu ! raining again. SIAN. but we still continued to SHOP!SHOP!SHOP!!!

- leg was aching very badly. had to keep squating down. rather unglam but what the heck.

- had LuRouFan for dinner. never would have guessed rice with fats tasted so good ! oh, luroufan had no meat! haha

- went back to XiMen to unload at the hotel..

-walked super unsystematically in XMD. so difficult to be systematic ! :/

- bought two bowls of Ah Tzung Mian Xian to share! damn nice ! a lot better than the lousy one we had at ShiLin.

- played HaRiLong which is the bball arcade machine. SUPERDUPER FUN!! i played till my arms ached :\

- we took neos too! this reminds me.. i didnt have my photo digitally mastered to look like i took a photo with vdubb! hahaha

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- took a cab from gong guan to LeoFoo Village cos we couldnt find the shuttle bus stop! the ride cost us a bomb !

SUPERSTAR! yeah right

this is apparently haunted.. hmms

-reached LF only to find al the exciting rides closed for maintenance! - the rides were so-so la. the water games were qt fun. some stupid octopus ride left me very groggy and seh

- took the shuttle to gong guan looking for an adidas factory outlet but to no avail.. :(

super tireddd.. (see that cute elmo bag!)

- went to taipei101 instead. CAM WHORED LIKE SIAO. HAHAHAH :D

-went to eslite bookstore to buy books. books there are slightly cheaper than those in singapore. their comics are only half the price that of singapore's! too bad im not an avid reader of comics..

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-mrt-ed to Dan Shui - the very last stop in the north

view of taipei from the train

Dan Shui

- ate Ah Gei for breakfast ! it's soooo cheap and delicious ! it is yummilicious tunghoon in tofu!

The legendary long ice cream. it melts super fast! very messy to eat

-shopped around. bought really cute (Hello Kitty) keychains and a face massager that helps to make the face slimmer! and i bought THAT CUTE ELMO BAG :D

-decided to take the ferry to Fisherman's Wharf

- there's nth much to see actually. and it was scorching hot !! i felt like a roasted marshmallow

- bought a lot a lot of food to bring home to sunny singapore.

-headed back to the hotel to unload and went 101 again! ahahaha. we went to eslite again too to buy comics...

-after eslite, kongbah and becca went back to the hotel while chengs, phyl and I went to Da An Park! it was super fun ! hahaha. been quite a while since i went on the see saw or the swing..

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- went to WuFenPu again to continue shopping. bought 2 pairs of shoes ! same design, just that one has heels, the other doesnt.. hahaha. i bought a pair of shorts and a top too..

- shopped til quite late.. went back to ximen to put our stuff and got ready to go to 18. ate dumplings and guoties for dinner! yknow i didnt eat xlbs at all during the entire trip :(((

- bought dbsk stuff from the korean shop ! :D

- you can ask me abt 18 luhs. haha

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- woke up pretty late. had breakfast at some cafe with swing seats!

- took the mrt to jiantan before we boarded the bus to YangMingShan.

- walked quite a bit before we found a reasonably priced hot spring that allowed to go in with our swimsuits. hahaha.- played and soaked in the water for quite a few hours. FUN ! :D

- made our way down YMS and bought a lot of food at the supermarket. hahahaha. finally found seaweed! (:

- unloaded our stuff at XiMen and went to LongShan Temple station.. wanted to walk in the Huaxi Night Market but the crowd nearby was rather old. walked one round in the temple and went back to XiMen. hahah!

-walked in the Red Playhouse which is some theatre..

- ate at some min2 ge1 can1 ting1 which had a minimum spending value :S shared some vegetarian meal with chengs. ahaha. could have died eating.. listened to the guy sing the songs we requested since we spent so much at the restaurant.

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- made our way to taipei main station hoping to catch a train to taichung to go to JianFuSan Theme Park BUT....... it was very expensive and would leave us only two hours to play ;(((

- went to Holiday to sing karaoke instead. had some minimum spending thingy also. so we had to order a lot a lot of food! madness.

- couldnt extend from the three hours we were given to sing so we had no choice but to leave.... for another karaoke place.

- headed back to XiMen cos there was PartyWorld there too. by the time we got there, they told us to wait for six hours till nine pm (??!?!?) for a room.. so we went to the Holiday at XiMen. this time round, it was a buffet.

- yknow their english oldies mtvs are like the one in kbox??!? super lao tu. ahahah. got a lot of models from the 80s "strutting their stuff" on the streets or along some beach. HAHAHA. it totally spoils the mood and we cannot finish the song. Edison Chen's song is accompanied by an mtv shot in India of the people along the streets etc. whaddaaaa...

- made our way to ShiLin Night Market again. this time, there was hardly any queue for my XXL Ji Pa! it's so huge, it was a lot larger than my face and very tasty ! spent most of whatever taiwan dollars i had left at their shops. hahaha

- unknowingly, we walked till it was one plus. had to cab back..

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- LAST DAY OF TAIWAN! :((((((

- guess what did we have for brunch? *drum rolls* KFC ! i tried the wrap that i saw on tv and the egg tart again !

- went to eslite (AGAIN) to buy more books! the rest bought a lotttttttt of comics. hahahaha.

- rushed back to our hotel in time to catch the bus to the airport. but it was kinda lousy la. we kept stopping to pick others up. then we had to change a bus midway. and the ride was so bumpy ! nonetheless, i slept. haha.

- my obese luggage was just under 20kg! more than that and i would need to pay for excess baggage :X

- had a croissant before boarding the plane..

- ride back to singapore was ohkay. the two guys who were spose to sit beside me went to the back so i had the whole row to myself! finished reading my comic, read a few pages of my storybook then slept and slept and slept... hahahahah

love, oli