Wednesday, March 28, 2012

120319-120325 Taiwan Graduation Trip



Day 1 
Singapore Budget Terminal -- Taoyuan International Airport -- Ximending 


Our flight's at 2:45pm and i arrived earlier to have lunch there with my aunts. 
Cant hide my excitement the moment we check in our luggage. kekeke



First group photo to mark the start of our 7days grad trip! ^_^ *jumps around*
Excited me ~~ The advantage of afternoon flights is that we get to see beautiful skies :D 
Woke chien wan up when i saw this beautiful sight(cause she was sitting by the window)Felt rather bored and keep fidgeting around in the very restricted tiger air seats ><Anyw, I survived the 4.5 hrs of boredom and here we areeeeeee~~ (flight landed earlier than scheduled)

TAI -to the- WAN
芒果冰,滷肉饭, 蚵仔煎,mee sua, 贡丸,鸡排, 珍珠奶茶 etc etc!!! *slurps*
Wanted to take a cab at first.. but.. the rate from the airport is way too high! So we took bus 1819 to 台北车站 and took one stop  on the blue line to 西门station!!! 
It looks exactly how i see it on tv programs!So surreal!! *.*Met up with our minsu's owner, Norman. Our minsu is just 5 mins' walk away from the station! And it has a cute name! Jogging Bear :) We just sent our luggage upstairs and headed to buy some food first! Norman wanted to bring us to 阿宗面线 but its closed. So we bought 滷肉饭, carrot cake,   贡丸汤,鸡排 and  蚵仔煎

Norman got a shock looking at the amt of food we bought xD 

At such an unearthly hour (almost 11??) as well. 
Cute packaging hor! for the rice~~
(bad idea to be blogging abt food at 2 am in the morning 
Omg i miss this!!!! :( 
FREAKING NICEEEEEEEEEEEE 
Tried this bittergourd juice as well. 
Because they add honey and its white gourd, it doesnt taste bitter at all! :)

Ok! 
Its time to reveal our cosy homestay venueeeeeeeee :D 
Look at these cute decos at the common area~~
艺术吧 my pic! 

Deng deng deng deng!!! 
OUR ROOM!! 
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Bathroom!! 
It looks exactly like what's shown on their site ~~ 
Especially love this area of the room and its my 地盘!!! :D 
*jiangjiang~~~*
Some candid shots from day 1 below!! :)
One of her many daily regimes 


--END OF DAY 1--

Day 2 鼎泰豐--五分埔--饒河夜市-- 西門町



A photo to start off our Day 2! : D 
We trained to 忠孝敦化 for some 鼎泰豐 brunch~~
While waiting to be seated, we decided what to eat.. 
When i saw the stairs to the restn and the interior design of the restn,
was wondering if its the same outlet as the one ryeowook n kyuhyun went to~ 
Anyw, got seated with doubts.. 
Gotta say i'm impressed by their service!~ 
Really attentive. 
They had trays for us to place our bags.. 
I guess only few outlets in Singapore has it. 
What's better is they even arrange our bulky bags for us and placed a cloth over it.
Looks kinda creepy thou uhh
Beware! Next up is a spam of delicious food ~~
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Shit! I hungry alr! >< 
Oh! forgot to mention, there's a really cute xiaolongbao mascot and they even have a dintaifeng merchandise shop.
再拍张polaroid做纪念

After the fulfilling meal, its time to do some exercise! 
Doing some walking whileeeee SHOPPING! : D 
Yes, 五分埔 it is!~~ 
This pic is the result of our shopping at  五分埔~~ 
keke
Spent about 3 hrs plus  there??! 
Loving my baseball jacket. 
Got it at a promotion price! 
1 for 1 ^^
Really nice, handsome n pretty 店员s~~
And and..

Its a must to mention these 2 very funny guys!! 
The first guy reminds us of someone.
But we cant recall who! 
And the second guy looks like halin right?!! HAHAH xD 
They are freaking humorous and damn lihai in selling~~
So ladies, make a trip to their shop, 323, if u happen to be there! 

Then we walked another distance to .....
饒河夜市!!! 
Met really nice people.
We approached a guy to help us take picture and he was so friendly.
And even took off his earpiece~~ 

We listened to what Norman said and tried out stores that had long queues! 
大包小包~ I LIKEEEEEEEEE 
Check out this really huge cup of milk tea. 
Very cheap too!! 

Our day 2 ended back at ximending where we went for some 阿宗面线 ..
A walk around ximending, including STAGE! :) 
Pretty nice stuffs and iphone case! 
And pretty high prices too!! :O
Took a walk around 电影城 (where xiaozhu held his autograph session on the day 
I'm due to be home:( )
And drank this very nice papaya milk~~
Uncle~ its time for a new signboard!!

END OF DAY 2

Day 3 Ximending -- 淡水 -- Mr J -- 士林

First stop of the day is 便所主题餐馆 :) 
Its just a few minutes' walk away from our minsu~~
What i ate~~
Honestly for me, the food wasn't that nice enough to overcome the idea of a toilet restaurant. 
As usual, me being one of the faster eater.
Started to play around with pictures! 
And here's a pic of the shit ice cream xD 
Left an evidence that we have been there too! 
People who's going there!
Please help to see if its still there xD  
After brunch, we were looking at some owl thingy (dunno what to call it)
When the wind blew so strongly.
Though i was already in a rather long sleeve, I still felt cold.
So went back to our minsu to put on a jacket. 

Next up, a train ride to danshui!
The ride was long enuf for a lot of things to happen!
Ghost wan
King Kong Ma
We were goofing around in the train and i really love this pic
keke
After about an hour or so?
We reached danshui! 
Very nice scenery
And windy day
Took a ferry to 漁人碼頭
It was really beautiful over there~
Got a very cute malaysian couple to take some pics for us:)
Really like this polaroid pic! :) 
Its with me now~ 
Compare the following 2 pics!!
Dont their chin and teeth look a like?! HAHAH 
Took a ferry back and look what happened to Cassini and Ruby!


While walking back towards the train station, i spotted some people look towards the opposite direction.
Turned and saw a really huge sun and clear sunset ~~

Ah wan and nini decided to q for the drawing!!~

As we were behind time, cabbed from some station to the 台北医学大学 for dinner at Mr J!!!
We all got rather pissed by this cashier woman who was like, "ur are late".
Obviously we know right?! -.- 
Don't you know CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT?!!!! HUHHHHHH
Anyway~~
the lady who served us was better.. 
The pics didnt come out very clearly cause the lightings' too bright!
Ordered a set meal, so it comes with salad, soup and a drink. 
Here's what i ate!!
Awww!! i miss it~~
Really nice seafood baked rice!!!
Got complimentary cake..guess cause they are closing .. 
Lucky we didnt order the set with dessert
The pricing's really very cheap for a rather fine dining~~

Secret piano!! : D 
And once again, we are pissed off with the cashier woman for wasting ruby's film!
She took a pic of us with my head cut off!!
WHUTTTTTTTTTTTTT IS THIS !!! ><
This polaroid's taken by another person!
Our next stop is shihlin night market!!
After wasting some time at the bus stops.
The 5 of us managed to get a cab who was willing to take 5 ppl.
heh..
Honestly, there's like nothing much now..
See all our fail polaroids for the day >< 

End of Day 3


Day 4 Running Wan Day -- AES -- Hello Kitty Sweets -- SM Shop -- Shihlin

Today's a rather packed day! 
Me and Ruby washed up first and went to buy mac breakfast! 
The most epic is ruby happily bought a more expensive bagel meal 
to find out its plain!!! >< 
At least she took a jam! 
HAHAHA
Handed ah wan her first running wan mission, 
which is to prepare and have her breakfast within 30 mins !! 
Off we go!
While sitting at the bus stop, waiting for the bus to Leo Foo Village to come~~
A uncle approached us and offered us NTD1000 for transport and admission tix to the theme park.
He managed to gather a total of 10 people and we began our 1 hour plus journey in there!!
The uncle's rather expert in taking pics!
Fast and he even asked if we wanna change position! HAHHA
Anyway, spot that nice paper bag?? Miss wan lost it otw home :( 
(its ok ..got it replaced! will blog in details later!)
For this period, its spongebob themed!!
Ah wan's second mission is to wear the cardboard shirt and take pics with 3 groups of people! 
Never came this close to an ah meng before!
Ok. orang utan! 
ah meng is the name of our dear singapore zoo's late orang utan!
Heard how this siamang? and another monkey type sounded, saw how it swung and also  how it walked!
Refer to my fb for the video on how it walks!
 Totally cute~
Took a bus on a trail to see the wildlife animals~~
Den it was a tram ride to see the mild animals~
The hippo opened its mouth. And it smelled reallyyyyy bad.
Look like the lion king character uhhh
Giraffes looked rather pretty actually. 
Third mission of running wan was for her to take a ride on the roller coaster alone!!
JIANGJIANG! 
Walking down like a boss! 
Ate this really nice ice cream. 
Those ice cream where they play with u??! 
Then went on a spinning cup with ah wan!
Took a break and had some snacks ~~ 
Really love this polaroid pic we took!! keke
Some goofy pics!
And look what i found!! 
The drink where there's ice when u spin it! xD 
Ah wan and her tribe members! 
Andaman andaman! 
We later went for those water rides where u sit on a hula hoop ~~ 
kekeke 
ruby was really scared! haha
but it was sure fun taking tgt with everyone.. 
had lots of laughter~
The king kong family!!! 
Ok, ah wan's last mission is to take pics with 5 grps of ppl!!
Asked her to approach this bunch of youngsters..
One of the guy was so funny. 
"需要其它服务吗?宝宝亲亲"
All the very friendly people in taiwan~
Completion of taskssss : D 
Another round of photo taking again! :)
Took the same transport to our next destination, AES! 
We all knocked out on the journey back. 
Snapped some unglam pics of the king kong fam! kekeke~~
Rather disappointed with AES. 
Took us some time to locate it and there was nothing much ~~
Saw on xiaogui's weibo not long ago that his brand is his 精神 or sth.
hmm ok~ 
HAHA! 
And one station away, is Hello Kitty Sweets.
Another overrated place.
Bad manager with bad staffs >< 
Shall not comment more. 
My only favourite there is the caesar salad~
Looks like a hello kitty face right the bubbles.
Another round of baked rice for me again! :)
This ruby gan took my baked rice mistakenly.
Lucky she haven mix them around much~
Still like Mr J's baked rice. *nomnom*
Thought its mango but it turned out to be vanilla pudding
The nicest place is their toilet~
Met up with yeejoo and sheeren who just arrived in taipei and 
headed to SM shop! 
I feel its a really suju biased shop.
Since you call it SM SHOP! 
Honestly, be more fair right. 
Last stop of the day: Shihlin again~
Mango ice! 
Dont really like the idea that they put in brown sugar syrup >< 
Took a pic tgt at the train platform! :) 
And zhen befriended some japaneses on the train!~~~

End of Day 4 

Day 5 九份 -- 十分 -- 基隆廟口夜市

九份





十分


Rather amused that we can walk on the tracks xD
Next is 放天灯!!! :)
While drawing half way, we were asked to move aside.
Train's coming!!!

The person's rather expert in taking pics uh.
major spamming








 基隆廟口夜市>> No pic! 
HAHAHA xD 
its rather boring actually.

A pic with norman!~

Day 6 Miramar--五分铺-- Ximending

Epic moment when i only realised that i forgot my camera battery when we reached miramar xD 
Went for brunch at bk before we headed to take the ferris wheel!~
Waited for the transparent cabin :)
Used the voucher we were given when we bought the tix.
For a discounted haagen daaz : D 
Its really cheap and niceeeee ~
Nice pic huh ?? ~~
Went back to wufenpu, got back a new hero or zero paper bag too ~~
keke
Last stop is xmd again!!!~~ 
Ok i forgot when we drank starbucks but their drinks' really nice!
hot chocolate and java chip (Y)
Their koi too!! :D 
Fun night back at our minsu too! 
And i forgot to mention! 
I thought i saw a ghost when i see ruby gan as tay chienwan. 
I swear she really looks like ah wan when she sleeps!!!! 
 i shld have taken a pic down! 
but i was too tired to think.
Ruby got a you chou lian when she sleeps! 
HAHAH! 

Day 7 Taipei -- Singapore



Back to singapore! 
the flight back's not as boring as we all ko-ed on the plane.
Too tired. 
And we talked talked talked ~~ :) 

Flight landed 45 mins before schedule !!~
Shopped at dfs~~ 
Bought a vodka and a perfume!! *happy*
Ok here's a last pic of my loots for the trip~
Left out some stuffs thou ><
Cabbed home myself.
Actually kinda like it!
That special feeling when u can reflect on ur trip while on the cab

When we were still there, it felt like the 7 days past slowly.
But who knows. Now that i think back, its too short!!! ><
I wanna go back there again! 
Great company great place great weather! 
A trip filled with many happy memories and laughter : D 
Love them girls! 
Hope to go on another trip together soon ~~
We made it a point to go on at least once per year. 
Hope it works out~!! 
Till then~