Tuesday, 20 December 2011

TAIWAN 2011 ♥


A WEEK AFTER IM BACK, IM BLOGGING HAHAHA. I actually started this post on the 20th but very obviously i didnt do anything to it lol! So here goes hopefully my memory doesnt fail me!

DAY1: 11dec
didnt do much other than check in at the airport after a cup of MOCCA FRAP hahaha i was super cold after that.
oh first time meeting zhang yao dong at the check in counters there but we were almost done when he arrived (HAHA 大牌 ok jk before i offend any of his fans who somehow see this)
he was leading a renren travel tour apparently (which explains why we kept seeing him after that like a lot of times LOL if only im his fan eh then wah i damn happy but im not so... LOL)
checkin was damn slow was quite annoyed we stood there for like damn long -.- then we went into the duty free there then rush rush buy my mother's stuff AND GOT A FREE ANGRY BIRD PLUSHIE THE RED ONE WHICH IS ALSO THE CUTEST HAHAHA :D
and then it was time to go to the boarding gate (yeah and i forgot to buy a book to read cos of the rush damn stupid)
GOT ONTO THE PLANE AND THEN WAS SEATED AT THE EMERGENCY EXIT THERE SO STRESSED :O if anything happen i was supposed to help haha but i think i wont even be able to help myself lol :o but luckily nth happen lah! but anw it was a plane with no entertainment system so all i can do is sleep :( so i slept. HAHA or rather attempted to sleep cos cannot really sleep on plane but nvm not impt hahaha
BREAKFAST WAS FRIED RICE LOL OMG I RMB THEY GAVE QUITE ALOT OF PRAWNS OR SMTH AND IT WAS NOT BAD LEH :D
OH FORGOT TO MENTION cos the other emergency seat on the other side of the plane right the person didnt want to sit there so the air stewardess got them to exchange with other ppl and guess what hahaha those ppl who exchanged with them were zhang yao dong and gang so we were sitting like this
x o o     o o o
o o o     o o x
the first x being me and the other x being him LOL. okay lah quite good looking HAHA

DAY2: 12dec
reached at like some damn early time so our day was DAMN LONG ahahha so tiring somemore and it was quite boring cos it was taipei and my family and i went to those places before alr so nth much bah..
BUT ANW haha still must write :D
HIGH SPEED RAIL
first we took the high speed rail from the taoyuan station (not at the airport haha it was some distance from the airport lol) to taipei main station
the train looks like this:
 
HORRIBLE PHOTOS I KNOW but hahaha the train too close :/
then we reached taipei main station

YES IT WAS 15 DEG CELSIUS I WAS SO SO SO NOT PREPARED FOR IT SO I WAS FREEZING LIKE SOME SHIT COS I ONLY HAVE MY NORMAL JACKET WHICH IS OBV NOT ENOUGH :(

BREAKFAST
Since it was still early, our tour guide brought us for local breakfast 豆漿油條!
SALTY 豆漿 NOT BAD LEH

the normal sweet 豆漿


carrot cake!

the place haha

 FULL ALR THEN TIME FOR SIGHTSEEING HAHA

中正紀念堂
saw the change of guards in taiwan for the first time! the last time we didnt see it haha we only stood outside didnt even know got such a thing -.- hahaha





sky so gloomy cos it was drizzling that dayyy :(

忠烈祠
saw the change of guards for the second time -.- 

LUNCH:麻辣火鍋
though v spicy but it was quite shuang~~~
and the restaurant is called FEI TIEN HOT POT ie 飛天 which is some co song we played for concert last year~ :D
haha got no relevant nice photos lol -.-

西門町
MY FAVE PLACE COS MY FAVE IDOL HAS HIS SHOP THERE COME COME I SHOW YOU HOW NICE THE NEW SHOP IS~~~

YES IT'S THE CAREBEARS ONE hahahaha and no he doesnt sell carebears -.- hahaha but anw so christmasy right? :D inside got two levels the first level is STAGE stuff the second is MANHATTEN PORTAGE stuff and random other brands stuff (i think also under the stage group bah haha)
but anw we only had a very short while here so never really walk a lot was mainly looking for winter jacket but i cldnt find a suitable one here though my mother found hahaha. PAPAYA MILK IS QUITE NICE HAHA bought it from the white bittergourd juice place hahaha

臺北101
the clouds blocked the view :(
haha i shall upload a photo from 2 years ago for the fun of it




very lousy photo cos camera was lousy hahaha.
oh when we were about the leave right, where we were waiting for the rest of the tour group to arrive had damn a lot of chinese ppl from china haha suddenly felt like we in china hahah cos really damn a lot i was shocked lol hahaha


饒河街觀光夜市




the 胡椒餅 thingy was not bad~~
AND MY FAVE 魯肉飯 yah yah all the fats but i like~ SUPER DUPER NICE :D

THEN WE WENT BACK TO THE HOTEL TO RETIRE FOR THE NIGHT LOL it was quite early though but hahah good lah can watch my tv :D TAIWAN TV DAMN GOOD THOUGH GOT A LOT OF NEWS CHANNELS AND SHOPPING CHANNELS -.-

DAY 3: 13dec


萬里區
stopped by some place to look at scenery~ DAMN PRETTY THE OCEAN AND WAVES
not very nice here hahaha but in real life damn nice hahaha.

鄧麗君紀念墓園
鄧麗君's tombstone..
they were playing her songs in the background and there was a rock nearby which has a long paragraph on her lifetime achievements (:

碧沙漁港



fish which got knocked dead :o

their 野菜:山蘇 with 小魚乾


山蘇 which looked so much like plastic :O
九份


peanut with ice cream etcetc in popiah like skin~


fishball meatball etcetc!

my 芋圓珍珠豆花! damn nice the 圓s all damn Q. the orange and the yellow ones are sweet potato and pumpkin then the purple is the yam!

the place with the famous muahchee~

this time the 九份 experience was much better cos we knew what we had to try so it wasnt walking aimlessly without trying anything hahaha unlike the last time  :D

宜蘭頭城農場
竹筒飯 as part of our BBQ dinner hahah which was damn fail

person teaching us how to make 天燈

making it~

our 天燈 in the sky~~ damn high up :D i zoomed in btw hahaha

fireworks that ppl bought and fired! nice photo by my camera :D


DAY 4: 14dec
After breakfast was some farmtour
freshly picked veggies for us to cook and eat haha



wall made out of cow shit


oranges that were for us to pick


we then went to take a train to 花蓮

and then we went for lunch and happened to meet this HUGE GROUP of students having their graduation trip hahaha. some of them ah the hair like some ming xing like that haha maybe next time we will see them on tv alr -.-
after that it was phototaking time

太魯閣國家公園
this boy the personality damn cute HAHAHA I LIKE

the tree on the right makes it look eerie :O

look at the water! it's damn clear

down here one not clear apparently cos of the previous earthquake and stuff so inside got sediments blahblah (too much geog on this day lol) EH LOOK IT'S A MEANDERING RIVER! hahaha shiyun see this is a meandering river!

main point:temple at the back HAHAHA
then we take bus to 台東 to our hotel 台東池上日暉國際度假村
hahah got hot spring but i neh go i dont like.

DAY5: 15dec
we left the hotel to go to 高雄,美濃客家村 where we met zhang yao dong again LOL
the erhu was sold at like what NT2500=SGD100 even my lousy one also more ex than that lah :O



the place zhang yao dong was in lol
had our lunch opposite the tea place that zhang yao dong was in lol.
then we left the place to go to some drum perf place.

十鼓文化村
the tracks on the floor were used for the movement of sugar etc in and out of the sugar factory that it once was.


drum performance



we had some drumming experience hahaha and this was "my" drum lol

the biggest drum in the museum they had

triangular ones!

高雄義大世界購物廣場
opposite our hotel! haha the shops were quite leng qing actually.
but anw main point is SPOTTED TAIWANESE STARS ACTING HOW COOL IS THAT~~~
left to right: 蔣怡,陳喬恩,高以翔
more photos on facebook lol! haha when i first saw this HUGE CROWD i knew it that there were stars there alr or smth hahaha so i went over and WOW haha 3 stars acting.

haha at first i was on the same level as them lah snapping photos hahaha lol like some stalker :( imagine if any one of them was any one of my idols haha i will go siao lol -.- yeah then cos my parents got a bit annoyed lol cos wasting time haha so we went upstairs but then i went up to take more photos lol cos i v angry cant see the guy's face ahahha -.-

then finally left and i finally got to drink bubble tea after like 5 days in taiwan hahaha
boo to the cup cos cant see what's inside! but anw my drink had like white pearls that's kinda as tiny as those sago in what honeydew sago kind maybe a lil bigger haha.
but anw i realised ever since koi and gongcha etc came into singapore, bubbletea in tw isnt that WOW anymore cos same taste(good for us can enjoy anytime lol and now i feel like drinking koi -.-, but bad when travelling cos wanna taste interesting and good stuff LIKE HAO DA DA JI PAI OMG that totally cant compare with our shihlin street food or whatever that stall is called) but OH it's cheaper there :D haha but this stall we drank from abt the same as koi haha which is quite ex! but then not bad lah cos got interetsing pearls~~~

oh yeah and i have to say the YI DA place is where luo zhi xiang will be at for kua nian OMG I WAS THERE HAHAHAHA. next week he will be there alr~~~

DAY6: 16dec
佛光山
the big big buddha statue

some insect. YES IT'S REAL. got a girl her friend told her it's fake then she go touch it then it wriggled so it's real :O it looks fake right!


there's one place where both sides of the staircase had such quotations. i think this is the most meaningful one so i took this pic (:
日月潭
view when on the boat



on the way to lunch nearby. the bananas have weird shapes lol

during lunch we celebrated the december babies' birthdays haha got 3 ppl including my father lol. NICE CAKE THE TOUR GUIDE BOUGHT DAMN FLUFFY AND NICE~~~

temple near the lunch place. 文武廟

this dog damn small damn cute. the silver thing on top is the back of a car. so it's v smallllllll~
then we drove over to the 清境農場賓館 and reached after a super long ride~~
on the way cos it was a drive uphill lah then got one point in time the bus was kinda stuck cannot go upwards was quite scared we will roll backwards then wahh so scary but luckily we managed to get up.
after dinner WHICH WAS KINDA HORRIBLE. BUT IT'S OK HAHA COS AFTERTHAT THERE WERE SO MANY NICE FOOD. we went to some nearby place which had shops and foodstalls and 7-11 and starbucks~~~
random dog haha it looks v much like it's owner but obv cant take photo of owner right? haha

羊奶燒 SUPER NICE I TELL YOU



大腸包小腸 OMG DAMN FREAKING GOOD AS WELLLLLL LOVED IT.
DAY7: 17dec
清境農場/青青草原
TOO PRETTY. cant resist. must upload. LOL hahah the same applies to the below scenery photos


SHEEP FOOD WE BOUGHT

AWWWW

OM NOM NOM NOM



AGAIN. TOO PRETTY MUST UPLOAD


horses further down from the sheep place! rode on a horse for the first time~~~ but one small round only lol


THIS FARM SO MUCH COOLER THAN THE OTHER ONE BECAUSE
1. no rain
2. no mud, no narrow places for us to squeeze thru make me so scared i will fall lol
3. got animals i like!
4. damn nice scenery!

HAHAHA ANW when we were going up the hill to the hotel the day before right there was like literally a 雲海 WHICH WAS SO DAMN PRETTY OMG. it was so fairytale like, as though we can just go bounce arnd on those clouds seriously! but pity the view was at the other side of the bus so i cldnt take a pic and my father didnt take a pic either andddd the clouds cleared in the morning :(

小瑞士花園
another pretty place. the place featured art pieces(or are they sculptures lol) made using cardboard which was like damn cool!
leaning tower of pisa

SERIOUSLY DAMN PRETTY. Just look at the reflections omg







the fishes thought i was going to feed themmm

SPOT THE RAINBOW!

eiffel tower

the dubai thing hahaha 
DAMN PRETTY. GOOD WEATHER = PRETTY PHOTOS :D

then we went for lunch at some place with A LOT OF FLOWERS!
and we ate some flowers for lunch!quite interesting!


handroll with flowers

spot the busy bees!

After lunch we went to some place selling tea. had the chance to pick tea leaves from a place they set aside for ppl to pick LOL hahaha but when we were there most of the leaves were picked alr lol
(LAME WATCHING CH 8 COUNTDOWN PARTY NOW COS I HAVE NO SCV SAD LIFE. BUT ANW LEE TENG SAID A V LAME JOKE THAT LUO ZHI XIANG POSTED ON WEIBO AND ALSO APPEARED ON WEIBO SO LAME. BUT FUNNY LAH HAHAHA V DOTS. 
不要在31/12 的11:59上厠所,因爲你明年才能出來。
hahahaha ok lah very dots)

tea leaf hahaha but i didnt pick it myself -.-
THEN THEN THEN WE WENT TO BUY 維格鳳梨酥 AND OTHER NICE NICE FOOD STUFF.~~~
THE STUFF WE BOUGHT AHAHAH BUT OBV NOT ALL FOR US LAH LOL

then we had dinner at some italian restaurant. hahah was quite interesting lah but the food was okok only
appetiser

soup. haha pumpkin??

can choose from a few main courses lah then this is my mother's. forgot what is it lol

FRIED RICE WHICH ISNT AT ALL ITALIAN LOL.

mixed fruit juice which sucked. i didnt like it lol too sour.
THEN WE WENT FOR SHOPPING AT 五分埔 BUT WE ONLY HAD LIKE 1 HOUR WHICH WASNT ENOUGH :(

AND THEN AND THEN TO END OFF THE DAY, WE WENT TO 士林夜市 TO EAT AND SHOP. OMG SO WONDERFULLLLL COS WE WERE THERE BEFORE THE FOOD PART OF THE NIGHT MARKET MOVED UNDERGROUND SO IT WAS LIKE THE LAST FEW DAYS THEY WERE OPERATING THERE. The next time we go there, it wont be there anymore alr :(

THE QUEUE BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT OMG.

WITH HAO DA DA ARND, ALL THE SHOPS SELLING JI PAI IN SG CAN ALL SAY BYEBYE ALR LOL OK NO OFFENCE.


THE BLURINESS IS CAUSED BY THE SMOKE COS IT WAS SMOKING HOT HAHA LOL OK NOT FUNNY BUT OMG DAMN NICE.

THE CROWD!
hahaha we shopped/walked till 11pm YES 11PM LOL and waited for other ppl to come back to the bus then went back to hotel damn late but SHUANG AH~~

DAY 8: 18dec
FREE AND EASY DAY!
SOGO

西門町

阿宗麵缐! didnt eat it this time but ate it last time hahaha not baddd

along the way, found out that jj was having an autograph session there so decided to wait for him lol and THIS WAS THE CROWD!

and he appears~ with three dogs but cant see from this pic lah

the crowd from the back when i left lol

FAVE DONUTS :D

臺北小巨蛋 which was diagonally opposite our hotel! :D

FAVE DONUT

MY MOTHER'S CUTE DONUT LOL

yes i'm a stalker. hahah no lah i was trying desperately to show that i met zhang yao dong lah. need proof know!

another stalkerish photo
our flight got delayed for 2 hours but it's alright because we got a NT250 voucher each to use for food. but only sad thing is that there's not much food choices maybe because they were still having renovations or smth.

AND THIS MARKS THE END OF MY TAIWAN TRIP.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!:D I FINISHED THIS POST ON 2/1/2012 12:18AM :O

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