on the plane, I sleep a bit, snack a bit, play ds a bit and go to the loo a lot. yea, that's what I did during the 4 hours on board.

& we're gonna take the high speed rail (similar to bullet train) to Kaohsiung which will take around 2 hours
With comfy seats & air-conditioned. 





& we reached our hotel. the 3 of us was impressed by the hotel cause it's so nice, classy & comfy! :D View of Kaohsiung taken from our room.

So we went to the nearby Anning Street to dig for goodies, but apparently the sun is scorching hot and the place is f* boring. & it got me worried initially. "oh no, where's my love for shopping. don't tell me shopping no longer interest me when I'm in Taiwan already"

Luckily things took for a change when we were on our way to Liuho Night Market. Apparently, I cannot stop buying things.

擔仔面 - the noodle is QQ & taste superb
臭豆腐 - not to my liking. smelly like shit.
貢丸 - in case you're mistaken that I only took picture of 1, you're wrong. cause it comes in 1, pathetically laying in the bowl that wen & trish were so amazed by it.
after that we went to eat 婆婆冰. & I ordered japalang ice. got everything but I don't know what. nevertheless, it was nice

on the way back to our hotel, waiting for the traffic light, I suggested not to cross the road first and find something to munch. so we walked away & there's this guy who was waiting for the traffic light initially, followed us. guess what he tried to ask?

obviously we're not native Taiwanese what, nor we look like some street directory. & again, from asking directions he asked where are we from -.- wen & trish scurried to cross the road, leaving me to entertain the guy. so I said "Singapore" & he thought it was Taipei -.- 

oh see! their watson comes with nice paper bags :D unlike the ugly green plastic bag we get in Singapore.

& I shall end this day with something I got for Bimbo. Heh, lollipop.
mm, not really a lollipop
HAHA. Digress, I gave this to the watermelon Bimbo and told him it's a lollipop & "can it really be eaten?" came out from his mouth. Omg, I was laughing damn hard. 

i thought you type all out

wah piang anti climax

pig. blog 2 days de jiu lazy

So here I am, while chewing on my oat biscuit, trying hard to complete this whole thing by tonight else I think I will procrastinate till don't know when & tomorrow will be dedicated to studying DBIS (I'll try)

Digress; we always wake up super late like 12 plus in the noon everyday. Every morning, we'll rely on wen's iphone to wake us up.

see listen, this kind of alarm makes me wanna sleep moreeeee cause it's such a nice & relaxing tune.

I like this pic, looks nice? (:
So we went 新掘江 for more shopping in the noon, and on the train we kept learning how to speak the name of each station in 台語. haha!

Had some Mister Donut before shopping. & I simply love Taiwan cause they have all kinds of Donuts in a varieties of flavours ♥

the chocolate one is called 波地 or something and it's super chewy and QQ. Trish & I love this to loads.
Hoho & I finally get to try this - 洋竽片 after I saw it on bang bang tang some time back. Looks really yummy isn't it.

But the sad thing is, it is not that nice afterall.
Approaching evening, we took a shuttle bus to Dream Mall for the Sanrio theme ferris wheel. (the night falls especially early, like 6pm?)
& we took the ride two times. Once in a Hello Kitty Cabin & once in the transparent Cabin. Up in the air, there's a sweet melody and nice cushion to accompany you







This is the transparent cabin! You can see through everything :D
& thus I present the night view of Kaohsiung to you :)

It was drizzling when we had enough of our fun. From a slight drizzle it became a heavy rainpour eventually. We went to Ruifeng Night Market for dinner & tell you, the food& things there was fabulous.
Grilled chicken chop plus ham plus egg plus pasta on a hotplate with savory sauce ...
& check out the pricing for that. it's even cooler. NT 100 = Less than $5. Tell me where to get such a deal in Singapore?
& I'll end this day with my purchases in Kaohsiung (not everything is included though. Just 2 days and my luggage is gonna weigh tons heavier)




Traveling was a bit of a problem in Taichung as they do not have any metro service yet. Took a cab to 一中街  after settling down in the hotel and head to the toilet theme restaurant.



this is my big big bowl of ice, was really huge
wen & trish shared this
& they stopped here
I didn't stopped here ...
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Am I amazing or something. Crown me the ice queen please. ♚

but I kept peeing after that -.-

a relatively bad and boring day. went to 精明商圈 and slack for hours at the food court in SOGO while waiting for the night to fall so that we can eat & shop at the famous 逢甲 night market. (Stopped here last night and continuing now despite the need for me to study)

how can you not possibly swallow one mochi when you're in taiwan? (:
& this is taichung 土產 (from what Trish said) - cheesecake. damn cheesy and good for breakfast every morning :D
from SOGO, we took a cab to 逢甲 and being very tired, I felt asleep in the cab. When we reached, the cab uncle told us to alight at, the middle of the road?! I was sitting near the door and still in a sleepy mode, I opened the door and TA! hit a motorbike and spoilt the mirror. So you expect the poor guy to come up to me and scold @#%^@%# but NO. There's this cab driver at the side of the road came and scream at us instead. He complained that we knock the motorbike & it knock his cab. But there was no scratches to be seen! So you know his motive - money. & we gave him NT 500 to make peace. Luckily it's only NT500 = $ 25, else I don't mind going to the police station to him and we'll see who will win. He will then need to compensate for wasting my time and terrifying me :(

This is very nice(I seem to be saying everything is nice! :O) ! BBQ prawn and you can eat it together with the shell.

our supper for the night :D

Got up relatively late again. Wanted to take the conventional train to Taipei but they ran out of tickets! And the next train would be 4pm (we were there around 1pm). Luckily there's the high speed rail, though it cost more but we managed to save time.

Even their fruits are craved and placed in such an artistic manner.
what's more, you get graded after you completed singing a song. although we noticed it's because the louder you see the higher you get. but still, isn't it cool?
the only sad thing is that we were under 18 then and had to leave by 12am.

We were planning to go to Danshui  淡水 on this day but we woke up way too late, I think 2pm or something. So had a change of plan and decided to go to Channel V and get our vip cards as well as to try our luck to see if we can spot Lollipop there. 

after taipei 101, wen went to buy her jill stuart. damn pretty! Singapore is selling it for double the price at pandora box :/ 

My favourite theme restaurant - Hello Kitty. Everything is so nice la!

wen's ...
trish's ...
mine ...
pretty yet cheap. and it's kinda nice too. comes with a complimentary hello kitty jelly.

even the toilet is so nice ...


15th April 2008 (Taipei)

We managed to wake a tit bit earlier on the 15th cause we want to go 淡水

( my blogger is lagging now :/)

No, I'm obviously joking. You didn't take me for real, did you?

20 cm ice cream? & costs only NT 20, which is less than a dollar
but half of it landed in the bin cause yours truly is not a huge fan of ice cream

this is one of my fav - 炸金針菇
and we took a boat to fisherman wharf, opposite of dan shui.




took the hotspring for the first time. damn shiok! & yea, that's trish testing the temperature. i think they uses sulphuric water. & our skin feels soft and supple after the dip.
went to shilin night market for some delights :D


this is recommended! green papaya with passionfruit sauce.

you won't see much pics for 16th, 17th & 18th April cause it's purely slacking and shopping.

Went to wufenpu in the evening to do some shopping and went over to the nearby raohe nightmarket for dinner.

their alcohol is dirt cheap as well, oh and the cigarettes too!
hehe, our loot. that's not the end cause we've got more not seen in this pic.

Went out super late in the noon & went to do our hair. Had my hair cut short & dyed there ♥

This is wenwen doing her hair.

went to shida night market then shilin night market to have our dinner ...

See! My favourite advertisement, now aired on Channel 8 as well but it's in chinese version. Should have seen the taiwanese version. It's damn funneh.

We camwhored on the bridge again then this little man, short and small, wearing oversized business suit, came up to us and said ...

"你们需要援交吗？因为我需要钱 ..."

And I stupidly asked back, " what is 援交?" cause I had no idea then. Anyway if you don't know still, the guy is a gigolo. & I don't get it what makes him think that we have money when what we are left with is less than NT 200 (combining the twd the 3 of us had on the last day). Plus he is ugly, short and uhm, disgusting. I don't know why we met all the weird people on this trip.

Hoho, bye taiwan! I'll see you soon <3

Heh! & I've thus completed my post on 2nd June 2008, 7:42pm. Xiaowen is going to Taiwan on wednesday. Coolios. I can get more food & things! 

beep. i checked my phone and there's a new message.

"dear shimin, still have 2 boxes of photo havent do yet ..."

I almost faint when I saw this. & I thought I've cleared all already :'(

#p.s: I reactivated my haloscan ↓