Sunday, July 26, 2009


Sunday, July 26, 2009

Okok.. Now I shall update on my taiwan after more than one month since the trip.. hahaha

I'm planning to type in what I had wrote in my journal.

So today I shall write about the things that happen on the 1st day..
Here goes:
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1st day (23/6)


10.00am

Yo! Now I'm on MRT going towards Changi Airport. Today I woke up at 7.30 am. Managed to sleep well last night. I bought a backpack and the luggage that I borrowed from Claudy. Now feeling quite excited to get to airport.Yesterday work until 9 pm. Need to finish teaching them scanning. Finally finished le! So relieved. Hope that the flying experience will be safe and fun!

2.45pm

Now on plane! I'm high high above the land and above the cloud. The plane took off at 1.50 pm.First time flying on plane. Feels normal when the plane was taking off.No ear block, only a bit nauseous. Just now when it was taking off, I videoed the whole process down.So fun! So rare feeling and view.

Anyway,just now when we were shopping around inside the check in area,we saw the word "Last Call" beside our plane number. Scared until we ran all the way to the taking off area.. Mind you it's the last cabin of the whole stretch of cabins for taking off.. Damn tired.
In the end, we still wait at the area for 15 mins then they start letting ppl in. What last call...So sian..

I'm sitting at the seat beside the window. Jian Hui, sis and me are grouped into Team A and Shirley,Xiao Jun and Wei Xiang are grouped into Team B. Later each team will go into the hotel rooms repectively. Ate duck rice and apple juice for lunch at Airport B1 foodcourt.

Oh and just now, we drag out luggage from level 2 to B1 then Level 1 then back to Level 2. Because we were finding place to eat.The Burger King(Level 1) closed down. Then went to check in. SO funny.

8.10pm

Now on bus going from 桃园机场 to 台北 MRT station. Just now at 6.40pm, the plane touched down at Tao Yuan Airport.I could imaging how the fans are waiting at the arrival hall... HAHA.. Anyway, whe we went out to get our luggage, we saw the girl who sells STAGE clothes in Singapore. Wearing very sexy and skimpy. Then I realise she is from Taiwan.But she's nice to say hi to us. (Because shirley was wearing STAGE clothes)

Then something happen. There was this rotating platform that rotates the luggages around for owners to retrieve. Weixiang could not find his. So scary. In the end, they only left thie contact numbers and left. Dunno who took it. So stupid. Then we went to buy some youth card thingy(got discounts on places to visit)and the prepaid card which can make quite cheap calls out.Team A share one card and Team B share one card. Then we went to change Sing dollars to TW dollars. The rate there is not as good at the money changers in Raffles Place shopping centre(The Archade). So next time better go Raffles Place to change money better.. I change S$600. So should be more than TW$12000. OMG! Plus the TW$11000 in my wallet. It's TW $23000!! Shh. Must keep quiet.. hahaLater we going to YMCA hotel and then go out and eat dinner. Not hungry yet.

3.04am

Now back in hotel. Finished bathing. Just now after we came down from bus, went to find our hotel.YMCA was quite nice and high class enough that doesn't seem haunted. We wait for a while at hotel room.YMCA 601.Level 6. Then went down to meet Team B.Team B's room is YMCA 501.Level 5.

Then we went to take their MRT to Jian Tan MRT station. Shi Lin Ye Shi is quite close to that station. Oh and we observe that there are ppl queuing up for trains and buses sia! Damn long queue. Not disorderly at all.. Really impressed. Then Taipei MRT station also has gates on platform that open only when trains came in..Singapore can learn from that I think.

There are 3 languages in their MRT. Chinese, english and Min Nan Yu(Taiwanese language. So unusual. And their seat arrangements are also different. Very special.They got reserved seating. Should be quite effective I think. Then we reach Shi Lin Ye Shi. Bought quite a lot of things. Spent nearly TW$900. I think should be TW$1000+ le bah.Haven plus the hotel room money.Then we shopped until 1+am. Bought some cereal and 茶叶蛋。The egg is really nice.. HAHA.

The toliet and bathing things quite ok. Got shampoo, razor,toothbrush,showercap and soap provided.Towels also provided. Later going to discuss how money is going to be arranged. Quite tired le.. Tired until not tired.

Oh and we walked past a shop that got a lot of machines that can try to get a prize by grabbing the prize with the "mechanical hand". Sis managed to get a prize on her first try. It's a handphone decorative item that will blinks with different colours when there are infrared or vibrations from the phone..TW$10=S$0.50.. So lucky..

I saw YLBFB commercial on 八大棕合台 & Luo Zhi Xiang's LAY's commercial paper on top of Lay's products.. Yeah!

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Ok... These are all from my journal for 1ST DAY only.. haha
Below are pics for Taiwan Day 1:

Click on link:
Taiwan Day 1

There are still some photos not in there yet. So maybe I'll update this album again.. Will have some more photos..

Next time will upload, Day 2 to Day 8.. OMG where got time.. By next year then I'll upload finish.. haha.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009


Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Hey yo! Back in Singapore since last Wed 1 July 09.

Spend lots of money.. My money to be exact.. haha.. Now back to work.. So sian to see my table piled with so much things.. haiz..
Really miss Taiwan food, MRT and buildings..

Some interesting things I learnt during my days in Taiwan:
(1) The Taiwan ppl queue up when waiting for MRT leh! So very nice culture.

(2) They automatically stand to the right side when riding the escalator .. Very nice culture again

(3) There are a lot of "chopes" (stamps) everywhere at a lot of tourist attraction places.. Even MRT station got "chopes".. So must bring a book or journal there.. and save a big space for the "chopes" in your book..

(4) There are super many Night Markets and lots of branded fashion shops (esp at Xi Men Ding).. And the sales ppl are all very friendly and talkative, kept asking us questions...

(5) The fashion sense of the teenagers there are really super good.. The girls and guys look so in .. Makes me feels like someone from the countryside..

(6) Their cup noodles have super many types.. And they have a lots of convience shops other than 7-11..

(7) Why do ppl kept mistaking Singaporeans at Hong Kong ppl ah?? Everywhere we go they kept asking us " You from Hong Kong ah?"

Ok lah.. I could only think so much.. Maybe next time when I rmbed something then I add on..
Oh you may ask where are the pictures hor?
Lazy to upload leh.. But I think sure will upload de lah.. Maybe I'll also type in my journal here with pictures attached.. Hope can find time to do these things..