Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - [Half way there!]
it's tuesday! and 2papers are down! at least for me. some people are done with 3!
Econs!
wasn't that difficult, feeling's were cheated.. so much for cramming Cost of Production and Perfect Competition. I actually finished the 2 essays and CSQ within 1 and a half hours, a total of 7 full pages of words! yay me!
Chemistry!
the freakin' cold CO room killed my brain cells by 70%.so if I don't do well.. ahh honestly, it was doable, found some questions a little challenging but okay la, it's RV standard, I should know! Thanks to Mr.Azmi who stood and watched me draw my "Planning Ex" and thanks for showing amusement and making me feel like I did something wronglyyyyyy ! rahhhhh~ Oh dear, some people forgot to do the last question of 20 marks, tsk, who puts a question after a blank page..
Alrights, one more hurdle of Maths and a H1 eLit paper which hopefully isn't about Sounds of Poetry..
Daddy is back! and my cuzzins are arriving in a day's time.. ooh, what'll I do ~~~ My house, my space, my freedom, yuck, I have to alter my style of living for a month! *whines*
I'm out!
Econs!
wasn't that difficult, feeling's were cheated.. so much for cramming Cost of Production and Perfect Competition. I actually finished the 2 essays and CSQ within 1 and a half hours, a total of 7 full pages of words! yay me!
Chemistry!
the freakin' cold CO room killed my brain cells by 70%.
Alrights, one more hurdle of Maths and a H1 eLit paper which hopefully isn't about Sounds of Poetry..
Daddy is back! and my cuzzins are arriving in a day's time.. ooh, what'll I do ~~~ My house, my space, my freedom, yuck, I have to alter my style of living for a month! *whines*
I'm out!
bits of me revealed at ..
5:03 PM.
Saturday, June 27, 2009 - [studying makes ppl go crazy.]
After hardcore Economics studying.. and intensive Film Art understanding.. we lost it.
I think I have alien eyes..
Pretending to be a nerd like.. =x
Meet Supergirl Cassie!
Can't find the picture of Michael w many caps hahah!
yessss, this is the imitation of Adrian!
EPIC EPIC!
Not bad for a candid shot liaozxzx.
Euw. LOL
Someone once taught me the ultimate act cute pose was like that. Apparently I can't do it well. LOL.
2 more days to Midyears!
I think I have alien eyes..
Pretending to be a nerd like.. =x
Meet Supergirl Cassie!
Can't find the picture of Michael w many caps hahah!
yessss, this is the imitation of Adrian!
EPIC EPIC!
Not bad for a candid shot liaozxzx.
Euw. LOL
Someone once taught me the ultimate act cute pose was like that. Apparently I can't do it well. LOL.
2 more days to Midyears!
bits of me revealed at ..
1:06 PM.
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - [Freaking Out]
mid years mid years mid years!!
DifferentiationPerfectCompetitionInductionBinomial
EnergeticsSoundsAnalysisRedoxCostofProduction
EquilibriumPriceElasticityBondingInequalitiesGaseousState
GraphingTechniquesStoiciometryWSSFunctions!
Essays!CaseStudy!Graphs!Determinants!Applications!
PoemAnalysis!ExtractQn!EnergyCycle!VSEPRdiagrams!
Definitions!
diediediediediedie
*freaks out and dies*
DifferentiationPerfectCompetitionInductionBinomial
EnergeticsSoundsAnalysisRedoxCostofProduction
EquilibriumPriceElasticityBondingInequalitiesGaseousState
GraphingTechniquesStoiciometryWSSFunctions!
Essays!CaseStudy!Graphs!Determinants!Applications!
PoemAnalysis!ExtractQn!EnergyCycle!VSEPRdiagrams!
Definitions!
diediediediediedie
*freaks out and dies*
bits of me revealed at ..
10:23 PM.
Saturday, June 20, 2009 - [:DD]
Hurray for Garlic Chilli ~
I love MacDonalds~
I love MacDonalds~
Labels: i guess im very lag ..
bits of me revealed at ..
10:40 AM.
Monday, June 15, 2009 - [5N Outing - 15th June 09]
I think I just awoke from a dream.. I was living in a happy innocent world, with all my happy friends in 5N, I felt lucky to be part of them.
Not that anything has changed, just that all has been revealed today !
who has the hots for who?
who's getting it on with who?
who has done what scandal?
who is an eligible prom date?
how do guys/girls really judge each other?
what other dark secrets do we have?
Ooh juicygossip! Too bad you weren't there to hear it!
Oh well.
there's always the next outing, where even more secrets will beforced out spilled (:
Good luck for midyears 5N ~!
Not that anything has changed, just that all has been revealed today !
who has the hots for who?
who's getting it on with who?
who has done what scandal?
who is an eligible prom date?
how do guys/girls really judge each other?
what other dark secrets do we have?
Ooh juicygossip! Too bad you weren't there to hear it!
Oh well.
there's always the next outing, where even more secrets will be
Good luck for midyears 5N ~!
Labels: 12 ppl went, 7 stayed for the fun part.
bits of me revealed at ..
11:32 PM.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - [Taiwan Trip June 2009]
I have died and gone to heaven. I'm so proud of typing not only this super long post, but also uploading 521 pictures and a video too ... x_x you have no idea how long it takes to upload DSLR pictures and how much time I've spent at the com, my eyes are rotting, kudos to me!
Let's begin~
Day 1
Welcome to Taiwan Trip of June 2009!
It's 5am and off we go! A little storm greeted us as we headed to the airport. RAHH, I got wet =[. A little background info, our tour group this year consisted of 12 people, wowieee, 4 more than last year's 8. Besides the tourguide, there's one man and his family of 5, and one little 13 year old boy. LOL,yes so we all pick on him. :D
Hmm, so bright and early and at 6.30am ..
look who fell asleep right at the start of our journey D: .. MOMMMIIIE !!!
we were supposed to meet our agent who would help us with group check-in and give us our plane tixs.. drama early in the morning! The guy didn't turn up! and we waited til 7.30am and boarding was like ending in 10minutes! Uh oh. 12 of us stormed towards the check in counter and had to... RUNNNNNNNNNNN to the gate.
Hee.. took so many photos on the plane, funny unglam pics of mommie, but I shall not post =x, she got angry while I laughed til I cried :D. I think the guy beside us thought we were crazy, otherwise pathetic, so excited over pictures. He must think "What sad lives these people live, their only joy is derived from taking pictures. Of themselves."
See that extra kia over there ._.
Well, the flight was good, 5 hours .. I introduced mommie to "Kris World", she happily watched "Confessions of a Shopaholic" :D .
Our travel agent decided to repay us by treating us lunch at "Din Tai Fung". Meet our tourguide, 小陈.
yupp, WenYi, my new friend :D, managed to snap a picture of him and that's me by the side.
Before I left for this trip.. I was hoping that I would meet someone famous, because as we all know, Taiwan has so many celebrities. Guess what? I got my wish.
As we entered "Din Tai Fung",
from the Korean version of "Boys Over Flowers" came out... well at first I was stunned, like what's with the crowd and bunches of girls.. hohoho, now I know :D and the place was pretty tiny to have so many people following him. woohoo, I don't even watch the show. LOL.
The food was pretty nice ^^ I hear it's really ex too, oooh Dynasty have no idea how pissed the tour group is.. hehe.
Our appetizers..
XiaoLongBao~
Some other food~
This cute lil' thing is the dessert bao, it's so so so so sweet~!~!
The dumplings have exactly 20 folds you know? Betcha didn't know.
Tried to snap a picture of Taipei 101 outside the restaurant but ahh, its blurry.
So our first tourist spot was the Seashell Temple in Tamsui. The entire temple was covered with seashells and corals, pretty amazing. On the way there, I tried to take some scenery shots but the bus was zooming by too fast x_x.
Can you believe it?
Their own Motorcycle lane!!
This reminded me of "The Cathay"
Whoa there buster, be careful.
But the temple itself is pretty awesome, can you imagine how painstaking it must be to..
a) build a temple
b) dig up shells from the ocean's shore
c) import over the shells
d) paste them all over the temple
e) go back and find more shells/corals if there's insufficient
f) maintaining the temple
whew, I'd never do something so crazy.
Shall we take a look? ..
Heehee, meet my tour group~
Tadah the Seashell Temple~
Amazing right? yupp I know.
Next, we drove on to the Fisherman's Wharf where the Lovers' Bridge is located. It's has a stage area where singers like Jolin Tsai and Luo Zhi Xiang performed before, which reminds me! Tourguide 小陈's cousin is "王子" from "棒棒堂"
WOOOT, so shuai~!~!
Aiyo, look so different right. LOL.
Okay, so we arrived at a spectacular night scene - The Lovers' Bridge~~ There was even a newly wedded couple!
Oops, what's this doing here?
err okay.. I've found it!
wooooot, so pretty ~
Our last stop for the day was a Night Market, see my lousy imitation of KahSing and mummie's one.. lol .. she's so cute ._.
alright time to snooze, 'cause we're all just so tired.. I wonder why flights wear people out.
Day 2
The hotel "Alive Regime" had a hot tub in it! :DD I was terrified of using it, 'cause there was a little cockroach in the bathroom ._. grr.
Early morning and it rained. Again.
It was really hard to take pictures at YehLiu while holding the umbrella, 'cause you need two hands to handle a DSLR @@" .. This is the most remarkable place in the Northern Coast.
The rocks were created by erosion and natural forces. The rock formations were really awesome. See for yourself!
Stare into the distance..
It's coming closer..
O_O.. okay maybe not..
See this is how the rocks are formed~
Tadah.. little bobbles popping out~
Hi everyone, please bow down to "Queen Mary" XiaoChen says "Queen Mary" will "die" through beheading soon ._. Lookie and how fragile it looks.
Whatta pretty place, pity for the rain D: ..
LOOK! What do you see?
Err.. dunnoo lehh.. let's ZOOOOM ~
An elephant!
A right shoe! and ... candle stub!
A left shoe! and... another candle stub!
Ahhh.. wonderful place~
On the bus, XiaoChen introduced us to good food around the area, how to check real and fake notes and their origins. Next stop, ChiuFen! Where old fashioned way of life still exists, it used to be an old mining town. ChiuFen (九份) was too raining so heavily, did some shopping around there.. bought some gifts for friends hehe.. :D
Alrighty, time for a train ride from RueiFang to HuaLien.
he train seats were like beds, the scenery was really pretty but thanks to raindrops on the windows, the pictures don't do the place justice.
We arrived at HuaLien after 2 hours and went to the Taroko Gorge, which was.. sadly also raining T_T.
Taroko Gorge is one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world. The gorge was formed by rushing river waters which have cut straight through the marble and granite to create beautiful narrow ravines with waterfalls and patches of mis clinging to the mountains, surrounded by subtropical forests.
wooooow, sounds so nice, but yada yada it wasn't all that great. It's overrated. ._. But maybe it was the rain's fault.
There was a not so nice herbal dinner so I ..
DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE PIX !!
It wasn't that nice, so I .. played with my food :D
andXiaoChen had to eat it down =x
then it was a good night's rest and a dream about the next day's 8 hour bus journey down to KaoHsiung.
Day 3
I've often wondered where hotels get their beds and pillows and comforters, they're just so... NICE.
Our first destination today was this place which tried to sell us some Mushroom health drink, which was soooo horrible and it made me pee 5 times. Supposedly it gets rid of your cholestrol and detoxes your body, and I only took 1 sip, imagine if I drank a whole bottle, pee 1000 times? I think NOT.
Then we went to a Marble Factory,
ooh this was cool, a diamond cutter takes 20 hours to slice vertically down through a slab of Marble into 80 pieces.
Slice through this biggie slab of marble you know you know? woweee, it must be tough, like isn't Diamond the hardest thing on Earth?
Lookie I took a piece home, I'm weird, cranky, crazy. I know. Now imagine manual cutting in the old days..
We then visited their craft store, hehe, a little kitty came out to play~
Guess who?
Mmm, this vase emits heat..
I can't believe a rock can be this colourful... even though it isn't exactly nice but..
Spot the hidden mickey!
This is a special stick..
Not any ordinary stick.. I tell you, one little dip into a cup of wine and your precious wine becomes tasteless.
Now this is no ordinary black stone either..
It's Black Jade! and I dare you to put it other light and see what colour it becomes.. you won't believe your darn eyes.
Ooookay, then we're off to JJ Valley Farm!!! My feelings were totally cheated okay, I was so looking forward to milking cows 'cause the itenary said we would and we didnt D: ..
Anyway, the farm is extremely vast and it looks like a Paris green prarie. The cows are so cute~!~!They like me, they come near me .. and run away from mommie, hahaha ~ There's Shetland ponies and a very mischeivous billy goat and some wild boars too. Anyway, first up was lunchiie~
Clever them, putting their merchandise into the tables so people look at them before eating.
Our lunch - Milk Flavoured Hotpot. LOL. It sounds funny, it tastes funny too :D
See whaddya tell ya about the place.. beautiful~~
Ooh this naughty goat kept stealing food from the rest!!
Eat up little ones!
Oh nooo, billy goat is here to terrorize !
*chompp chomp* gimme more food!!
Hey~ I want some too~
mmmm thankyou~
This poor pony was injured..
heh, some food therapy, with billy goat eyeing dangerously..
Aww fine, the last tuft of grass for you.
Hah, what a tiny wild boar, nothing like the Maplestory one!
Here come the cute moomoos~
We had So.. it was time for the dreaded 8 hour bus ride X_x. So after the gruelling ride, we came to "The Splendor" Hotel, which is a whopping 85 storeys high, and the lobby's on the 39th floor, lawl. It's very lavish and grand, I just couldn't get enough of it ..
Then since we all slept on the bus.. (which I didn't because I was busy laughing at "The Adventures of Pan and James". It's about this chimpanzee prodigy and the ultimately cute pug, they set off into the human world and do little chores like delivering food, buying shoes, taking photographs and etc. It's freakin' funny, the Chinese version seems good, so watch it!!! Here's a little clip about Pan-kun meeting James's puppies - watch in Mozilla Firefox so the bgm doesn't interfere)
.. we had enough energy to go to "Dream Mall", KaoHsiung's largest shopping mall. There's the Hello Kitty Ferris Wheel behind the building but I couldn't get a picture of the pretty thing as the building was so confusing that we got lost in it. I'm sure you've seen it in Taiwanese dramas. We had our dinner and shopped around~
We skipped the LeoHo Night Market as we weren't interested in food, so we went to XinJueJiang instead where apparels were everywhere!
Time to snooze it's 12am alr..
Day 4
The breakfast wasn't that bad today. There were French Fries =x lol. First stop was FoKuangShan, "Light of Buddha" Mountain.
We had to climb and climb and climb to the 120metre tall Golden Buddha Amitabha statue with 480 surrounding mini buddhas. I personally don't like temples, and everywhere on this gigantic map had buddhas, you can never find an empty spot. How long did it take to build this place.. good lord.
We all made 3 statements and rang the gong~
This part of the temple was like the "It's A Small World" Castle in Disneyland..
This was the nicest part of the temple.. the Mi Le Fuos~
Then we proceeded to the Spring and Autumn Pavillions where the Dragon and Pagodas were.
Guess how long I stood and waited to capture a shot with no one in it.. x_x
ahh, this one too .. @@"
After walking and walking and climbing and climbing we headed to TaiNan's AnPing Old Street for lunch.. ohhh another problem ~
The highlight of the day was going to "Da Keng" Recreational Farm~!.
We had to hike for a while, I admire WenYi's mommie, climbing in heels, I was already so terrified in slippers. So many insects and slippery slopes ahhhh!
There was also a "Cable-Car" ride before descending. It's actually like a flying-fox but you sit on a chair and swing across instead of fastening yourself to a harness.
Look out~ Here comes WenYi~!
Mommie was so scared she went last. hahaha, it was really fun to be honest.
Back at the farm, we had a dip in the mountain spring spa before dinner, then we set off fireworks and also made our own "muah-chee"! coolness!
XiaoChen pumped 'til his whole face went red. roflmao!
anddd it's done~
yeah! ^^v
Mommie doesn't seem to like it D: ..
Day 5
The whole day today was spent at.... *drum roll please* ...
"JanFuSun Themepark" ~!~!~!~!~!
really big huh? we kinda got lost..
whooohooo ! Our very first ride was the most thrilling G-5 Vertical Drop !! .. ohmagawd, even now I can't believe I actually sat on it, just look and marvel at my bravery.
so up up up we go..
turn and jerk to a halt... wait wait...
AAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE down we go !!!!!!!!!!
down down down...
and UPPP again~
fwoooosh ~!
and turn and dip and up and it's over!
in
one
minute
Well, what are we waiting for?
Oh oh, this is it.. im dead x_x .. (back row third from the left)
*gulp* I'm sooo dead...
mommie T_T .. save me ..
oh no oh no oh no, im too young to die!
I bet you don't dare to go on it :D .. BUT I DID! I screamed myself hoarse and lost a decade of my life going on it, but oh well no regrets! Yay, brave me dares to go on every other ride now, 'cept the Screaming Tower and the Viking Ship 'cause they result in dizziness and upset tummies. Mmm.. we took the slow 10minute train ride around the park to take a look-see.
WenYi and I swapped sunglasses for the day~
Then we stopped for lunch - Baked Pasta!
yummy~ After that we had a mild chicky rollercoaster, for those kind of beginner rides, it has ups and downs and sharp bends but it's nothing compared to the loops I've been on and especially G-5. The best ride was the river rush.. the splash one, you know the log ride kind,you know you know? It was really refreshing to rush into the water! wooohoo ~
Mommie didn't wanna get wet, aww pity, she was freakin' hilarious 'cause her umbrella broke, her slippers gave way and her shoulder bag snapped. my goodness,I laughed so hard but yeah, it's sad too..
WenYi and I took neoprints, they're so cheap. $2.50 for 10 pics ^^ Then of course, the big big ferris wheel, and it started to rain again, nooooo T_T.. it was almost 5pm, gosh how time flies !! Must be all the queueing for rides.
Our final ride was the swinging chairs, you know the kind at Genting? wheeee ~ Although we got wet and dizzy, it was still fun, bought more gifts and we're off to the hotel to freshen up and a scrumptious dinner awaits ~!
Today was probably the most fun day of the week since I've gotten closer to WenYi and her brother JunHui and mommie Monica and Linda and her mommie whom we all call Ahma!
But wait ! That's not the end .. we (Me, mommie, wenyi, junhui, monica, xiaochen and our bus driver, XiaoCai) went back to the themepark after dinner ..
for some exhibitions,
Can you believe these are real natural stones of the Zodiac? gosh..
Tiger!
Snake!
Chicken!
Cow!
Okay this one I'm stuck, how does it look like a dog?
Check out this uber kewl teapot!
Outside the exhibition hall was this mermaid like statue. XiaoChen said we should scissors paper stone and see who loses stands next to it and poses like that!
Actually hor, we all had telepathy, all of us chose ROCK and only XiaoChen chose scissors!!! But he sabo-ed JunHui too. Roflmao.. ahh memories memories..
pretty night shots!
two simulator rides..
I sat beside a ghost.. @@"
a "wildwildwest"-like show ..
and of course the glam finale -- fireworks! (I've been a good student, paying attention to Mr.Choy, so here are the firework photos as how Mr.Choy taught how to snap them)
LOL pro not? =xx
Award winning pixs aye? LOL.
Day 6
Breakfast was bad. D:
XiaoChen wore a shirt of Taiwan today and was pointing all over his chest to show where we are/ where we're going, lawl"showing off his chest in disguise"
So we went to the NanTou County to visit the Sun Moon Lake and WenWu Temple. The lake was made of emerald waters surrounded by jade mountains hehe, pretty, but an earthquake ruined the 3 mountains structure D: ..
No of course not, an earthquake ruined it. dodo brain.
hen we went to a peacock garden, it was really nice but the white one didn't wanna show off and mate D: must be shy.. =x
Im too pretty to open my feathers..
Hey babe, check out my assets!
watcha looking at?
Sighs.. pitiful mate selection.. why bother openning up for them ..
Our lunch was atrocious x_x at least to me .. Then we headed to TaiChung's FengJia Night Market even though it was only 4pm. lol wanna cry, didn't find the Nike Shoe T_T lemme show you.. It's silver and pink, although this is like the best picture I can find..
The hot and spicy steamboat for dinner wasn't bad, but I poured a tad too much chilli.. so you know @@..
Alrighty, the day's over just like that. The hotel is beautiful but I'm too tired to go to the hot spring so I went to the gymnasium instead, I know I'm weird. I talked to WenYi about her problems, my problems, basically just chatting while cycling off 200 calories and also trying out the legendary losing weight machine from "Xiaxue's Guide To Life".
Sorry, no pics in the gym D: ..
Day 7
Deng deng deng deng... last day! Early Morning we had, and the worst breakfast ever !!! It was really bad bad bad.. our first stop was the National Palace Museum. It was nice but boring.. you know what museums are like >_> It has the largest assemblage of Chinese Art Treasure.
All of us were kinda bored anyway, so we left and went to Martyr's Shrine to witness the guard's ceremony. XiaoChen told us about his army days where they had to eat faeces. euwwww..
Sadly we failed at trying to make the standing guards laugh.. LOL.
Next up was lunch at Five Cents Drift Wood Restaurant. The place was surrounded in woodwork 'cause this lady boss liked art and couldn't find a place to display her work, so she decided to put them into a restaurant. Not bad but I still heart SG food!!
Then.. we went to a FengShui place and TeaLeaf place where they tried to "cheat" our money, zzz then it was time for Taipei 101 ! Cute building ^^ but all high-class stuff you know~~ so we all came out empty handed.. hahha
We headed for Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, some famous landmark in the world.. But I had no real interest in looknig at photos and badges etc..
However... the scenery there was real nice~
We also dropped by a famous confectionary that sold the reknowned "President's Biscuit", wowwiieee it was nice !!!!
finally, we went to 西门町, a local night market where we had dinner and THEN on to Shihlin Night Market and retired at around 12midnight... a long day and it's time for beibeimian... LOL.
Day 8
Before departing for Singapore, we took one last stop at SongMeiLing's Hotel and her backyard..
and it's byebye Taiwan ..
hello Singapore with it's delectable food and disgusting weather !
To end off, lookie at the stuff I got~
those cartoon sunglasses..
tokens for my friends..
local magazines for the fun of if :D
apparel..
pictures from JanFuSun..
LOL.
Neoprints!
err.. a fan? LOL.
guilty pleasure =x
and shoes! I actually bought the black one in Taiwan, but my daddy also happened to get a pair of white DC shoes from Sydney as a welcome home prezzie. Thanks Daddy and what a wonderful conicidence!
Let's begin~
Day 1
Welcome to Taiwan Trip of June 2009!
It's 5am and off we go! A little storm greeted us as we headed to the airport. RAHH, I got wet =[. A little background info, our tour group this year consisted of 12 people, wowieee, 4 more than last year's 8. Besides the tourguide, there's one man and his family of 5, and one little 13 year old boy. LOL,
Hmm, so bright and early and at 6.30am ..
look who fell asleep right at the start of our journey D: .. MOMMMIIIE !!!
we were supposed to meet our agent who would help us with group check-in and give us our plane tixs.. drama early in the morning! The guy didn't turn up! and we waited til 7.30am and boarding was like ending in 10minutes! Uh oh. 12 of us stormed towards the check in counter and had to... RUNNNNNNNNNNN to the gate.
Hee.. took so many photos on the plane, funny unglam pics of mommie, but I shall not post =x, she got angry while I laughed til I cried :D. I think the guy beside us thought we were crazy, otherwise pathetic, so excited over pictures. He must think "What sad lives these people live, their only joy is derived from taking pictures. Of themselves."
See that extra kia over there ._.
Well, the flight was good, 5 hours .. I introduced mommie to "Kris World", she happily watched "Confessions of a Shopaholic" :D .
Our travel agent decided to repay us by treating us lunch at "Din Tai Fung". Meet our tourguide, 小陈.
yupp, WenYi, my new friend :D, managed to snap a picture of him and that's me by the side.
Before I left for this trip.. I was hoping that I would meet someone famous, because as we all know, Taiwan has so many celebrities. Guess what? I got my wish.
As we entered "Din Tai Fung",
from the Korean version of "Boys Over Flowers" came out... well at first I was stunned, like what's with the crowd and bunches of girls.. hohoho, now I know :D and the place was pretty tiny to have so many people following him. woohoo, I don't even watch the show. LOL.
The food was pretty nice ^^ I hear it's really ex too, oooh Dynasty have no idea how pissed the tour group is.. hehe.
Our appetizers..
XiaoLongBao~
Some other food~
This cute lil' thing is the dessert bao, it's so so so so sweet~!~!
The dumplings have exactly 20 folds you know? Betcha didn't know.
Tried to snap a picture of Taipei 101 outside the restaurant but ahh, its blurry.
So our first tourist spot was the Seashell Temple in Tamsui. The entire temple was covered with seashells and corals, pretty amazing. On the way there, I tried to take some scenery shots but the bus was zooming by too fast x_x.
Can you believe it?
Their own Motorcycle lane!!
This reminded me of "The Cathay"
Whoa there buster, be careful.
But the temple itself is pretty awesome, can you imagine how painstaking it must be to..
a) build a temple
b) dig up shells from the ocean's shore
c) import over the shells
d) paste them all over the temple
e) go back and find more shells/corals if there's insufficient
f) maintaining the temple
whew, I'd never do something so crazy.
Shall we take a look? ..
Heehee, meet my tour group~
Tadah the Seashell Temple~
Amazing right? yupp I know.
Next, we drove on to the Fisherman's Wharf where the Lovers' Bridge is located. It's has a stage area where singers like Jolin Tsai and Luo Zhi Xiang performed before, which reminds me! Tourguide 小陈's cousin is "王子" from "棒棒堂"
WOOOT, so shuai~!~!
Aiyo, look so different right. LOL.
Okay, so we arrived at a spectacular night scene - The Lovers' Bridge~~ There was even a newly wedded couple!
Oops, what's this doing here?
err okay.. I've found it!
wooooot, so pretty ~
Our last stop for the day was a Night Market, see my lousy imitation of KahSing and mummie's one.. lol .. she's so cute ._.
alright time to snooze, 'cause we're all just so tired.. I wonder why flights wear people out.
Day 2
The hotel "Alive Regime" had a hot tub in it! :DD I was terrified of using it, 'cause there was a little cockroach in the bathroom ._. grr.
Early morning and it rained. Again.
It was really hard to take pictures at YehLiu while holding the umbrella, 'cause you need two hands to handle a DSLR @@" .. This is the most remarkable place in the Northern Coast.
The rocks were created by erosion and natural forces. The rock formations were really awesome. See for yourself!
Stare into the distance..
It's coming closer..
O_O.. okay maybe not..
See this is how the rocks are formed~
Tadah.. little bobbles popping out~
Hi everyone, please bow down to "Queen Mary" XiaoChen says "Queen Mary" will "die" through beheading soon ._. Lookie and how fragile it looks.
Whatta pretty place, pity for the rain D: ..
LOOK! What do you see?
Err.. dunnoo lehh.. let's ZOOOOM ~
An elephant!
A right shoe! and ... candle stub!
A left shoe! and... another candle stub!
Ahhh.. wonderful place~
On the bus, XiaoChen introduced us to good food around the area, how to check real and fake notes and their origins. Next stop, ChiuFen! Where old fashioned way of life still exists, it used to be an old mining town. ChiuFen (九份) was too raining so heavily, did some shopping around there.. bought some gifts for friends hehe.. :D
Alrighty, time for a train ride from RueiFang to HuaLien.
he train seats were like beds, the scenery was really pretty but thanks to raindrops on the windows, the pictures don't do the place justice.
We arrived at HuaLien after 2 hours and went to the Taroko Gorge, which was.. sadly also raining T_T.
Taroko Gorge is one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world. The gorge was formed by rushing river waters which have cut straight through the marble and granite to create beautiful narrow ravines with waterfalls and patches of mis clinging to the mountains, surrounded by subtropical forests.
wooooow, sounds so nice, but yada yada it wasn't all that great. It's overrated. ._. But maybe it was the rain's fault.
There was a not so nice herbal dinner so I ..
DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE PIX !!
It wasn't that nice, so I .. played with my food :D
and
then it was a good night's rest and a dream about the next day's 8 hour bus journey down to KaoHsiung.
Day 3
I've often wondered where hotels get their beds and pillows and comforters, they're just so... NICE.
Our first destination today was this place which tried to sell us some Mushroom health drink, which was soooo horrible and it made me pee 5 times. Supposedly it gets rid of your cholestrol and detoxes your body, and I only took 1 sip, imagine if I drank a whole bottle, pee 1000 times? I think NOT.
Then we went to a Marble Factory,
ooh this was cool, a diamond cutter takes 20 hours to slice vertically down through a slab of Marble into 80 pieces.
Slice through this biggie slab of marble you know you know? woweee, it must be tough, like isn't Diamond the hardest thing on Earth?
Lookie I took a piece home, I'm weird, cranky, crazy. I know. Now imagine manual cutting in the old days..
We then visited their craft store, hehe, a little kitty came out to play~
Guess who?
Mmm, this vase emits heat..
I can't believe a rock can be this colourful... even though it isn't exactly nice but..
Spot the hidden mickey!
This is a special stick..
Not any ordinary stick.. I tell you, one little dip into a cup of wine and your precious wine becomes tasteless.
Now this is no ordinary black stone either..
It's Black Jade! and I dare you to put it other light and see what colour it becomes.. you won't believe your darn eyes.
Ooookay, then we're off to JJ Valley Farm!!! My feelings were totally cheated okay, I was so looking forward to milking cows 'cause the itenary said we would and we didnt D: ..
Anyway, the farm is extremely vast and it looks like a Paris green prarie. The cows are so cute~!~!They like me, they come near me .. and run away from mommie, hahaha ~ There's Shetland ponies and a very mischeivous billy goat and some wild boars too. Anyway, first up was lunchiie~
Clever them, putting their merchandise into the tables so people look at them before eating.
Our lunch - Milk Flavoured Hotpot. LOL. It sounds funny, it tastes funny too :D
See whaddya tell ya about the place.. beautiful~~
Ooh this naughty goat kept stealing food from the rest!!
Eat up little ones!
Oh nooo, billy goat is here to terrorize !
*chompp chomp* gimme more food!!
Hey~ I want some too~
mmmm thankyou~
This poor pony was injured..
heh, some food therapy, with billy goat eyeing dangerously..
Aww fine, the last tuft of grass for you.
Hah, what a tiny wild boar, nothing like the Maplestory one!
Here come the cute moomoos~
We had So.. it was time for the dreaded 8 hour bus ride X_x. So after the gruelling ride, we came to "The Splendor" Hotel, which is a whopping 85 storeys high, and the lobby's on the 39th floor, lawl. It's very lavish and grand, I just couldn't get enough of it ..
Then since we all slept on the bus.. (which I didn't because I was busy laughing at "The Adventures of Pan and James". It's about this chimpanzee prodigy and the ultimately cute pug, they set off into the human world and do little chores like delivering food, buying shoes, taking photographs and etc. It's freakin' funny, the Chinese version seems good, so watch it!!! Here's a little clip about Pan-kun meeting James's puppies - watch in Mozilla Firefox so the bgm doesn't interfere)
.. we had enough energy to go to "Dream Mall", KaoHsiung's largest shopping mall. There's the Hello Kitty Ferris Wheel behind the building but I couldn't get a picture of the pretty thing as the building was so confusing that we got lost in it. I'm sure you've seen it in Taiwanese dramas. We had our dinner and shopped around~
We skipped the LeoHo Night Market as we weren't interested in food, so we went to XinJueJiang instead where apparels were everywhere!
Time to snooze it's 12am alr..
Day 4
The breakfast wasn't that bad today. There were French Fries =x lol. First stop was FoKuangShan, "Light of Buddha" Mountain.
We had to climb and climb and climb to the 120metre tall Golden Buddha Amitabha statue with 480 surrounding mini buddhas. I personally don't like temples, and everywhere on this gigantic map had buddhas, you can never find an empty spot. How long did it take to build this place.. good lord.
We all made 3 statements and rang the gong~
This part of the temple was like the "It's A Small World" Castle in Disneyland..
This was the nicest part of the temple.. the Mi Le Fuos~
Then we proceeded to the Spring and Autumn Pavillions where the Dragon and Pagodas were.
Guess how long I stood and waited to capture a shot with no one in it.. x_x
ahh, this one too .. @@"
After walking and walking and climbing and climbing we headed to TaiNan's AnPing Old Street for lunch.. ohhh another problem ~
The highlight of the day was going to "Da Keng" Recreational Farm~!.
We had to hike for a while, I admire WenYi's mommie, climbing in heels, I was already so terrified in slippers. So many insects and slippery slopes ahhhh!
There was also a "Cable-Car" ride before descending. It's actually like a flying-fox but you sit on a chair and swing across instead of fastening yourself to a harness.
Look out~ Here comes WenYi~!
Mommie was so scared she went last. hahaha, it was really fun to be honest.
Back at the farm, we had a dip in the mountain spring spa before dinner, then we set off fireworks and also made our own "muah-chee"! coolness!
XiaoChen pumped 'til his whole face went red. roflmao!
anddd it's done~
yeah! ^^v
Mommie doesn't seem to like it D: ..
Day 5
The whole day today was spent at.... *drum roll please* ...
"JanFuSun Themepark" ~!~!~!~!~!
really big huh? we kinda got lost..
whooohooo ! Our very first ride was the most thrilling G-5 Vertical Drop !! .. ohmagawd, even now I can't believe I actually sat on it, just look and marvel at my bravery.
so up up up we go..
turn and jerk to a halt... wait wait...
AAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE down we go !!!!!!!!!!
down down down...
and UPPP again~
fwoooosh ~!
and turn and dip and up and it's over!
in
one
minute
Well, what are we waiting for?
Oh oh, this is it.. im dead x_x .. (back row third from the left)
*gulp* I'm sooo dead...
mommie T_T .. save me ..
oh no oh no oh no, im too young to die!
I bet you don't dare to go on it :D .. BUT I DID! I screamed myself hoarse and lost a decade of my life going on it, but oh well no regrets! Yay, brave me dares to go on every other ride now, 'cept the Screaming Tower and the Viking Ship 'cause they result in dizziness and upset tummies. Mmm.. we took the slow 10minute train ride around the park to take a look-see.
WenYi and I swapped sunglasses for the day~
Then we stopped for lunch - Baked Pasta!
yummy~ After that we had a mild chicky rollercoaster, for those kind of beginner rides, it has ups and downs and sharp bends but it's nothing compared to the loops I've been on and especially G-5. The best ride was the river rush.. the splash one, you know the log ride kind,you know you know? It was really refreshing to rush into the water! wooohoo ~
Mommie didn't wanna get wet, aww pity, she was freakin' hilarious 'cause her umbrella broke, her slippers gave way and her shoulder bag snapped. my goodness,
WenYi and I took neoprints, they're so cheap. $2.50 for 10 pics ^^ Then of course, the big big ferris wheel, and it started to rain again, nooooo T_T.. it was almost 5pm, gosh how time flies !! Must be all the queueing for rides.
Our final ride was the swinging chairs, you know the kind at Genting? wheeee ~ Although we got wet and dizzy, it was still fun, bought more gifts and we're off to the hotel to freshen up and a scrumptious dinner awaits ~!
Today was probably the most fun day of the week since I've gotten closer to WenYi and her brother JunHui and mommie Monica and Linda and her mommie whom we all call Ahma!
But wait ! That's not the end .. we (Me, mommie, wenyi, junhui, monica, xiaochen and our bus driver, XiaoCai) went back to the themepark after dinner ..
for some exhibitions,
Can you believe these are real natural stones of the Zodiac? gosh..
Tiger!
Snake!
Chicken!
Cow!
Okay this one I'm stuck, how does it look like a dog?
Check out this uber kewl teapot!
Outside the exhibition hall was this mermaid like statue. XiaoChen said we should scissors paper stone and see who loses stands next to it and poses like that!
Actually hor, we all had telepathy, all of us chose ROCK and only XiaoChen chose scissors!!! But he sabo-ed JunHui too. Roflmao.. ahh memories memories..
pretty night shots!
two simulator rides..
I sat beside a ghost.. @@"
a "wildwildwest"-like show ..
and of course the glam finale -- fireworks! (I've been a good student, paying attention to Mr.Choy, so here are the firework photos as how Mr.Choy taught how to snap them)
LOL pro not? =xx
Award winning pixs aye? LOL.
Day 6
Breakfast was bad. D:
XiaoChen wore a shirt of Taiwan today and was pointing all over his chest to show where we are/ where we're going, lawl
So we went to the NanTou County to visit the Sun Moon Lake and WenWu Temple. The lake was made of emerald waters surrounded by jade mountains hehe, pretty, but an earthquake ruined the 3 mountains structure D: ..
No of course not, an earthquake ruined it. dodo brain.
hen we went to a peacock garden, it was really nice but the white one didn't wanna show off and mate D: must be shy.. =x
Im too pretty to open my feathers..
Hey babe, check out my assets!
watcha looking at?
Sighs.. pitiful mate selection.. why bother openning up for them ..
Our lunch was atrocious x_x at least to me .. Then we headed to TaiChung's FengJia Night Market even though it was only 4pm. lol wanna cry, didn't find the Nike Shoe T_T lemme show you.. It's silver and pink, although this is like the best picture I can find..
The hot and spicy steamboat for dinner wasn't bad, but I poured a tad too much chilli.. so you know @@..
Alrighty, the day's over just like that. The hotel is beautiful but I'm too tired to go to the hot spring so I went to the gymnasium instead, I know I'm weird. I talked to WenYi about her problems, my problems, basically just chatting while cycling off 200 calories and also trying out the legendary losing weight machine from "Xiaxue's Guide To Life".
Sorry, no pics in the gym D: ..
Day 7
Deng deng deng deng... last day! Early Morning we had, and the worst breakfast ever !!! It was really bad bad bad.. our first stop was the National Palace Museum. It was nice but boring.. you know what museums are like >_> It has the largest assemblage of Chinese Art Treasure.
All of us were kinda bored anyway, so we left and went to Martyr's Shrine to witness the guard's ceremony. XiaoChen told us about his army days where they had to eat faeces. euwwww..
Sadly we failed at trying to make the standing guards laugh.. LOL.
Next up was lunch at Five Cents Drift Wood Restaurant. The place was surrounded in woodwork 'cause this lady boss liked art and couldn't find a place to display her work, so she decided to put them into a restaurant. Not bad but I still heart SG food!!
Then.. we went to a FengShui place and TeaLeaf place where they tried to "cheat" our money, zzz then it was time for Taipei 101 ! Cute building ^^ but all high-class stuff you know~~ so we all came out empty handed.. hahha
We headed for Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, some famous landmark in the world.. But I had no real interest in looknig at photos and badges etc..
However... the scenery there was real nice~
We also dropped by a famous confectionary that sold the reknowned "President's Biscuit", wowwiieee it was nice !!!!
finally, we went to 西门町, a local night market where we had dinner and THEN on to Shihlin Night Market and retired at around 12midnight... a long day and it's time for beibeimian... LOL.
Day 8
Before departing for Singapore, we took one last stop at SongMeiLing's Hotel and her backyard..
and it's byebye Taiwan ..
hello Singapore with it's delectable food and disgusting weather !
To end off, lookie at the stuff I got~
those cartoon sunglasses..
tokens for my friends..
local magazines for the fun of if :D
apparel..
pictures from JanFuSun..
LOL.
Neoprints!
err.. a fan? LOL.
guilty pleasure =x
and shoes! I actually bought the black one in Taiwan, but my daddy also happened to get a pair of white DC shoes from Sydney as a welcome home prezzie. Thanks Daddy and what a wonderful conicidence!
bits of me revealed at ..
12:39 PM.
