Taipei trip 2009 : last day at taipei

7th day, our final race, last day, our flight is at 6.30, so we be leaving hotel at 3.30pm,

So we went to hotel nearby shop to shop around , and have some ice-cream which was known as Cold Stone. It was super crazy hot cake now in Taipei , I saw the queue at Xing meng ding was like the donut factory queue during the 1st launch at city hall . At 1st, I didn’t notice (again..hahaha) , and asked my sister wanna tried , she point at me the break down queue at the back , it was super long!!! Gosh, but still as we got up early today , as an early bird, have finally give a tried of it’s magic taste that made people queue. When we were buying the queue is packing up!!



Super long queue at xing meng ding!I wonder what happen if i cut queue.. I think i be dead meat ..hahaha



The ice-cream, I prefer Thailand’s one, it is much richer, as for this one, it taste towards more milky.

Since is a short trip , we decided to take taxi back to xin meng ding to get the design key holder which we eventually have done 2 of them previously, we lost it, and so we went back to make another two while to get the last grab of anything we could missed. While we have planned from the 1st day , to buy our mum's fav donut !!! The mister Donut !! ( picture below ) And my sister bring me to the maid’s café, but we didn’t tried because not really much time. Hope can try next time.





Super long queue lor.We tot no-one will buy so last min then go buy , nearly tot that we be late for our flight. O_OIII

So is time to go airport , at 1st before check in , we asked a sale person at the airport , if there is any foodcourt in the waiting area after check in , as we saw only burger king and one Chinese lai-mee , the sale person say there are a lot of food inside , so my sister and I tot of go in the waiting area and eat , to our shock , there is nothing near to foodcourt !!! no food , only snack bar !!! and snack bar with no table and chair !! so I walked from one edge of it to another , and tell my sister , this is the 1st time ever , I saw no café in the air-port waiting area !! , At last , we found one café at the end of the airport , with very basic sandwich and drink …





One thing , my sister and I found out , the coke is in different size with same price!! They are manufactured in different dates.That reminds me of the news in Hongkong , the inflation theory...they tell you they didnt increase the price , but they " decease" the volume ...hee hee

Next time , i think i better eat before go airport. ~_~ 1st time ever, i got nothing to eat at airport.

This taipei trip , I didn’t really explore as much , as I too old now , must admit that now T_T , I used to able to walk whole day , shop whole day , but now , I need to rest and walked slowly .. wu wu wu .. but still I hope to go taipei again..

Oh remember if u have any receipts , unless is by visa card payment , try to donate to the charity box ( most of them can be found in their 7-11 store or Moss Burger store , the receipt is for lucky draw , if u donate to them , they will passed to those poor family , and tried their luck. Afterall after trip, u wont need it, who know, the receipt u passed to the needed family will change their living condition and life?

Taipei trip 2009 : 6th day at taipei

6th day soon will be our last race, we decided to go back to wu fen pu (my sister want to buy some dress which she tried in hotel when we back and find it nice) , but we mistaken one thing , is that the store open only after 1 pm OoOIII So we decided to spend our time at around xing meng ding ( outside the main xing meng ding ) to do a more detail type of shopping while having my curry rice again..heehee. , then after that we went back to wu fen pu again , lor...

We made a mistake , we actually didn’t finish the place as we tot in the 1st time , there is a back alley and different parts of the wu fen pu and not as we tot of that small part which we tot we finish exploring the place, wah , we spend almost all our time again walked up and down to look for some shop we hope to shop again… but still as the place is too big we couldn’t find some of the shop which I purchase and hope to get another one which I didn’t. sian…. Sigh..

Taipei trip 2009 : 5th day at taipei

5th day , finally I get to go to the Wu fen pu ( 五分埔 ) , I have been knowing the place for long yet never get the chance to go , as the TV introduce , a lot of fashion can be found here. I managed to get a lot of dress and some designer clothes in the range of $25 - $50 sing dollar each. The price is not as cheap as mention in some recommendation, but if you buy a lot, they do give offer, just that unless you a very good price-cutter..hahaha..



I happened to meet a very unhappy case, which I saw a neck scarf which really pretty , it was placed on a fake model , while I wanted to ask the price , a local girl was asking too , the sale-person quoted her $350 NT , but when I asked the sale – person she asked if I buying other thing , I answer no , she quoted me $500 NT and she said is the last piece , of cause my 1st impression was since I like it and I not buying any of her thing , I just spend the $500 NT , but the local girl whom was quoted $350 NT , quickly snatched by pulling the scarf from the model opposite way of me pulling it. I was a bit shocking at 1st , she shown me the black face and put the scarf at her arm and walked away. Lor !! So mad, later on , I found the same piece at $600 NT , I said okie , take it , my sister asked my if I really want the scarf or because I unhappy people snatch something away from me.

I think hard , I think I more likely to be unhappy tat people snatch thing from me , and I unhappy that I didn’t react fast to give that girl some power of my poison mouth , that why I got the madness of got money , u afraid can’t get meh type of feeling , not to show I am rich , but if people understand I think they will sort of understand bah.

Okie , I so mad. Cool down Cool down… now think of it, I still mad.

Eventually I found that Taipei girl do have different characters like Singapore girl , it happen at same place at Wu Fen pu , I was looking at the clothes , as the road was pretty tight , and I got my backpack , a couple saw me , then the guy start to make some stupid funny noise to make me aware I blocked their way, well of cause I noticed with that stupid noise , so I just moved aside ( one part is I finish looking ) , then his girlfriend say : Wah , you are so powerful !! in a pitching sound of you know cute cute sound.

I looked directly at them with super big round eye. Surely I can’t do that, and frankly that guy I looked at him , nothing but look so thin and just another Ah beng type only. Sigh, girls…… no wonder Singapore girls cannot fight against foreign “talent” girl.

Taipei trip 2009 : 4th day at taipei

4th day , We spend again , another half day at a museum which is known as museum of world religions , eventually this museum is even longer , as my sister like to study about religion and all , there is a kid’s playground too , which both ticket can be purchased as a package. Frankly the museum is mostly older age of tour group and hardly sees any age around us. I sort of more interested in Egypt and Buddhist religion so I spend longer time reading it. I happen to stop by a tour group while the tour guide explained the meaning of some Buddhist stone craving, I heard about one thing of if a person born in a way, it mean they are to be as prince or bah bah… I couldn’t heard it well and really interested but too bad, when I wait for next and next group, neither of them mentioned about it.

We were in the museum of almost 4.30 pm which the museum and kid playground closed at 5pm , so we left 30 min to the kid playground , well , I regretted , I looked at the playground and asked my sister : Dude you sure you wanna spend 30 min here with all the children thing and soft toy. Gosh!! Maybe I just too old for kid’s thing..hahaha.

So we back to xin meng ding again for dinner, eating curry pork when my mum just call and told us not to eat pork ..hahahaha…but hor the cheese curry pork is really nice. I recommend people to go eat and try their cheese curry pork, is really nice.

I not a really Japanese curry rice fan, but this I super recommend it and have it for two time in one role during the trip!! . Is not hard to find, the big logo will be seem easily, gosh, now I got hard time to get the same taste of it in Singapore to have it again.



Their big logo

Taipei trip 2009 : 3rd day at taipei

3rd Day, we had our breakfast at an England style café ^^ Very nice food and décor ^^ .



My sister... I told her I so “ciel” (one of my fav character in kuroshitsuji) those who like the animation will know lah.



Anyway today we spend almost half of the day at the miniatures museum of Taiwan. ^^ Being wanted to go so much, it was one of my purposes to Taipei too. My friend said the place was boring, but to me, is more like wonder and full of surprise. Eventually I really hope to spend the whole day instead to slowly see it one by one and every part of it, it is so detail done even the smallest art work. I really love it. If you happen to go, when you saw the phantom of the opera (as shown above), try to stand side-way, you will see the mask-guy in the mirror, time by time, he appear and disappear.



And if you are amazing race fan, go to the last “pit stop “you will see a small house, not as obvious as the bigger (and real big) one beside it, you can know that it was the previous game which they need to find the small yellow envelope just behind the type writer (As shown above), that time the groups really having a hard time finding it. Hee hee…

So as we spend almost half of the day already, we just went back to SOGO again to finish our shopping which we never done so yesterday. But one thing can be recommended is , when you go to one of the SOGO , if you happen to see a Watson of around 4 storey high , it opened until mid-night , it is pretty recommended to go if you like make-up cause they got a lot of Japanese brand make-up products which some can be expensive in Singapore.

Taipei trip 2009 : 2nd day at taipei

Next day, the 2nd day, we had our breakfast at Dante café and 1st thing to do, head straight to Xing meng ding….Animate!!! Hee hee… I told my sister , animate products always limited stock , so it will be safer to head straight to animate 1st and see anything we want and grab it in hand 1st ..^^

At the 1st day, at animate, I got a record of sending $8400 NT plus (SGD$400 plus) in one shot, gosh!! O_O

My sister kept nagging at me, when I asked her how much is $8400 NT in sing dollar, she looked at me and said $400 plus!! And when my mum called and asked us if we met the dust tornado which reported in the news, my sister said she did saw one in the Animate... o_0III

But hor , if you understand the feeling of just like a cage animal which being cage for long, and finally get out and see a lot of small food around mah…hee hee of cause will be keep buying here and there are so many little things / toys which is so cute to let go.



And here is all my rewards at Animate ^^

So with all the stress release (after all the craziness in Animate), my sister and I had a steamboat around the area, it is ma-lai steamboat, wah, really ma –lai lor, so spicy. Athough the food is not that suit towards my taste, but their dessert is great, meji and Hagen daze ice-cream, free flow of coke and different drinks. But if anyone wants to go, a warning towards it, they only limited 2 hour of eating time, so if you like to spend your whole day there eating ice-cream that is impossible. But still it is a worth to try , at least I feel is much better and cleaner in presenting of their foods than some of the Singapore buffet.

So after xing meng ding, I was really tired T_T, so my sister and I took a taxi back to hotel to put back all our things , when the hotel management saw the package we talk , I looked at her and back to our package , I asked her do you want to put us to top floor ( got elevator ) instead as basement is staircase only. So she responded that next day will have a room, and that when the 1st time again , change room in the mid-stay…hahaha

So after resting, is almost evening, our next stop is the SOGO, Singapore have SOGO too but they are more towards the Japan style. A lot of brand which Singapore doesn’t have, such as the Justin Davis etc. Anyway as we came in pretty late, so eventually we just do slight shopping and just look if we want to buy anything.. My sister wanted to buy Justin Davis , but the jewels of Justin Davis were really expensive lor, one silver ring with crystal is about $1000 plus Singapore dollar O_o II Anyway my sister do have her rewards too lah , she brought a ring at SOGO.

As for myself, I get myself a ring too at the next day which was the 3rd day (it was the last piece, they have a lot of limited stock)



And here is our collections!! ^^

Taipei trip 2009 : 1st day at taipei

Finally, I have finished upload all my taipei trip with my little sister ,or at least I think is all lah, eventually we didn’t really plan our trip well, as it is a pretty rush and sudden trip. Well also too lazy to plan, afterall is shopping, who will know how long going to take when girls are shopping…hee hee..

I got 7 days at Taipei, but 1st day is “ wasted “ in the aeroplane and the trip to city itself and do all the hotel check in.. , so by the time everything is settle is already around 7 plus. The 1st day I was checked in , for the 1st time too , was a basement room (the hotel named dai xin hotel got basement room) a Japanese style room ( picture attached ) , my 1st impression to the hotel is a bit outskirt area, as it was along a dark walk way, but the overall internal room itself is still pretty good and slightly newer as compare to rainbow hotel which I usually booked although the location is not as good. But as for bathroom, rainbow hotel is preferred bah as for my case.



our first room , later we change another room.hahaha.. i like our second room , but too bad no window , and the previous owner smoke inside !! i brought a lavander refresher spray at Diaso and spray everyday..hahaha.. my sister love the idea , cheaper than using our perfum.



our dinner and dessert!! - very nice woh!

Anyway as 1st day was wasted for all the ding dong, we only able to walk around the hotel area, if you say is outskirt area, well if you don’t mind to walk about 5 min walking dist, eventually they got 2 big shopping centre and a few road side shops such as Daiso and lots of café, and if you willing to walk down even further a bit, branded shops such as coach etc are just near by, so is really not that bad. We had dinner and some dessert for our 1st day and walked around, then went back to hotel and sleep to start fresh next day.

Life is just like a box of chocolate, you never know what you get…

Another day me with R and C together at city hall to have dinner at the Japanese Buzzer (1st time together) ^^ as per normal as usual all the time, we meet for dinner and all the gossips of work and bah bah… hee hee

So after dinner, we walked around and went in the chocolate empire shop. I saw this new design of chocolate, it is so beautiful. (Picture below)

It reminds me the movie and its famous quote:

Life is just like a box of chocolate, you never know what you get…mmm...

JJ concert 2009 at Singapore Indoor stadium!

1st time ever , My friend and I went to a concert together and the best of all, I got the chance to go for free with a big thanks to her ( you know who you are ) whom got the free tickets and share with me ^^

Frankly, I was still thinking whether to buy the cheapest ticket just to “listen” to the concert since it will be expectedly far from the stage cause I sort of like JJ’s songs a lot.

I’ll always remember this great after-exam gift forever ToT (my exam just finish in time to relax)^^

Our early dinner at kallang Leisure park before the concert start, I keep asking and bother my friend should we buy the light stick…hahaha ( Picture below )



Well, at 1st, we were arranged to sit on the T36 batch which is the left side of the concert hall, but that day was really our super lucky day (1st timer luck? – 1st time watching concert together)

My friend's boss had the 1st row ticket and we were given the chance to sit at 1st row just in front of the stage. super lucky!!TOT

Here is the ticket as shown above.And how close we really is ^^





And I was just sitting two to three seats away in the same row with Kit chan and JJ’s family ~0~ ( I even got the eye contact with Kit chan and we smile with each other , I so hoped to tell her , I love her music play : The Forbidden City which I attended years ago )

But hor only one bad thing was.....cannot shout like those fans behind me O__0

Because everyone beside me including my friend was abit ….. quiet T_T so I must also act act abit.

Don’t want to cause my friend to lose face mah, wait don’t bring me for concert again…hee hee..But if I didnt get the impression wrong , I do saw JJ point at me and give me a good thumb up , when i was singing along with him and clapping.*o*

But hor, I so hoped to shout like other fans ^o^

Especially when JJ choosing one of the fan to the stage and sit beside him when he play piano!! I so super want to stand up and say choose me!!

Wah!! I’ll be surely dragged down as a copse (too crazy and fainted) , hee hee....I guess guys who can write good lyrics and music can really be a big trap against me..hahaha^^

Anyway it was really an enjoyable and great concert.

And the best of all, there is a meet and greet session with JJ himself after concert...

but too bad , that day , something went wrong whereby there are only 10 passes and 16people , so I tried not to disturbed friend working , I told her to let them go in 1st and we later , but when the time we go in , JJ was surrounded with the stage employee , we were so closed with him just within 5 steps , if I had knew my friend’s boss will hoped her to take photo with JJ ,

I will put down my faces to say : PLEASE JJ , TAKE PHOTO WITH ME AND MY FRIEND !!! >0< hahaha..

Okie , I learned my lesson , next time must tried to get whatever it takes before lossing it..hahaha..

Here is the pass (been wanting to get one) ^^:



Here is the video of the concert ^^ ( All photo as usual are located right below of the blog - some are by my friend ^^) - I using the new camera canon PowerShot E1 ( 1st time using ), a lot of picture and video was too blur T_T , guess I should really learn well before using it , I should have bring my EOS400D and my dad's lumix for video instead , Wu wu wu....Wah!!!