Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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im back from taipei~! and damn suey la.... got sick on the last day...
day 1:
3 of us share a cab to T1 for our flight... after checking in (we were given paper slips as our air tix... no wonder they are call budget airline.. haha) ... went to T3 to look look... very big ... went for lunch at burger king then went for departure ... 1pm exactly we are off to taipei...woo~ the flight took ard 4hrs plus... and finally we are in taipei~ damn... i was freezing and shivelling all the way ....... standing at the departure counter... we saw that everybody was wearing a few layers and only dan and me was wearing bermudas.....then we went to get our bus tix to the hotel... the bus company is call fei gou ...and guess what ....its call free go ...stupid name... anyway it was fucking jammed on the highway and we took like 1 hr plus to reach our hotel at ximending..... gd location... after resting for a while..we went to walk ard... jq and me got the same pair of converse jack purcell shoes... 70+ quite cheap... but sadly i got half a size smaller becoz i tried only on my right foot and my left foot is actually bigger.... we went back to our hotel to rest somemore then we head to luxy to club! we heard so much abt luxy that it was pretty disappointing when we were there... there was not much people ...and we chatted with the drinks promoter and she said that saturday will have more people... the only thing good is that they have 4 hot dancers performing a few times the whole night... left the place ard 2+
day 2:
went for breakfast at mcdonalds coz there is not much to eat in xmd early in the morning. we then went to zhongxiao area for shopping... some of the shops we planned were not opened.. we went shops like undercover, leftfoot, s.o.l, phantaci and a few others... then we went further down to bape which is very very disappointing... but i guess is becoz of the season also... so there is no t-shirt... we then went dinghao plaza or sth ... which is like an old building and most of the stuff are for gers....had our dinner at some chinese restarunt then went SOGO to shop...got a bag at muji for 300nt only... i juz buy for fun.. haha ... jq also buy 1 ... thats y we r best friend... we buy the same thing... lol .. then we went back xmd...went to a shop called apery ...according to some reviews that jq checked...the salesgers are hot chicks and the stuff they stock good stuff and good price... however i find that the stuff are displayed as if they are cheap stuff and mind u ... some of the tshirts cost over 100... they also sell some xiao zhu's 2nd hand tshirt... we left the shop and went nearby to find xiao zhu's shop Stage... there was nth much to see .. went back to our hotel to rest... then we went to huaxi night market... tried out the snake soup... the snake meat taste like chicken... after sometime we left for room18... there was not much people when we reached there... we were quite sian coz we tot it will be like luxy ... but it was good and very packed! there was dancers also though the one at luxy are better.... the music there was good as well... alot of the songs were not those mainstream hiphop/rnb songs but there are good still.. left ard 3plus .
day 3
had our breakfast at one of the shop in xmd... had mincemeat rice and osyter egg...then we went to some of the places at taipei cityhall area..went to shopping centers like xin guang mitsukoshi (they have 4 buildings next to each other..crazy), newyorknewyork (boring), neo19 (where room18 is...but there is only food over there) and 101... the lift was damn fast man...we got to the 88th floor in less than 1 min... sadly the view was obscured due to the mist... we walk around and checked out the damper which help stabilised the building... got some souvenirs and left... cab down to wufenpu ... damn.... most of the shops sell female stuff... we just walked abit and walked to raohe night market... i must say it is one of the longest night market ........we just keep walking without stopping much and we took at least 30mins... then we went shilin night market to eat the famous chicken cutlet... we went to look for a toilet first and came to the arcade place... dan and me tried the rodeo riding machine...keep getting knocked off.... then 3 of us played the bumper car.... after that ..we went for food hunt.....tried to find a yellow sign selling chicken cutlet but couldnt.. we ended up with a shop with a long que and we tot maybe they changed their signs... went back to xmd and had some deserts... and slp
day 4:
we had breakfast at mcdonalds again... went back to hotel to surf the net for a while then we left for yangmingshan..... took a bus there....it was freaking cold... luckily dan lend me his pullover... we saw the visitor sign and followed it... 600m upslope of trail later... we reach the visitor center... and the visitor center is not even open on monday... wanted to go for some scenic decks .. but the one we saw was 1.7km away!!! wtf...then we jus walk ard abit and saw this small cave where we took some pictures... took a bus down to the mrt station and then we cab back to zhongxiao area for more shopping...this time round...we went to quite a no. of shops that we missed when we were there on day 2... jq and dan got themselve a tshirt a s.o.l. ... the sales staff was damn good and we even took a picture with him ... haha... we then went to CTV for the wo cai recording... it was the chinese new yr edition .... the guests are hei se hui mei mei and 4 gers from xin guan bang season 2... the guest host is ya zi ( shes damn cute!!) .. the recording was ard 20mins and it was done... we were confused when everybody started leaving... then we heard there will be more recording later... guess they need to change the settings... anyway we didnt wait and we left for miramar entertainment center to take the ferris wheel... cab back to xmd for buffet... although we are allowed to order any items thrice...we were full by the 2nd time... the only good thing is free flow of haagen daaz icecream... however the nite wasnt that good
jq was vomitting and had diarrhoea while i had soarthroat and slight fever...
day 5:
still sick... we call up the desk to extend our checkout timing by 2hrs... it cost 200nt and hour... so its like $9+ an hour... waste our whole day in the hotel slping... took the bus at ard 2pm to the airport... we were early as we tot our flight was 540pm...it was 620..pm.. with 1 hr for the counter to open ...we went to get some food... jq and me still sick could eat much .....i juz ate all the vegetables in my soup noodle....we went to check in at 430pm .... then we bought like $200+ of local products among ourselves... then we waited and the departure hall ... i was feeling fucking cold and shivering... so i juz cower on the seat... ard 6+ we finally got on the plane... 11+ we reached singapore and home sweet home~
pics will be uploaded when dan send me ....
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