Taiwan 2007: March 2008 Archives

Day 3
 

-First stop of the day was the lingzhi shop.


-Listened to a talk on Taiwan's lingzhi and deer fetus which is supposedly good for people with asthma. (eew! wtf?!)
-My sister bought so much stuff that I almost thought that she's going to open a lingzhi shop in Singapore or something. (kidding)
-Wanted to take a photo with the shifu there and somehow the salesladies there thought that I said that the shifu was handsome. -_-
-The shifu then asked me if I 'shui xing le ma' (Fully-awake or not) =D


-Next stop was this place called Da Lu Shan. Damn pretty and the water was crystal blue!


-Ok, doesnt look that pretty in the picture. Cant comment on the photography skills because I wasnt the one who took them.
-Got on the bus and they drove for a relatively short while before reaching the next place. Not sure if it's still Da Lu Shan though...the colour of the water looks the same to me.
-(Note to self) Stop sleeping immediately upon getting onto the bus and listen to the tour guide more!


-Was brought to the beach next but as I have an immense dislike for beaches and sand, I chose to wait...near the toilet... for the rest of the people while they frolicked on the beach.
-My sister was one of those people and she came back with sandy feet.
-Luckily she was wearing my father's Ronald MacDonald shoes. (Crocs)

-I dont see the attractiveness of beaches at all. I'm so totally unromantic :(

-Somewhere in between those places that we went to, we had lunch. Not really tasty I must say but the quantity made up for the quality.
-All of us were divided into groups of 10 for lunch.
-My group was the one that bonded really well I think. In fact, all of us talked so much that we were always the last one to leave the restaurant although we were the first ones to enter.

-Was brought to this seriously lousy hot spring hotel that smelt really bad.
-There were too many tourists from ******* that made me give up the idea of entering the hot spring.
-Aircon was seriously noisy because it kept leaking. How freaking old is the aircon?!


-Wanted to go shopping around that area in the night but there was nothing to see at all.
-While waiting outside 7-11, I saw lots of dead flies. WTF. There were seriously enough flies to make up a parliament.


-Tried mao xie(hairy crabs?) at this little restaurant that was quite a distance away from the hotel.
-Hate eating crabs because it's so troublesome. Have to crack open the shell, eat the meat and get your hands dirty.
-Reason why we chose to eat at this particular shop among all the others that were selling the same thing was because of this uncle who was singing and dancing at the same time. Damn cool!


-It was at that shop that I sang in front of a whole restaurant for the first time in my life! Damn scary.
-On the way back to the hotel, we saw this:

-Is he shitting or is he showing his...erm...yea, you get the idea?
-Reached the hotel at like 11.30pm so didnt enter the hot spring in the end.

Yup, end of Day 3.
Day 2
 

-Ate breakfast and went down to the hotel lobby.
-Was told that we couldnt go up the bus.
-Imagine my horror when I realised that 99% of the tour group was already on the bus when we were finally allowed onto the bus.
-The horror got worse when I realised that my seat was just right in front of two little kids.


-The horror worsened when I almost fell through the emergency exit. Who builds emergency exits that are so dangerous anyway?!


-Went to Yehliu, the place with pretty impressive rock formations like this one, the map of Taiwan.


-And this, Nv Wang Tou.


-I have a love-hate relationship with bridges. Bridges are nice because they are damn romantic and nice to look at but I hate them because once I ascend a bridge, I can take an eternity to get down. I was practically sliding down the bridge I climbed up in Japan. In a skirt somemore!


-The sexy peek-a-boo toilet. One can practically see through the door lo! Although it's a guys toilet but still, wtf?! The toilet at one petrol station was even worse. The guys toilet had no door at all! As in for the urinals portion. I was originally very sleepy when I walked to the toilet and was immediately shocked awake by the toilet.


-Ate this fried seaweed snack there. Salty but good. I love anything seaweed.


-Saw Ayase Haruka at Yehliu!!!! Okay, not exactly her in real person but rather her poster. Tried to find Hiraoka Yuta's poster but to no avail. :(

-Next stop was Chiufen which I didnt like very much.
-Too many tourists, too narrow roads and too many large vehicles on the road. I really hate the traffic in Taiwan.


-Everyone had to run into a shop when this vehicle passed by because it was just impossible for someone to walk on the street without getting killed with this vehicle on the street.


-Ate fishball, meatball, sharkball, and whatever balls they had in this shop which was opened by a seriously narcissistic lady. I mean, who practically plasters her shop's walls with her own pictures?! I've finally found someone who is more narcissistic than Tony Khoo. Hahaha.


-Loving this woman's outfit.


-Next stop was Nantien Gong.

-Had to take a 3-hour long bus ride to Hualien.
-What is a 3-hour long bus ride compared to the 4-hour long bumpy bus ride I took before in China?
-It was worse because of the fact that half the bus ride was on a winding road.
-Seriously felt like puking in the middle of the bus ride.
-Contemplated getting some medicated oil from my sister but she was asleep.
-Felt that someone up there likes me very much when the lady(Denise) in front of me used her medicated oil. So, although I wasnt directly using it, the smell alone was enough.

-Had a great dinner at the hotel. In fact, it was the best hotel I've stayed in during this whole trip...and it had nothing to do with the cute bellboys/waiters in the hotel.
-Ate spaghetti, salmon and mango ice-cream. My favourite food~
-Traumatised the sushi guy because I chose like 2 out of the 6 ingredients I think he was supposed to wrap in the temaki sushi.
-The sushi guy traumatised me even more when he handed me my temaki sushi...without rice.


-Wen dao-yu told us that there will be a 7-Eleven near every hotel that we will be staying in.
-Felt damn cheated by him because 7-Eleven was like miles away from the hotel that we stayed in.
-Didnt help that a dog tried to follow us back to the hotel.
-Traumatised the dog by screaming because it appeared all of a sudden in front of me. Paiseh, who asked you to traumatise me first.


-H Alien City. Sounds damn wrong can...in Japanese.


-Caught the hotel people laughing when I was taking this photo. What?! Cannot box reindeers arh?!


-Have a habit of leaving the electricity on when I leave the hotel room so we originally used this book to hold the key in place because it kept popping out of place. Our always helpful tour guide, Victor, had a more indigenous idea of using the toothbrush in place of the key. Eh...what am I going to use to brush my teeth?

Walked around the hotel and I saw men wrapped around in bathrobes coming out of the spa place. Normally men in bathrobes are sexy...if they look like Domoto Koichi...but it's just wrong when their bathrobes are not tied tightly enough.

So yup, end of day 2.
Damn outdated but going to post bit by bit about my Taiwan trip...last year :D

-Was supposed to reach Changi Airport at 1.15pm but was late because the taxi driver was so slow. Ok, not exactly the taxi driver's fault. Dily-dallied too long at home was the real reason.
-Short briefing by Victor, the Singapore tour guide.
-Laughed because the first hotel that we would be staying in had a really mafia-ish sounding name 'Taiwan Brothers'. Result of watching too much 'Yi Nan Wang'.
-Proceeded to check-in.
-The guy who led us to the check-in counter was fierce and I was damn scared of him. He reminded me of my strict Korean teacher.
-Luckily he wasnt our tour guide.
-Proceeded to enter the gate. The guy checking passports at the gate was so freaking cute.
-Sister was chased out of the gate for eating ice-cream. Apparently ice-cream is considered a liquid because it can melt and it might contain dangerous liquids. Seriously, would anybody be eating it if it really contained dangerous liquids.
-Waited for sister on the other side of the gate and had to listen to the lady who chased her out rant about people eating ice-creams.
-The same lady kept calling 'Mei mei, mei mei' for no reason at all.
-Realised she was calling me to siam to one side when she patted me on my shoulder.
-Flight was delayed so we had to wait among noisy kids.
-Saw this Singaporean guy who looked very Korean. Saw him a few more times on the tour although he wasnt in my tour group.
-Was sceptical about China Airlines because of the not-so-nice rumours I've heard about them.
-Pleasantly surprised by the service and the spacious seats in the plane.
-It helped that the air stewardesses were damn pretty.
-Sucked that I didnt see any cute air steward.

-Reached Taipei at 8pm.
-First thought was 'Shit, why is it so fucking cold? I didnt bring enough warm clothes.'
-Was diao-ed the whole time by this Malaysian woman who was standing in front of me at the immigration counter.
-Realised that Taiwanese are actually quite kiasu too because when a new counter for Taiwan passport holders opened, people from the other queues dashed there straight away and in less than 2 seconds, the queue was snaking already.
-Never seen middle-aged men dash that fast before. Da Kai Yan Jie.
-Met the Taiwan tour guide, Wen dao-yu (dao-yu here meaning tour guide in Chinese and not that the guy's name was dao-yu).
-Sister made 2 new friends Naina and Jimmy while I was still staring into space at the hotel lobby.
-Realised that my sister makes friends damn fast along the whole trip, unlike me. I've never made friends on any other tours I went on before. Yes, I am anti-social/shy, something that my friends scoff at when I tell them so. They keep telling me that I cannot possibly be anti-social/shy because I am so 'bagua'.


-Went to Raohe Street Night Market with the two new friends.


-Taiwan is like filled with dogs or something. Somemore is that kind of large dogs that are not cute at all.


-Of course, there were also cute little dogs too la.


-My Korean class classmate from Taiwan kept telling me about the wonders of Taiwan's bubble tea so I decided to try it.
-I think I seriously traumatised the guy selling bubble tea with my weird questions like 'Which is the most delicious item here?'
-Couldnt read the Chinese words of the drink I wanted and tried to point it out to the guy and he probably thought that I was an idiot or something. How do you read konnyaku in Chinese anyway?!
-Bubble tea was damn delicious. The guy who made the bubble tea looked delicious too. Fu-fu-fu~ :D

-Ate taiyaki there and felt like as if I were in Japan like that. Reminded me of Toukasan.
-Ate 'cong zhua bing' (some onion pancake that tasted like roti prata).


-Saw people selling cannabis. Or rather cannabis incense...Can meh?! Isnt cannabis a drug?!


-And this is Rilakkuma meh?

-Saw Victor eating with that funny tour guide that I never got to know his name. The same guy who told us not to go to Raohe Street Night Market...Why was he there then? :D
-Tasted my first chou dou fu. Smell was horrible but the taste reminded me of Thai sweet-and-sour sauce. Yes, my tastebuds are weird.
-Back to hotel to sleep. Hate bathing in hotels because everytime I do so, I get reminded of the horrible things John Martin Scripps used to do in hotel bathrooms. I should really stop reading real-life murder stories for leisure. It was horrifying to know that I knew almost all the murder cases that they talked about in Forensic Science class. Is this normal? Anyway, this ends my first day in Taiwan.

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