Qiyuan decided to blog in this page after the many sian projects and procrastination to study for examinations.
I loved the taiwan trip=]
It was fun=] Travelling to nice places with a bunch of good friends. Other than the part where I couldn't really sleep almost evey night cause it wasn't my bed, it was fun=]
Thank you all for making this trip a wonderful one.
I promise to upload nice pics here after examination okie?
let's plan another trip. To Hong Kong?=]
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Goodbye Hualien!!!! We will miss you
We slept in a minsu in Hualien last night and it was pretty comfortable. More importantly, it is slightly cheaper than a 3-4 stars hotel and the host is quite friendly. She prepared breakfast for us in her shop and even take away some xiao long bao from the most famous shop in Hualien.
Our tour guide looks more serious and normal today in his army clothes. However, he was still carrying a dagger, together with a handcuff and a pistol. He is quite a responsible and sincere tour guide.
I love the flowers, the mountains and how the houses are sparsely apart along the mid rift valley. Even though it was raining a little in the morning, it did not dampen our mood as we embarked on our sight-seeing journey. We went to a few attractions that were left behind after the Japanese occupation which include a Japanese temple and a wood logging park. The last attraction that we really like is the cow farm where we get to feed the cows and ostrich.
We took a train back to Taipei which takes about 2.5hrs. The train ride was very comfortable and everyone fall asleep which was a waste because we missed the beautiful scenery along the way according to what I read from some forums.
Even though it was already 8.30pm by the time we deposited our luggage in our hotel in ximending, we still headed to Shilin night market as planned in our itinerary. We had our yummy dinner at the night market. After that, is shopping time!!!!
Our tour guide looks more serious and normal today in his army clothes. However, he was still carrying a dagger, together with a handcuff and a pistol. He is quite a responsible and sincere tour guide.
I love the flowers, the mountains and how the houses are sparsely apart along the mid rift valley. Even though it was raining a little in the morning, it did not dampen our mood as we embarked on our sight-seeing journey. We went to a few attractions that were left behind after the Japanese occupation which include a Japanese temple and a wood logging park. The last attraction that we really like is the cow farm where we get to feed the cows and ostrich.
We took a train back to Taipei which takes about 2.5hrs. The train ride was very comfortable and everyone fall asleep which was a waste because we missed the beautiful scenery along the way according to what I read from some forums.
Even though it was already 8.30pm by the time we deposited our luggage in our hotel in ximending, we still headed to Shilin night market as planned in our itinerary. We had our yummy dinner at the night market. After that, is shopping time!!!!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
hellohello!
hellohello!
i am chenhian the mighty(: i kind of forgotten my password so i decided to use dear qiyuan's acc to blog my veryveryvery first entry in this blog! whees!
ok right now, we are all at this local's lovely pleasant home in hualien. apparently we succeeded in surviving the entire day in hualien unharmed up til now! earthquake be gone!!! hoho!
as qiyuan wishes, i shall start my longwinded post on what we did for today!
its really a long long long long long and i mean long day so yupp here goes..
first thing we did! thats of cos to wake up at taipei's hotel! and YES! i am not the first one to wake up. cos wanlin woke up first when her alarm rang or something. we had to rush for the 830 train to hualien so we basically RUSH. rush through packing. rush through brushing teeth and washing up. rush through breakfast. rushed to take our first taxi in taipei to the train station. but like sue said, maybe the taxi uncle was feeling quite disappointed after we told him tt we were going to the train station and not the airport which is far far away at taoyuan. mhmm we took the taxi because it was raining! and ya rain means wind and moisture and its horribly cold so me and wanlin used up quite alot of tissue. WE LOVE KILLING TREES FOR TISSUE PAPER(:
Next, i must sincerely firmly declare that trains are real AWESOME sleeping places. we slept through our journey from taipei to hualien. its was not as long as i thought since sleeping was a great time killer. so 2hrs plus quite quickly. soon we arrived at the lovely hualien. but then the horrible thing was that we didnt know who we were waiting for to fetch us from the train station and we didnt have the number for the min su that we were going to staying. so the best thing to do is to stand there and wait. which wasnt wise at all
But luckily we didnt need to wait for that long afterall((:
Soon, this guy looking like he walked out of a comic book, ok no, from a gang fight, hmm no.. a wedding dinner..anyway this guy approached us and asked if we were from spore and blah blah blah
so yes, he was suppose to fetch us and he actually thought he was suppose to fetch a group of old folks!
we TOTALLY are young!
YA. and as u see i have a extreme difficulty in describing how this guy looks like because his fashion sense is just hmm exotic, unique? whatever u call it laaaa~ but not in the bad sense(: he carries a knife too! which sue and wanlin and qiyuan all saw immediately when he walked over to us. they all thought he was very very very scary but he's not actually
we moved our stuff onto van and the van was hmm exotic too?
look at the photos and you will totally get it! hahas.
YUPP. so we made our way to the tarako gorge. ohh noo nooo. before that we went to eat delicious very yummy wanton soup(: ok back to the gorge. there were mountains and trees, rivers and rocks, miny waterfall, flowers, road, signs mist, fog, basically everything found in the forest. beautiful birds too! but sue scared most of them away. then we climbed many steps in order to find the important toilet at the top of one of the mountains!
lastly, we went to the night market to makan and makan more! we ordered many food and shared. the food was !!! mouthwatering!!! maybe it was also because we were hungry and its good to eat to keep yourself warm in the cold weather too. after dinner, we went to the minsu and had a happy sleep ever after(:
i am chenhian the mighty(: i kind of forgotten my password so i decided to use dear qiyuan's acc to blog my veryveryvery first entry in this blog! whees!
ok right now, we are all at this local's lovely pleasant home in hualien. apparently we succeeded in surviving the entire day in hualien unharmed up til now! earthquake be gone!!! hoho!
as qiyuan wishes, i shall start my longwinded post on what we did for today!
its really a long long long long long and i mean long day so yupp here goes..
first thing we did! thats of cos to wake up at taipei's hotel! and YES! i am not the first one to wake up. cos wanlin woke up first when her alarm rang or something. we had to rush for the 830 train to hualien so we basically RUSH. rush through packing. rush through brushing teeth and washing up. rush through breakfast. rushed to take our first taxi in taipei to the train station. but like sue said, maybe the taxi uncle was feeling quite disappointed after we told him tt we were going to the train station and not the airport which is far far away at taoyuan. mhmm we took the taxi because it was raining! and ya rain means wind and moisture and its horribly cold so me and wanlin used up quite alot of tissue. WE LOVE KILLING TREES FOR TISSUE PAPER(:
Next, i must sincerely firmly declare that trains are real AWESOME sleeping places. we slept through our journey from taipei to hualien. its was not as long as i thought since sleeping was a great time killer. so 2hrs plus quite quickly. soon we arrived at the lovely hualien. but then the horrible thing was that we didnt know who we were waiting for to fetch us from the train station and we didnt have the number for the min su that we were going to staying. so the best thing to do is to stand there and wait. which wasnt wise at all
But luckily we didnt need to wait for that long afterall((:
Soon, this guy looking like he walked out of a comic book, ok no, from a gang fight, hmm no.. a wedding dinner..anyway this guy approached us and asked if we were from spore and blah blah blah
so yes, he was suppose to fetch us and he actually thought he was suppose to fetch a group of old folks!
we TOTALLY are young!
YA. and as u see i have a extreme difficulty in describing how this guy looks like because his fashion sense is just hmm exotic, unique? whatever u call it laaaa~ but not in the bad sense(: he carries a knife too! which sue and wanlin and qiyuan all saw immediately when he walked over to us. they all thought he was very very very scary but he's not actually
we moved our stuff onto van and the van was hmm exotic too?
look at the photos and you will totally get it! hahas.
YUPP. so we made our way to the tarako gorge. ohh noo nooo. before that we went to eat delicious very yummy wanton soup(: ok back to the gorge. there were mountains and trees, rivers and rocks, miny waterfall, flowers, road, signs mist, fog, basically everything found in the forest. beautiful birds too! but sue scared most of them away. then we climbed many steps in order to find the important toilet at the top of one of the mountains!
lastly, we went to the night market to makan and makan more! we ordered many food and shared. the food was !!! mouthwatering!!! maybe it was also because we were hungry and its good to eat to keep yourself warm in the cold weather too. after dinner, we went to the minsu and had a happy sleep ever after(:
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
One day in Taipei
qi yuan asks me to update the blog, what shld I write??? she taught me how to blog yesterday, now I am suppose to put what I learn into practice.
Ooooh, we have our first breakfast in East dragon hotel this morning, so exciting, it is the first thing that came to my mind when I woke up this morning. Yeap, it was OK, but I really hope we will not have the same thing tmr morning. I think I m gng to be sian abt it if we are gng to eat that for 6 days!!! We had chinese ham, 2 eggs, 2 bread rolls, a cup of orange juice and milk tea each. I hope there is porridge tmr morning.
After breakfast, we headed to the National Palace museum (故宫) located near Shilin station. We thought that we will have free entrance with the free ticket that we collected from the Taiwan tourism board in Singapore prior to our trip. However, to our disappointment, the tickets are no longer valid in year 2010. We had to buy entrance ticket at a student price of $4. I think that it is really worth visiting the museum. sue was very impressed by the knowledge that the tour guide has and the detailed interpretation of many paintings that were drawn during the qing/song/tang dynasty! But qiyuan had a bigger 收获! She managed to see the baicai! According to her, we had to queue up to see the exhibit. But to our surprise, there is no queue and we were so excited to examine it! Sue really appreciated this artwork!! she said,"if the artist did not have this inspiration to carve out the baicai, the jade will be deemed as an inferior quality due to its flaws." However, the artist had treansformed it into a masterpiece which attracted crowds from over the world to view it, which includes us of course! we love the museum, though wanlin nearly fell asleep while exploring it!=DD rated 5 stars for it!
After that, our hungry stomachs signalled us for lunch. we tried to head towards tianmu which was planned earlier on. However, we were really TOO hungry and ate along the way towards tianmu. In the end, we failed to explore it! Phew, was told tianmu has nothing much to shop/eat/buy. FOOD SHALL ELABORATED OUR GOUMET, TEO QI YUAN!
*applause*
So far, our trip was good! The next place we ventured was fishermen's wharf. The place was quite deserted, since we did not see many visitors there! The cold, chilling air nearly freezed us especially sue who kept whining to us about the COLD COLD weather. Yet, it did not dampen our moods and we camwhored there! Ate our first GIGANTIC fried chicken (it's really XXXLL) there cause we need to build up our fats to fight the cold~~
FINALLY, it's danshui old streets for shopping! Did not manage to buy anything! ended up going shopping at taipei main station instead. we spent donkey of hours buying shoes! happy though=DD
more details will be out tmr! stay tune ppl!
sleep early!!
sue and wanlin!
Ooooh, we have our first breakfast in East dragon hotel this morning, so exciting, it is the first thing that came to my mind when I woke up this morning. Yeap, it was OK, but I really hope we will not have the same thing tmr morning. I think I m gng to be sian abt it if we are gng to eat that for 6 days!!! We had chinese ham, 2 eggs, 2 bread rolls, a cup of orange juice and milk tea each. I hope there is porridge tmr morning.
After breakfast, we headed to the National Palace museum (故宫) located near Shilin station. We thought that we will have free entrance with the free ticket that we collected from the Taiwan tourism board in Singapore prior to our trip. However, to our disappointment, the tickets are no longer valid in year 2010. We had to buy entrance ticket at a student price of $4. I think that it is really worth visiting the museum. sue was very impressed by the knowledge that the tour guide has and the detailed interpretation of many paintings that were drawn during the qing/song/tang dynasty! But qiyuan had a bigger 收获! She managed to see the baicai! According to her, we had to queue up to see the exhibit. But to our surprise, there is no queue and we were so excited to examine it! Sue really appreciated this artwork!! she said,"if the artist did not have this inspiration to carve out the baicai, the jade will be deemed as an inferior quality due to its flaws." However, the artist had treansformed it into a masterpiece which attracted crowds from over the world to view it, which includes us of course! we love the museum, though wanlin nearly fell asleep while exploring it!=DD rated 5 stars for it!
After that, our hungry stomachs signalled us for lunch. we tried to head towards tianmu which was planned earlier on. However, we were really TOO hungry and ate along the way towards tianmu. In the end, we failed to explore it! Phew, was told tianmu has nothing much to shop/eat/buy. FOOD SHALL ELABORATED OUR GOUMET, TEO QI YUAN!
*applause*
So far, our trip was good! The next place we ventured was fishermen's wharf. The place was quite deserted, since we did not see many visitors there! The cold, chilling air nearly freezed us especially sue who kept whining to us about the COLD COLD weather. Yet, it did not dampen our moods and we camwhored there! Ate our first GIGANTIC fried chicken (it's really XXXLL) there cause we need to build up our fats to fight the cold~~
FINALLY, it's danshui old streets for shopping! Did not manage to buy anything! ended up going shopping at taipei main station instead. we spent donkey of hours buying shoes! happy though=DD
more details will be out tmr! stay tune ppl!
sleep early!!
sue and wanlin!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
FIRST DAY FINALLY AFTER THE LONG WAIT
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sue says " wo men hao xin fu wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!"
She is very angry with the person who cheated her a pair of sock.
Anyway, today is the first day of our taiwan trip=]=]=]=]=]
Firstly we took jetstar flight 3k521 (sue:which is very dusty and cause wl to sneeze, but sue thinks that it is because somebody is missing her)
During the flight, we played bridge and taitee. Also, we took the personality test and found out that sue has a small ego, like a rubic cube. And qiyuan and wanlin will have alot of children. And qiyuan does not value money at all, as she thinks that it is like mud.
Next, we took the freego bus to east dragon hotel.=]=]=] And found that our hotel is in a very pleasant location. IT IS SO NEAR TO AH CHUZNG MIAN XIAN.
We took a long time finding the modern toilet restaurant, luckily the food we ordered was satisfying. so it was worth the search.
Later, we tried to find ah chung mian xian, again we took quite a while, despite having sue who so called has a very very very good direction sense. (sue protesting"IT"S MY FIRST TIME HERE LA IN XMD") Sue in turn was again disappointed as she cannot find OYSTER inside? Only got intestine that tasted like rubber band (qy likes it though)
We walk around XMD and qy bought a bracelet!=] and we bought socks, which is where sue got cheated!!!=[=[=[ Then we went back to our hotel=]
DUNNO WHETHER SHOULD GO HUALIEN NOTSSSSSSSSSS. WILL THERE BE AN EARTHQUAKE. CAN SOMEONE TELL US??????
IN the hotel, wl bathed first, followed by qy and sp. CH NEVER BATHE! poor qy is sleeping with her.
BYES SLEEPING NOW.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sue says " wo men hao xin fu wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!"
She is very angry with the person who cheated her a pair of sock.
Anyway, today is the first day of our taiwan trip=]=]=]=]=]
Firstly we took jetstar flight 3k521 (sue:which is very dusty and cause wl to sneeze, but sue thinks that it is because somebody is missing her)
During the flight, we played bridge and taitee. Also, we took the personality test and found out that sue has a small ego, like a rubic cube. And qiyuan and wanlin will have alot of children. And qiyuan does not value money at all, as she thinks that it is like mud.
Next, we took the freego bus to east dragon hotel.=]=]=] And found that our hotel is in a very pleasant location. IT IS SO NEAR TO AH CHUZNG MIAN XIAN.
We took a long time finding the modern toilet restaurant, luckily the food we ordered was satisfying. so it was worth the search.
Later, we tried to find ah chung mian xian, again we took quite a while, despite having sue who so called has a very very very good direction sense. (sue protesting"IT"S MY FIRST TIME HERE LA IN XMD") Sue in turn was again disappointed as she cannot find OYSTER inside? Only got intestine that tasted like rubber band (qy likes it though)
We walk around XMD and qy bought a bracelet!=] and we bought socks, which is where sue got cheated!!!=[=[=[ Then we went back to our hotel=]
DUNNO WHETHER SHOULD GO HUALIEN NOTSSSSSSSSSS. WILL THERE BE AN EARTHQUAKE. CAN SOMEONE TELL US??????
IN the hotel, wl bathed first, followed by qy and sp. CH NEVER BATHE! poor qy is sleeping with her.
BYES SLEEPING NOW.
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