attended bee's bb shower last week.

Sheesh.. Zzzzzzzzzz

hellooooo im bb joan :)

dad @ work

and bee's my jc mate. and she's now promoted again.. to mummy's level.

dammmnn. im really lagging!!

31/10/2011 Day 3 - 日月潭

3rd day we bade goodbye to taipei.

our hotel in taipei xmd. nice new hotel on the 9th floor of a building. the building itself is quite old and the 1st floor are those handphone shops.. i tot it was quite sleazy.. but the hotel room itself compensated for the not-so-good environment. it's new and cosy.. and the staff are friendly. it's one of the best hotels we had for this trip.

we gave the hotel breakfast a miss.. and we breakfast out..

and then the embarkation to taichung. the high speed rail tix from taipei to taichung @ nt$700 (~S$35)

i love the high speed rail cuz it's clean and comfy. initially i worried for my big luggage, but the worry was unduly as the leg space is really big and my luggage posed no problem at all.

but with the high speed rail, dont expect to see any scenery cuz it's running sooo fast. if u have the luxury of time and dont mind the not-so-clean and new cabin, then take the normal rail. it's slower and cheaper. can enjoy the scenery along the way.

after we reached taichung high speed rail station, we gotta take a coach that will bring us to 日月潭 sun moon lake.

coach dropped us at this customer service point... and we called the hotel to pick us up.

at our hotel. we took the deal that included a one night stay with breakfast, lake cruise, cable car and the ticket to 九族文化村.

finally at sun moon lake :)

the famous and majestic 文武庙 is just outside our hotel.

tea leaves eggs.. and tea leaves goose eggs. super huge!!

looks like a sweet potatoe that im holding right?? it's not! it's the goose egg!!

the cruise ride...

our dinner that night. one of the most exp dinner... and.. i've got a feeling that it's this meal that caused my sickness later on....

see? this fish was served like this. the lady told us to wait 10mins before eating. so.. when we ate, we werent even sure if it's totally cooked or not.

and it's full of bones. had a hard time eating it...

the bamboo rice was soggy on one end. it might be the culprit as well....

but well, it probably had nothing to do with the food as according to the doc, it's some virus in the air. anyway, hubb ate what i ate and he's fine.

black tea ice cream..

we spent one nite at sun moon lake. as mentioned, the hotel came with one night stay, breakfast, cruise ride, cable car ride and tics to farmosa. the hotel room is big, but it's quite old. in fact, the whole hotel is quite old. and the staff here werent as friendly. but the location is good and it's value for money. wad else to ask for huh.

im down with a flu.

my nose is soo blocked. it's soo itchy. and.. it hurts when i breath. sucks.

and, not to mention the irritation that occurs when u almost wanna sneeze, but somehow cant sneeze out. urgh!

juz went to the doc. and he said could be virus infection.

'virus infection'..... not again?!

that time in taiwan.. and now... again?!

i cant help but start to suspect if this could be due to the VS fragrance that i bought at DFS just before departing Sg. i started using it in taiwan and after 2-3days, i was sick. now... same thing again.

it's either that, or the bronzing powder, which i've also started using only when i was in taiwan.

mmmmmmmm..

but then again, if one of them is indeed the culprit, then the 'sickness' should be the same in both instances? but this time is not as bad as that time in taiwan lehhh. so probably neither is the cause?

well.. anyway..

i think it's juz pure lack of slp huh? ever since i changed phone, i've been sooo addicted to playing the downloaded games. so much so that i slept late at night and my fingers hurt, esp at the joints. serious! haiz. pure lack of self-discipline. again.

and.. i went ahead to work today despite not feeling that well and i visited the doc only at night. y am i such a responsible employee?? y cant i juz learn from someone?? that classic someone.

haiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

cuiii.

celebrated kristin dear's bday at akira. she's my qing ai de at work. :)

pardon my leg, pls

jap buffet. akira @ link hotel. gotta walk a distance from tiong bahru mrt. quite a nice place with good ambience and wide variety of jap food. abt $30+ per pax.

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dinner with gals on friday, at timbre @ old school. my 1st time visit there.. at some ulu uphill at mount sophia.

outdoor place, serves western food, with live singing. however, we all concluded that the singing and music were too loud.. so much so that we had difficulty chatting. mmmm.. i personally dont really like the place. i find it too noisy and definitely not a convenient place to visit. hahz.

30/10/2011 Day 2 - Taipei

love taiwan hotels cux they are not expensive and provide all the basic amenities. breakfast included also!

3rd time in taipei, i suppose we have visited most of the attractions already. so, this time round, we went to 猫空.  haha, i wouldnt have know of this place if not for the 猫空 milk tea in raffles place. lol.  

on the 猫空缆车

drizzling that day.. and we snack at this place.. all the usual 夜市 food :)

麻油面线 and 鲁肉饭. the 面线 is super oily..

蚵仔煎. i still prefer our singapore-style.

beancurd in red bean soup and beancurd in peanut soup.. with little aballings :)

猫空 is famous for tea.. and there are many many many tea houses up there.

spot taipei 101!

and.. like all winter.... the day ends super early. by 5plus, the whole sky already darkened. we proceeded to 台北小巨蛋

makan.. again..

and then to night market.. we specially re-visited this nite market.. cuz of the prawning activity. ahhh.. cruelty again!!

use a stick with hook to hook up the live prawns and if the hook comes off, it's game over. all those prawns that are successfully hooked up can be bbq rite away. 6 hooked sticks for nt100 (~$4.50).

very guilty playing this game.. poor prawns.. hooked alived, poked alived, and bbq alived. haaaiii... sorry prawns..

sausage with bbq sauce. yumm :)

our hotel 招牌