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Third Day (30th May)

12:53 出发！！

这是从 Huimin姐姐家的半落地玻璃窗拍到的风景。。。很像一副画吧 ^ ^


Packing stuffs .


其实大家一大早就起来了，只不过忙着打电话到不同的温泉屋询问价钱 la, 设备 la, 还有最重要的 ------ 是不是裸汤。大家对穿着泳衣泡汤很坚持呢 >_<

第一个站是银行！！等了两天的我终於可以换钱了。本来带了新币想在台湾机场的 Money changer 换的，怎么知道抵达的时候 Money changer 都还没开门 -_- So 没办法之下，只好跟爸爸借钱过了头两天。

走了好几间 bank才终於找到一间肯换新币的 bank! 原来 Singapore dollars 在台湾是很不受欢迎的 ne …… 换钱的时候手续很多，要填 form la, show passport la, 还好他们的service 不错 ( = 而且也让我们见证到台湾是多么的自由 …狗都可以带进 bank。

2:16 代官山乐也

今天已经 plan 好要吃烤肉了~ yeah ~ 所以大家心情都很好 ne ^ ^

本来想吃 Huimin 姐夫推荐的 “炭烧王” 的。。。可是他们要到 5 点才开，我们如果等到5点肯定会饿死 >_< 所以 end up 去 “炭烧王” 隔壁的代官山乐也，很昏暗的一间店。 同样也是吃到饱 but 比炭烧王便宜 …. Hee. (虽然我后来发现很多其他地方的烤肉店有更便宜的价格 ) 蛮好玩的是，他们的 buffet style跟新加坡的很不一样 wor. 桌子上留下一个 order list 给你看，在你所要点的东西旁边写下你要几盘，然后他们就会送来给你。有点想香港的打边炉自助餐。一开始的时候，他们会立刻送上一条海鲜船让你先烤着吃，海鲜船包括多春鱼，生壕，贝壳类，螃蟹，大虾，扇贝，鲍鱼片等…赞吧？店里只有两个人，but 服务已经很周到了。走过去要拿雪糕的时候，那个哥哥还会主动帮忙 ne.

他们的食物是比较 high-end 的，好像不同的海鲜类 la, 特别的丸子 la, 各种日式的小吃 la, 还有不同部位的牛肉猪肉鸡肉等。。。 The main point is, they have free flow of Movenpic, Haagen Daaz and Meiji ice cream!!! Huimin 变得很可怕，一口气吃了很多杯的雪糕。

是我 sua ku 吗？没有在新加坡看过这种类型的 steamboat buffet 。。。有鸳鸯锅 (简单来说就是有两种汤底) and 真的有放炭的小小 bbq pit。超过瘾 ~

我们的麻辣汤和地瓜汤。。。dor 他们那桌有咖喱汤和 duno wad soup. Ha.

那三粒圆圆的是芝士丸…类似章鱼丸包着cheese。超超超超~~~~~~好吃！


爸爸在烤牛肉。奇怪的 dengli, 本来前几天都没怎么吃牛肉的，不知怎的突然狂吃起牛肉片….order 了又 order.

This is Huimin’s THIRD serving of ice cream.

Hoishii~

之前不是有提过台湾忠孝东路的那些 cool cool shop 吗？我们吃饱后又经过了 *为了拿我的裤子，哈* 。原来还有让狗狗看店的店 ne。

5:43 Reach 永春站 lo.On the way 去五分埔 *_*

五分埔是一个跟着 guide book 也走不到的地方，问了几个路人才找的到。( see? Taiwanese are sooooooooo~~~~~~ nice ! ) 也顺便去了当地的全家便利店 ~ 他们的店员知道我们是旅客之后也很 nice 地告诉我们该怎么走 ~ oh and btw，台湾的packet drink 很 - 大 - 包。两个人share 一包水都很够了。

有看过 MVP 情人的都知道太子和小希的红茶绿茶吧？我们买到了咯 ~ ~ 羡慕我们 please 。

6:57 五分埔

笨蛋笨蛋我们真的是笨蛋。怎么会选在进货日来五分埔呢。。?

五分埔基本上是类似香港深水步的批发市场，新加坡的 bugis street X 10 而且比较复杂的一个大型服装批发市场。因为 guidebook 和来过台湾的friends 极力推荐才会来的。。。刚开始非常非常失望 cos 不但看不中任何东西，而且 price 比我们在西门 田丁 or 士林看到的都高，plus 可能因为 staffs 很忙，没空招呼我们就算了，有一些甚至会在店门口前拦下我们，just because we are not buying in bulks.

后来呀，无聊的我们就想出了一个自以为聪明的 Plan。Plan 就是大家分成三队各走各的，到店里看东西的时候还要装做是来拿货的，人家看到你是要来拿货，会 buy in bulks，也比较会让你杀价。

We are SO WRONG!!! 人家一看就知道我们只是 normal customers le ~ 失败 -_-

Anyway, 原来在五分埔走，要慢慢逛，因为一些 street 比较多便宜的店，有一些 street 有比较贵的店。如果买五件以上，他还是会让你杀价的。But 基本上你开口跟店员杀价，他都会跟你说：“已经很便宜了，没得再减了。” 虽然如此，他还是会便宜个十五二十块的啦 ~ 大家开心嘛 ~

10:10 永春站

要 Dor 和爸爸等我们真不好意思 ne =_= / 这是大家的收获 ~

Bon : Playboy Bag, Bikini , 2-way top = $930
Huimin: 4 Top, 1 skirt, 2 cap = $1570
Dengli: 2 Bot, 1 Top = $850
Dor: 1 wallet = $190
Huijuan: 2 Top, 1 Abercrombie skirt, 1 slippers = $1350

****Please focus on the bear behind* 都是被我逼着拍的 ~ 哈 ~ Huijuan 和 dengli 这张 imitate 得最像了~

第一次看到台湾的电话厅，很兴奋地冲进去叫他们帮我拍照...

出不来！！！！！！！不会开门 ~ 救命 ~

Huimin 也不会开门 ~ 哈 ~我已经出来 lu ~

.............to be continued

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Oh ya btw, S$1 is ard NT$18.7.
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Second day at Taipei

12:00 @ 永和豆浆大王



因为是礼拜的关系 Huimin ‘s 姐姐 and 姐夫都不用上班, 还载了我们去很很很出名的永和豆浆大王吃豆花la, 小笼包 la, 喝豆浆 la, 有咸有甜的 ^ ^ 最后还很不好意思地让两个大人请客 >< alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/ah-bon/Taipei%20trip/DSC01085.jpg">

我和 HJ 正在盯着杰伦 …. 的 Poster 。超酷！！！！


台湾人真的很爱狗，到处都是狗。你能够 想象连银行都有狗吗？Btw 这只狗真的很漂亮 ~


玩了投篮机( NT$10 )超超超开心！！


台湾有很多这种的店，专给人玩投篮机和夹娃娃机，而且每一间的生意都不错 wor…its really everywhere.

好大 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~的鸡排！(NT$45)


去西门 田丁一定要去吃 阿宗 面线，一定一定要，and one thing ar, 你吃了他们的面线后，其他外面的面线都显得不好吃。我们到西门田丁的时候是拜天，所以还蛮多人排队的。一碗面线要 NT$35可是还很多人排。。。plus他们是没有provide seats的 leh! 每个人都要站在店外吃。。。越吃越热 ~可是值得！

在台湾很普遍的雪糕 , low fat low calories one.


4:30 刚逛完诚品116，Dor and爸爸买了一条台湾版的 Levis (NT$2990)

5:35 在台北车站 转车到剑潭站 ~ 终於到达士林夜市了！

贩卖报纸自动 机。Huimin最爱拍这些有的没的啦~


Huimin 一直吵着要去的宠物街，真的是各种各样的动物都有，蛇 la, 蜥蜴 la, 猪 la, 兔子 la, 不同种类的猫狗 la, 虽然不是很喜欢动物，但也觉得这里蛮有趣的 ^_^


7:33 找到 Huimin 姐姐推荐的好朋友凉面 (NT$175/ 5包)


找到了一间很赞的店~ www.theskinfood.com. Sales 的态度很好，东西又没有chemical (or they claim), 后来也觉得很好用而在最后一天的时候跑回去再光顾 ^^

高雄肉圆 ，很像一个用虾饺皮包着肉包的馅料再加上汤


仔细看噢，是可丽饼的 Menu


Crepe and crepe master


蚵仔煎 (NT$40)


多彩多姿的士林


Cant rem what this is lu~


7:53 在一个牛肉 面店歇脚 ~走士林走到好~累~啊！很长很长的一条街，好像怎么都走不完那样 ~ btw如果你去台湾一定要试一试他们的牛肉面，牛肉入口即化，汤又香又浓 ~ m^_^M 可惜 huimin不能吃牛肉，所以那碗鲁肉饭 (NT$25) 是她的。


我们还吃了蚵仔面线，Okonomiyaki，葱油饼，豪大大鸡排，盐酥菇，金桔水，河粉煎，杏仁水。。。总共二十样东西。嘻。

还去了这家店

特别要提一下这间 QQ堂。我们虽然什么都没买，一行六个人手空空的出来，可是他们的 sales attitude真的很棒，不但很热情地招呼我们，还跟我们聊了很多台湾的东西，好像哪里哪里可以买到什么特产 la, 还有哪里比较好走 la. 真的很 nice ^^

台北的捷运月台是这样子的~


跟你们说呵，throughout整个 holiday不是我就是 Huimin做camera-lady，所以特别要他们帮我们两个拍这长合照，难得的合照 ^^


See now evil, hear no evil, speak no evil >_<

.........to be continued

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First day at Taipei

Reached Taipei at around 3++ morning. Poor Huimin's jiefu waited for us at the airport for quite long cos our flight was delayed due to bad weather @ HK. Amazing car of his...7 of us squeezed in for a 50 min ride.

Mmmmm. Taipei 's air smells so different. ^^

By the time we finally fall to bed, already 4+ am le. -_-"

Cant remember what time we woke up but we left house around 1 pm. Taipei's mrt station is called 捷運, nearest station from our house was 木柵站, which is only 5 minutes walk away.


We bought a student travel card ( sth like Sgp's ez-link ) for NT$500, alighted at 忠孝復興站and headed to the famous 東區粉圓stall. Though we followed directions given in the book, still quite difficult to find cos very difficult to find 路牌.


Taken at 東區地下街.Nothing much to walk one...damn sian. This pic was taken outside the toilet. Cool.


終於找到了。

所謂的東區粉園就是冰再加一堆料,好像珍珠(他們叫粉圓) la, 白木耳la,愛玉la,湯圓la, things like that. 生意很好﹐一直有人在排隊. Only thing is that the queue is very long and alot of customers, so the staff there tend to get abit impatient.

Main aim of the day was to find Jay's antique shop at 忠孝東路. A very very long way cos the directions given in the book wasnt clear and everybody gave differnt directions. After an hour or so of searching and trial and error, finally found it!!!! They don't allow picture taking in the shop but the salesgirl was nice enough to let me and huimin take one pic each. Muacks.


發自內心的內心的微笑^^ 我和他的唯一合照﹗

Huimin and my ex ~

And anyway, do you know that d shops ard this area are all so cool? Heard that the rent are cheaper than shopping centres. They have very big unique statues outside their shops, and even those country style staircases, benches outside, stuffs like that. There was a 2m+ gorilla statue outside X-Large.


As you know ( or u dun? ), itz huimi's 21st bdae that day! We gave her a suprise at HK airport with a suprise cake and a suprise gift. She actually sniffed d cake even before she saw it! 神功! We celebrated again at night at Ps Bu Bu, with her jiejie and jiefu.


Look at the candle!


Huimin's jie jie and jiefu...sweet couple ^^


The cashier counter.


Fooooooooooood!!! Huge onion rings ><


Please focus on the blue car behind. We tried to take pictures of all the cars inside PS Bu Bu secretly. Esp their pink mini cooper. Wow. If u find this place familiar, YES, it is the 流星花園dat 汽車屋, the place where Da S and Jerry dated. You'll be disappointed to know that ice cream is NOT their main dish...they specialize in Italian food. Nice spaghetti served, though slightly ex. Around NT$300 for one dish. The waitress are all so pretty btw. Wu Ha.

........t0 be continued

Emails, friendster messages, tags at friends' blogs and msn can wait. But these acknowledgement have to be done NOW.

Many thanks to...
- Huimin's sis and bro-in-law for letting us to stay at their beautiful house for 6 days.
- Jerome (Huimin's bro-in-law) for fetching us from Taipei airport at 2+ AM
- All the ultramanatic-nice taiwanese for showing us directions
- Mr Taxi driver no. 1 for charging us only $150 on 1st Jun ( Refer to later entry )
- Ella-look-alike salesgirl from QQ Heaven for giving us useful information although we bought nothing
- Mr Seabed for allowing us to have an experience of what Earthquake is like
- China Airlines for giving us the most horrifying trip today

Ahem. So thats about it. Ya. Taipei is great! The food is fantastic, the people are ultramanatic friendly, pretty girls are everywhere, service is above satisfactory though their stuffs are abit high-end. And I love their TV channels!!! So many channels...anytime u on TV, sure got something interesting to watch one. I love their bookshop too. And their staffs working at the Petrol station...so damn cute!!!! Singapore ones all ah-pek one......

Come again at night. I'll add pictures.

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Monday.
Fetch the girls from airport then straight to Guesthouse. The place is much better than I expected...aircon, fridge, tv plus a small bathroom. Considered very good for HK$100/night per person. Plus location was terrific...just next to Jordan Mtr Station.

Walked around 旺角，then brought the girls to 郎豪坊。 Mainly is help Kimmy get her Converse and Arsenal stuffs, plus d girls were really tired. Can see. All like wana die wana die lidat le. Came over for dinner ... everybody was very very full.

Tuesday.
Sick. Kimmy left.

Wednesday.
黄大仙 拜拜. Weather was fine when we reached. 大家都有求签。。。主要都是求事业吧，since now already graduate le. HongKong's temple is different from Singapore's...usually when we 求签 in Bugis dat temple, they will give us the 签 for free then we take dat duno wad book and refer to it ourselves. Here ar, must pay one ar. Since the 签 itself is HK$2 and we also dun have the book, we ask the 算命师help us 解签 as well for HK$20.

Mine's a good one ^^

Thurs
Meet them straight at MongKok Mtr. By now all of them are travel experts le ^^ Know how to get to alot of places alone. One whole day shop shop shop shop shop.

Finally brought them to Avenue of Stars. Nothing exciting for me cos I just been there few days ago with Kimmy. Took alot of pics though. Shall upload when have them. Alot of cute stuffs ^^

Friday
One day rest at home before meeting the girls straight at airport. We'll be on our plane to Taipei tml ^^ Excited! And we'll have a small suprise for Huimin too. Getting her a cake and celebrating her bdae on plane ... call her to wish her Happie birthday ya! (She got auto roam but call before 12 cos hp need to be switched off on plane)

Oh my u cant imagine how many things d girls bought...mountains of shoes and clothes. Dun tink they need to shop for the rest of the year le lah. And time to observe their special shopping habits : Huimin like to walk alot of shops to compare before buying what she want. Dor will wander off without a word so always must keep lookout for her. Huijuan is see, ok , buy. Dengli most difficult to buy things cos always dun have her size. Duhz.

My world is full of germs. I'm sick. Kimmy's sick. Hj's sick. Dor's sick. Fantastic.

Having a 39.4 fever. Hj's having a 38.5 fever. Lets see who can break my record. Wu Ha.

I am a evil girl. * Evil evil evil. *

Kimmy was supposed to reach HK today. But. ( Lemme laugh first...Ha! ) She was late and missed the flight. Since she's taking a cheap airline, they dun allow her to change date of flight, forfeited her ticket and now she have to pay another $250 so as to board the next plane. PLUS awarding her with one night stay at the wonderful boring airport that you Singaporeans are proud of ... I'll fetch her at the airport tml at 11 am.

My schedule will be packed. Starting from next week onwards. Kimmy come, class girls come, Kimmy go, class girls go, aunty come, aunty go. Then...WORK. Wu Ha.

Ahem.

心情变好了。(-Only San knows why!!!-) Time for me to enjoy myself!!!!

.去 花园街吃咖喱鱼蛋 和买便宜衣服鞋子
..再去MKS 继续shopping
...再去女人街走走看看
....有空还可以去Neway 唱K
.....还要去拍Neoprint 啦
......去尖嘴的星光大道天星码头海港城

And many many more places! Yeah...we'll have fun!

PS: An official thx to Alex Lee Chee Seng. Thx to him I'll blog in chinese from tml onwards. Wu ha.