5th Day in Taiwan (24/12/2007)

Suhua Highway National Road/Hualien/Taroko National Park/Eternel Spring Shrine/Linzi & Tea Centre/Seven Star Lake/Ami Aboriginal Cultural Village

Early in the morning we need to leave Shangrila Leisure Farm, too bad! Felt that we should spend slightly longer time there.
Suhua Highway National Road - very winding but very nice scenery along the road.
Seven Star Lake - the best tourist place in Hualien. The beach is marvelous and very beautiful. I love it...strong waves, sometimes feel like tsunami is coming
Taroko National Park & Eternal Spring Shrine - didn't trek the park cos too high up and too tiring. Just stay around and take some pictures
Ami Aboriginal Cultural Village - so so only...not very interesting, probably my expectation too high.
After we check into our hotel, a few of us went out the check out the small town of Hualien. Guess what, the sandal that I bought in Taichung gave way. I have to walk barefooted to a nearest supermarket to get a sandal. I also tried Smelly Beancurd, YUCKS>>>>>taste horrible n terrible!!! Will never ever try that again

4th Day in Taiwan (23/12/07)

Taiwan High Speed Rail/National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall (Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall)/Yehliu/Shangrila Leisure Farm

Morning we took a high speed train from Taichung to Taipei...suppose to be very fast but we can't really feel it....
Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall - I think they change the name to Democracy Memorial Hall. In Chinese meaning sounds like Freedom Hall...that's why you can see we do a lot of flying pose...
Yehliu - I like the most...very nice and scenic but too bad it was raining. Can't really stay long enough to admire the formation of the rocks.
Shangrila Leisure Farm - Nice cosy hotel. Can you imagine, my bedroom has 4 single beds...big hor...After dinner they have some traditional games such as tops, making tang yun, bubbles and also play fireworks.

3rd Day in Taiwan (22/12/2007)

Shuli Snake Kiln/Sun Moon Lake/Wen Wu Temple/Peacock Garden/Yi Chung Street Night Market

Shuli Snake Kiln - a lot of pottery there. Very nice and we saw a documentary how they made the pots traditionally...AMAZING!!!
Sun Moon Lake - we heard so much about how nice Sun Moon Lake is but to me so so only, not really very scenic. After lunch some of them went to Wen Wu Temple.
Nothing much at Peacock Garden too.
But I like Yi Chung Street Night Market, we ate a lot of good local food...SHIOK!!!!! but 3 pairs of shoes and a pair of boots there.

2nd Day in Taiwan (21/12/2007)

Martyr's Shrine/Leo Fu Village Theme Park/Taichung/Feng Jia Night Market

Marytr's Shrine just see the ceremony of changing guards
Theme Park was fun, we spent almost 4 hours there. We played the roller coaster, there's a safari bus ride, we also tried the 3D motion master movie. Last but not least, we played the water rapid and got ourselves all wet. Overall it was very fun. I didn't try many of those "too adventurous" rides.
Feng Jia Nite Market was good. I bought many necklace there at very good price, bought 2 pairs of pants and 2 pcs of shirt for RJ. Find that it's too short a time, can really shop and eat a lot of things there. We tried their local food called Big Intestine wrap Small Intenstine...not as yucky as you thought...it taste good but super long queue...I begin to like Taichung!

1st Day in Taiwan (20/12/07)

SQ 878 ETD Singapore 1225 ETA Taiwan 1655.

This flight will be landing at Taoyuan Airport. Yeah Taiwan here I come!!!! Once touched down, we went straight for our dinner. After dinner we went to Pei Tou Spring City Resort. What's in this resort??? HOT SPRING...I've been looking forward to try hot spring. Finally I get to try liao....

Taiwan Trip

20th December 2007 - 26th December 2007

Where did I go during that period??? TAIWAN....Yeah... that's the place I always wanted to go. I want to go there for their shopping and food (probably I saw too much Taiwan variety shows liao, always very curious about their local food and their night market).

In order to have more personal time of enjoyment, I've decided to leave RJ back in Sg with JW and Mary. But to tell you the truth, even though I had a good time shopping and eating but I really missed RJ very much. In fact I was counting down to go back to Singapore to see him, hug him and kiss him.

Will go through full details of my trip in the next posting!

HOME DECOR - DIY

I'm been a ardent fan of Channel 8's variety show Home Decor...my support always goes to Bryan Wong, he is a very talented person. I loves his DIY. Well I did DIY too in my home...FIXED up my towel holder in my bathroom...borrowed Helen's Black & Decker's Hammer Drill and fixed up the holder (of cos I have my maid to help me lah)...DIY may look simple and easy but it's not...next day I had muscle ache on my arms...