<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228</id><updated>2011-06-06T11:12:03.195+08:00</updated><title type='text'>This is my Destination..</title><subtitle type='html'>Travelling overseas to Shop shop shop, Eat eat eat, Have fun &amp; Admire the scenery, Breathe in the different air and Experiece the different climate, oh is such a fabulous way to take a Break! Don't you agree with me? 

This is my Destination, my dream to travel round to as many places round the world possible. So, hereby I keep this travel/ holiday journal to capture the joy and experience each trip has given me! 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Oh how I did not want to go home. It was an easy and leisure day, like a rest day since we are done going to the places we intended to go this trip, so stay around Ximending.  We just slept and woke up anytime we feel like, about 11plus ba. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went down to the dan bing stall for breakfast again, can't explain why but our legs just brought us there. The lao ban nian see us so peng chang gave us extra free fan tuan after we bought. Haha! So we ate both fan tuan and dan bing plus milk tea nai cha. After that, me just wanted to eat bing again. Come taiwan really is must try bing ma, especially with the hot weather. So we just went into a bing shop, but sadly this time the bing quite disppointing la, it did not come as I've expected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4210.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4210.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4211.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4211.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4213.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4213.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4216.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/2d0afcca2776e31ae4d351d9f605e79d/image4216.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that, we just went to walk walk around in the area, haha, we walked into the arcade again to catch toys haha. We just kept changing coins n catch n catch like expert like that, and pple were behind us (there was alot of ppl mainly students in the arcade this time la, very squeezy and noisy, unlike when we usually come at nite, better leh) were staring and really bth us when the bian tai Jimmerline kept catching n catching the disney toys n throwing them to fang and Wendy. All of us all like big harvest ah. Lugagge already no space we still catch so much toys. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Went back to hotel to rest la, we just xtended our suite checkout time to 3pm instead of 12pm. We just rest and did final packing before leaving d dirty room to the cleaning aunty hahaha. Cheryl went to pick up the towel n tshirt up to throw before we left, in case aunty suffer from shock haha. Our 7-seater limousine is coming at 3pm to pick us up to the airport so we slowly bring down our things le. Everyone came with one luggage n left with more than one back, of coz la, after all the buying craze. all our bags easily occupied the not-so-big hotel lobby, whether on the floor or on the flower table top there. Especially me ah, smallest among all, but bought the most things. Really never control spending this time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/419c7a75b106e92c369485a859924fe7/image4227.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/419c7a75b106e92c369485a859924fe7/image4227.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/419c7a75b106e92c369485a859924fe7/image4226.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/419c7a75b106e92c369485a859924fe7/image4226.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/419c7a75b106e92c369485a859924fe7/image4228.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/419c7a75b106e92c369485a859924fe7/image4228.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cab was late la, then when the driver saw our luggage, he almost fainted lor. heard him saying to the hotel reception lady in hokkien, so many luggages how to go up d car! hahaha, well, he have no choice, we just have to squeeze everything up. This uncle is duno the way or 菜鸟, drive so sloww, then go the road kept jamming. supposed to around one hour journey became so long leh, think we took 2hrs leh, or more than that? Later at check-in counter also so slow, juz because the airport counter staff got our names in the wrong sequence. We were saying, why today everything so slow, driver drive so slow, check in aso slow, we juz wait n wait lo.My lugguage exceed by 4kg plus ah, luckily we catched in as a group so Sir's weight offset mine, or else than got to pay somemore. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside the boarding gate area, while waiting to board the plane, one stupid boliao nothing-better-to-do China Airline woman too free, see our many bags lying on the floor, came to tell us to check in our hand carry bags coz it "does not fit their requirements of hand luggage size" and specified Cheryl and Sir's bag to be checked in. Still can say fragile things dun check in, she think we stupid meh, precisely coz the things in the hand carry is fragile thats why we are holding on to them, n she can tell us to go n check in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This woman bu zhi hao dai, not only make cheryl angry, sir also lor. Sir really angry le, fine, cannot put in bags rite, then unpack them into plastic bags n check in empty bag lor. Haha he just niam niam niam while we all transferring the things. coz we were sitting in the first row, everybody in the hall was looking at us bemused n some were just smiling away. Just imagine la, 7 ppl sitting, squatting or standing to unpack the things, all the tai yang bing, zong tong bing, yu su etc all juz fly out of the bags... We were juz transferring them to paper bags lor, n amongst all our sir niaming all tje way. Haha, in the end we just checked in two empty bags lor, like that they hapi. So on the flight we just tried to be funny lor, order food at times when ppl on board aready finish eating, calling them separately to order tis order that. Hahaha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we reached Changi Airport, we still had to pack the things that we had unpacked earlier on lor, all messed up because of that stupid boliao woman, and made cheryl couldn't find her two packs of chocolates. Haiz... anyway it was nearly midnite when we all settled everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was time for the Taipei Gang Jun 06 to say goodbye, to a wonderful, fun &amp; craziest trip in Taipei! Oh, I really love this trip. Thank you all for making it such a wonderful trip. I surely wanna go back soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115365757662404600?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115365757662404600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115365757662404600' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115365757662404600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115365757662404600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/taipei-madness-25-30th-june-06-part-6_23.html' title='Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 6'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115365751359410570</id><published>2006-07-23T20:24:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T17:01:24.219+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 5</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Day 5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We woke up later at about 10plus like that, sir wasn't feeling very well, so stayed in the hotel to rest, while the rest of us contiued with our programme for the day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking of trying something different today, Cheryl and Wendy were walking to buy the yun tun when they passed by a stall. The customers were eating a plate of somthing, and surp slurp-ing away. It looks nice and smells nice too, so asked the lao ban nian what it was and she says its ban tiao (板条). So we ordered ban tiao n another mushroom spaghetti to share. The ban tiao v nice leh, that we just can't resist orderin another one, Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/5bbb8bb843b1366d863683a1a75ddbf1/image4162.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/5bbb8bb843b1366d863683a1a75ddbf1/image4162.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/5bbb8bb843b1366d863683a1a75ddbf1/image4163.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/5bbb8bb843b1366d863683a1a75ddbf1/image4163.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/eb33926b8fa9c48b4d065268d0ff2eea/image4745.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/eb33926b8fa9c48b4d065268d0ff2eea/image4745.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/eb33926b8fa9c48b4d065268d0ff2eea/image4746.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/eb33926b8fa9c48b4d065268d0ff2eea/image4746.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/bcb657648e1398c119ba049c4429d6fd/image4445.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/bcb657648e1398c119ba049c4429d6fd/image4445.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/bcb657648e1398c119ba049c4429d6fd/image4451.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/bcb657648e1398c119ba049c4429d6fd/image4451.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/fd4044e410ebbc8dd53f8566bc8f3308/image4199.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/fd4044e410ebbc8dd53f8566bc8f3308/image4199.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/6d621f9f344bb0e2514b1406cae37e46/image4459.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/6d621f9f344bb0e2514b1406cae37e46/image4459.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After eating, we took mrt to the Long Shan Temple to bai bai. Then took cab to Miniature Museum, the things there so exquisite and tiny, v niceeee. After that, oh no, we went to buy buy buy in bulk again. Madness, we bought sharpeners hahahaha! But they are not just normal sharperners la, it comes in different unique shapes, got guitar, saxaphone, jackpot, n toilet bowl!!! Just wondering if we are having a soft spot for toilet bowls, just last nite we swept 7 matongs with sai chocolates inside, from the sophisca candy shop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next we found our way to another shop selling bing (&lt;strong&gt;Li Ji&lt;/strong&gt;). On the way, we just went to find banks to change more TW money, coz now not only our pool fund pok gai liao, our own money aso lor no more le. Really is overspent. Here, the tai yang bing really very nice as fang recommended. But, aiya, me money not much left so only managed to buy 1 box. If not ah, I sure buy more lor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We took cab back to hotel then go out again to look for food. Today we bian tai again, didn't take lunch, think we only ate some bing after buying. Stand outside the shop, u one bite i one bite, then make until the floor area so er xin, all full of the flakes. I think we are really a weird bunch, eating habits si bei guai. Haha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Went to find food, actually is want to find the bian dang but walk all the directions of Ximending still cannot find the one that Wendy ate last year, in the end just gave up la, mayb it close down liao lor. Haha. While walking we saw the chou dou fu that Fang said nice so we juz bought to curb our hunger first. Just stand there and eat, really tastes nice leh. After that, we just anyhow walk into a eatery, selling HK la wei, very weird to be eating HK style food in Taipei. We started our sharing pattern again, 4 gals share a bowl of abalone porridge, Hahaha. coz we a quarter full from the chou dou fu areadly, then later still want to eat other things, so just anyhow eat something first la.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After eating we decided to split up, as me n cheryl wanted to shop in Ximending, since last day already. While HW, Fang n Wendy wer going to the supermarket &amp; Jimmerline going to meet his frend, and after everything, 4 of us meet up again at shi-lin coz we suddenly miss the liang mian &amp; big juicy ji pai.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wendy and Fang actually wanted to buy the hottest of the liang mian back to try, i.e. KUANG LA but the lao ban niang say kuang la cannot buy back must eat on the spot so that she can mix for us to get the spicy effect. As we might not knoe how to stir it the right way. So they bought back the next level i.e. CHAO LA and xiao la aso la, as fang and Wendy cannot take too hot. They also bought the bbq mushrooms n meat lor. Then Cheryl n I bought bing, the ji pai etc. Then we all meet at MRT and made our way back together.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/9636430f272aee2fa39b106f91e9f113/image4479.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/9636430f272aee2fa39b106f91e9f113/image4479.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/9636430f272aee2fa39b106f91e9f113/image4480.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/9636430f272aee2fa39b106f91e9f113/image4480.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody just gathered in the room, getting ready to "attack" our supper. We juz ate respectively our liang mian. I shared a Chao La with HW, really is chao la man. After everybody eaten still got one packet of CHAO LA left, bolang wan to eat so sir suggest might s well we have a liang mian competition and treat it as a grand finale to our trip n jimmerline prepared d video cam to record. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody just "oh ah bei ah som" and the odd one will eat first, and i think we oh ah bei ah som for really long, like nvr-ending like that, before the first "contestant" emerged! And Wendy was the first to eat followed by me. But earlier better la, the bottom will be even HOTTER lor. Goodness its damned HOT, just one mouth i already can feel the "la-ness" from my ears even, then I started grabbing all the drinks around me and drinking. Ha, then they were like dun finish all hor, we also need later. hahaha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later really not enough water got to go fill the big bottle with tap water, and we finished up both room's tissue and used the rolls of toilet papaer that Cheryl and Wendy found out yesterday in the storeroom located in btw our rooms, it was not locked so we self service lor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end, the last one to eat became the other person who cannot take spicy/hot stuff --- Fang! Poor Fang, had to down 4 mouthfuls of the red hot spicy liang mian at one shot. After that, it was drama nite! Apparently, it was damn hot for her, and she started screaming with her hands covering her ears. Then she started on a drinkin spree, plain water, mineral water, plum water, milk tea, every drink she can lay her hands on, she drink. I guess that really made it worse, can u imagine so mani kinds of diff drinks all gulped at a go! It was reali a sight that everyone could not stop laughing, not that we chek ark or wat, everyone was juz incontrollable. Meanwhile Fang juz kept drinking n drinking until we all asked her to stop drinking n cool down. Then she screamed for her fan, n promptly it was presented to her, like those sumos being "ci hou" by the assistant like that haha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally her stomach cannot take it liao la, liang mian plus the mani types of drinks all mixed together, she went toilet to puke for very long while we were outside doing the most absurd thing, filming &amp; toking nonsense into the video cam, say the fan ren is hiding inside the toilet den interview the eye-witness hahaha. all juz ki siao liao n somemore is zui gao jing jie liao. And when jimmerline filmed the state of the hotel room, it was reali so bad that we no eyes see lor. The carpet was in an entire mess, there are remains of the tai yang bing tt fang had earlier eaten n dropped onto the floor, the heaps of tissues n toilet paper we had used to wipe our sweat durin d competition, the liang mian gravy tt dropped out after the overloaded wastebin tumbled down more than once... the carpet was juz so sandy n dirty tt aft cheryl picked up the tai yang bing bit by bit, we had to lay the carpet wif towels, n hw donated his tshirt tt he dun wan areadi for us to lay on the carpet too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the aunty cleaning our room tmr will reali FAINT n if she sees the towels and tshirt lying on the floor, she might even thot got what murder case happen ah hahaha. lucky its our last nite coz tmr we checking out le.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we were being boliao, scrutinising n laughing at the mess we made, suddenly fang ran out of the toilet saying she want to go next door to puke coz our bathroom areadi "full". Wendy went in to see wat happened n almost puked herself. The sink was full, the toilet bowl was full, n the BATHTUB was more than half full of fang's vomit. it was reali er xin lor, can u imagine, the pool of vomit was red red de, wah look abit like laksa leh. The sink n toilet bowl i still can accept, but the bathtub was sooooooo big and fang can puke until it is almost full, i reali pei fu her until wu ti dou di, gan bai xia feng. Till now i still cannot forget how the bathtub looks. Lucky sir using toilet next door, if not hor, i think that day all of us no need to bath liao. Hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After fang finished all her vomitting, Cheryl called the hotel reception to say our fren was feelin unwell and choked almost everything wif her vomit, but they cant help coz aunty will oni come tmr. emmm which means we gotta clear up d mess ourselves. we were lookin at each other when Jimmerline jumped up n offered to clean. So there he went, cleaning the massive mess. After cleaning he still can come n report to us that he have clean everything n the vomit which contains of fang's liang mian, chou dou fu, porridge, drinks, n everything she have eaten today is areadi gone, n asked us go in to bath. He really very good la, can go n clean up d mess until no signs of the vomit liao, fang reali gotta thank him lo hahaha but nobody dare do use the bathroom that nite except for himself, n during that time we juz left our doors open to air the room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This nite (past midnite okay) of siao-ness and mess and the amount of noise we had made is beyond description. Sorry to our next door neighbours if we have been so dam noisy. Luckily both our rooms are opposite each other n right at the end of the corridor, on this note, consider the hotel smart to give us rooms at the corner lo. Maybe they knoe we are there to create destruction, hahaha. Oh ya, actually we had planned to go ktv after supper, but saw fang so tired n slept early so didn't go. More impt to rest la, v tired one leh aft all that puking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, we had alot of fun, and guess the experience is unforgettable for all of us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115365751359410570?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115365751359410570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115365751359410570' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115365751359410570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115365751359410570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/taipei-madness-25-30th-june-06-part-5.html' title='Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 5'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115365748140814909</id><published>2006-07-23T20:24:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T16:18:41.878+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Day 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We woke up earlier today to go hotel cafe for breakfast since we haven't tried their hotel breakfast since we came. Wah, who knows the hotel got signature "SEAWEED" Bread. Hmm, so "SEAWEED" till no one dared to eat.. guess you know what la. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3391.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3391.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3394.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3394.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3390.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3390.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3392.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/bbfd1f8aac023bba9fa341caec30452d/image3392.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/fe0934cd12a66f9edab6f77ffe857a89/image3874.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/fe0934cd12a66f9edab6f77ffe857a89/image3874.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/fe0934cd12a66f9edab6f77ffe857a89/image4681.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/fe0934cd12a66f9edab6f77ffe857a89/image4681.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/fe0934cd12a66f9edab6f77ffe857a89/image4324.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/fe0934cd12a66f9edab6f77ffe857a89/image4324.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is the amusement theme park day, which sir specially requested. The inital plans was to go Jianfusan as it seem like its is a better theme park but after asking the hotel staff for instructions, we decided to change plans, its madness to travel for 5 hours there, think reach le, we already peng then no need to play le. Haha! So we decided to go to the other nearer one: Leofoo Village. The hotel staff told us the way, we went to take mrt then change a bus to the Leofoo Village. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, me not so the adventure type when come to rides. I very dan xiao, got weak heart. Haha! But, nevertheless I enjoy going to theme parks as its more than just rides, the views and structure also very nice nice ma.  But, this time I took 3 rides. Haha, dun know its got sabo or what, scared my heart out of me, but its indeed an experience. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We like shang le 'zie chuan', that one hor I like flying off the seat leh, lucky got fang sitting beside me. On the 'zie chuan' , wah sir still insist must sit first class top end seats somemore. Wah, then still dun allow us to scream. Starting hor, really is try to reng dun scream but later buay tahan, me still is scream very loud, wanna get down. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later fang n i got pian shang the 'tiao lou' ride. Wendy was very smart run away leh. Aiyo, that one i really is 3 hun bu jian 7 po. Really is haven't reach top already start screaming, i got fear of heights one leh. Ha, cheryl hopefully never go deaf with our endless screams! Wah, when cheryl say coming liao, i lagi scared lor, but already high high up there, bo bian got to wait for it to come down. Finish ride, i feel like i bo xin liao, heart dun know fly where liao. But, indeed very nan wang. Think maybe is my dan and heart weak n small la, cos hor the guys and Cheryl they take ah, wah still can pose for photo. me really is pei fu u all esp. Cheryl, she really is our heroine of that day! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After playing in Leofoo Village until abt 3plus in d aftnoon, we took the bus n mrt back to Ximending. It was a long journey. First time, till this timing we only just eat so little leh, so of course we went to find things to eat coz hungri le. We bian tai again, never take lunch still not hungri, all we had was drinks in Leofoo Village lor. Before we realised, it was aready 6 plus in evening le, but we haven't had lunch leh. So went to find ma la huo guo to eat. We went to the Tian Wai Tian Mala Huo Guo to satisfy the day's hunger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3388.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3388.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3393.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3393.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3389.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3389.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3911.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/24aa9ed71cc5176c8211fdaabf6e0edb/image3911.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/8412c92ea82d62200191cac0433b00ca/image3923.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/8412c92ea82d62200191cac0433b00ca/image3923.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a buffet style type, so we just self service take whatever we wanted, everything free flow ma. Wa the restuarant qute sway leh, meet a group of bian tais like us, they sure poor thing one. Coz we go n zou luan again, after eat n drink full full liao, its DESSERT time!!! Hmm.. I tell u lor, our table really good just turn back then ice cream is there within our reach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual la, we created a din there again, oblivious to the big dinner crowd there. Can't remember who suggested having a ice cream competition lo,we see there so mani ice cream (cup or cone its your choice!) Ha, like must go make full use of it, eat eat eat, its free flow anyway. Somemore, japanese ice cream leh, nice! So the 3 guys juz started on the competition while the gals are the onlookers/commentator/camera-man. Haha! From the start, the bian tai Jimmerline was the clear winner lor, eat two full cups, its very full hor, still eat until like want to swallow the whole cup like that. One like bian tai, one trying to finish the cup and d other one can even whipped up the HP to check msgs in the midst of the competition. HAHA! Really is think of the scene now also wanna laugh.  The competition was really funny. We were very noisy lor, as if in our own world like that, think for a moment, its like we in our own house like that, talk n laugh n zou luan haha. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha, then me also very bian tai took the lead again to become ice cream seller, I stand there scoop until very shuang, and still can go scoop for other people somemore, me really think I'm the seller leh. Don't want to sell di zi le, want job hop n scoop ice cream liao. After that, everyone went and have a turn to go be ice cream man. We just ate n ate like nobody's biz, its like whole day never eat hor, then come here eat bao chou, si mi flavour all try, like alot of hours spent there leh. After we finish chai tai there, we left and went to shop at Ximending...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Went to a toy shop to zou luan leaving the salegal baffled n wide-eyed. After that its shopping time for the gals, the lao tian lu, candy shop, fashion shop, accessories shop, any shop we step into, all buy buy buy. Also went to &lt;strong&gt;Gang Ji &lt;/strong&gt;to buy the Zong Tong Bing, bian tais in action again... here want 1 box there want 2 boxes then want 3 boxes, 4 boxes etc, Take and take until the guy lagi shocked and asked, u all is try before is it? Then throw in a few packets of free sweets for us haha, dam funny. Think he must be in a state of shock la, coz when we step in, they were playin mahjong in the corner, then suddenly a group of siao langs cheong in and snap up so many boxes of zong tong bing. Haha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then carrie so many boxes of the stupid bing around to shop leh, coz we lazy to go back hotel n come out again. Lucky got jimmerline help us take care of the things when we went shopping in the fashion outlet near the onestar hotel stretch there hahaha. Thank you le. All went to snap tops, tshirts, skirts and of coz the ultimate winner is me the shopaholic Jasmine. Haha! Really is broke liao! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After our shopping spree we went back hotel, and started to pack our stuff, wah, my laguagge really like going to overweight le. Bought so many things. Ha, but what was most funny was that Fang and Wendy brough vacuum bags, cause their luguagge like no space le, then Jimmerline suggest using Vacuum Cleaner which cannot find la. Wendy told him just use hand can le, but Jimmerline asked her pass him a straw. Gosh! He was using the straw to blow into Fang's vaccuum bag, he thinkshis lungs can b the vacuum cleaner ah. We were all shocked, then HW step into our room, asking Jimmerline hey what are you doing, that we just burst our laughing. Wah lau he blow halfway liao then started asking Fang inside got her dirty underwear anot, aiya really is everyone in the room siao dao peng lor, hahahahahaha! Think that time the hotel might be shaking with our laughter hahaha, but sorry ya, we everyday night must make noise de, if not cannot go to sleep. 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I wanna go back there again! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 3 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to the same dan bing shop for breakfast again, but this time we didn't order one each, scared already. Haha! We ate fan tuan today, not dan bing. This time did not feel as er xin as yesterday. Thereafter, we set of to Jiufen by cab and communciated by walkie talkie as usual. Ha, the taxi uncle was very interested in in our walkie talkie that he kept asking Jimmeline abt it, how much it is, how it works hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/a83de30e0c8881cfdedd0133c84d93cc/image3402.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/a83de30e0c8881cfdedd0133c84d93cc/image3402.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jiufen is a wonderful place to shop, there the shopping spree started again. Bing, accessories, 笛子, suan mei, muah chee, guo dong, rose tea, anything we can lay our hands on, we jus BUY, even those 扇子 we aso buy in bulk hahaha. Wah, me like bought close to S$50 just at the "mei da mei xiao" mei shop, at least 1/4 of my lugagge was occupied by the many bottles/ packets of mei I bought back! But they really taste great, much better than that can be bought back in Singapore. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/a83de30e0c8881cfdedd0133c84d93cc/image3403.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/a83de30e0c8881cfdedd0133c84d93cc/image3403.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/a83de30e0c8881cfdedd0133c84d93cc/image4326.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/a83de30e0c8881cfdedd0133c84d93cc/image4326.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ha, should code what Wendy wrote in her blog about me: &lt;br /&gt;" I can conclude from tis trip that our dear Jasmine is a incessant and compulsive Shopaholic. Anything she see, she will ask us wan to buy anot, if wan buy more then can get discounts. Yep she is reali best at bargaining, but hor we aso ended up buying more than we shd lo hahhaha.&lt;br /&gt;Wah the di zi shop best lo, the lao ban reali looked so terrified when we asked him got any more stock of the guitar design di zi anot, coz we reali bot alot. aft tt we aso went to sweep the milk bottle design in bulk again. then tis shopaholic went crazy and went behind the counter as if she is the lao ban niang, she still tell the lao ban to pack up and go home rest after doin our biz ahahahaha siao si wo le. wah lau, i think of tt scene now i still wan to laugh lo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha, hmmm.. I can't deny what Wendy said. I was really quite "kong bu" till the di zi shop lao ban really scared of me, me just count count, then took one guitar design di zi and 1 pair of milk bottle and told the lao ban all these free hor. Haha! The lao ban really like na wo mei ban fa like that.. in the end just listen to me, and we then gain alot of discounts. But, this was possible because we really bought alot ma. Hehe! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/eb92726b4e1a9b710872ce932aec72c8/image3399.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/eb92726b4e1a9b710872ce932aec72c8/image3399.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/eb92726b4e1a9b710872ce932aec72c8/image3413.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/eb92726b4e1a9b710872ce932aec72c8/image3413.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/eb92726b4e1a9b710872ce932aec72c8/image3994.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/eb92726b4e1a9b710872ce932aec72c8/image3994.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that we had to skip Ji Long and go back hotel straight, because there were too many bags of things we bought that we practically had no hands to carry already. When we reached hotel, an aunty was cleaning our suite so we went over to the other room to put our things first. Ha, after aunty finished with the suite and wanted to came over to clean, her expression really very cute when she stepped into the doorway. She exclaimed: "tian ah!", when she saw our bags n bags of things all lying on the floor blocking her way. There is no way she can clean so we just gave her the used towels to exchange for new ones. Haha!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spent quite a while settling accounts and distributing our stuff. Gosh! I had the most bags ah, never realised I bought so much till we distributed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we went out again, went to shi-lin area to the Toilet Bowl Restaurant for our dinner. Quite an interesting place to have dinner wor, the toilet seats n utensils so cuteee that we started to snap n snap pictures. I think we created a din there, as we were so noisy la, even took video as if we were featuring the place lor. Haha, so much fun eating. The matong ice cream was dam gross after we finsh eating, it looked like dan hua leh, eeeks, but the guys still can eat them like that from the bowl itself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/fc267b1b5c3bcd00eb9c387a19188e0d/image3410.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/fc267b1b5c3bcd00eb9c387a19188e0d/image3410.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/fc267b1b5c3bcd00eb9c387a19188e0d/image3412.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/fc267b1b5c3bcd00eb9c387a19188e0d/image3412.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/fc267b1b5c3bcd00eb9c387a19188e0d/image3405.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/fc267b1b5c3bcd00eb9c387a19188e0d/image3405.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/9b6e6a3bec4c580e950cdd24529abe78/image3408.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/9b6e6a3bec4c580e950cdd24529abe78/image3408.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/9b6e6a3bec4c580e950cdd24529abe78/image3401.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/9b6e6a3bec4c580e950cdd24529abe78/image3401.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/9b6e6a3bec4c580e950cdd24529abe78/image3398.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/9b6e6a3bec4c580e950cdd24529abe78/image3398.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/869ced1751f14c18a590f2aa71672d2f/image3411.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/869ced1751f14c18a590f2aa71672d2f/image3411.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/869ced1751f14c18a590f2aa71672d2f/image3396.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/869ced1751f14c18a590f2aa71672d2f/image3396.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;A HREF='http://localhost:1189/869ced1751f14c18a590f2aa71672d2f/image3397.jpg'&gt;&lt;IMG SRC='http://localhost:1189/869ced1751f14c18a590f2aa71672d2f/image3397.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think we had enough of shopping for the day, haha. We are not done man, we went to Dan Shui after that to buy Ah Po Ti Da. But cause we over-run spent too much time in toilet bowl restaurant, that when we reached dan shui it was aready quite late. Sir kept saying scully go there liao close aready. Aiyo, he really guess correctly le. Wah the shop was located at the end, by the time we reach there really closed leh, and to think we ran n ran n ran all the way there, omigod, faint la!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We gals really lack of exercise la, run until like no breath liao while that two guys can run so qing song haha they even overtook us okay, n the other one even more bian tai, walk (walk leh not run okay) so fast tt we thought he fly de. We reached there around 10pm, the ah po go home and koon liao la, still sell wat tie dan, qi si le, so bobian, when we saw a shop still open amongst the street of closed shops, we thought we saw a gleam of light, wahaha just ran into that shop. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, the the person looked at us with shock. they muz be wondering why these ppl all so hot in sweat,  they kindly invited us to go inside their shop to stand under the fan. So just bought the tie dan n yu su, since no ah po so juz anyhow buy la. Better than come all the way here and buy nothing back, then really is waste our energy running liao. Ha, the tie dan n yu su is we use han shui to xchange de, really people who we give must feel xin fu leh. Wendy said that its a pity that we did not have time to shop at dan shui otherwise its a very fun n nice to walk one and a lot of nice things to eat n buy too, miss out lo. Aft that due to "financial probs" (our pool money running dry la), jimmerline made us take mrt back to hotel la. Wah, so tired liao, still got to walk to the MRT station, all tie dan fault. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can't believe ourselves, we run until like that to buy the yu shu n tie dan, very bian tai, its as if we never eat them in our whole life before. That shop should be very qing xing they havent close shop as they were abt to close when we went. As usual, we bought so mani things from them, ha they should go and thank ah po lor for closing so early. Hahaha! We run until whole body sticky sticky so very hot and er xin, go back hotel to bath. Therafter we went out again, to go massage in the Ximending area la. We all tired le, n its only Day 3, whole body aching, muscles aching. Sir say go massage so we all go, we maid must be ting hua mah, Haha! So we just marched there in middle of the nite at around 1am ba. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This part about message account is from Wendy one, cos its she who saw the gao xiao incident of fang. I later decided on jiao di an mo cos my feet don't feel like mine anymore so went to a different room from them. The rest went in first, leaving Wendy, fang and me. The lady very nice see us waiting then ask us go the other side to pao jiao say FOC, so 3 of us juz went to pao la. So Fang and wendy went to the same room and the lady told them to change into their attire first then knock knock on the door to tell her they are done. This Fang went to ask Wendy must take out bra or not, she say dun need ba. After change le, Fang just very naturally zi dong go lie on the bed liao, when Wendy turn around saw her aready lying down. Wendy cannot stop laughing la, as the guy just walked to Fang's side, den say xiao jie, ni tang cuo bian le. The hole where u put the head she go put her leg, its juz tombalek la, they cannot stop giggling. Its really quite funny hearing from Wendy what happened. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day3 was really a hot and sweaty day but it was full of fun and laughter.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115365744069459754?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115365744069459754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115365744069459754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115365744069459754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115365744069459754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/taipei-madness-25-30th-june-06-part-3a_23.html' title='Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 3'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115305571354315384</id><published>2006-07-16T21:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T04:46:35.726+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 2</title><content type='html'>* Hee, below I go on ah, I must credit Wendy Lim first ah. Me quite lazy n got s.t.m la, so at times content is 'kidnapped' from her blog &amp; also from comments from Fang, Cheryl etc. Plus plus my own comments lor. Hehe! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our 1st nite we really eat like we haven't eaten before in our lives like that. Our poor stomach haven't really digest finish ah, considering our supper noodles at like 4am. We all hor, next morning went to eat dan bing. Ha, this time we each one ordered one leh, bit siao la considering the amt we ate last nite. Me ate the rou song dan bing, quite hard to digest leh, i left a bit lor. After eating that, ha Wei &amp; Cheryl felt quite err cos the dan bing like stuck in their chest through the day then they wanna puke. Then we somemore ordered like 7 cups of dou nai to drink. Ha, for some strange reason hor, it tasted like cigarette-flavour soya bean, got the ashed taste. I felt it was quite err, but hor we all find it weird n strange yet all of us finish drinking it somemore. Haha, who is more strange here ah, the drink or us? Hehe! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Breakfast Pics: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Day 2 &amp; 3 &amp; Last Day Breakfast Place - Ha, but we eat different things each day la. Auntie here knows Jimmerline leh, so hor got free Dan Bing n Fan Duan somemore.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Our%20Day%202%20%26%203%20%26%20Last%20day%20Breakfast%20Place.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Our%20Day%202%20%26%203%20%26%20Last%20day%20Breakfast%20Place.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan Bing In Pan.. its in progress to be eated by us! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Dan%20Bing%20In%20Progress.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Dan%20Bing%20In%20Progress.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gals with the Ashed-Soyabean Drink &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/4%20Gals%20with%20the%20Ashed-Soyabean.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/4%20Gals%20with%20the%20Ashed-Soyabean.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After eat until damn full ah, we went to the "Zhong Zhen Ji Nian Tang" to go see Chiang Ka Chiek?? Haha! Wah, siao lor the weather its sooo super sunny n damn hot that day. I must be mad or that my mind juices all use to digest supper till I dun know why will choose to wear a Black t-shirt out somemore, make myself laggi hot. We like bbq pigs under the hot hot sun, then we went to climb 'mountain' somemore leh, up that dun 80plus plus steps up. Aiyo, by the time reach the top really wanna faint liao, leg sour sour like dun belong to me le. Haha, Wendy n Fang was like "He Ping Yi Yuan" very near, they wanna go diao dian di. Hahahaha! U can imagine how hot a not? We really like going to zhong shu, even we had auto-mini fans with us also no use lor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zhong Zhen Ji Nian Tang Pics: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Gals @ the Zhong Zeng Ji Nian Tang! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Zhong%20Zheng%20Memorial%20Hall.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Zhong%20Zheng%20Memorial%20Hall.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Distorted Tree Pic -- Look @ how long our Hands are &amp; I look like my Head n Body's seperated! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Distorted%20Tree%20Pic%20%40%20Zhong%20Zheng%20Memorial%20Hall.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Distorted%20Tree%20Pic%20%40%20Zhong%20Zheng%20Memorial%20Hall.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me, Cheryl, Shufang, Wendy! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/4%20Gals%20Pose%20before%20climbing%20up%20mountain.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/4%20Gals%20Pose%20before%20climbing%20up%20mountain.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got drop by a few bookstores thereafter, cos me got mission to buy books for dearest Jeanie lor. Wah, she give me the booklist like want me to buy the whole store come back like that, but hor her books really hard to find lor, went to a few stores still bo de. Only thing good is ah bookstores got aircon lor, otherwise really can die. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, we like skipped lunch all still trying to digest the morning's dan bing ma. We had tea break instead at Taipei 101, then back to our favourite activity -- 7 pple Share Food! Haha! Want to earn our money really bu rong yi leh, but not say we cheapskate la, just that share food somemore I find the food like taste nicer leh, also get to try more types ma. Better than stomache storage all store 1 type of food so wu qu lor. Aiya, all my wai li but actually u think about it is you li one leh. Haha! We ordered one hotplate of noodles to share eat. Then me wanna eat ice-cream, love the qing-ren guo flavour from supper and see the cone got so many colours hor, so bought one then all share share eat with noodles. Best is, we share share, share right infront of the lao pang niang selling the hotplate, then hor we took quite alot of chopsticks somemore. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taipei 101: We came here just to have a look look &amp; to makan.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Taipei%20101.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Taipei%20101.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Big Hotplate of Noodles - Nice to eat leh! Haha, this is where all 7 pple attack 1! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Food%20%40%20Taipei%20101.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Food%20%40%20Taipei%20101.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, on Jetstar flight to Taipei we also sama sama, order 1 plate of noodles then pass around like playing pass the puzzle like that around to 7pple then pass back, quite fun like that. Haha! But, seriously la, that chilli fish rice that sir order later really nice to eat leh, got pass around one round ma. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next stop was Wu Fen Pu, shopping time! Ha, Wendy lim like opening T-shirt shop like that, she really bought alot of t-shirt thoughout the whole trip. Haha, but me also very kong bu la, I see see nice necklace, earings, bracelets, clothes then buy non-stop, just 2nd day already bought like 2pairs each. Well, as long as the lao ban let me 'decide' the pricing then okay I happy then I buy lor. Haha! Quite like terriorist leh. Also dun know how come my skin suddenly become so thick like that, is it Taipei's weather ah? But, really quite cheap thrill la, n my gong li at cutting price only get better by the day.. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, shop shop liao ah, we change location to Rao He. There our stomache demanding for food again. Haha, so we went to eat dinner lor, this time is go eat lu rou fan, then Fang &amp; I shared soup dong feng, cos we didn't want to eat rice lor. Ha, wah.. the bowl very mini lor, the big bowl also look like for baby to eat only leh. Cheryl &amp; Wei wanted to share a small bowl of lu rou fan cos their dan bing still stuck midway in them. The Aunty like shocked so small bowl still wanna share ah? Really funny lor the look on her face, see le really want to laugh. 'Then Hanwei so funny go ask the Aunty got kopi a not when she asked if we want drinks. The aunty was like huh? Wat the heck is kopi, Hahaha!' We really is go until where also gao xiao until where lor. Hehe! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lu Rou Fan -- Look at the contrast in Size. Left side is Small &amp; Right side is Big! But, really is big meh? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Zhu%20Rou%20Fan%20-%20Dinner%20for%202nd%20nite.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Zhu%20Rou%20Fan%20-%20Dinner%20for%202nd%20nite.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think we full hor? Ha, after that half- walk n shop half see xiao chi then buy and share somemore, we got eat the fried chocolate etc etc. Weather so hot, Bing is like a must eat desert lor. So, we sat down to induge in eating bing again. This time eat Mang Guo Bing. Bit different from first nite de, in terms of the texture of the bing, n this time the mango got more! Sweet &amp; Sour really nice to eat leh. Very shuang lor, cooling leh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Delicious Man Guo Bing! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Mango%20Bing.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Mango%20Bing.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jimmy infront of Fried Chocolate Stall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Jimmy%20infront%20of%20Fried%20Chocolate%20Stall.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Jimmy%20infront%20of%20Fried%20Chocolate%20Stall.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gals Eating Ah Zhong Mian Xian.. got xin fu the gan yue ma? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Gals%20Eating%20Ah%20Zhong%20Mian%20Xian.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Gals%20Eating%20Ah%20Zhong%20Mian%20Xian.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After walk a while more we took cab back to Ximending Area, then contiue shopping there. Sir wanted to find the Da Ge Da shop, in the end that shop close le ah, end up we eating again leh. This time is buy 3 bowls of Ah Zhong Mian Xian to share share eat. Come to think abt it ah, we really like 70% of the time eating one leh, quite scary lor, but satisfying la, I very happy lor. Haha! But, really is very bian tai leh. Considering ah, this day really is like eat alot lesser than yesterday. After we eat finish liao, we went to find where is the nearest massage to our hotel, check rates n all, sir &amp; hw wanna do ma, then we all did it too on the 3rd day. Then hor, all cannot tahan liao, our backs, legs, neck all on verge of breaking! Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, on the way finding places, my eyes quite busy leh. Me saw quite a number of objects I want to buy le leh, just never stop but I know later or next few days sure will walk back then I buy, and indeed so. I'm quite a shopperholic la, esp. when overseas. Haha! Hmm, the "Wa Wa Shop" at first is cos got this top I spoted then later went in to buy, thereafter all went in and bought alot of accessories. Then, my instintive reaction of on-ing my 'tao jia huan jia' button is back, hahaha.. In this shop Fang saw alot of necklaces, bracelets she like n wanna buy, like all of us also got buy at least 1 items like that, so even better, haha.. buy more than i chop more on the prices. Not bad leh, bargain bargain also can ren shi ren, Xiao Ting that girl really nice n very sweet lor. For the remaining days there, we came back to this 'Wa Wa Shop' almost daily cos always will pass-by anyway ma. Haha, but is cos we got other agenda we wanna find out more about la. Hehe! But, I managed to find out bits n pieces here n there..only ke xi this flower is taken le lor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nite still young to us, haha, when most of the shops shut down le ah, we still did not have enough fun lor. So we this group of bian tais decided to go terrorise the arcade store n staff, we went in and played the machines to "catch" soft toys. Wah Cheryl really very tokong lor, she catch n catch like nobody's business like that. But think the arcade stuff buay tahan us lor, they wanna close liao, we still there making alot of noise n jumping everytime the toy drop. Then diao diao diao non-stop. Better still, go ask the "shuai ge" to bang mang open the machine and put the toys easier to diao dao somemore. Haha! We reali da feng shou lo, amongst our "earnings" are 8 donuts which we decided to do something to the Donuts n keep it as a memento of our trip. Hehe! This hor, started our diao-ing ying, where later not only Cheryl expert ah, Jimmerline n Hanwei also very good lor. Haha, as for me I still better off at asking "shuai ge" to help us open machine la. But dun think wrong hor. Haha! So, we really very scary lor. At the end of our trip I think we all combine at least got like 40-50 soft-toys lor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheryl's Victory Catches! - Nite 1 - Our Ma Zai Er Gui &amp; the Start of Diao Diao Diao.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Cheryl%27s%20Victory%20of%20Catch.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Cheryl%27s%20Victory%20of%20Catch.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See what I mean by the madness only intensify by the day? Haha! Alot more Madness and Bian Tianness is yet to be seen on the 3rd Day...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115305571354315384?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115305571354315384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115305571354315384' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115305571354315384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115305571354315384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/taipei-madness-25-30th-june-06-part-2.html' title='Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 2'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115304496250549264</id><published>2006-07-16T18:15:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T04:46:48.466+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Day 1: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hehe, I shall start of by displaying our first nite's food, at Shi Lin Ye Shi. The xiao chi that we ate, though got some never take pic. cos too we like hungry ghost ma, so before that photo already inside our stomache le. Haha, we really ate alot, drank alot somemore. Hmm, got dun know how many cups of Almond Drink, Plum Drinks etc. Warning first ah, see le u sure will be hungry de, so get ready food stock then view ya. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da La Liang Mian - Spicy wor, Turn your lips to Sausages! Shiok to eat!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Da%20La%20Leng%20Mian.0.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Da%20La%20Leng%20Mian.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mushrooms, Meat - Tian Bu La, yummy leh!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Mushrooms%2C%20Meat%20-%20Tian%20Bu%20La.0.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Mushrooms%2C%20Meat%20-%20Tian%20Bu%20La.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chao Da Ji Pai, this store very long que! &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Chao%20Da%20Ji%20Pai.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Chao%20Da%20Ji%20Pai.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chong You Chao Shou - Nice to eat!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Chong%20You%20Chao%20Shou.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Chong%20You%20Chao%20Shou.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me Eating Tian Bu La Corn - Taste bit sweet, salty, spicy! All mix into 1! &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Me%20Eating%20Tian%20Bu%20La%20Corn.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Me%20Eating%20Tian%20Bu%20La%20Corn.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HW Eating Zhu Xue Gao - Gross? Haha, nan wang taste indeed! But, try once enough le..&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/HW%20Eating%20Zhu%20Xue%20Gao.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/HW%20Eating%20Zhu%20Xue%20Gao.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Gals with Fang Eating Strawberry Bing Tang Hu Lu - Yummy leh!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Gals%20with%20Fang%20Eating%20Strawberry%20Bing%20Tang%20Hu%20Lu.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Gals%20with%20Fang%20Eating%20Strawberry%20Bing%20Tang%20Hu%20Lu.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fang Feeding me Chou Dou Fu - Ha, it actually taste quite nice leh! &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Fang%20Feeding%20me%20Chou%20Dou%20Fu.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Fang%20Feeding%20me%20Chou%20Dou%20Fu.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chocolate Bing with Egg Pudding - Milky n Smooth Ice!&lt;/&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Chocolate%20Bing%20with%20Pudding.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Chocolate%20Bing%20with%20Pudding.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hong Dou Bing with Egg Pudding- A bit too Sweet for my liking.. but pple with Sweet tooth will like it:)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Hong%20Dou%20Bing.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Hong%20Dou%20Bing.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mixed Fruit Bing - Got Strawberry, Mango, Kiwi: Sweet &amp; Sour with milky Bing, I like this one!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Mixed%20Fruit%20Bing.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Mixed%20Fruit%20Bing.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Supper - Taiwan Magi Mee, 1 of the 3 we ate! Piggy hor? Hehe!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Supper%20-%20Maggi%20Mee.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Supper%20-%20Maggi%20Mee.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, we reached Taipei on Sunday evening, so took the "feigou" - flying dog bus to our Hotel - "Rainbow Hotel, Can Hong" at Ximending Area. Ha, I find the bus name quite cute lor. Wah, weather at Taipei really damn hot. Then guess what on the bus, Cheryl, Wendy n I  three of us have to squeeze into a seat meant for two people, just becos the bus is overcrowded. Luckily the journey wasn't too long lor. Ha, the uncle should refund us $$ leh, cos we paid for 3 pple but only take up seats for 2. Uncle where is our refund? Next time we go, got 1 free ticket is it? Like Cheryl said at Wendy's blog: "We got photos wei zheng hahaha!" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its my first time going to Taipei, same for Cheryl n HW, lucky got our "tour-leader", Wendy ah. She very good la, help us with the check in to hotel n bring us to the places, cos she been there 4th time liao. Anyway, we just checked into our hotels n put things down, rest a while then run out liao. Haha, cos we all very hungry liao so we take the "Jie-yun (MRT)" to Shi-Lin Nite Market and went to look for the ma la liang mian n eat xiao chi also. We ate the famous ma la liang mian, this one got different degree of hotness from xiao la, zhong la, da la, chao la, kuang la. Most of us ate da la, wah.. really is hot leh, stomache bit like on fire, yet hor no fire-engine nearby to put off fire leh. Haha! So hor, Fang, Wendy n I, we went to source for our own extinguisher, bought alot of drinks lor. Meanwhile, the rest ordered a chao la to try, haha.. all our lips become like xiang chang lips liao. So red n thick, but really very shiok to eat! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way of cos got just stop and shop and buy things (eg. accessories, t-shirts etc) lor.  Just in a while of pass-by stores, me already bought quite a number of things liao. Then start my bargaining, dun know how come that button of 'Tao Jia Huan Jia' just auto on lor. Hehe! But, not me alone buy alot, the rest also got buy some just not as kong bu as I la. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that we went to the other side to eat the big big ji pai, xiang chang, chou dou fu, mang guo bing, peanut bing, more drinks etc etc etc. We just simply cannot resist the many many food stalls and xiao chi that we saw lor. So buy buy buy non-stop then all share share to eat. Really hard to count how many items we ate that nite leh, cos really alot, like more than our stomaches can store. We hor, started eating from like 8pm-4am leh. Not bluff u one, really lor. After our food-spree n shopping spree at Shi Lin ah, we took cab back to our hotel, yet later we still went to eat leh.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are like one group of hungry ghost isn't it? Haven't eaten for days like that. But hor at 3am me still hungry wanna go for supper, plus got some other also hungry le? So we went to 7-11 downstairs to buy bowl noodles n 1 Qing Ren Guo ice-cream to eat! Hehe! Piggy la, can't be helped. Middle of nite, 4am we all still making noises, laughing away eating our noodles. Really horrible hor? But, eat liao I feel very satisfied leh, &amp; its a luxury to be eating comfortably in the nice hotel room. Hahahaha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, I know somemore surely not satisfied leh. Who ah? Hmmm.. the hotel lobby person looking after the place lor. That poor guy ah, got shocked from us, cos we come back from 7-11. He also very ke lian la, this hour is suppose to be chat with Zhou gong, but we rou his qing meng. Then he in shock like zombie like that jump up leh. Quite funny lor, we see liao laugh even more. He saw its us, this siao group of pple not ghost ha, then went back to find his zhou gong liao. Haha! But, this type of rou ren qing meng acts we did it everynite till we left the hotel, cos we everynite also must eat supper if not then come back late late, laugh laugh then go back room to party somemore. Hahaha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only can say sorry to them le lor, they hor not lucky meet us this group of bian tais, who are like siao langs who escaped from Spore's siao lang geng, then all take Jetstar Asia fly go taipei to zhuo ruan like that. Who knows ah, Taipei's siao lang geng full house, cannot take us in so hor we go  on their streets n hotels n display our siaoness lor. Hahaha! So think their peace only managed to return after we fly back home, but surely we brought them some joy too hor? Hoho! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Madness is to be contiued..it only get more intensive.. Haha!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115304496250549264?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115304496250549264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115304496250549264' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115304496250549264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115304496250549264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/taipei-madness-25-30th-june-06-part-1_16.html' title='Taipei Madness: 25-30th June 06 - Part 1'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115299630089154025</id><published>2006-07-16T04:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-16T19:00:33.160+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanghai Trip '06 - Final Part</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Shanghai Xiao Chi, Tea House &amp; Yu Yuan..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Went to Cheng Huang Miao for half a day. Went to "Yu' Po Lu" for the Shanghai Dian Xin, wah... the su there really very jin zhi and nice to eat wor. Sadly, too engrossed eating liao, forgot to take pictures of it lor. The hu lu su, gui hua la gao etc. really worth a try. Ha, this place how we decided to give it a try, is through our food research before we went de. Really, quite nice place to eat.. If ever got go Shanghai again, I will sure go there again, this time will not so piggy eat only, will take photos also. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yu Po Lou, Perfect Restraunt to eat Xiao Chi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0134.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0134.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thereafter, shop and shop a bit, bought quite alot of stuff here. This is the place where I bought the personalised gifts, and also some tea.  That day's weather really super cold, so we went to "Hu Xin Ting" to drink cha. Ha, this was the place that queen Elizabeth drank tea before also leh. Nice ambience ma, by the lake. The "Chai Ye Dan" that comes with the tea very nice lor, the ru wei the taste. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hu Xin Ting, perfect place to have Tea &amp; admire the secenry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0135.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0135.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Pots of Hua Cha with Xiao Cha Ye Dan - Wah, the dan really nice to eat! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0136.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0136.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful Hua Cha right? Well, the taste very good too leh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0137.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0137.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the Hua Cha, nice hor. Special right, not only give u the wei dao xiang shou, also beautiful to look at lor..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We later went to "Yu Yuan" to view Mei Hua.. Cos, since already here and for the past days it have been more of shopping, shop n eat. We decided to let our eyes enjoy a while. Haha! But, its a beautiful place, alot of mei hua to view. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mummy infront of the Stone " Hai Shang Ming Yuan" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0195.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0195.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mummy &amp; Me.. Hoho, weather's really cold! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0191.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0191.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dark Pink Mei Hua&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0188.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0188.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pink &amp; Yellow Mei Hua&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0175.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0175.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, like hao hua bu chang cai, hao jing bu chang zai, time flies hor, then very soon its time for us to take SQ back to Spore le. But, this trip quite delightful n did acheive its aim to let us forget all. Nevertheless, some things is got to face up to de, so its time to go back to reality in Spore ba..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115299630089154025?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115299630089154025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115299630089154025' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299630089154025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299630089154025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/shanghai-trip-06-final-part.html' title='Shanghai Trip &apos;06 - Final Part'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115299621761684125</id><published>2006-07-16T04:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-16T18:49:58.750+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanghai Trip '06- Part 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Gino Cafe.. our choice for Supper @ Shanghai&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gino Cafe is a restraunt very near Peace Hotel, almost every nite will go there to makan supper and enjoy the ambience of the place, got nice music too ma. Food there esp. love the "Xun Yi Cao" Freezy drink! Wah, love the smell of it esp., like and refreshing feeling is what u get just in one mouth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mouth-watering pizza is another great try there. Too bad ah, no photo of that leh. Ha, this trip I forgot to bring camera ah, end up all the photos use my phone to take. Despite being super full after dinner, we still manange to finish the pizza wor.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escalator Up Gino Cafe, The Wall Painting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a The Escalator Up Gino Cafe &amp; Its Wall Painting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0200.0.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0200.0.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lavender Freezy - Refreshing &amp; Great Smell! I luv it! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0133.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0133.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chocolate Brandy Drink, wah.. nice leh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0131.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0131.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tiramisu Dessert - Very cheezy wor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0132.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0132.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mouth- Watering Chocolate Cake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0130.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0130.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha, after viewing.. are u hungry?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115299621761684125?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115299621761684125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115299621761684125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299621761684125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299621761684125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/shanghai-trip-06-part-3.html' title='Shanghai Trip &apos;06- Part 3'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115299614515846629</id><published>2006-07-16T04:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-16T18:27:12.976+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanghai Trip '06 - Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Day at Shanghai Filled With Adventure...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the 2nd last day, Jeanie and I went to shop ourselves. Mum went with dad to do business, so we were all on our own. Haha, actually prefer like that also lor, if not sometimes mum can get too naggy about things i cannot understand.. yet, at times i know its for our own good la. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, we all set off to "Xu Jia Hui", there got alot of shopping buildings ma, yet, me is wanna go there and find this 'yi cha yi zuo' place to drink the 'bubble' tea lor. Had that 2 years back, it was great ma.. yet, this time like not as good as before leh. But, we shocked the gal taking our orders.. cos we ordered this Hong Dou Bing Shang, that was meant for alot of pple to eat de. Yet, there was only 2 of us, and we got other orders too lor. But later, than realise how silly it is to travel all the way to Xu Jia Hui, cos at Nan Jing Bu Xing Jie inside also have this bubble tea store, just that blur blur me dun know only. Nevermind lor, Jeanie bought her safety pin necklace n me bought the matching earing for my winta sonata necklace, still is got shou huo one. Hehe! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below are pictures of the food n drinks we ordered at "Yi Cha Yi Zuo": &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Giantic Hong Dou Bing - that shocked the waiter upon our orders! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0216.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0216.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crab with Cheeze - Look good isn't it? Yup, it taste good as well:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Crab%20with%20Cheeze.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Crab%20with%20Cheeze.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeanie drinking her Mai Cha - Taste really very xiang! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0213.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0213.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Bubble Tea - Alot of nice chewy stuff in it &amp; its Sweet n Sour! Nice to Drink! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0206.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0206.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of our time was spent at "Fu Zhou Lu", thats where the Shanghai Shu Cheng is at. There alot of book stores. Jeanie's aim of coming Shanghai, one is to shop and buy lots of books lor. So shopping for books this is the best street liao. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not forgetting "Qiao Jia Ren", that store 2 years back i bought the Qiong Yao shows, only here have ma. Also, bought a liang zhu show, sadly till now no 2nd part leh. Wah, stuck halfway really not shuang la. Wow! Here, really must commend on their service leh. In the hotel the nite before, on one of the channels we watch this drama serial, so hope to get it. Yet, aiya we never remember the tittle lor. So, only managed to tell them its a show playeds last nite. The shop service really is mei hua shou, they very re xing leh, cu dong the whole shop personnels to help us find the show. Even cashier got to help search TV guide wor. Impressing hor? I was impressed lor, lucky at the end, hardwork not wasted.. we found it at last.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After shopping many booksstores, we got enough liao la, so went to makan. Came across this restraunt again is 2 years back got go in eat before de, still can rememeber it has good molten chocolate cake. So went in and eat lor. Aiyo, felt like "Free Exhibits" leh, dun know why but all the personells there kept staring at us and some laughing. We very funny meh? I know then i took of my jacket, and was wearing like a T-shirt inside, weird la considering winter. But, also not against the law ma. Or too shocked at how small size we are, yet order so much food? Haha, who knows why ah, just dun like the feeling that so many eyes staring at us lor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below are some pic. of food at this restraunt where we were "Free Exhibits": &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chocolate Cake - Wow! Really very nice to eat one leh, cut ah.. then all the chocolate 'sauce' will ooze out! Yummy:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0220.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0220.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tiramisu Cake - Quite nice to eat:) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0221.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0221.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The great adventure begins after meal at this place. Aiyo, Fu zhou Lu very hard to hire a cab leh. We waited freezing and carrying the very heavy bags of books, waited for like 20minutes still no cab leh. So, at the end bo bian, I suggested we walk back to our hotel lor. Wah, me very lu chi type leh, somemore is first time free and easy at Shanghai, not Spore leh. But, hai hao i dared to venture, or else who knows what time we will ever get back to the hotel lor. Stared hard at the Ming Zhu Tar - that has been the landmark i used to navigate to find way back to Peace Hotel, bit like the Northern Star to me. Walk and walk, wah.. really is cold, tiring.. and filled with uncertainity dun know can get back to hotel a not. Every few streets then ask for direction to double check... At last, yup, found the hotel le, after close to half an hour. Wah, really is leg and hands want to break liao, freezing inside also. So, tat nite never eat with mum and dad too though suppose to cos we too tired le. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afer resting till our limbs got zhi jue le, we then went out to Nanjing Dong Lu, the bu xing jie, there the Bai Lian Shi Mao Shooping Centre and malls at the back, we haven't finish shopping yet.. So, took the 'to to train' from front of jie to end of it. No energy to walk there liao la. Ha, then there we shop for clothes.. treated like VIPs at one of the stores. We also went Ice-skating for a while leh, at Xin Shi Jie Shopping centre. But, never skate long la, the ice they never mo, we very not used to it, so just a while then we left liao. Yet, haha fun experience la. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, is go makan desert lor, ha forgot what is the name of the shop liao, but know its inside the Bai Lian Shi Mao Shopping Centre: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mu Gua Xue Ge - Very nice to eat &amp; good for complexsion also! Hehe! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0222.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0222.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mango Mua Chee Desert.. Very delicious leh! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0227.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0227.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mango, Watermelon, Coconut Desert Bing! Yummy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0226.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0226.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really was an Adventure day, quite fun lor, though extremely tiring for our poor legs. Ke Lian wor, really wanna break!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115299614515846629?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115299614515846629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115299614515846629' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299614515846629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299614515846629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/shanghai-trip-06-part-2.html' title='Shanghai Trip &apos;06 - Part 2'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31179228.post-115299599512750773</id><published>2006-07-16T04:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-16T19:07:48.840+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanghai Trip: 19-24 Feb '06</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Overview: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This trip to Shanghai was a very last minute decision made by mum n Jeanie. Very short trip only, from 19Feb Monday nite to 24Feb Friday, less than a week.&lt;br /&gt; Go there, guess main purpose was for Jeanie to forget the accident grade incident that hit her very hard. As for myself, i wanna go and shang xin and let hope can stop myself for worrying over the A level results release that is really soon. Its a let us forget all trip ba. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its not my first time going to Shanghai le, the other time was 2 years back, then other than Shanghai we also toured Su Zhou, Hang Zhou, Nanjing etc. Difference lies in this time is free and easy trip, the other time was with tour. Free n easy good is no need to rush lor, can go and shop at our own pace. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since we took a nite flight there by SQ, so reached there about 7plus. This time stayed at Peace Hotel (He Pin Fan Dian), quite a nice hotel la, good location at Nanjing Dong lu - alot of shopping nearby. Just by walking can reach the Nanjing Bu Xing Jie liao. So first day, shop around the hotel, though short timing ah our shou hou bu shao leh. Already quite dao bao xiao bao in our hands. Arrive there, hungry leh, so went to find makan first. Went to a la mian dian to eat. The food there so-so, not say excellent. Aiya, Shanghai problems is ah, their salt n oil like free one like that, put put alot. So bit too salty for our liking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, Shanghai give me the most lasting impression is really their roads leh. "Ma Lu Ru Hu Kou", really is guo ma lu need yong qi lor. Scary one leh, its double side type of roads, yet even if its green man indicating pple walk ah, cars still contiue to chiong one leh. Even on streets ah, also can suddenly have bicycles, cars cut in one, quite sia ren lor. Haha, comparing to Spore, really is world's apart. Ours here is cars rang ren, there is ren must rang cars. Heard that there ah, if die of accident, most is just pay $20,000 leh. Our life worth so little ah? Is the thought i have been pondering about. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, Shanghai Advertisiments quite lame one leh, some quite cute though - very direct ma. The lame types ah, like to play on tong yin zi lor. One example which saw on TV is " 药材好，要才好!". Haha, sometimes bo liao ah, watch their advertisment also can laugh one, cos some also quite kiddy but quite cute. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yes, got this quite jian zha experience. It was an incident after dinner while trying to get a cab back to the hotel. Aiyo, the group of pple wanted to 'fight' cab with us ah, actually tried it by tricking as and saying: 'how this cab company more gui!' Haha! So funny, think tourit we hao pian ah? Even more ex, so cold leh, will still pay one lor. Afterall, we know they run by metres one la, so won't have much difference lor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This trip is shopping quite alot, my shou huo not bad, bought a very nice jacket, pretty bag, clothes etc, personalised gifts for some of my closer friends, makan alot of food, quite fruitful lor. Haha, we are shopping queens ma. Hoho! But, things here actually not much cheaper than Spore, just that already on holiday bought airticket come here if dun buy anything like very sha like that. Yet, haha getting the personalise gifts made me realised my brain went on holiday w/o telling me, or my chinese standand just degraded again. But overall this trip really is very occupied, till really is acheived my aim of not thinking too much, so is got enjoy de! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me &amp; Mum waiting for Jeanie to test her Jeans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0124.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0124.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nite's dinner mostly is eat with dad's friends. First nite, went to Huang Chao Hotel to eat, 2nd nite is ate with a restraunt's boss. Haha, then surely service excellent, cos eating with the boss ma. Ha, problem is often really order too much la, till i feel really quite wasted to have so much left over each meal. Yet, yup quite good food. Only think if pple dun smoke so much than think my meal will taste nicer leh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeanie &amp; Me Posing outside Toliet. Haha! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Jas%20%26%20Jean.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Jas%20%26%20Jean.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daddy @ Dinner at Dynasty Hotel &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/50/Photo-0125.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' class='phostImg' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/44/9963/320/Photo-0125.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, one thing i cannot tahan in Shanghai is the smoke pollution lor. The weather then was cold when we went, below 10 degrees one, I like cos i hate hot weather at Spore lor. We observe ah, like every meal av. one person got to smoke at least 3 cigragrettes lor. Every table at least got one person is smoking de. Aiyo, so can imagine the 'haze' created and the air. Aiya, me hate smoke smell one lor, irritates my nose ma. Yet, if we view from entrance of the restraunts ah, is can see the 'haze' difference one leh. Really is like "Smoke gets in your eyes" le. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, its quite a fun trip, Jeanie &amp; I shop shop shop then Eat Eat Eat.. quite shiok!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31179228-115299599512750773?l=time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/feeds/115299599512750773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31179228&amp;postID=115299599512750773' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299599512750773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31179228/posts/default/115299599512750773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-to-take-a-break.blogspot.com/2006/07/shanghai-trip-19-24-feb-06.html' title='Shanghai Trip: 19-24 Feb &apos;06'/><author><name>Jasmine</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
