Day 9: Body and Wellness Day

Day 9: 2nd Jan 2007

Haha yesh, another must-do-thing to spent winter in Taipei is to visit the 温泉. We woke up at around 11am, before heading to the famous 温泉 at 北头. The package was around S$20 per head, and there were like three levels of pools with different themes. Well, one word to describe: 赞!

The more than 80 degree celsius hot sypring.

Well, a pic to show my double chin while searching for the right package!!! Ahhh! 减肥减肥！

After the lovely hot sypring.

哈哈，picture picture picture...

Na Nu Wa---Yi Ya---Na-Nu-Wa...

After a relax 泡汤 session, it's recommended to head to Danshui to see the sunset and take photos. Hmmmm, I quite like Danshui actually, a less advanced district of Taipei where all the artists gathered. The pity part is, I never got the chance to visit the Fisherman's Wharf, Lover's Bridge cause they decided to head back to XiMengDing for steamboat. The prunes there are worthwhile to buy home. =)

Butt taking a portrait that look like XuMengJing(!).

Danshui's Sunset.

夕阳无限好，只是近黄昏。。。

The tall ice cream. We were trying to "suck". Failed.

He succeeded this time round. LoL.

The 嘛辣火锅 at XiMengDi wasn't too bad. ~S$16.50 per head... But I don't eat hot, haha, so I was munching the ice creams all the way. LoL. Went back to the hotel at around 11pm, and settled down at the hotel's lounge to make my timetable for the following sem. I gotta check whether the modules I wanna take the following sem fit into my timetable. Haha, yesh how last minute! Took a long slow walk at around our area thereafter, before siting down at a roadside stall for a drink. It's nice to be alone at times, with a hot drink on the hand, and observe the nightlife of Taipei. Watching humans walking around, cars speeding by, cats and dogs roaming on the streets, how relaxing... Alex and guys are KTVing away while Kiat and Jun were in the hotel looking at the porn (I think)... Seriously, I love this place. =)

I will miss this place in future.

Day 8: Replenishment Day

Day 8: 1st Jan 2007

Well, being the hardcores... We visited the every-tourist-must-visit Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall right after our countdown and after a yummilicious local breakfast with goat milk... Haha, imagine the amount of energy we had left after the countdown night?!?! The hall was quite an impressive building to visit thou. But the "change duty" drill was nothing fantastic actually.

The famous Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall.

They reminded me of doing army duty. -_-"

Haha, yesh! Quite impressive.

Guys.

Green Lovers.

After sending KokGuan back to the railway station. We went back to Jeff's hotel to catch some beauty winks. Haha, yes, we were in need of some sleep desperately. Managed to wake up at around 7pm before we headed to Shilin Night Market for dinner and shopping. Jun and I managed to grab some nice presents there for GL and Hao.

The famous Bun. (8/10) ~S$1.00

Jeff was dragged by an uncle to do a fortune telling. FOC.

The Gong Wan (7/10). ~S$1.50

Me with DUCKIE's TOUNGE! (5/10) Note e gals behind, LoL.

Well, this 台湾仔 is like damn shuai!

臭豆腐。。。(6/10) ~S$3.00

棺材板 (8/10). ~S$3.50

The day ended happily with a pic with a cutie that sells clothes. Heh heh, 我爱台妹! =) Kiat, Jun and I went to wash our clothes before turning in for the night.

可爱哦！

Day 7: The Countdown

Coundown 2007 was indeed the most unforgettable event of the trip. 永生难忘。Singapore, Channel 8 even managed to get the 跨年演唱会 2007 film, and played it to our local people on Chinese New Year Day 1. I was missing Taipei damn badly while watching the replay on tv.

Day 7: 31st Dec 2006

The suite was the most luxury accomodation we had so far. Knowing that we will be having a sleepless night today, we slept till 11 plus, settled our stuffs at Taiwanmex, before heading towards Taipei 101 by metro to meet Alex and guys for Countdown 2007 .

Some photo shots on e way to find Jeff and guys.

Jun and I.

3 of us.

My loves.

The guys.

Jeff was very nice and bought some doughnuts for us all. I think the doughnuts were just slightly above average (7.5/10), and weren't as impressive as what Butt said. Maybe different ppl got different taste. HAha. But still, gotta thanks jeff for the effort, and he even insisted on not to collect the money from us. 不好意思。。。 We headed towards NewYork NewYork (I think) for lunch right after.

The famous doughnuts.

Everyone had a bite.

Some greedy kids look-alike.

Tingz and I.
I seriously need some face reconstruction in this pic. Boo.

June with his prawn set ~$6 (8/10).

Hk's squid with beef set ~$7 (9/10).

Mine was chicken ~$7 (8.5/10)

Mad people do mad stuffs.
We just lied down and took the pic in the middle of the road.

Jeff, Tingz, Hua, Kiat.

Alex and I.

At around 4pm, we reached the stage area, and the whole place was already packed even though the concert started at 7pm. Haha, being the kiasu Singaporeans, we decided to join in the crowds, and became part of human dominos in the later part of the day. Haha, it was a sacrifice with great returns. The 跨年演唱会 was amazing. Big stars like 梁静茹，吴尊， FIR, 黄立行，品冠, etc all turned up. The co-hosts were 徐乃麟 and 蓝心梅, with some efforts from 黑色会妹妹 (-_-"). 乃哥 is damn damn damn 帅, while 蓝心梅 was ultra super hot. The show first started with FIR and 黄立行 at 7 plus, followed by many other singers. My all-time favorite band, 五月天 turned up at 11 plus pm, and brought the atmosphere to the highest peak. 阿信's voice was superduperultracrazily nice.

Haha, and not long after, the clock striked 12, and we welcomed the new year together with 10 mins fireworks, the stage, as well as Taipei 101... I wished for something at that second, and hopefully my wishes could be fufilled this year. A good point to mention was that, there were no "小黑s" around at the countdown!!! Haha, not like our Singapore's esplande version, where those "小黑s" always made the effort to spoilt the night. Boooo.

At the countdown.

Taipei 101 with the countdown bears.

I spent my last second of 2006 with them.

Just to show that I took a pic of 吴尊！Haha.

乃哥 with 南拳妈妈

The last second of 2006.
The first second of 2007.

The actual thing.

The ugly side of countdown.

We left the place to meet KokGuan right after the countdown. Sat at the park for some stupid games, before proceeding with catching!!! Haha, yeshie! We played catching on the first day of new year at the park till the morning sun came out. The RIP team consisting of Hua, Ting, Jeff and I were form at the end of the game. Haha, seriously, I need to lost some weight. Ppl always thought I was the easiest target, and decided to catch me almost every round! Booo, not until buddy HK turned up to be caught by me intentionally. Haha. I simply suck at such games. =P

Ah Guan, Ah Hua, Ah Shawn.

Oh, he's a little high.

Taipei Walkers. The catchers / RIP team.

Went to the nearby coffeeshop for Taiwan's style breakfast, before heading for more activities. HAhaa, the countdown was indeed amazing. =)

New year, pin new hope. =)

Day 6: Amusement Theme Park

Day 6: 30th Dec 2006

One more day to the countdown, two more days to the new year... We woke up rather early after a fully-replenished-kind-of sleep. Haha, yesh. We will be having another climax for the trip. 5 kiddos will be heading to 剑湖山世界 for her 游乐园, costing 799NT per ticket. And I got to thank Hua for paying my tix as a BDae pressie. Hee. Love ya!

Before that, we had a rather relaxing breakfast at 橘园 itself. The pretty auntie was nice enough to prepare some english breakfast for us. And seriously, the food was 色，香，味聚全。。I love the bacons in the sandwiches and the kaya breads. The homemade 100% pure orange juice was just as great. She even allowed us to pluck her oranges to eat. At some point of time, I was dreaming that I was the boss of the house. LoL. We took some real good pictures before the auntie’s lucky husband who was working as a banker drove us to the park.

Our European-themed Room.

Even the decorations were paid attention to.

Butt's just being her narcissistic norm.

The wonderful sandwiches with bacons (8/10).

Even the fruits were just as great.

Lazy morning, lazy us.

An orange tree.

I was trying to act very emotional. I failed.

A coffee grinder. I like I like.

New York as wallpaper.

The lovely auntie and her hubby (and us).

Ah Hua, Ah Ting.

It was a less then 15mins car ride. We will be meeting Jeff, ALex and their cousins, Guoxin at the park itself. Haha. So yeah, 8 kiddos altogether. Seriously, the rides were too child-play for (some of) us to accept. Tingz and I were rather disappointed after trying out the roller coaster. But I guessed it's good enough for a little getaway there (7.5/10).

剑湖山世界

Me with that lion king hairstyle after 1st ride.

A rather successful self pic.

Us, while waiting for Alex and guys.

In the ferris wheel.

My buddy, my best friend, my neighbour.

We met an old friend there (!)

8 kiddos.

We bought Alex and guys to the cafe we visited last night for lunch after a few rounds of ride. They had to leave by the evening to catch their coach bus. The famous 5 then left the cafe, and decided to go back to the park to buy some souvenirs. We were lucky to meet big brother on the way there, who was also early to fetch us. We managed to reach Chia Yi Bus terminal at around 8pm after catching some winks on his van. Besides calling up by Jun to pick his wallet and handphone several times, the journey was rather smooth. Haha, the big brother even gave HongKiat a tripod which was left by other passengers. He was a damn nice man, with a fierce wife! LoL.

We were plain-ass too early for the bus trip back to Taipei, and decided to visit a big bookshop opp the bus terminal. I almost got myself broke there until Hua told me to stop. Haha. The books selling $20 plus at Kinokuniya, were selling at half price over there, costing about $10 each. So yeah, I grabbed a couple of them.

We reached Taipei at around midnight. The guys had some good sleep on the bus, while I was lucky to catch an 林依晨's show on the mobile TV. It's a stupid movie called wushu girls (武术少女）, but since it's her show, I watched... Haha. Jun woke up in the middle of the sleep and told me something that was super funny. But in order to protect the victim, I shall keep it as a secret. Haha.

We were supposed to check in to the student's hostel at Kmall. But due to some unreasonable errors in our booking, they left us with no rooms (!) And so, the five of us got to carry our big bags and walked all the way to find Jeff and guys at their hotel located at 南京西路. But sad to say, their hotel was fulled too. Luckily, the captain helped us to find a suite at their sister's hotel, 仕美饭店 that costs around $30/night per person, with complementary breakfast. And oh my god, everything was a blessing in disguise. The money was well spent for the suite, with jacuzzi facilities.

Ting on HK's bed.

Our tiny suite.

The girls in e toilet taking a pic. -_-"

I had a hour long shower while the rest was sleeping, jotted down some resolutions in the brain while soaking in the hot water, and joined Jun on the bed thereafter. (He was busy watching the "TV" btw).

Tomo's the countdown.