Life in a Palace
*星空*

Saturday, December 29, 2007

29th December 2007 Saturday
Shirley's bday celebration cum get together

Though it's not our bday, we also have pressies.... Shall let the photos do the talking now....

Our Xmas pressies...

Shirley and Florence with their pressies. [ I made the photos. ")]

Me and Jane with our pressies..

Shirley and her husband to be. [They are get married on 15th Mar]

Group photos
[Sorry, jus gals only so Shirley's and Jane's bf cant b in the photo]


Dun worry. I know the lotions are for body, not for drinking...

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Friday, December 28, 2007

Friday 28th Dec 2007
Last KTV session in 2007

Went KTV with colleagues aft meeting in school. Guess we missed each other too much that we intended to get together to have fun b4 sch start....

Din take much pics cos I was tired...

Here are the photos of those I went KTV with

Brandon

Andy

Huimin and...

Christy

*Think it's v dark Sorry about it cos Andy likes the room to b dark so he turned off all the lights. A romantic guy I supposed.*

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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

25th December 2007 Tuesday
Merry Xmas!

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!


How did you spend your Xmas eve? Went to choose my gowns (see "Happily ever after")before having a simple steamboat dinner with Kate, Mandy, Brandon, SK and my parents... Really a nice cosy dinner. Played Wii and MJ aft dinner.

It's Kate's and Mandy's 1st time playing Wii and they are so cute when playing... Took sme photos and videos too but I guess video file is too big to b uploaded here.

Brandon, SK, Kate n Mandy playing Mario Party 8

See Kate's and Mandy's expressions after losing to the guys in one of the mini games


Mandy and SK engrossed in their boxing game...

Oh, I forgot. Ther's a special guest too. It's Jordan, Mandy's baby. He looks so much like my baby.. so cute..

Haha.. I cant differentiate which is mine.


It's really great to have a few frends celebrating Xmas together, far far away from the crowd...

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Monday, December 24, 2007

Day 5 (last day): 16 Dec

Checking out but b4 leaving, see pics below ...



Look at the signs in the room.Weird English...

Had breakfast or brunch at the Modern Toilet Restaurant. Its theme is related to toilet so everything such as the deco, the seats, the tables, plates, bowls and utensils are related to toilet & toilet bowls especially...

Modern Toilet Restaurant便所主题餐厅
(would you dare to try the food?)




The deco of the restaurant


Their food... contained in toilet bowls, bath tub...




The tap is also toilet bowl too...



With additional NT 30, u can upgrade ur drinks to this "container"...




A real cute restaurant. The food is not too bad and is cheap...

(Note: Plse rem to make reservation if you wan to go there. We were the 1st 2 customers. In less than half an hour, it's full.)

After brunch, we went to buy some pastries, cosmetics and sme stuff for our weddding...

After this dinner, we were left with NT 10.


Going home...


Took the freego bus which we booked thru hotel the night before. Although it's more expensive than the other buses, it's direct bus to the airport. I think if you buy the tix directly frm the freego company, it's about 40 bucks cheaper than to buy through hotel. So rem to ask around 1st b4 making a decision.

BYE TAIPEI!

Overall, a v nice trip but a bit too short and rushed. Mayb need more than 1 day to walk at each night mkt...

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Day 4: 15 Dec

It's hot spring festival in Dec so ther's a free shuttle bus from HongShuLin MRT station. However, this bus only goes to JinShanWanLi Hot Springs. If you wan to know where are the hot springs in JinShanWanLi, let me know.

And ther's also special discount f
or 2 persons too... Anyway, we had a private hot spring room, called汤屋as I dun wan to wear swim suit and b in the public pool area with pple I dunno.

On the way to hot spring. see the waves...


We also saw 丹顶鹤(red head birds). There r alot of pple stopping at the roadside and watching the birds with bino. Heard that out of 1000, 4 flew to Taipei.


Anyway, the water frm hot spring is quite hot but we can add in cold water...



汤屋. Actually it's just a hot spring tub in the room.
The ugly red slippers they provided


SK enjoying...


After soaking in nice hot water, we went to try the supposedly nice and famous duck meat. It's not as nice cos it's actually boiled duck meat. It's cooked the same way as the Hainanese chicken rice we have in SIN.

The famous 金包里鸭肉in 金包里老街. The stall is outside a temple



Bought sme snacks from there too. Had ice-cream to
o.. Yum yum...

Ice-cream. Cold cold...


Took the same bus back after lunch and took MRT to Danshui. It's quite a happening place as the shops are near the shore... Many food and many stuff to see and buy too. We walked to Dans
hui Harbour and took ferry to BaLi. Highly recommended by a friend but there's nothing much there except for lesser crowd, nice breeze and good scenery...

Took ferry back to Danshui and took another ferry to YuRen Harbour where the famour Lover's Bridge is. The ferries were so rocky tat I almost puke....

There's a free concert at YuRen Harbour so we went in to see 曹格sing...

On ferry to BaLi 八里

At BaLi 八里

See this bicycle, can sit at least 3 passengers


Going to take ferry back to Danshui


YuRen Harbour tix. The ferry tix are not cheap leh..


At YuRen Harbour


The free admission concert


The Lover's Bridge


The cheapo seafood at Danshui. Made my lips itch aft tat


Took some pics there b4 going to ShiLin Night Mkt.... Once again we were too tired and the mkt is too big that we din have time and energy to walk...

Finally tried the oyster mee sua... I still prefer the one in SIN.

Bought the real real 臭豆腐back to hotel which stinks the whole room...

I am going to faint

Back to hotel around 1am to pack our luggages as we wanted to check out early to walk around Ximending the next day b4 flying off....

Even lesser things bought on Day 4



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Day 3: 14 Dec
Decided to go to just 2 places on Day 3 cos I wasnt feeling tat well. Had sme breads b4 walking to Xime
n MRT. Passed by Red Playhouse so went in to take a look. It's a theatre for alot of performances such as drama, opera, etc.


Red Playhouse 红楼剧场

We wanted to go to the wholesale fashion mkt 五分埔服饰商圈 so we took MRT to HouShanPi MRT but we were too early. The shops opened from 2pm onwards. Thus, we took MRT back to Taipei City Hall station.

There's a free shuttle bus outside the station to Taipei 101. But if you choose to walk, it will take aout 20mins.

As Xmas was near, the bus driver dressed up as a Santa Claus and the bus was decorated with balloons. So nice...

See the balloons on the bus...

Went for a tour @ Taipei 101 Observatory /Audio Tour. It was quite misty tat day so we couldnt see clear from the building. SK and I agreed tat the night view would be better.

It's quite amazing that the lift took only 37 secs to reach 89th storey from the 5th storey... Tat's real fast...

Pretending to look into the binoculars.


There's a audio machine that looks like a phone. You can listen to the introduction of the places around Taipei 101. Really know quite alot after the audio tour

This is taken from the building. Very blur right?


This is the map at the building.


With the mass damper that stablizes the buidling


Taipei 101. Curled ruyi figures appear throughout the building as a design motif. The ruyi, or "magic mushroom", is an ancient artistic motif connoting heavenly clouds, healing, and fulfilment. The symbol confers protection and marks the attainment of new career heights.


The night view of Taipei 101, taken from Songshan Railway Station

We had lunch at the foodcourt at New York New York which is opposite Taipei 101. The food wasnt cheap so we shared a set meal, not bad though.

The Statue of Liberty @ New York New York

Our lunch

Once again, we took MRT back to HouShanPi MRT. By then, all shops were opened. It's really very big and they really sell lots of things... But as it's winter season, the clothes there were all so thick and long sleeves. Was v disappointed that I din get anything much. Was also tired from all the walking.

Next destination was Raohe Night Mkt 饶河街观光夜市which is opposite the rear of Songshan Railway Station. Actually it's a distance walk frm the Station. There's really lots of food and clothes, shoes and bags to buy. Personally I feel it's much better than Wufenpu.


We have to pass by a railway track and wait for the train to pass b4 crossing the road.

There's alot of pple queueing up for this 胡椒饼. SK bought one, not bad. It's like fried bun.


However, I was feeling tired and sick that we just walked awhile b4 heading back to hotel by train 火车 (one stop away from Taipei Main Station)


See.. so few things...

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