25th May 2009 (Taiwan Trip II Day 1)

5月25日的那一天，我再一次踏上台湾的本土，来到了这个美食与购物的天堂。

这一次，和Vin一起来，而且是独自和Vin预定住宿，策划行程，有了不一样的感觉。(之前的台湾之旅受了TY很多的帮忙。)

和朋友来到离家乡这么遥远的地方，有小小的不安和刺激感，但心中也充满了期待。



那一天，坐了早上8点的飞机到香港，再转机到台湾。这一次，坐的不是Jetstar，而是Cathay Pacific。Cathay 有onboard meals，座位也较为宽敞，比jetstar好多了。唯一的缺点是要转机到香港，浪费时间。但是，能够借此呼吸一下香港的空气，也不错~


还有，Cathay 的飞机可以看电视，也可以了解自己已经“飞到哪里了”。



搭了6个小时的飞机，我和vin都要吐了。下了飞机便迫不及待要到旅店“丢下行李”，出门逛逛。谁知，我们为了省钱，不搭计程车（NT1000++），而搭“飞狗巴士”(NT120/pax)，便花了几乎一个小时半的车程！好不容易，6点半终于到“Futurestar”饭店了。

**以上的照片里有个像"Pea"的人！

但是。。。

柜台阿姨看我们那么迟才到，以为我们已经不来了，说把房间让给人了！还说我们应该打电话通知他们我们会迟到！不负责任的阿姨。

Futurestar 的地点就在西门町，所以那里还蛮人来人往的。如果没预定房间，客满的情况也是常有的。汗！我看柜台的阿姨已经把我们的房间“让”给了“来休息”的情侣。 怒！

无可奈何，我们以同样的价钱，入住了。。。


狗窝。连行李都放不下啦！由于搭飞机搭疯了，到了又没有房间好休息，一时气愤下，干脆把行李乱丢在床上了。连走路的空间都没有。而且房间有烟味！

肚子也快饿扁了，于是到西门町（就在楼下）逛逛。西门町还是一样热闹，happening.. Vin说西门町有点像日本的渋谷(shibuya)。也可能像新加坡的Bugis，但是bugis还是逊色很多。


我们也看到了怪怪的表演。有个“胖胖”在“唱歌”，但是没听到歌声，却又“唱”得很陶醉。


再一次，来到了“阿宗面线”。如果有来到西门町，一定要吃一碗！绝对不会后悔！大碗的也没有超过SGD3! 如果吃过一次，会让你永远怀念。（我就是这样子。）

吃完，和Vin到“台北火车站”买后几天的火车票，再绕到士林夜市吃晚餐。很多很多的人。。。


这是另外一个必吃：“豪大大鸡排”。台湾有很多鸡排店都这样称呼自己，所以别吃错了！这个才是正宗的！看Vin手上拿着的鸡排就知道有多大了！才SGD2.50 lei!!

另外一个让人回味的：棺材板
也很好吃哦！
吃完了，到附近的商店圈逛逛。杨丞林现在代言adidas！很可爱！

逛完了，回到旅店，因为很不满那一晚的房间，所以打算加钱来换一个比较好的房间。加了NT200，SGD~10，终于可以把行李放在地上了。。。


总结：
到了3个国家，搭了接近7个小时的飞机，2个小时的路程，劳累的一天。
吃了好多很久没有吃到的美食。
要是没有旅店房间的小插曲，会比较好吧。
劳累但因为不习惯，辗转难眠的一晚。

(^v^)指数：3/5

Home

I'm finally back last night!

But before i touched down, i am already missing Taiwan like mad..

I miss how cheap everything is there.. I miss the shopping heaven, the night markets, the streets, the people.. I realli hoped my trip was longer!

Carrying a heavy head the whole day, I was so tired, i was sleeping a lot these days.

Neeways, somehow, during the trip, i received a letter at home that I will be going NIE first this coming Jun. That's good! :)

New phase of life starting soon :)

Will blog about the trip when i got the pics from vin :)

mi problemo

Recently, me eye has a wee bit of problemo.

Me no idea why, but me eye sometimes turn red at the side, left and right. Me wear lenses too long? or me finally sees the consequences of long term lens wearing.

Me thinks, "Eyes are very important! Must protect me eye!"

Me also thinks, "Me cannot bear to wear specs everyday."

Me wear specs, me look tired, and sleepy.
But me wear lens, me look like monster with red eyes.

So look tired is better? or look like monster is better?

Me choose to have a full eye check up soon.

But before that, me still cannot bear to wear specs everyday.

Me contradicts me-self.

But me will rest me eyes more, and look tired more.

Thanks to me friends who gave me beri good advices.

Great Music Days

Had a K-session with pea and vin last wednesday.

Till now, i'm still singing songs that I sang two years ago. I haven't been updating my song list.

Went to Partyworld at Liangcourt, and it was a very cosy place. Huge, and seemed very high class, but quite cheap. Now they even have "musical instruments" for you to play.

Partyworld is very rich. Each room has two plasma tv. One for you to see and sing, one for you to see and pick songs. Win liaoz.

After the 4 hour singing session, we moved on to Odeon towers for the Hanabi jap buffet.

I tink the bill cost us each person $38.90, but the food quite sucky. I'd say Kuishinbo is much much better, just top up a few dollars and you can eat everything at a better quality. Hanabi seems pathetic of its staff. There comes a point of time when the whole restuarant was so saturated with ppl and since we can only order unlimited food from our seats, and there are only at most 5 waitresses, it's very pathetic. Minus points for the waiting time. and I don't like it when the salmon sashimi has skin, and it's not as fresh as ichiban. Conclusion: ichiban is stil ichiban, (meaning No.1 Best)

On Friday, went to the Distant Worlds Concert yesterday night. It was totally superb! The best concert i have attended! I was so sad when the concert ended, and here, wanna specially thanks to alan for breaking the FF Concert news to me like wee years ago. Thanks!

Went to the concert with vin, pea, wk, my, yl, and el and her sec frens, dns and her sister, and lp, wf, al and their friends had went to the concert too.

Great music, great graphics animation as accompaniment to the music, and even Nobuo-sama is here. LOL. Still, i'd hoped that there was a better guitarist solo and the lady who sang Memoro de la Stono has the same voice like the one we heard from cd. I'd prefer the CD's lady whom had sung the song. Overall, still a 4.9/5 concert i would give.

Packing bag despite H1N1 news from Taiwan. Ha XD

Finally leaving this monday!!!

I promise myself to enjoy every second there and not spend any moment to think about stressful thoughts! Must enjoy the holiday!

Morning blog

Whenever I woke up at 5:30am in the morning, I feel like murdering someone.

No matter how painful it is to wake up at such an hour, I realised that once you crawled out of bed, you managed to keep yourself awake. So, if you wan to wake up "successfully" in this hour, just fight to crawl out of bed. This reminds me of how people place their alarm clock away from bed. If you put your clock a few steps away, when it rings, you will have to get out of bed, walk a few steps and then stop it. In this process, you have "woke up". If you place your clock beside ur pillow, you tend to snooze, and you "failed".

Anw, I woke up so very early just to run. I want to run, to do some cardio-exercises, to lose weight. It's always said that, to lose weight, just remember the "output more than input" rule. But it's damn difficult la! I still can't bear myself just to eat half of my plate and spend an extra hour running. I envy those people who are naturally thin.

Running at such an hour is not because of the conception that "a morning run is healthier". It's because of the glaring sun. I want to run before the sun is up. It feels so much hotter and glaring with the sun glaring at your face. So, the best time to run is at 6:30am~7:00am.

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Went for the moe appointment briefing ytdy. I was lucky that I got to go with elaine (we have the same time slot). Was told about the renumeration and the medical check-up that we have to take, and the application of the public service card. Was glad that will be able to enjoy a lot of medical benefits in the future.. But why the pay is.. "This month get last month's pay?" So, will have to work 2 months before getting the first pay. Anw, will still be looking forward.

Luckily, there will be a two day training before we really get to teach a class :) Will be learning some basic teaching skills, and classroom management skills. Responsibilities of a teacher seem real heavy and tough.. *sweats*

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Before that, I'm so looking forward to the Taiwan trip this monday!!

and before that, will be going out with vin and pea to sing k today. Plus, Hanabi buffet! Woots!!

Golden Month of Life

I am glad that I can nua at home and go out occasionally, and not caring about school work.

So this is the feeling of graduation.

The point when you have graduated, and you are still not into the responsibility of the job, and you don't need to worry cos you know there's a job for you, and before that, you have one month of fun.

I think this is the best moment of life.

I must treasure this one month!

Little preparations

Finally got the Taiwan Trip planned well.. On where to go, what train to take, hotels, etc etc.. Still have some unconfirmed stuff though, but now it's ready to pack and go!!

Hope H1N1 stays away from Taiwan (*prays)

Very soon, life will change. I believe it will be better.

These few days, I'd rather stay at home and play XD

100分礼物

很高兴。

第一次收到那么棒的礼物。

从第一次的“约会”到这次的见面，已经有100次了。

原来，你都记录下来了。

谢谢。 ：）

news

From 22nd June this year, I will be a pri school chi teacher.

I finally received my letter from moe and i will be on the waiting list to get to nie. before that, while waiting, i will be posted to some pri schs and start my teaching life.

I keep asking myself this: Why was i the only one out of my frens posted to primary school?

I have never heard about things like this in my life. It was, and it is a fact that degree holders generally get posted to sec schs. But why am i posted to pri schs? I am constantly reminding myself not to doubt my capabilities, but inevitably do so. No matter wat, pri sch and sec sch teachers get the same pay, and most ppl would have opted to go to a pri sch. For me, i have never imagined myself to be a pri sch teacher. But anw, now i do not have to debate difficult language issues with the students anymore, and I have a chance to work not with teenagers, but children.

Do i have the patience for children? I thought I didnt have. But still, i seemed to relate better with Sath, Yas (my pri sch tutees), den Re and Raud (my sec sch tutees). Maybe i need sometime to readjust my thinkings. But still, cheers to me, I have settled myself with a job and i will be working from June.

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I believe i can never be "Daddy's Little Girl".

I have never been in good terms with dad, ever since i realised how his temperament can be so drastic, and how unreasonable he can be.

It's not that he has never showered me with love like how a father should give his daughter, but I just felt that with his temper, our family can inevitably suffer quarrellings. I shall say that without having much "contact" with him, we can stay peaceful. He's just like fire, and I'm just like water.

In the family, I grew to learn that the living room is a place where I do not wish to stay for long. Cos bad things happen.

We always ended up quarreling, or i get scolded or nagged.
Part of the reason for not wanting to watch TV is because the tv is in the living room. I'd prefer to hide myself in my room and just avoid direct contacts with them at all cost.

Maybe i am childish, maybe as a daughter, what i am doing was very impolite.
But i can never get myself to speak, as voicing your opinions in the house is just like spraying oil on fire. You never know when it can explode.

In this family, because of my dad, we can never realli be ourselves. I'd call my house the castle, and my dad the king. Disobey his orders or wishes, we will get to suffer. and mom never helps, though dad listens to her. She loves him more than anything in the world, and no matter what we have NOT done wrong, for the sake of harmony in the family, we have to apologise to dad.

I was brought up to know that monarchy rules in the family, and what you really felt, is never to be said.

I'm getting sick of seeing mom crying, and saying how she failed being a mother.
I'm sick of adults saying all the rules that fit their logic but never the whole situation.
I'm sick of stating my feelings and thoughts.

I shall learn to adopt silence.

This is Life

I should have been happy for completing my exams.

I should have been happy for finally "graduating" from school and be able to do the things I want.

Yet, life is so unpredictable.

I am foolish enough to hope that things will be looking bright and I can enjoy life as I wished.

I am stupid for having too high hopes.

Cos everything ends up to be just false hopes and misery.

You can't help it when you are the only one dreaming.