Korea 19' Day 1: Arriving @ Seoul

It has been a week or two since I am back from Korea, And the post-withdrawal syndrome is so real. Thus, I have decided to stop procrastinating and start writing this travel post before I get all lazy and forget the details about this trip of mine.

Taiwan 2015 - Day 4

Hello. It has been a while since I last blogged about my Taiwan 2015 trip. The last post I wrote was on 21st July 2015!!! Can you believe it?!?! So anyways, after a long procrastination I finally decided sit down and edit my Taiwan 2015 Day 4 pictures. Pardon me if I missed out some details cuz after all, this trip happened almost a year ago...

Lets recap a little bit shall we??? On Day 3, we visited Cing Jing Farm in the morning and thereafter headed back to XiMenDing, Taipei to check into our 3rd Airbnb apartment. We left without wasting anymore time to ShiLin Night Market to shop and back to our apartment to give Audrey a birthday surprise. More info here -> Taiwan 2015 - Day 3


Got woken up to the shouting of Nic cuz we are experiencing earthquake at a magnitude of 6.1 if I remember correctly. Eventhough the apartment was shaking so vigorously, the boys, Audrey and Me were still pretty much knocked out. Hahahahaha!!!

So anyways, gotta thank Nic for waking us up. So after opening my eyes to my whole vision going left and right, I jumped out of the bed cuz EARTHQUAKE LEH!!! LATER I DIE HOW?!?!?!?! I haven't even text my parents that I'm up and awake for that day yet!!!! Okay, back to topic. So after I jump right out of my bed, I'm still hesitating if I should bath or not cuz 1) I might bath until halfway and the whole building collapse. 2) I don't wanna go out of the house not bathing.... So I was in a dilemma at that point of time. A few minutes later, the shaking stopped and the news was all around Twitter and Facebook.

Now that the earthquake has got all of us up, we wash up and prep ourselves for the new day.

Bloated Face X Audrey Behind Me

The itinerary for that day was to have brunch at Mr Jay's Cafe and to Xin Bei Tou in the late afternoon to sight see. Took the train to ZhongXiao FuXing and changed to Brown Line and take all the way to Liu Zhang Li station. We wanted to walk initially but because we all are so bad at directions, we ended up taking a cab. Estimated price NTD 200.

Mr. J French-Italian Restaurant (義法廚房北醫店) 

台北市吳興街250號 (台北醫學院學校內) 

Location: No. 250, Wuxing St, Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan 110

Contact: 886-2-2377-9090 

Website: http://www.mrj-tw.com/

The restaurant is located inside Taipei Medical University whereby you have to walk quite a bit into the school in order to find it. As we're walking in, we were all feeling feeling that we're students from there. HAHAHAHA!!!

Upon reaching the restaurant, we were told that we need to make bookings for the restaurant and we didn't!!! So therefore we left our name there and went to somewhere else to "lepak" first.

We were quite famished so we stopped at Mos Burger to grab a bite.


A while later, the restaurant staff called and we head back to Mr Jay's for our late lunch. When we walked into the restaurant, we were greeted by posters of Jay Chou and with the movie 不能说的秘密 (Secret)'s posters and decorations. I think if Jay Chou's fans were to be here they'll go haywire lor!!!!










Here are all the food that we ordered. I can't really recall how much we spend there in total, I only know that I spent NTD 623. Which was around SGD $26++??? I think it's quite okay la, considering the fact that you get the main, Soup of the day, salad, drink and dessert. Compared to SG I think it's really worth it la, somemore its from a Taiwan celebrity's restaurant leh! What's there to "hiam"?!?!









After our late lunch at Mr Jay's Restaurant. We took the MTR and headed to Xin Bei Tou at Tam Shui Line. Initial plan was to go there, buy a ferry ticket and go 漁人碼頭 take a stroll, and head back to ShiLin Night Market to continue with our shopping and eating from the previous day. But I guess ladyluck wasn't with us on that day. When we got to the place where they sell the ferry tickets, the place was closed JUST FOR THAT DAY!!! HOW SUAY?!?!?! And soon after, it started pouring, and the wind was so big it broke Nicole's umbrella. LOLOLOL!!!





The rain was so bad that we just have to make do with what we have. So we just walked around that area. There happen to have some stalls that are still open so we decided to check it out.

Saw this while shopping. LOL!!!

We had dinner around that area also cuz we had to find shelter to hide from the rain. We had dinner at some makeshift ramen place, and it actually taste quite okay for that price. The ramen costs NTD 110 btw. So its around SGD $4.60++?!?! And its included with drinks yea!!!!




I didn't take out my camera for the rest of the day cuz I'm afraid that the rain might damage it. After our dinner we took the MTR back to XiMenDing and did a little more shopping there. That's about it for day 4. Quite short hor?!?! I think we spent most of time travelling thats why. I shall end this post with a OOTD picture of Nic, Me and Audrey. #ParkasFTW

Taiwan 2015 - Day 1

Hi there. I know I've been procrastinating for the longest time for my Taiwan travelogue already and I'm truly sorry. Its just that I'm so busy with work nowadays that I don't even have the time to edit my photos. Even if I have the time I will just want to lay on my bed and just rot. Haha!

So anyways, I have finally decided to get my lazy ass up and edit the pictures for Day 1 of my trip. I guess I'm taking the first step already??? Haha!



This trip is suppose to be a grad trip with my poly year 3 group mates. Initially we planned to go Korea, but due to budget restrain, we decided to settle on Taiwan. Air ticket price was about $350 SGD for 8 Days 7 Nights return trip. It is quite worth it I guess???



I still remember how excited we all were. Considering the fact that I've already been there once back in 2013. LOL! I think partly is because of the company???



Here's my airport outfit. Just a Garfield pullover that I've been wearing for ages from F21, and my Momsie's pants. Comfort at its best!!! ♥

ALL EXCITED & READY TO FLY!!!

After about 4-5 hours of plane ride and "Chua Tai Di", we finally touch down at TaoYuan International Airport. As we arrived at Taiwan, I immediately turn on my portable pocket wifi that VisonData kindly loan me for this trip. While the rest of my friends all decided to get their own data sim at the airport. #PocketWifiFTW



After my friends have gotten their data sim card, we went down another level where there's a 7-11 and the place to buy the bus tickets to Taipei Main station. We were starving at that point of time and airplane food is just too expensive for poor kids like us. So yea. Convenience food ftw.




Before this trip, we were all asking all our friends who were at Taiwan a few days before about the weather cuz we are pretty unsure of the clothes to pack. For me its still alright cuz guy's clothing is pretty versatile. But for my girl friends, they were struggling. HAHAHAHA!!!

To my disappointment, I went outside to get a feel of the weather, and it was humid!!! IT WASN'T COLD AT ALL!!! I was so prepared for the cold wind! :(((

After the long 45mins - 1hr bus ride, we've finally reached Taipei Main Station, and took a train stop to XiMen station. Checked into out Minsu and hurriedly went for dinner at the Toilet Cafe.









What I like about Taiwan is that all their food is affordable yet comes in a really big portion. Like a bowl of hotpot at the modern toilet cafe only costs about 320 NTD which was about $14 SGD, and it comes with a drink and ice cream.



My friends are still craving for desserts despite already having a bowl of ice cream. So we all ended up ordering the choco shaved ice that costs only 100 NTD which was about $4 SGD? What's more its shared among 5 people, that means each of us only paid like 20 NTD = 80 Cents SGD??? Hahaha! #CheapThrills




After our dinner at the Modern Toilet Cafe, we took a walk down the streets of Xi Men Ding, bought Ru Rou Fan for supper as well as Papaya Milkshake. YUMSSSS!



After that, we went back to our MinSu to chill and that pretty sums up our first day in Taiwan.

By the way, the MinSu we stayed in was from Airbnb. The host is really nice and he kept in contact with us via Line Chat. He would advice us on places to visit and also give us tips on what transport to take etc. Here's the link to their profile. -> https://www.airbnb.com.sg/users/show/14340321

We booked a separate rooms for the 1st day because on the 2nd day my friends and I will be leaving Taipei for Taichung and only to be back at Taipei on the 3rd day, thus we would be wasting the 2nd day if we were to book the whole entire 8 days.

Even is really nice to assist us with our needs by helping us to reserve our MinSu when the Airbnb website crashed. LOL!

So for our first night we stayed at Angel House (https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/2990118?s=xwtR) Where we had to squeeze a little bit, but we're all fine with it since its just for a night. The place overall is quite cozy IMO...






Bathed, changed into our sleep wear, put our masks, pack our barang barangs for our Taichung trip the next day cuz we won't be back for the night. Took a group photo before going to sleep, and that sums up our day 1 in Taiwan.

Till the next post~