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12/9/2006 - My sister, Putt & I departed S’pore at 1pm & took Jetstar Asia. The journey was about 4.5 hours. The plane was small & noisy. We slept for the whole journey. It was raining when we reached there & we learnt that it’s typhoon season. The driver (we thought he was the tour guide) picked us up & kept quiet for the way…so boring! Time taken to reach our hotel at Ximenting was about 1 hour plus. After checking in, we roamed around Ximenting for dinner.

13/9/2006 - Raining - Free city tour, our tour guide, Ray Wang is Chen Han Wei look alike. Initially we dun like him as he seems ‘dao’. We visited Chaing Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Chonglie Tzu, National Mueseum, Chiufen, Nantou Hot Spring & Shilin Night Mkt. He also brought us to visit some local product stores (1st one sells deer planceta, bee royal jelly, lingzhi; 2nd sells traditional lucky charm, pi chew; 3rd sells famous pineapple pastry) Oh…we spent some money for Mua Chee, bee royal jelly, pastry, pi chew, ‘iron egg’, belts, clothes, hair accessories, pants. Oh ya, we saw some crowd that were opposing the Taiwan president, Chen Shuibian. So we decided not to wear red or green clothings. We also went to their 24hr bookstore to buy some chinese books.

14/9/06 - Sunny during the day & rained at night - Free & Easy trip. Schedule was planned by Putt. Before we started our journey, an old uncle asked Putt if she wanna take a rest with him…haha…weird guy. We went to some underground shopping mall (nothing much to see), Taipei 101, New York New York, Shinguan Sanyue, Wufeipu. My sis really had a shopping spree at Wufeipu. But we were already very very tired, our legs were aching.

15/9/06 - rained in the evening - Check out & took train to Taichung (too bad, we slept too late & woke up late too). Our original plan was to go to Nine tribe cultural village (themepark)then to Chingjing Farm to stay overnight. By the time we reached Taichung, it was already 3pm (train ride was 3hrs). The bus ride to the village was already 4.30pm but they had closed at 4pm. Poor us…we just stared at the entrance. The private taxi driver recommended us to go Sun Moon Lake. We paid NT400 for the taxi ride & NT1300 for the hotel room. It was a blessing in disguise, the enviornment at Sun Moon Lake is nice & calm. The hotel room was new & nice. We also bought a pair of the entrance tickets at discounted price at a 24hrs convenience store & book a taxi to the village next morning.

16/9/06 - drizzling - We reached the village at 8am (their opening hr) but we are too early. Their earliest performance was at 9am. We enjoyed it & left at 12.40pm to catch the 1pm bus to Taichung. We took the train at 3.52 & reached Taipei at 7.05pm. We checked in to same hotel at Ximenting & did some last minute shopping. Putt’s taiwanese friend invited us for KTV. We reached the Partyworld KTV at 12am (wow…they open till 8am leh). They have the latest songs, good sound system, environment, lighting & food. We stayed there till 4am.yawn…very sleepy liao.

17/9/06 - drizzling - oh no..we overslept & had to pay extra NT150 for 1hr late check out. Bought 1kg of braised duck tongues. Airport transfer picked us at 3.15 & our flight was 6.25pm. The JetStar flight was quite scary as there was some tubulence on the way…the plane kept shaking. Luckily we landed S’pore safely with the assurance from the captain’s constant updates.

• Nice food: friend chicken cutlet, Chuan Qi pearl milk, Ah Zhong Mian Xian, Fried Oyster (though it’s very starchy), pig skin, etc
• Cost: Air fare with 4 night stay (S$603) + I night stay at Sun Moon Lake (NT1300) + S$900 (for shopping, transport & food)
• General experience: Clean & recycle friendly environment, free toilet, easy to access, standard of living is quite high so things are not cheaper there. They have more than 100 tv channels too.

To view our photo album: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/spydida/album?.dir=/65b5scd&.src=ph&.tok=phJ9ahFBtYFPfZDJ

To view video of my sister playing the swing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE8UITJRLVw

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