Hi! I'm trying to update more regularly before 2013 because then I'll have so many things to do and so many places to go.

Anyway, in case you don't follow my Twitter, I recently went to Taiwan for a short 5D4N holiday, sponsored by Magnum Machinery! Apparently, their website is not up yet but it will be soon!

This is a 5 day trip. Currently working on the other days, will link them here later.

Check out Dion's post on this! 

However, we had to sit on a budget airline.

Ok, to be fair, it was because it was booked really last minute and the fees came up to Singapore dollar $60K! Not cheap ok, don't think just because it's a budget airline, it's less than a $100. (not unless you book late)


This was from the plane we were sitting on. LOL, it was Tiger Airways. I know, stop giggling behind the computer.


Up in the sky. I don't find these shots very attractive anymore, because so many people flood them on my Instagram!

I would say if you are really really really saving up money for shopping and stuff and budget airlines are your LAST resort (like mine) then don't take any budget airlines. Go for Singapore Airlines or something.

IT REALLY IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE!! 

The seats are practically squashed together and mine was a 5 hour flight, which basically made me want to die. That was one of the reasons why there's no camwhore shots in the post so far, because I was so frazzled at waking up so early in the morning.


As I said, I woke up quite early but it was still considered late so I had to rush to the airport for my flight. I didn't have breakfast so airplane food was the way to go.

This is their Teriyaki with Rice, not cheap though, it was SGD$10 for one palate like that. I measured it and it's like around my palm size. And since I traveled with my brother(whose blog link I'll put up later once he does the trip) and my parents, we all ordered like what, $14 worth of food each.


And Mum was flipping through the Tiger Airways shop and she bought this BB cream, which was like $70? So the bill practically came over a $100. Mum said the BB cream was a good buy though. Like I would know anything hahaha.


You know those commercials for drinks where they pour the drink into the cup and it looks very fresh? We were attempting to do that. I know I know, you can contact me for future advertorials.



Mum's Nasi Lemak. It tastes horrible too.

When we landed, we had to take a bus from Taoyuan to Taipei to check in at our hotel and our hotel was so cute!


The lobby!
It felt like a little garden I was stepping into.


Hotel hallway!

I forgot to take pictures of the room the entire two days we stayed there because we were rushing out for dinner!

The weather there was good though, it felt like walking in an air-conditioned room.


We went to a nearby place for dinner.
Ice cream milk tea. Taiwan is famous for their milk teas! It's not bad I would say, definitely not as sweet as Singapore's GongCha and Koi, but confirm can compete with each other.



Their hot almond milk tea. 

The dinner is horrible so I won't post any pictures of it. Taiwanese really eat alot, and they always serve everything in sets. So it's just practically normal there's a bowl of rice, another bowl of vegetables, another bowl of fruits, a bowl of soup, and like the main dish. It's like a whole meal. 


Then we headed to Ximen, which is the home of Ximending. It's like a night market, but I won't compare it to Bugis Street because some of the things are going to about SGD50... It's for the youngsters so there were many (good-looking) youngsters.

The difference between Singapore and Taiwan is that the youngsters in Taiwan dress to the nines. They all wear until so nice, I feel abit paiseh to walk in Ximending! But if you're young and wild, then going to Ximending is a must and it's a night market and only closes at like 3am? 

Me taking a picture of a street food store that has a Taiwanese feel to it. 


Lady making tang yuan! But it's not tang yuan, it's feng yuan or something. It's cold and the different colors represent the different flavors. I like the strawberry one the best because it tastes the most... right? But very cute though, would definitely have this over the hot tang yuan!

It's quite cheap also! 


Bakery in Zhongshan. I stole this pic from my bro lol.

Ok the bread there is seriously a big difference from the ones in Singapore bakeries. They sprinkle the bread with flour and it tastes just as nice. It's not too oily and greasy and it's huge omg. The bread there can easily feed like 3 people for a snack?\


This is the garlic baguette I bought and it tastes amazing. Hands down, much more natural than the ones at BreadTalk. Also, the bread is so much more fluffier. 

I guess unless you're really kiasu and want to snap every picture of everything at Ximending while touring the area then you'd have alot of pictures to blog about. I was so busy looking at clothes, shoes, contact lenses and all that. It's really so much to walk and yeah, that's my excuse for not taking many pictures.

Did I mention?! The people there are super nice. I'm not sure if it's just because they're doing business or what, but they are super nice one. They do altering services for free if you buy their trousers and they tell you where to get the best deals around the area. See, not so selfish one. 


And it's a tradition to try Taiwan's bubbletea! This is like the franchise and the most well known brand for Taiwanese bubbletea. I tried green tea bubbletea and it tastes good! Not so sweet, definitely a fight!  

I would say that day 1 was pretty short because like practically 5 hours was spent on the plane. Day 2 would be posted soon! 


BYE