I am so slow with my blogposts, it's infuriating. I am so thankful for all you people who are still checking back to my blog even though I don't regulate often! It's like checking for your period, you're nervous when it doesn't come but then you're happy when it finally arrives but then you're sad again because it's your period. I know, Natalie Tran owned my mind.

This is about my Taiwan trip I embarked on during December of 2012!

Check out Day 1 here!


Me, blurry, at 7am in the morning. The weather was quite cooling, 13 degrees Celsius so I had my adorable Gap pullover that was really in trend 3 years or so, in fact it fit me better now, with a T-shirt length.

My hair hasn't dried yet though, it was still damp.


Another one lol, see my face confirm wake up already. LOL ok just kidding, I meant it in a bad way anyway.

The thing about this holiday was that I was in a rush for these two days because there was a bus to bring us to the amusement park and I had to rush and rush and so these were the only photos I took in the morning.


One act very wise. Last self-absorbed photo, don't close my blog yet!


One in the hotel lobby. I lied that it was the last self-absorbed photo, this is the last one. REALLY. I didn't even bother editing anything so you can see my bloated face after all the food yesterday and sleeping right after because I was so damn tired.


Mom and bro enjoying the cold Taichong wind.

Anyway we went to Leofu Amusement Park and it's like on a freaking mountain, which I don't understand. Why can't it just be near a city? It's very ulu and it took 2 hours on a tourist bus to reach there, but the weather there is colder because of the altitude so it was so cooling and cold, better than the hot Singapore here.
Just typing this makes me miss the weather la!


Oh it's Leofoo Village, not Leofu.


Some game stalls and the upcoming water park that is still closed. I also assume it's closed during winters because how the hell are you going to strip naked and play in cold waters in 7 degree winds?
Unless you have like seventeen layer of fat insulators.


Really cheap gloves. You can even see all the fur coming out. NEW HASHTAG, #gotd gloves of the day. Only applicable in wintering countries.


FRIED CHICKEN. KHLSDHGBJKSHBGSDHG. Ok, I really like their fried chicken because it's a whole piece and it's really cheap I think 45 yen which is SGD $1.90 and it's a big piece of chicken! It has bones and stuff though, so if you're a kid then I don't really recommend you eat it with your milk teeth. Ask your mommy to tear out the breast parts!


These three waterfalls are where I look at to see the wind direction. LOL I'm a geography student so I'm interested in how the wind keeps changing. #nerdmode


The entrance to their 'America' section of the park. Everything is so westernized and old and looks very cheap. LOL.


If you've been to Legoland, there's this dinosaur ride there. This is similar, except 3x scarier because it brings you on the fall twice and the falls here are almost directly vertical so the adrenaline rush is fucking amazing. The thing about Taichong children is that they are SO brave, they sit on the ride ALONE and they're like 5, or 6. And they don't scream when they drop, they laugh.

Bro says it's because they're still too young to feel anything but I mean confirm they'll feel it right? Fucking brave, much braver than me confirm.


In case you don't know what this is, IT'S A DRAMA SERIES FILMING!!! I was like who the fuck films here, but it's quite pretty and I was like running over to see who were the actresses and stuff. The female lead was cute but the male was downright ew, I mean to me la.

I almost ran in and wanted to tell the camera, 'HI I'M FROM SINGAPORE AND READ MY BLOG FATSOULS.BLOGSPOT.COM AND I ALSO ACT SO GET ME ON YOUR SHOW' but of course, I must control myself.


THIS RIDE. is damn fun. IS DAMN FUN. Like it spins you 360 degrees in the air and it looks pretty scary, like those that you would vomit right after but it's fun if you're the average teenager! But my mum took the ride too and she was laughing so I guess if you have cool mums who love adrenaline rushes then this ride is good for you!

Again, the children are damnnnnn crazy. I wouldn't say they are brave for taking this ride, but they were all exclaiming in Chinese to their friends like, "我坐了七次了，再来再来" which means... "OMG I TOOK THE RIDE 7 TIMES LETS TAKE AGAIN OMG WE'RE FUCKING CRAZY"

Ok maybe they didn't exclaim they were crazy but seriously, 7 times.... These kids have too much energy.

There was another ride which I never took a picture of, but basically it was just barrels that rotate you round and round until you get dizzy. Of course, only the strong-hearted take it. Nah just kidding, it wasn't that bad, it's quite fun actually!

But I guess people can't hold onto their belongings. There was this girl who was riding it and her bag flew off and it was so damn freaking funny and we were laughing and she didn't even notice her bag dropped. Let's take a moment to imagine that.


Basically had fries there because most of the food didn't really appeal to me. Anyway, our family being our family, we didn't really ride any more rides because the others looked so kiddy or they looked too tiring so we just went to the area outside the Leofoo Park for the free wifi. kiasupeople.jpeg

I think the idea of wifi bracelets are really amazing. Just wear the bracelet and you'll have wifi wherever you go and you don't need to buy 3G cards and whatnot.



PONYYYYY. So adorable. This was at their animal section and the animals were damn cute. But there were some ponies attached to chains and they were just standing there waiting for people to ride them.
My heart broke... They looked so sad and tired and I said in English that they looked so sad but of course the trainers wouldn't understand English because it was in Taiwan.

Let me use this opportunity to say, DO NOT LET PONIES BE RIDDEN ON. They are too small and should only be used as petting animals. It pains me to see them so small and fragile and it's really heartbreaking. SAY NO TO PONY RIDING. RIDE A HORSE INSTEAD.


We were scheduled to go to Taipei 101 but it's so boring looking at the tower I can't even be bothered to go up the tower. Anyway, we had Thai food and the food pretty much sucked so I saw McDees and of course, being the fast food lover (fml) I went to snag McDees!

Now I love Singapore's Mcdonalds. Double mcspicy? Amazing. Taiwan's version of it is a spicy fried burger and it tastes like Zinger, which I hate and the patty is full of flour and it's mortally annoying. Their fries are pretty soggy, it does have a Mcdonalds feel to it though, but it's nowhere comparable to Singapore's.

That's pretty much the end of Day 2!


OK BYE


Hi guys!

As we know, 2013 is tomorrow and it's going to be super scary, a new year with unknown possibilities. But 2012 has been nice and not so nice to me so let's wrap it up nevertheless with a smile.

All I know is that I've been very lucky this year to be able to do some of the things I have and instead of whining and grumping all the time, why don't you just think of the good things that happened this year?

Be grateful and end 2012 perfectly and start 2013 perfectly.

BYE




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 
HELLO GUIZE, sorry for not updating in like the longest time. I'm still thankful for the 400 views racked up while I officially took a break from my blog. Love love love.

Anyway, today's post will be about 2012, and I'm writing and publishing this one day before the appointed doomsday. Tomorrow will be 21/12/12 and what exactly will happen?

Basically if you were living under a shell and you are completely oblivious of anything then this mini explanation in RED would give you a thumbs up of what's happening.

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Back in 2009, the film '2012' was released and it's basically about the Mayan Calender, which ends it's long count in 2012. People think that the Mayan calender officially ends on 21/12/12 BUT it's actually just the end of a long count period, not the whole calender. Thus, people say that it's the end of time and the Mayans predicted this day to be the end of humanity. There are many other stories about 21/12/12 but I'll only focus on two of them(excluding the Mayan long count), which is the photonic belt and the Nostradamus predictions. 

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I'll start with the whole idea of 2012. Ok, this is my taking of the whole thing. Disagree or agree, it's up to you.

I personally don't think the world is ending tomorrow. 

Our planet has been doing fine for billions of years, why would it suddenly end tomorrow? The world looks fine. Look outside your window if you're reading this before 21/12/12. There's no trees falling, the ground doesn't look cracked, the sky looks amazing and obviously you don't feel like the world is going to end.

Nostradamus, who has made amazing predictions that came true. He predicted 9/11, Princess Diana's death, John F. Kennedy assassinations, the French revolution and many other horrific events(including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, something closer to our hearts) that happened.

So in 1555, he predicted, "From the calm morning, the end will come, when of the dancing horse, the number of circles will be nine".

In case the term 'dancing horse' doesn't strike anything to you, then it's the meaning of Psy's Gangnam Style, where the dance resembles a horse. And the Gangnam Style video is reaching 1 billion views. There are 9 zero's in 1 billion, and they are all represented as circles. So, 9 circles. The calm morning refers to Korea's peace and calmness.

Here's the widely spread video in case you want more information. (the original 1mil vid got flagged lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvDpdIy6hfA

So what I say about this? It's funny but it's scary because his predictions have come true. But then, this prediction may not even have a link to this, because to me the number 0 doesn't represent a circle. It's an oval to me eh lolol.

I was chatting about this whole thing with my drama peeps and they were all so creeped out seriously! Everyone was talking about how the world would end, wlao we like not scared die like that. Saying that the Sun will explode and stuff and that there'll be aliens and whatnot.

So for Nostradamus predictions, I say that maybe this will be one prediction that will be false maybe. Maybe. If you're reading this like long after the world ended and a new civilization began then you can leave a mention at my twitter @fatsouls proving me wrong. Not that I can read it lolol.

Another funny thing everyone keeps talking about is how the Earth will enter a photonic belt and there'll be total darkness for 3 days. That's kinda sad, because I'm leaving for Taiwan tomorrow... can't imagine how sad it'll be. Go for vacation, then blackout.

I think this is more scientifically stupid than Nostradamus's prediction. If there is a photonic belt, NASA will probably be screaming and the whole world can see the belt in the sky already. But there is no weird goggly hole of darkness waiting for us, as NASA confirms.

I believe in God, because I'm Christian and I think that if the world ends, it's at His command and not some random predictions. Amen.

IF THE WORLD DOESN'T END(quite positive, but who knows) THEN I'LL BLOG ABOUT MY TAIWAN TRIP.

PS : People think that like I have nothing to blog about, and when I go somewhere, that's the only place I go. NOT TRUE. I specially filter only the interesting and best trips for your reading experience. Sound so professional sia!

Sorry for this short post though!

K BYE





Singapore's weather is so hot when it's not raining!! It's been some time since I updated this blog, but someone told me to blog constantly and I'm not doing anything now before my evening plans so why not?

Anyway, today's post is about how sometimes Singaporeans can be so INCONSIDERATE.

I was on the MRT(which is the public train service) and it was 6 and I had to travel past City Hall, which is the station everyone dreads because it's always crowded and it was rush hour so of course, there was alot of people at the station waiting. And I was queuing up to enter the train too, and it was so crowded.

So I had to skip around 4 trains because they were all too full to enter before I could get on one.

I think on the third train I missed, there was this aunty with her young daughter and she was waiting like everybody else. Nothing wrong right?

When the train came, she suddenly yanked her daughter's hand and rushed for it. And everyone of course stared at her in annoyance. One Indian lady in the queue gave her this look.


Yes, I know that's Tyra Banks.

And it wasn't so exaggerated but you get the idea right?

And she told the aunty this :

"You must get in line for the train like everyone else. You can't just cut the queue."

And of course, it was quite embarrassing for her, everyone looking at her and stuff and giving her the 'so rude' look.

And I'm sure any other person would just be like apologizing and getting back into queue or going to another train door to hide from stares but no.

This aunty just waved her hands nonchalantly and told the Indian lady, "TSK."

I was like, what-the-flying-fuck-so-rude, and the thing is her daughter was there and she was looking at all this happening in such an innocent way.

Ok aunty, first you just cut everyone's queue and secondly, you actually tsked the lady in such a rude way. And it wasn't the normal tsk tsk tsk, it was those over the top TSK that sounded like she was scolding someone for starting the Gulf War.

I was thinking about how her daughter must have been brought up. What if she, in the future, thinks it's okay to cut everyone's queues? What if she next time would be equally as rude to nice strangers?

Then you might ask me this :


Well if you had been there, you'd understand.

It makes me ashamed to say that like Singaporeans are so inconsiderate sometimes, not all, some. Cutting queues, don't let poor old makciks sit down, fart in trains, don't spray deodorant when using public transport, ok maybe the last two is not really that inconsiderate but you get the general idea.

Like the government or the MRT CEO (I don't know which one) spent so much money on stuff like caring for each other ads and the Dim Sum Dollies(DSD). I mean look at the DSD makeup, even more than wayang than wayang actresses. Confirm damn ex right, use so much product (even if you're using cheap China goods it's still alot.)

And Singaporeans still don't care.

WHY LIKE THAT? Couldn't find a meme for it so I have to write it in words.

Anyway bottom line is, don't be so inconsiderate.

PS : And to those people who argue, maybe that aunty is in a rush? Well, if she was in a rush, she can take a taxi right?! And then to those gekseh people who continue arguing that maybe she's too poor for it, then she can leave earlier right? Being in a rush doesn't give you a certificate to cut queues.

OK BYE



Hey guize, before you click off this blog and think this is some boring BBQ experience that you will never be able to relate to and won't find it interesting, it's not all about that and there's camwhore shots so, don't click off. I worked hard for this post!

And I'm so sorry for being so tardy. This is like the apology I write at the start of every post lolol. And before I start the post... a shameless advertisement for myself.

CLICK ON MY NUFFNANG READERS, it's the little ad box at the side of my blog and it's practically killing two birds with one stone. You get to know about more products, I get to be happy! Remember, click on every blog's nuffnang(especially mine) to make their bloggers happy. It's like those stupid pet games where you feed the pet and it gets happy. Click on the nuffnang, and we'll be happy. :>

And if you don't click on it, what is wrong with you? Why can't you make others happy?

On to the post,

I was at the (hopefully) annual class BBQ of my class and it was so fun and hilarious.

But it's really sad eh, on that day before we wanted to start the BBQ, it was raining and like the whole floor was flooded with leaves and sticks and stuff and we had to wait a little longer until we could start the fire.

I was like praying it wouldn't rain and then the rain also made us feel super pekcek, rain then stop, rain then stop. Like hello, make up your mind!

Anyway, these were the drinks for the BBQ, it was super nice and amazing!

STARBUCKS EH. Atas right?

No la, we actually had bottled soft drinks bought from a value shop. Hais, but maybe one day everyone will be drinking Starbucks at a BBQ. If some rich person sponsor la!

Anyway, we could finally start the fire at around 5-ish and I was so thankful the rain stopped. There were three BBQ pits though, and we booked two and COINCIDENTALLY, since it was a public holiday, another group of people booked the other BBQ pit and we had to share the little space we had. Grrr.

The food was delivered though, I mean some, like the fried rice and beehoon and the marinated chicken wings and all that. I'm not putting down their website because they didn't give us the free ice box... No la, not so xiaoqi. It's because I also forgot the website. Oops.

ANYWAY, I didn't cook the food even though I wanted to stand near and act as if I'm a master BBQ chef but unfortunately, I was the only one wearing jeans because I thought I would stand out. I did, but it was also freaking hot in jeans. Never wearing them to a BBQ ever again.

Also, like people were saying that my contact lens will melt, and they seemed very concerned eh, but I also not sure whether they're genuinely concerned or they don't want me hog the BBQ space.

So, I just went around and took pictures while there was still daylight! Better, can use for blogs and no need intrude space.

Taken with an iPhone 4. Me with the DSLR strap slinging over and how ironic you may think, to take pictures with an iPhone when I got a DSLR in my hands.

Solo shot with the DSLR, with Jay at the back giving a 'wtf is he doing again' look.


New hashtag : #sotd

SHOES OF THE DAY. LOLOL.

I really liked the pic, but it had to turn out blurry. Thanks alot.

Not going to enlarge the picture, because all my fats are sticking out and if I photoshop them away, people are going to say I can't live up to reality and stuff.
Anyway, I didn't want to do this but Z was like, eh faster la! So here goes... extremely gayish #ootd

And the condo had a playground and Z went on this swing thing. Picture's blur again! I don't know why, it's not because I'm a lousy photographer ok really.

Didn't put my shot because I looked crazy and looked like I'm going to kill 17 pigs.

And when we went back, Mr Tan(co-form teacher and who everybody says is super hot even though I cannot fanthom why, maybe because I'm a boy.) and his girlfriend wanted to go get food but there was no food so they said (actually I said la) that they were gonna go patuo around the area. LOL.

But eventually, the grill started and the first things that were cooked were hot dogs and chicken wings. Even though I didn't have any, it's yummy! Even though half the chicken wings were half-cooked in certain areas.

DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM 15 YEAR OLDS BARBECUING STUFF ON THEIR OWN.


The fried rice, which is my favorite (only thing I ate aside from otah) at the BBQ. I took like a second serving and people started giving me the 'so fat already still eat'. Go away.

You might be thinking, what a beautiful slice of cake.
One of the classmate's birthday was coming real quick so the planning com(I was unaware, I swear.) prepared a cute slice of cake for her.

The flame on the candle was really annoying please, keep going off again and again. We had to relight it like 50000 times.

BIRTHDAY GIRL AND HER CAKE. LOL, when we first came out with the cake, she had this blur look and then I think people were wondering whose cake it was.

Proud netballer, training 3 times a week, every week, every year(just kidding, not every week.) and eating a calorie-laden cake.


Evan, before blowing out her candle.

MORE CHICKEN WINGS ON THE GRILL.


Nicole, Debbie and Faberrr. Ok these photos weren't taken by me though. Oh well, they eating half-way then need take photo. Buey sian one meh!


AND THEY HAD MARSHMALLOWS. And I missed it, because I was running around taking other camwho pictures.


The view of the pool, where me, Z, Mab, and Siqi was hanging out at because idk, I don't like to be there when people are eating.

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Mabz and Siqi, by the pool. They look so beachy. LOLOLOL. Do you get it?


Camwho time! At the playground because everybody will get paranoid if the camera drops into the water. This picture is taken with flash, and look at our faces, so shiny.


Oh, and on a sidenote, congratulations to Z and Danial. I will be putting their Twitter down below at the end of this post, so you can congratulate them.


We found a really good source of light, and it's really strong sia. It's like those that are used at professional photoshoots, and it's really good and glaring, perfect for photos.

Don't know whose face at the back, photobomber!


Another shot!


And another one.


AND ONE WITH ANNUR. She popped up later to join us, and it's like finally I can has photo with her. heh. She's super nice!


And one with Mabz. Last camwho pic of this series! I think.


And Z bought her poloraid camera too, which is crazy because she bought 3 cameras, DSLR, Pen(digitalish) and the poloraid.


And of course, being our class, people just jumped into the pool fully-clothed. Hahaha, it was actually supposed to be people pushing others in but everyone too enthu already, just jump in.


LOL at this candid picture, where the three of them looked like they're casting some water spell. LOL at Faber in the middle. Like very 'I GOT THE POWER'.


And of course, I didn't bring any extra clothes except a shirt so I didn't jump in so willingly. Taking a picture with the model Shannon, always wearing sunglasses one this model!


With 1/4 of the people in the pool.


And since me and Z didn't bring clothes, we went leg pooling! Hahaha, so looserish.

But afterwards, we just jumped into the pool because YOLO.


Your planning committee for the BBQ! I hope the planning committee can stay the same, it's super fun. And yes, we all have geek glasses/sunglasses because we're cool like that. I'm the one in the middle, so short fml.


And on another unrelated note, I came home to this. HEAVEN. I don't care whether Lao Ban beancurd is smoother or whatever, this is still my favorite. Sweet, chunky and accessible everywhere.

Hope this post is long enough for you, and yes I lied when I said that the post would be interesting and I am sorry.

TWITTERS :
@fatsouls
@zettyizzati
@mabelixir
@munlite_
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I can't remember the rest.


OK BYE