At the Airport

Hihihi guys... Just a little update on what has been going on since I left Singapore...

The four of us (me, Kaman, Felice and Jia Hui) went around nearly the whole of Taiwan in one day!!! .. Okay, maybe I was exaggerating a little bit, but we did visit many places since we stepped on Taiwan soil.. amazingly though..

Kudos to Felice (since she's a part-time tour guide) so we weren't exactly lost... And Thank God for that!!! From the moment we landed, we left our heavy items (the laptops and other things) at the hotel, and set out for a journey that would definitely be embedded in my memories :) P.S. I will be adding photos soon once I reach Seattle.. hopefully...

By the time we left our hotel, we headed for the the famous Shilin night market - loads of pictures coming soon I tell ya... We bought that extra large piece of deep-friend chicken fillet (yeah I know!!!~), half of a really long sausage (8 inches my guess), 2 fruit ices (WAY BETTER THAN SINGAPORE'S ICE KACHANG), chicken backsides on a stick (heh... my first taste of butt) and bubble tea (which I didn't really fancy since we get loads of it in Singapore)...

Btw, just side-tracking a wee bit here... Taiwan's a really fun place to shop about, but I still prefer Singapore anytime because we do take pride in clean streets and well-organized building structures... The mess here was a little, well.... like entering an open space garbage.. People just litter on the streets, because you see piles of drink containers here and there, half eaten chicken rotting away in the gutter... and then there's the really awful smell of Chou Toufu (I didn't try it though)... But you know what, I think that Taiwanese have a hipper sense of fun and style compared to Singaporean youngsters.. Maybe we need to learn from each other a little more eh?~

Okay.. so after the food we walked about the night market that sold tonnes of clothes, accessories... bla bla bla (basically a paradise for thrifty shoppers who love knick-knacks and up-to-date fashion). It was a little cramped, but you definitely felt the vibe of the shoppers.. Btw, almost everywhere you walk, you'd surely bump into someone carrying a tiny pet dog - there are shops churning out puppies like bubble-tea!! They just melt your heart because these dogs are the cutest things ever to be seen on planet Earth!!!! Unfortunately, while they may have stores selling many pets, it's sad to see many mongrels roaming about the streets. Just this morning I walked past a female dog with tumors and many bits of white flakes on its body.. a sad sight I say...

We didn't go back to our hotel to sleep because the trains would've stopped by then, so the four of us sat in a cafe that opened till 5am and we took a cab to the mountains - absolutely beautiful scenery, with a high possibility of catching bird flu because of the number of pigeons that flock about! But its great I tell ya.. Lovely windy weather in late Spring.. It's really different from Singapore..

Anyways, I'll be updating you with more stuff about Taiwan.. because I'll be embarking for Seattle soon!

Love, Meiyu :):):)