taiwan trip ****day 1****

shilin night market

really.. i'm seriously getting phobic of travelling alone to the airport. almost always something happens! the last time i attempted going to the airport alone to go okinawa (some sudden school work came up so i had zhong ing went ahead of me), i rode the wrong bus and ended up at kansai airport when i should be at a totally different airport, missed my flight, hp battery went flat out, had only 2000yen in my wallet... not pretty.

this time i got in the right bus making sure i had hours to spare,  had a nice decent sleep in the bus.. and maybe a little bit too decent. i was still drowsy when i got off the bus that i didn't realize my laptop wasn't hanging on my shoulder like it should be.. until the bus took off.

damn..it was so frustrating.. i realize my laptop was missing the second the bus took off so i had to try very hard to suppress the urge to scream and run after the bus.
it's times like this that i really thank god that i'm in japan.
all i had to do was tell my situation to a nearby staff, and voila! my precious baby returned to me within the hour.

i turned on my heel, walked to the 4th floor, met up with jj and ps who had just arrived like nothing ever happened XD.

taiwan trip hasn't even started but i'd already used up all my adrenaline..

finally... ～*TAIWAN*～

destination: taipei

members: puisan(ps), jiajie (jj)、me (yes, i know what you're all thinking.. it's ok, it's ok) 

origin of this trip: one evening, me and ps were chatting like usual on msn...

"hey, my senpai say he bought taiwan to-and-back tickets for only 12000yen(rm400) le!!"

"walao! so cheap??? let's go!"

 and thus this taiwan trip was born

since this is like ps's 4th(?) time, we didnt have to waste time researching where to stay, where to eat, where to go, where not to got..etc all the tedious work we usually have to go through whenever we decide to go travelling 

it was already 8pm plus when we arrived at taiwan, stomach growling since the low-cost airline jetstar, as we expected, didn't provide us food.
 and we were worried that by the time we reach shilin night market area (where our hostel is), all the food stores would have closed already....

which proved to be unfounded worry when the locals told us the market opens till 2am on friday nights, and 1am on other days.
2am!!! can you imagine?? even seoul isn't that lively till 2am!

anyway we called kevin who's in charge of the place we stay, Fun Taipei Backpackers and met up with him. he wasted no time in showing us our room which is an apartment furnished for nearby university students to rent.

if kevin was surprised to see 2 girls and 1 guy sharing 1 same room, his face didnt betray him and he calmly passed us the key, had the courtesy to tell us where we can eat for breakfast, and left.

randomly bought food cause we were starving already. this tasted normal 

so did this....

hmm.. nope.. cant remember the name.

shao bing maybe? 

anyway, though i don't have a photo of it,  we got to eat the most delicious chou toufu i've ever had in my life and cheesy potato in shilin! 

 fyi, i didnt put the cup near the camera so that it'll look bigger like i do with other food photos... this drink is almost as huge as my head!

lookie what i bought for lulu =). 200yuan(RM20) and i bought around 3 different boxes? a decision i deeply regret when i found out other places sell two boxes for 150yuan *faints*

o well, at least other places didnt sell this kind of mixed all-in-one! my only comfort

we didn't have our watch with us and when we asked around for time, they told us it was 12++am

and we went "what??!! already??"... but continued to wander around a weee bit more before  finally heading back to rest

end of our long loonnggg day 1.

Cruise

dear bloggie,

i know you haven't had much visitors lately...
so sorry >.<
dont be angry ya sayang
mummy promise will try to make u prettier and update u more often ^^


Cruise

okay.. this story kinda take place sometime ago, 28 february, after our final exam finished.
i went on the kobe meriken cruise!

during the new year party with host family, we played bingo and the winner gets 2 free tickets to this cruise, worth 3500yen each!
we all went 'aaahh.. what a waste!!' when chitta won it ==
everyone was poking fun at him cause since his gf is in laos he can either go to the cruise alone twice, or give the tickets to us =P

anyway, he waited till the noon of the last day(the ticket had expiration date) when realization finally dawns on hi that he has no one to go with.
his hp was broken and for reasons i cant fathom, insist on only buying a new one the following month ==

guess who happened to be on facebook that time and got asked to go ^-^v

to sum it up, the trip was kinda funny. we were both like gazing at the harbourland, at the warm red light glowing from kobe tower, feeling the salty breeze in the air and ..

  "why the hell am i here with you"

XD

  i wouldnt recommend to take kobe cruises btw. not worth the money and not really interesting. the harbourland night view is nice but the moment the ship leaves the port, its just total darkness all the way till u reach the famous akashi bridge..

then the ship turns around and makes its way back to the port. the end. 

fyi, the darkness isnt exactly the romantic type? its just plain creepy and scary.

 this is my 2nd time btw. 1st time went with jun hao them all when they came kansai to play during the first summer here. we rode the cheaper ship that time though. and i thought maybe it would be slightly better if its the  expensive ship but.. it doesnt really differ much

the interior of the ship.
love this kind of two way stairs

next time i want to marry at a place with this kind of stairs XD!!

Snowboard 交流会 trip

jan 30 

okay.. i totally know i should be studying (exam coming up in 2 weeks!) and not writing this right now.. but i can't help it!! 

i just came back from a weekend snowboard trip! and still a bit titsy dizzy from the warm fuzzy feeling in me (*^-^*)

(me&ps)

my akashi college has this trip for us foreign students every year. usually it's only us and our tutors (japanese) but this year by chance it happened to be my college's turn to hold the kinki area foreign students 交流会. meaning 3 other college which are in kinki area (the name of the area i'm in) got to join us (minus the tutors) as well. 

(pui san, wei chean, sa lao, zhong ing)

so.. i get to meet pui san and jj again! less than one month since our last meeting when they both sneaked into my girls' dorm XD.

(zhong ing, ariff, wei chean, me!)

we were only allowed to snowboard for 2 hours on saturday =(. they split us into a few groups and had an instructor to teach us.  which wasn't as helpful as i thought it would be as the snowboard  instructor kept holding us back wanting us to group together before teaching us - which was annoying cause it meant we have to wait for 10 ppl before we do anything. it was really time-consuming and low efficiency (so forgive me.. i can't help it.. in mechanical study, we devote our life and strain our brain to ensure the efficiency is max at all time ).

a few of us dumped him and went off to play ourselves after i found out he didn't really have much to teach us..  

thought he would teach us some cool tricks... mana tahu all he planned for us is the 'S' curve ==.

(me, wei chean)

today (sunday) we got to play for 3 hours... so in total the hours we spend on snowboarding is less than the time we spent to get here and back from akashi. but i'm not complaining =).

and here's us in our lame wears!!

pui san got the exact wear i super love last year ^^. 

haha  kinda funny when i was handed the ugly wear and i rejected it saying i want the one i had last year and described it to the person in charge only to see pui san's name on it this year haha. they only had one of that type.

   

jj suffering from his wear XD

me trying to put a smile on him

for sat night we just had dinner followed by a short self-intro by everyone.  malaysians really are so humorous.. i only learn to appreciate their sense of humour after coming here. i used to thought everyone in the world are just as funny.

glad akashi didn't try attempt any lame activities to make us mix with everyone else.

the highlights of this trip?

jj slamming the table on sat nite,

got yummy yummy CNY peanut cookies from ps （＞ｗ＜＊）,

and finally

(me, otogo, dulguun, odkhuu,weichean ,ariff and photographer zhong ing)

the akashi no holds barred snowball fights which will linger in my memory for a while to come =). 1st real snowball fights in my life ^^. if only it snows in akashi haha... the guys will cry from us gals' attacks everyday i'm sure hehe.

i will miss these members a lot.

OK! enough.. gotta go back to reality. 

time to hit the books!