1st of all, taiwan's weather is all out to f us up. it gets bright like 5am in the morning, still quite warm and nice from 5~9, to becoming unbearably hot from 9~3, with the temperature reaching up to 38 degrees (?). Then it starts to get cloudy, and rains (or pours) for 2 hours. and then the cold night starts, luckily goretex was there to save me from the cold wind.

2ndly, someone must have placed an anti typhoon shield around taiwan. i mean, what are the chances of having 5 typhoons form up near taiwan, and non hitting it. but im grateful for the one and only typhoon warning we had.

lastly, the Taiwanese people are indeed friendly! haha.

And when the training ends, there was admin hell as expected, but life was certainly better, with hell lot of food ordered every night haha.

R&R day 1! : we went to 九族文化村 for its rides. sadly the UFO ride was closed and the most fun ride we had was the fast 360 degree rollar coaster. Justin dropped his wallet during the ride and emo-ed for like the rest of the time there, but luckily it was found when the rides were closed to search for lost items. there was alot of school kids there too... how i envy their schools, the students have long hair, color here and there, and gets to go to theme parks.

Then we went to the earthquake musuem. it was certainly as boring as u can expect it to be, but there again we see many school kids. makes me really wonder they study at all or not?? haha. The destroyed school was really nice to see, too bad i din have any cameras with me =/

for free and easy we went to xi men ting, its like their orchard road. alot of shops there, alot of people there. din manage to find anything i like there thou.

R&R day 2 : another theme park, this time it has less rides, but some interesting animals to show. the white tiger was sleeping when we visited it -.- the sheeps were ultra hungry as whenever people enter its area, they will crowded around (because the people will feed them with the 20nt food) haha the toucan was dam impressive to see in real life =)

九份! its the nicest place to go of all! haha its a town built entirely on the slope of a mountain. everywhere is stairs and the shops and like along the stairs. thats not the most weird part thou. we climbed all the way up to the top, only to realised its a freaking primary school on top! which saddist came up with the idea to build the school on top of a mountain to make the poor kids go up and down the stairs everyday man... haha the 芋圆 was nice, dam Q and together with the nice scenery the seats have, facing the seaside below us. oh and when we went there, there was a typhoon nearby, so the wind there was really dam strong. the stronger winds can easily make a person lose balance. bought quite alot of food there.

基隆 was the place we went for dinner. its the seaside that we saw when we were up at jiu fen. there was quite alot of seafood restaurants there... ok there nothing much there in fact. oh ya, the view of jiu fen in the night from ji long was great, its like alot of stars on the slope of the hill. haha

fne again, this time we went to the famous shilin night market. its like less night marketish than i expected because the food stalls really had shop houses, not like pasar malam type. the clothes there are quite nice and cheap (thou very lousy quality). spent alot of my money there X_X

day 3: went to wu fen pu at the wrong time. shops were closed and everything is so boring there. then we went to xin guang san yue, some departmental store famous in taiwan. haha its not really interesting other than the lift ladies there. then we went shopping in ximen ting again, well i guess its the nicest place to shop in the day afterall haha. many people as per usual. oh and taiwan trains also us ez link card, and their one way ticket is in the shape of a coin, that you have to scan to go in and drop into the gate to go out. interesting.

flew back to sg at 930, landed at 130am. dam shag le hahah