Friday, November 14, 2008

Welcome 2 Taiwan!

Hello let's blog!

I've been wanting to go Taipei for the longest time. Didn't get to do much during the 1 day stay but the experience was great nevertheless :)

This is what they call their private parking.

The hotel was really nice but the view not so ><
Retarded pic on a cab.

Seriously, Starbucks is everywhere.

Don't the streets remind you of Geylang?


The shops here are more like the Bugis Street kind.

My outfit of the day haha! One of my greatest fear is to appear suagu among the locals cos i have no knowledge of autumn/winter fashion or whatsoever.

This is the famous shihlin market, if you can read the sign...



Huge monstrous sausages!





Dinner for the day. Pork and mee sua. Was not great at all but oh well. I got treated nice beef noodles by my chief but forgot to take pictures.


Authentic Taiwan sausage.

Ah ma making oyster egg.


Smelly tofu!

Let's just say i'm pretty amazed by how big the chicken cutlet is. I'm still waiting for my buddy to send me the evidence in print which clearly shows it's bigger than my (already very big) face.

So crispy! Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmsssssssss.......

The joy of milk tea...


Ok that's all thankyoubye.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Nagoya 7th-8th Nov

Yes, as the saying goes, i get to "travel around the world". But with 3 turns and 2 night stops in a month, you'll wonder if i really get to see it. But nevermind, i'm still happy :)

First month flying and i get 2 chennai turns already. But nevermind, it's good cos then i'll be familiar with my work. Ha see! I'm so positive, everything also nevermind! :D

Now my blog finally has some pictures. >< In a convenience store. Their stuff is amazing, made me feel like buying out the whole shop. Look at all the little snacks nicely laid out in shelves. The most interesting thing in our 7-ll is the mash potato machine.

ALL bottled energy drinks. What you saw on your manga/anime was true! They do down these things like water! Maybe our version of red bull. Gee i should have bought one to try.

I should have taken more pictures of the store cos i loved it so much but i didn't wanna risk looking like a sua gu (which in fact i am so i shall not expose myself).

Dinner was katsu curry. As we stepped in to order a takeaway, they sat us down and offered us drinks for no charge. In singapore you better stand outside and wait.

The curry making boy was shy.

Streets at night.


I see lots of men in business suits. Even the bus drivers are in a suit.


I think this was Daiso.

Jill Stuart beauty counter.

Streets.


My SNY buddy and me!
Lunch was good ramen.
Sitting by the window after the flight. SO TIRED.

View from my 9th floor hotel room.




"Nagoya ichiban biru"! Yay i could read something.

Ok all ready to go home.

Tidbits i brought back. All very cheap. Those from Daiso only like SGD1.50 hoho. I will never buy tidbits locally again.

My only big buy. Liquid foundation freaking cost me about $60 for such a small bottle. But like i said i'm a sucker so yeah.

So i didn't really bring home a huge bucket of loot. That's just because i'm poor. And my room is just too messy to contain anymore of my collection of pretty but worthless objects.

As we are all complaining of the pathetic chances of getting a japan flight (i know i'm quite an exception), i came to understand why after this flight. The language barrier can get very frustrating as many Japanese, especially the elderly (which you know makes up a big portion of the population), only can speak nihon-go. When they speak nihon-go to me, i say eigoo? back and they look at me blankly. LUCKILY i learnt a bit of jap previously, so i understood at least the name of drinks like kohi, oocha or biru! Yay!

And i learnt to say onomimono wa, ikagadesu ka?