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Arrived at marina barrage after a whole confusion of which train to take and everything. Even though during our picnic planning convo we kept talking about bringing kites and bubbles and happy things,  nobody brought kites hahaha. We are still the freeloader class. We played ball and monkey but it got so sweaty after one and a half hour we decided to head down to play at the water fountain instead :) It was a kid's game so no one my age would go and play there. Every time me and my family go to marina barrage we end up at the water fountain so it's a lam thing. Also my brother josh came along and he was so enthusiastic about everything :)) After we played at the water fountain for a short while it started to rain. Thank God it started to rain when we were already drenched! Yeah we called cabs to Carissa's house
Every class outing (nowadays) somebody's camera roll will end up like this. Or your wallpaper will end up looking scary haha! Chef jun hong barbecued all the good food. Every time we come to Carissa's house, it's always yummy food and fun time. After dinner we just sat around, played billiard and laughed. 

I look sun burnt!!! And I think I was, today I was a shade darker :(( All the happy faces and keefe claims he cannot smile properly. 
I can't really remember any thing else but I had a really good day of laughing and yummy food. The only thing that could've made the day better is when my dad came to fetch me since my brother was with me. Yay no need to wait for bus and wait for the app to load and everything yay!!! Yep thank you guys for being so nice, taking care of my bro and everything. And mrs lim!! I dont know why I'm suddenly thanking people on my blog but I'm really glad and grateful!! And carissa for being so nice and generous!!! ♥

Spent Monday and tuesday with my dear cousin. Nowadays ever since she moved, I've been spending so little time with her. Last time when we went out together it would be so boring because we both would be using our phones so much and also we were sick of each other. Nowadays when I see her, I dont know it's a different feeling and now I kind of miss the times we spent together. We had ramen with another one of my cousins at star vista. The ramen was... The first bite would be like omg this is sooooo good!!!! Then halfway through the bowl you start to get sick of the rich taste and then you realise they must have put so much unhealthy pork and everything in the soup to make it taste so gooey. Or maybe we thought the ramen was good at first because we were hungry. Yep. Tomorrow i'll be doing cip with soppy and gracey at willing hearts!! Can't wait to see them!! They had an outing at kidsamaze on 12-12-12 too but I couldn't go cause I agreed to go for my P6 reunion earlier and carissa would smack me. Yeahh but you know in life, you dont always get what you want 

It was a 4 hour flight. We arrived at Taipei!

Hotel room at Xi men ding! I hardly have any other photos of our really nice and cozy hotel :( 



Went for dinner at one of the Jap restaurants near our hotel. 



All good impressions of me are gone. Haha we were all trying to follow my sis

This is literally the best chawanmushi (im not sure how to spell it) I've ever tried. I used to think the one in sushi tei was the best but this one was sooooooo good. After our very full dinner, everything we ordered was just really good but there was too much of it, we went shopping! We shopped near our hotel. Shopping there was a lot like shopping in bugis street, just a little more expensive and like they're a lot of repeated things. We still managed to get some stuff though!

This is the next day already! We went to xiao ren guo which means little people world. It was very boring though the main part of it was the little structures of famous buildings around the world but it was very boring. There was a theme park too but it was very meh and was too crowded. Spent the whole afternoon there then returned to hotel and ate cup noodles for dinner.

We took the mrt from xi men ding to.. i dont really remember but our main destination was Shi lin night market! You know the one we eat chicken from???
The same as the cards we use here when we forget our ez link card, just more cute and smarter. Here we have to deposit the card which is really troublesome but at taiwan all you have to do is put the coin into the machine!

Shi lin night market was okayish... Not so nice passable still kinda expensive. Taiwanese have this thing where they price everything at 199 or 299 or 399. They never ever round off.

Day 3!! This is where we have breakfast every morning at the hotel. I love the first hotel its so cozy and there's not too many people. The breakfast feels so home cooked and its really yummy. We drank the hot soy milk every day :))

We went to this place called baby boss HERE. I cant describe it you have to go to the link. I havent had so much fun as a kid for the longest time. People say they like childish things like meh pink baby soft toys but i really like childish things! Like baby theme parks and baby arts and craft and fun stuff like that! Im really very kiddy at heart. Its super embarrassing to admit but it was so much fun and this probably beat all the shopping and milk tea i guess. One day as a kid OH MAN. The age limit was 15 so I could still go in but like the average age there was 8. Even my second bro didnt wanna play cause he thought it was too lame but it was really fun. I even kept the little cards they gave us every time we completed a job :')

Okay this was the morning before we went into baby boss. 

Had omu rice for the first time!! Then I was still fresh from watching Rooftop prince.

Yummy ice cream! After baby boss it was really pretty late but i cannot remember if me and my mum went shopping again or we went home...

Day4! Half the holiday was already over :(( We took a bullet train to this place called Tai chung!

Went to this restaurant for lunch :)

It was called carton king and almost everything there was made from paper. That is their logo!

lights made out of paper. ceiling decoration made out of cartons.

Window planes too!

Their decoration was really pretty even the eiffel tower was cut from paper.

Life sized.

People can come and stick their wishes here.

Paper owl!

I am proud to say.. Carton king is not one of those places where only the decoration is really nice, so is the food. It was soooooo good. I dont know what to say about it even the appetizer and the dessert was really good. It was so nice... Really one of the best meals ever and again every thing from paper.

Drinks!

Not bad I get to see pisa in Taiwan!

Really pretty lotus pond

Really huge eiffel tower. There were a lot more other paper cut outs but I didnt take pictures of all of them

I read one of the wishes and it was really touching. I think the front was written by the husband and the back by the wife. 

Ahhh this place was so pretty like the ambiance of everything was really nice and the food was really good and it wasnt so crowded. After our lunch we just lazed around then at night we went to Feng jia night market! This was the best night market! If you're looking for clothes this one is the best one! Like almost everything $10 and things made in Taiwan are most of the time made of good quality. Especially the shoes a lot of the shoes I bought from taiwan they're very comfortable! 

Best milk tea from the whole trip. Some one told me they have it here in singapore too but im not sure where. So yummy and only $2!!

Day 5!! Took a cab from Taichung to Qing jing! Which is really beautiful! It was on the mountains!! 
This was our house!

Such a pretty place!!!

Went down the stairs on her own!

Still really awed by the prettiness of the place. 

Found some daises at the balcony haha :p

She stole it.

It just looks like your wallpaper on your desktop right

We have starbucks on the mountains.

My phone ran out of battery soon after this picture but there were so many other pretty sights. I saw a peach tree for the first time in my life!!! It was really sad we couldnt stay on the mountains for too long we had to go down the next morning :( We planned to play with the sheep!! But our hotel person she was really nice and very good service like she's really professional and she really goes the extra mile to help. It's not everyday you meet people like her. For dinner we had steamboat. It was really good again. 4 different steamboat soups kimchi cheese and some other things. I dont even know why at that time I complained about too much food.

Yup we went back to Taichung the very next day and it was another cozy hotel.

Sushi for dinner!

We spent the whole day using our phones/watching Tv, cause we couldnt do anything else because of the typhoon. I should have taken a video of the clouds. They were moving so fast. And oh, this is from this girl's tumblr blueprintsofhermagic.tumblr.com She's a very talented writer I love reading what she writes. Her tumblr has a lot of pictures too but I usually skip all of them. Her passion for dance and literature is amazing