Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Taiwan - Lu Shan

After visiting Ri Yue Tan, we went to have dinner at Pu Li. Pu Li is a small town with little shops but there is a KFC there. Hee hee...

去過日月潭后,我們到埔裏吃晚餐。 埔裏是個小鎮,沒有什麽店可是有傢肯德基。

This restaurant had this super big canned sunkist drink. So cute right..

這菜館有這個超大的橙汁罐。很好笑咯。

My mum want to pose with this can too. Very pop lor this can of sunkist orange juice.

老媽子要跟橙汁罐拍照~ 橙汁罐很受歡迎咧~
Zhenyin looking intently at the menu trying to decide what to eat. The food weird weird de so we spent quite some time looking through the menu.

真吟很認真地看菜單。臺灣的合菜都是怪怪的咯。我們選了很久,阿翔還點了什麽怪怪的羊肉。

After dinner, we checked in at a resort in Pu Li named Xiang Gen. It is a wen quan resort and I think it's NT2000++ per night on a non-peak day and NT3350 on a peak day. Staying at this resort lets us pao the wen quan for free.

晚餐后,我們到埔裏湘根溫泉飯店。在這傢飯店住可以免費泡湯哦!

That night, I realised that my mum and my aunt DID NOT BRING SWIMSUIT.

那晚我發現老媽子跟姑姑都沒有帶泳裝!

-_-" I told me mum to bring lor but she did not.

我有叫老媽子帶咯,可是她沒有。

So how? Only me and Zhenyin got swimsuit. Zhenyin's one was bought like 10 or more years ago... and she didn't know if she still can fit into that swimsuit.

只有真吟有帶泳裝可是她的是十幾年前買的,恐怕是穿不下咯~

That ah boy also very what. He did not bring his swimming trunks. His reason being that he did not intend to pao wenquan. So what are the 3 of them going to do when me and zhenyin go pao wen quan leh? haiz...

臭阿翔也是沒有帶泳裝。他的理由是他根本沒打算要泡湯。那我跟真吟泡溫泉時他們要幹嗎?

I pester my mum and yx to buy swimsuit at the resort but the shop there was extorting money. The swimsuits there cost like NT800? super ex. I pinched yx until he blue black then I went for my wenquan.

我嘮叨老媽子跟臭翔去買泳裝可是飯店賣得太貴了。我很‘必切‘就把阿翔捏到黑青再去泡湯。

Unfortunately, I did not take any photos at the pool. From the pool, we can see the dark ounlines of the mountains. I told zhenyin that we can come back to pao tomorrow during the day so that we can see the mountains and take photos.

可惜我沒帶相機進去所以沒有拍到溫泉池晚上的樣子。我跟真吟說明天再來泡一次順便拍照。

Next morning, we had 2 choices. Either visit a Yuan zhu min park or go to lu shan. YX didn't know what to choose so I suggest that we vote.

第二天早上我們要選擇去九族文化村還是去盧山。阿翔不知道哪個比較所我建議投票。

ZhenYin voted Lushan cuz she want to see sceneries.
真吟選擇盧山因爲她要看風景。
Lao ma voted Lu shan becuz it's free.
老媽選擇盧山因爲是免費的。
Aunty voted Lushan cuz it's free too.
姑姑選擇盧山也因爲是免費的。

-_-" Both aunties think alike.
兩位安第想法一樣。

So we setted off to Lu Shan...~~~!
去盧山咯!

This is the famous Zhong Yang Shan Mai.
這是有名的中央山脈。阿翔臉上也有中央山脈喲!

The trip up to Lu Shan was beautiful. As ah boy slowly drive up the mountain, we saw beautiful mountains.. and a cute small waterfall.

Halfway up the mountain, we stopped to take photos and there was a small store selling gao li cai. I got the impulse to buy but then ah boy give me wet blanket. He said that no one will cook the gao li cai for me and it will rot in this hot weather. so sad... Then he still tell me that these vegetables grown in the mountains are very delicious.

我們開到一座橋時便停下來拍照。路邊有個攤位在賣高麗菜!可愛的高麗菜,我很想吃它。本來呢我是想要買的可是詠翔潑我冷水。他說沒有人會幫我煮菜而我的菜會因爲天氣太熱爛掉。傷心咯。他說這些高山菜很好吃的。

Took photo on the bridge. Below the bridge is a small stream.

在橋上拍照,橋下有小溪。小橋流水。

We took more photos there..

拍更多的照片。

Ah boy like to do stupid poses.

翔翔喜歡擺怪怪的姿勢。

THIS IS LUSHAN~~!! Can see lu shan zhen mian mu le.

這就是廬山真面目了!
The hanging bridge in LuShan. At Lu Shan we managed to buy cheaper swimsuits! YAY~ That means lao ma can have a dip in the wen quan and ah boy too~ I made him buy one too!!

廬山的吊橋。在廬山我們買到了便宜的泳衣了!太棒了不是嗎?老媽可以泡湯,翔翔也被我強迫地買一件。

Climbing up the mountain. We wanted to climb up to see the tombs of the yuan zhu min. Ah boy says that the yuan zhu min was buried in a unique way but unfortunately we were all half dead before we can reach the place. So we decided to give up. Ah boy say it's quite a long climb.. -_-" too tired and the weather too hot for climbing.

爬啊爬。我們要哦爬上山看一些特別的墳墓。阿翔說這些墳墓的葬法很特別可是我們爬到一半都累死了,所以我們放棄了。太遠了啦,然後又熱又累,還是去煮蛋吧。

Lao ma took photo with this yuan zhu min head. Ah boy told me he is some kind of a hero.. He is one of the 2 Yuan Zhu Min who beheaded a japanese during world war 2. Later on the japanese chased the yuan zhu min into a cave and gassed them to death.

老媽子要跟這個原住民的頭拍照。阿翔說這個原住民是個英雄哦!

erm.. dun you think this statue looks a bit like YX ma??? :P

可是你不覺得這個雕像很像翔嗎? 哈哈。。

We can cook eggs in the 100 degrees hot wen quan here! As you can see on the board, it takes 10 min to cook an egg.

這裡可以以100度的熱水煮蛋!板上說蛋在溫泉裏煮十分鐘就能吃了。

Our eggs!!!! 我們的蛋蛋!

I cooked han zi... han zi took 40 min to cook lor.. super long but we chit chat and eat some other stuff so the wait wasn't so boring.

我要煮番薯,煮了四十分鐘才熟!超久咯可是我們聊聊再吃多幾粒蛋就不覺得等了很久。詠翔還偷偷去泡腳。泡腳要付30塊可是翔就是好玩,偷偷去泡腳結果被抓到。還不是要給錢。。。

The wenquan pi dan got flowers on it~ Cute right?? so nice... and the pi dan dun have the funny smelly taste.

溫泉皮蛋有花咧~可愛呵。這個皮蛋沒有怪怪的味道哦。

Lao ma threw away the pi dan yolk, she said that it stinks but my aunt likes it alot.. and yx likes it too.. yx eats everything lor. he is a pig.

老媽把皮蛋黃丟掉,她說很臭可是詠翔和姑姑都喜歡這個皮蛋。唉,詠翔他什麽都吃的咯因爲他是豬!哈哈

After we finished eating everything, we went back to the hotel to pao wenquan!!!

吃飽后我們囘溫泉飯店泡泡咯。

Zhenyin, look at the pool. isn't it beautiful. So shiok to swim under the mountains, under such beautiful scenery.

很漂漂對嗎?在山下游泳的感覺真好~風景很美~

Lao ma enjoyed playing with the warm spring water. You must be thinking what's with that shower cap right? It was compulsory to use a shower cap in the wenquan area.

老媽子在享受溫泉暖暖的泉水。

Oh my god.. too much to blog le la.... I will write another entry about Pu Li later on.

太多要寫了,都寫不完啊!

Monday, June 04, 2007

Taiwan - Ri Yue Tan

Dear guys, from now on my blog has to include both english and CHINESE for the sake of yx.

從今天開始我的部落格要寫英語也要寫華語!阿翔要看我的blog所以以後都要這樣寫咯。

In my previous post, I said that we were going past some mountains to Nantou right.. We were going to Ri Yue Tan and I fell asleep on the way there. The road there was too long le la... Zzzz...

我上次寫到我們要去日月潭,結果我在去日月潭的路上睡着了。很遠咯。

When I woke up, we already reached the carpark of Ri Yue Tan.. I got off the car and crossed the road. The first thing we saw was this...

當我醒來時我們已經到日月潭了咯。我到那裏看到的第一個東西......

Mini pig! 迷你豬!

Beautiful Ri Yue Tan! 美美的日月潭!

This was the second time lao ma visited Ri Yue Tan. She said that it looked different from 15 years ago.

這是老媽子第二次去日月潭,她說現在的日月潭跟十五年前不一樣。

Ugly YX.... stupid face. 丑丑的詠翔。

What the hell is this big big thing? Some kind of seed?

這是什麽啊?種子嗎?
One of the shops had a puppet at their store front. Nice right? The costume quite delicately done.

在一閒店外看見這個木偶.做得很美呵?大霹靂!

Four of us posing with a stong lor. Nice stone.. pretty stone..

四個人跟石頭拍照咯.石頭很美嗎?

Ah Boy imitating the statue beside him. Sorry lor, I still think my bing ma yong is more seh.

翔哥模仿兵馬俑的跪姿可是很歹勢啦,我的兵馬俑比較有形.

hahaha... please lor.. my eyes looked bigger than Ah Mei Zu's eyes.. HAHAHAHA

哈哈..拜托咯,我的眼睛比阿美族的大咯.哈哈哈...

The coaches in Taiwan very nice lor. nice and sweet. so colourful.... Singapore one all very boring.. blue.. white.. grey.. zzz...

臺灣的旅行車很美咯.五顔六色.可愛咧.不像新加坡都是單調的藍色,白色,灰色...

After visiting Ri Yue Tan, we went to Xuan zhuang temple. YX say got Tang San Zang's she li zi inside. So we went to take a look. It was a bloody long way from ri yue tan to xuan zhuang si lor. We drove more than 99 turns around the mountains to reach it.

去過日月潭后我們就要去玄奘寺因爲那裏有玄奘的舍利子.老媽有興趣看.玄奘寺離日月潭很遠.超級無敵遠.Tang San Zang go collect scriptures.. why never see Sun Wu Kong???

唐三藏去取經爲何不見孫悟空?

Wu Kong is here!

原來孫悟空在這裡!

Scenery outside the temple is very beautiful hor??? ooooooh... so nice.....

寺外的風景很美咯....唉

Ah boy and lao ma zi... Lao ma zi very happy.

阿翔和老媽子。老媽子很開心。

Two monkeys! 有兩只猴子!

That's all for the ri yue tan tour.. Next time blog about Puli wenquan.

好咯,下次寫埔裏溫泉~

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Taiwan - Departing

Departing for Taipei at 1pm.. Taking jetstar, the budget airline of course. I left for Taipei on 25/05/07 and now I am back. Time flies so fast, 9 days passed in a flash....

I went with my mum, my aunt and a cousin. We were all in a super duper good mood lor.

Jetstar. I tot we were taking THIS plane but actually we did not, my cousin lor, false alarm. Told me that this plane is the one we are going to take.

Taking 3K521 flight. My mum was very happy because it has been 15 years since she last went to TW so she was looking forward to this trip since long ago.

THIS is our plane. Chey... Very boliao at the waiting area, so I anyhow took photos. Too sian le mah..

Introducing my cousin (Zhenyin), my aunt and my mum. Think I dun need to tell you who is who, it's rather obvious right.

Zhenyin also very excited cuz she was looking forward to see her idol, Xiao Zhu aka Luo Zhi Xiang. She was kinda suay cuz we were not in Taipei when her idol had those public appearances so she was pinning all her hopes on 30/05. On that day, her idol will appear outside the TV station for phototaking session but it was not confirmed.

Singapore, I am leaving Singapore. BYE!!!!

TAIWAN!! Here I COME~!!!

Taiwan - At Xi Men Ding

Finally arrived at the TW airport. My phone rang 5 min after I switched it on. It was Yong Xiang. He told me that he is already waiting outside since 1+ hour ago and asked me if I want to see monkey. I said I want lor.

The queue in the airport is super long and super slow. Haiz.. dunno why the airport crews in Taipei are so slow lor.. I can't wait to see Yong xiang and pinch him hard lor.

Zhenyin collect each and every flyer in the Taiwan airport. Abit Kua zhang lor I told her. Need to take EVERY flyer ma?

Finally we got out and when I saw Yong Xiang, he did a monkey pose for me. hahaha.. We waited while he went to collect his car.

The notorious traffic jam of Taipei. My god..

The sky in Taipei darkens very fast. At around 6pm, it looks like 7-8pm.

Yong Xiang was renamed as Ah boy in Taiwan. I dunno why but I just suddenly called him that and the name was stuck. My cousin and aunt called him Ah boy too. My mum still calls him Yong Xiang.

We arrived at a carpark near Xi Men Ding. It was a very cute carpark. Our car drove into a Car elevator and it sends us down to the basement. Then we saw that cars were stacked on top of each other, 2 layers. ZhenYin and me were thinking how the hell the top car can come down. After much discussion, we came to a conclusion. I saw some markings on the carpark floor and saw some buttons at the side. The bottom car can be slided away and the top car can come down to its place. Haiz.

The black car in the above pic is the car which took us all around Taiwan for the next 9 days. Not Ah boy's car tho. Ah boy's car's back seat is abit smaller. He was afraid that we will not feel comfy in the car since we are going to drive for hours. However, this car is not suited to climb mountains and Ah boy's car will be more suitable to climb up and down.


e stayed at a hotel in Xi Men Ding, Rainbow Hotel. Ah May ah.. This hotel is good. It's in the center of XMD, very convenient and the MRT is just steps away. We took a Quad room, per night is NT2980.After checking in our baggage at Rainbow Hotel, we proceeded to eat dinner. Hungry like hell lor. Ah boy brought us to this shop called 'Ya Rou Bian' selling duck meat at Xi Men Ding. It was not bad but very ex. The bee hoon soup is very nice.

Now then I realised I never took a photo of YX on the first day I arrived at Taiwan.

The night of xi men ding.

9 am the next morning, we came out of our hotel to see xi men ding. Not one shop was open but we still walked around waiting for YX to come fetch us to Tai zhong. He told me he will come at around 9:30am but he overslept la. He came slightly later.

Lao Ma say this pillar very nice, wanna take photo with it.

Rainbow HOTEL!!!!
Inside Rainbow Hotel my mum say the orchids very nice. YX still haven't come so we took photos lor.

Finally, he came at about 9:40am and we set off to Taizhong then to NanTou.

Taiwan - Tai Zhong

The first toll station when we were going to TaiZhong. There are about 12 toll stations from Taipei to Gao Xiong. Ex like hell lor.

After 1 plus hour of driving, we arrived at a rest station to leak. The toilet is very cute rught~ got cartoon cartoon.
On the way, we saw many mountains and the above mountain is 'Huo Yan Shan'. So weird lor, maybe got 'tie shan gong zhu' licing inside. YX said that the soil of the mountian is red so it was named as Huo Yan Shan and in the above photo, can see that part of the mountain was splitted off cuz of the earthquake.

I saw Lee Hom outside a builfing. Such a big poster and Lee Hom so good looking lor. hahaha.

YX acting cool with the sunglasses...

We went to eat 'rou zao fan' (minced meat rice) at Taizhong then YX brought us to Yu Zhen Zhai to buy some Taiwan cakes. He said that Yu Zhen Zhai is very famous and has been around for a hundred years.

My mom bought a box of cakes and I bought this packet of 'tang cong'. A kind of crispy sweet sticks.This is the cake shop. I dunno what Lao ma and boy boy are talking about. Probably talking about what kind of cakes to buy.

After having a break at Taizhong, we proceeded to NanTou. The road to Nantou was long. Nantou is situated near to the mountains. See the spiky mountains?

From Nantou, we will then go to PuLi and then to a resort where we can pao wenquan.

Think YX drive until want to vomit le lor.