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The trip
Posted by HuiHui
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9:37 PM
Let me just summarized the Taiwan trip, so that people will stop asking me how it was. :) Due to my very short memory span, it's good to blog early too. Went to Taipei because MH had a business trip there. I love to tag along during his business trip because I'll get to stay in luxury hotel, 5 stars at least.
The flight tickets were confirmed very last minute, on Friday night and scheduled to fly off on Wednesday morning. Luckily my kind boss let me go despite the crunch period at work. I sms-ed him on Friday 10pm to ask for permission, while he was on his flight back to Singapore for the weekend. He replied "ok, but make sure viaROM done static timing analysis and documentation and DDR done documentation before on leave". And that's on top of preparing bRAM's 5 hours design review on Tuesday!
Fast forward, Taiwan is okay, nothing impressive, except for the girls. They are so pretty! If you have watched the Taiwan talkshow "Guess, Guess, Guess" on TV every Sunday night (MH's favorite TV show) and wondered where do all the pretty girls came from, well, they're all over the streets. Throw a stone, you can hit someone prettier than S.H.E and Jolin. No kidding!. Nevertheless, I still adore the classy and sporty Singapore girls more. Taiwanese girls are too "ka-wa-ii" in both their fashion and speech for my liking.
The next interesting thing would be the snack over there. Aplenty! To try 'em all, I snacked throughout the day. Some nice, some so-so, but all super oily. Will blog more with photos next time.
It's good to be back before I permanently damage my liver and my leg. So fatigue that we haven't even unwrap our Christmas presents yet. I walked way too much over there, shopping and sight seeing, by taking MRT (called Metro) while MH was working. MH was very tired too, from over simulating his brain, not from his work, but from the galore of stunning and breathtaking visual pleasure. ;>
Here's the itinerary of the trip:
The flight tickets were confirmed very last minute, on Friday night and scheduled to fly off on Wednesday morning. Luckily my kind boss let me go despite the crunch period at work. I sms-ed him on Friday 10pm to ask for permission, while he was on his flight back to Singapore for the weekend. He replied "ok, but make sure viaROM done static timing analysis and documentation and DDR done documentation before on leave". And that's on top of preparing bRAM's 5 hours design review on Tuesday!
Fast forward, Taiwan is okay, nothing impressive, except for the girls. They are so pretty! If you have watched the Taiwan talkshow "Guess, Guess, Guess" on TV every Sunday night (MH's favorite TV show) and wondered where do all the pretty girls came from, well, they're all over the streets. Throw a stone, you can hit someone prettier than S.H.E and Jolin. No kidding!. Nevertheless, I still adore the classy and sporty Singapore girls more. Taiwanese girls are too "ka-wa-ii" in both their fashion and speech for my liking.
The next interesting thing would be the snack over there. Aplenty! To try 'em all, I snacked throughout the day. Some nice, some so-so, but all super oily. Will blog more with photos next time.
It's good to be back before I permanently damage my liver and my leg. So fatigue that we haven't even unwrap our Christmas presents yet. I walked way too much over there, shopping and sight seeing, by taking MRT (called Metro) while MH was working. MH was very tired too, from over simulating his brain, not from his work, but from the galore of stunning and breathtaking visual pleasure. ;>
Here's the itinerary of the trip:
Wed (19/12)
- Flight there PNG-SIN-TWN, with 5 hours transit in Changi Airport
- I shopped at Bugis, MH shopped at SimLim Square
- reached Taipei ~ midnight
Thur (20/12)
- Keelung Harbor
- Yeliou ( Queen’s Head Rock)
- Yangmingshan National Park
- Beitou Hot Spring Bath
- Jioufen
Fri (21/12)
- National Palace Museum
- Taipei 101
- Ximending
- Camera street & Taipei Main Station
- Shinlin night market
Sat (22/12)
- Shanxi park
- Wufengpu wholesale market
- Dansui
- Fisherman's wharf
Sun (23/12)
- Took 3 hours train to Taroko Gorge National Park (Eternal Spring Shrine, Swallow Grotto, Tunnel of Nine Turns)
- Chi Hsing Beach
- Howard skyline restaurant @ Shinkong life tower
Mon (24/12)
- shopping @ SOGO, Eslite Xinyi, Singkong Mitsukoshi, Mingyao, Breeze Center, East Metro Mall
- Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall
- Lungshan Temple
- Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
- Hwahsi Street Tourist Night Market
- Ximending
- Christmas eve mass at John Bosco Church
Tues (25/12)
- Flight back TWN-SIN-PNG
