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Monday, May 28, 2007
Hi all,
I’m finally back from my Taiwan trip.
It was very tiring, but yet fulfilling trip. Very satisfying trip overall.
Will update a little on the details of my trip, so you guys can make use of the information.
Cost of flight and accommodation: $668
Amount of money spent for transportation, food & shopping: $550
Flight: China Airlines
Hotel: Kilin Hotel
Duration: 21st May 07 – 26th May 07
Agenda for the Taiwan trip:
21st May: Depart SG 1440, arrive at TPE 1940
22nd May:
- Breakfast
- Head to Wu Fen Pu (but place wasn’t open so early)
- Head to Taipei City Hall instead
o Taipei 101
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o New York New York
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o Xin Guang San Yue
o Eslite Bookstore
- Head back to Wu Fen Pu for shopping
- Head to Xi Men Ding for dinner
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- Walked back to Kilin Hotel
23rd May:
- Breakfast
- Head to Guang Hua shopping district
- Walk along the streets of Zhong Xiao Dong Lu
- Head to Sun Yat Seng Memorial Hall
- Head to Tong Hua Street Night market
- Head back to Kilin hotel
24th May:
- Breakfast
- Head to Taipei Main Station
- Took bus to Yang Ming Shan (Boring place)
- Head to Bei Tou station (Another boring place)
- Head to Dan Shui
- Took a bus to Fisherman Warf
o Very beautiful place, perfect for couples
o Enjoyed the sea breeze
o Enjoyed the scenery
o Took lots of photo
- Head to Jian Tan station
- Took free shuttle bus to Miramar shopping centre to take the ferries wheel. Great overview of Taipei
- Head back to Shilin Night market
o Lots of food
o Lots of things to shop
o Bought quite a fair bit of the local delights
o Lots of mei-mei
- Head back to Kilin hotel with loads of things
25th May:
- Breakfast
- SHOPPING is on the agenda for today!
- Head to Taipei Main station to check out the bus timing to get back to Tao Yuan airport
- Head to the Nova Square & K.Mall
- Head to Guang Hua to get the Thermalright 120 Ultra
- Head to New York New York to get my running shoes
- Head to Shilin night market
- Head back to Kilin Hotel after long day.
26th May:
- Woke up at 0430
- Left hotel for Taipei Main station at 0530
- Took express bus to airport
- Reached airport at 0640, managed to check in at 0715
- Reached SG at 1300, feels good to be home.
I will try to upload the pictures and update them into the post.. Be sure to check back! :D
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Monday, May 14, 2007
It's been awhile!
Actually I've posted one entry last wk after my exams, but it was not published.. It was a rather long entry, i typed quite a fair bit, only to find out it wasn't printed.. I was pissed off, so decided not to post for a few days.. LOL!
Anyway, finished my exams last monday.. What a wonderful feeling to be on vacation.. No worries, nothing.. By the way, got my grade for my OB individual essay last wk. Got a HD for it, satisfied for my effort put in..
For the entire week, has been slacking, lazing around.. Looking forward to my tw trip next monday.. 21st may.. Hope there'll be great deals waiting for me.. Can't wait..
Aye, nothing much to blog too..
Will update again with pics when i get back from tw..
take care everyone.
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Sunday, May 6, 2007
slacking
It's been like 5 days since i last blogged.. Just finished my Accounting paper on thursday.. Though there're alot of theory qns, but am still rather satisfied with my own performance, now wait for the results to be released in June. Hopefully can get expected grade..
After papers, went to geylang to collect goods for my indonesia client and had a hard time finding the kallang district park.. Turned round and round around kallang bahru. Found the place, drop the goods to the forwarder, and my favourite phrase.. "PANG KANG".. Went home and have a good rest as i didn't have enough sleep the night before. Slacked the night away though, i have the intention of doing my BS revision the next day.
So friday came, but i didn't revise much, as i went to Penisular plaza to collect my bank resolution from Ideal commercial. And the resolution cost me $50. In case, any of you din know, the bank resolution is done by the secretarial company for opening a fixed USD current account for my company. Cos will be doing some tradings with vietnam, so will be using USD$.
So went down to tampines telepark to open an account, when i reached there almost had a collision with a lorry driver. He CCB, drove so fast then almost cut into my lane, lucky i braked in time.. So i let him go first, then he almost go bang into another lorry at the other bend.. WAH, fuck him 10000x times.. Then i wanted to turn into the carpark, he also turn in, ended up he was refused entry into the car park.. LOL.. Serve him right..
Car park was quite empty, so found a lot very quickly, but had to wait for quite awhile before my turn, and i went home immediately i finished doing everything, so mentally drained.
So went to pick up my gf from work after the 9pm show. Damn the traffic, the whole stretch from Moulmein all the way to AMK ave. 1 forever FUCKING jam.. KNN.. cant they build a flyover like hougang, all the way to yishun? LOL!! My gf didn't had dinner, so stopped by kahtib there to buy the famous beehoon for her, bought 1 pack for myself as well. Must make sure i'm full to do my revision later.. So finished my supper at my gf place and headed home and started on my BS revision.. Finished on sampling theory, hypothesis testing.. So left the MCQs which i fear the most.. FUCKING HELL..
So today woke up late, due to the late night revision.. woke up 12pm.. Mom cooked porridge and finished it before i went to pick my gf and went to pizzahut.. As i had the HSBC card, got 1 for 1 offer.. Decided on Thomson plaza as it's on the way. The place so quite empty, so it's quite nice to dine there. It took like 15mins before the food came. Ordered 2 regular pizza, 1 Hawaiian pizza and 1 ocean catch. Both of us had 6 pieces each, lucky the crust is thin, so it wasn't so feeling, 6 pieces was just nice. :D
So shopped around the area for awhile and i sent gf home. Came home to watch the TWIN dragon show on channel 8.. Nice! It's going to finish soon, 4 more episodes.. Then watch jacky wu show on channel U.. After that carry on with my revision again. And here am i typing all these..
Alright, time to go, ciao.. Will update again when my exams finishes.. CANT WAIT for monday to come.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Been 1wk.
Hi guys,
Happy Labour day to everyone out there.
Alright it's been almost a week since i last updated. Well, perhaps i'm considered studying hard for my exams. Been chewing my OB textbook and slacking the whole of last week. Only study bits and pieces everyday, didn't really put in ALOT of effort in it. Hopefully i can do well. LOL! But come to think of it again, i hope i did good enough to get my distinction. So gave myself half a day off before i start preparing for my accounting battle.
So with 1 paper down, 2 to go. Looking towards next Monday and my TW trip at the end of the month.
Well, nothing to much to update either, cos most of the time are spent staring at my notes.
But this morning, my backside itchy. I was surfing net, happened to stumbled upon a link, so being curious i went to open the link. So in that it says my browser doesn't support this particular format, so asked me to install this activeX thingy. So upon installation, something was wrong. And i knew i kena tricked. CB, gotto waste my FUCK time to format my pc. End up i formatted my pc twice, because i cant double click and open my other drives beside my C:\. So damn pissed off, now dont know what to do with it. Ended up, i came up with this idea.
my desktop.. Too wide, so decide to save it this way.
Put all the shortcuts there, save the trouble of opening My computer.
Well, gotto practise my accounts already la. Will update again once my accounts paper is over..
Take care everyone.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Another day passed!
Alright, it's already tue. 6 more days before the actual exams. Well, i'm actually hoping the exams to come sooner so i can finish it once and for all, rather than waiting for it. Exams coming here am i waiting for soccer to start at 2.45 am for the Champions League semi-final clash between manchester utd and ac milan.
Well, updates for today.
Went to airport alone this afternoon to study my OB. Today took a bus to airport, cos from my place there's a straight bus, what's more parking at airport is so expensive. Boarded the bus only to realised that my Ez-link card has expired, cannot be used anymore, and the ride cost me $1.30. Well fuck it, i'm going to T2 to eat popeye fried chicken. Anticipating it since last night when i read the thread at HWZForum. Once i reached T2, headed towards the restaurant level, but i couldn't find the damn place, i supposed the place closed down already, only left the one at the departure hall. I guess i can only try it when i leave for taiwan in may.
So disappointed as i was, i went to mcdonalds. Initially i was thinking of getting the double filet o fish. But i bought BIG MAC meal instead. Went to a corner to consume my meal before i took my OB textbook out to revise. The music was so noisy, lucky i brought my ipod mini along. So i studied while listening to my own music. It was going rather well, i read like 5 chapters? Which it took me 2 days to read that at home? My pace is rather slow, wonder if that will hinder me getting Distinctions for that. Shall not let that bother me, i'll just go at my leisurely pace and do my best. I always believe that as long as i put in effort to study, the results will show.
So studied for like 1hr, got a bit bored, so took out my macbook to surf the net for awhile. To my surprise, mcdonalds has no wifi connection for me to connect to. And the wifi connection which airport provides is by starhub, which i don't have any account. So just played FM for like 30mins, and continue to read my text till about 5.30pm. That's when i decided to call it a day. No point stay so long, and nothing goes into my head. 3hours of undisturbed reading, i feel was good enough to wrap it up for the day. In my mind, i was thinking of going back to hit the gym as i ate mcdonalds today. So sinful.
But i realised it was the wrong time to pack up as it was time when everyone knock off from work, so the bus stop was packed with people, everyone was waiting to go home. So just queued up and within 15mins the bus came. Lucky there's 2 bus so i have some space to go up the bus. (i fat what, what to do) Anyway, paid another $1.30 for the ride home. It took lik another 15mins before i reached home. Once i'm back, i got lazy again. I thought maybe go to the gym after dinner, instead i didn't.
oh gosh, daniel please force yourself to workout. Need to take IPPT soon.
Alright, CL match started.. Will update again tmr.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Great evening!
Alright.. This morning stayed at home to revise abit of work before i meet my army friends [me, chua, ben, xiaobai, cheng, mok, neo, nicholas] for dinner tonight.
So i went to fetch Benjamin at bukit merah before heading to bugis to meet the rest at 6.15pm. Surprisely, everyone was early. So we headed to the streets to look for a place for dinner. We walked around and decided to settle at Chong Qing steamboat. $15/pax, so just 'ON'. Ordered mixed soup with chicken soup and mala (xiao la) soup, and the xiao la is damn spicy loh, mouth going to swollen liao. So after eating for like 45mins, my buddy finally reached and he came with nicholas. Oh god, nicholas look like some 70's hippy with those big sunglasses, almost didn't recognise him at all.
Anyway, we talked as we eat, haven't meet up with them for almost 6 months already, glad everyone is doing fine. So after eating for like 5-6 rounds, we decided to call it a day. Asked for the bill, total added up to $17/pax. Drink $1/can, not expensive. So we moved on to the next location, initially wanted to go to MIND cafe, but didn't know where the fuck is the one at bugis or MIND cafe didn't have any outlet at bugis. We went to TCC instead. We were assigned a round table, where we were managed to squeeze everyone in and Choon guan came over to meet us.
Talked about our past army life, laughing at each other's stupid mistakes. And soon alvin and colin came to meet us. So rather squeezy cos so many people. But it's not often that we have so many of us gathering together and talking rubbish and discussing about all those shit we went through together at 35SCE. Then called my gf, and she's at vivocity, so asked her to come over to bugis so i can send her back. When came out of the carpark, shit man.. parking $5++.. So expensive.. Haiz, driving is not cheap at all..
So at the same time longbang alvin, chua and cheng back as well cos on the way. On the way, keep talking rubbish with them on the car. Traffic was rather slow, but not to the extend of stopping most of the time. So didn't complain much. Soon dropping off alvin and chua, sent my gf up to her place. Then send cheng home, cos he stay behind my place only. So came back and took a quick shower, and writing this entry.
Sian, gotto wake up early later. My family going to mandai to bai my great grandmother.
Alright, will update again soon. 8 more days to first paper!
fucking looking forward to it.
Cheers!
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