Favourite songs

These are my 2 of my favourite songs now.

If you're my age and like Karen said previously about us "has the worries of adult on our face", I think this song really describe our lives. It's so real that it may even make you want to cry.

26/1

Holiday plans

Yesterday went for pepper lunch with Carissa. I love pepper lunch! They have 15% discount for students. So happy when she gave student price without asking if we're students. Haha, cheap thrill.

Aglio Olio

Carissa's steak

Have you ever went to one country and conclude that you'll never want to go back there? I haven't. I always want to go back. Then it's kind of difficult because on top of wanting to visit these places again, I also want to explore somewhere new. So...it's hard. If only I have a skill and I can work from home, then maybe I'll have the luxury of time to fly whenever I want.

I have already decided on my holiday plan for 2013,2014 and 2015.

2013
May
Japan & Korea: my next trip!

2014
March
Taiwan: I hope I save enough money and I can sponsor my family to go to Taiwan. I will work hard towards that.

Nov
Hongkong: with Carissa. Haha, I know we keep changing the location and dates.

2015
Feb: Hmm this seems a little too near to HK but I hope before I reach 25 and get too old, I get to go on a ski trip. I really want to try skiing.

By the way, anybody want this extra scheduler that I now have? If you want let me know.

Time to stop my vulgar language

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/australian-arrested-singapore-swearing-wont-052104563.html

Didn't know we can be arrested for coarse language. Wake up call to be less vulgar.

Taiwan Day 1 - Cingjing

On 6th Jan 2013, I boarded scoot, and scooted off to Taiwan. My first time in Taiwan!!!
Reached Taiwan at 5+. We reached before arrival time, thankfully no delays or all our plan later will be screwed. After collecting our luggages, went to search for the ubus to get to Taoyuan HSR to train to Taichung to get to our first destination: Cingjing (I always pronounced it as ci jing last time and nobody can understand me.).

Booked online for discount up to 35%. Plus there's no queue to collect the ticket also. Lots of benefits.

After collecting our HSR ticket, our stomach were rumbling. We were damn hungry so we went to the 7-11 to search for food.

Our first meal in Taiwan. My ramen and muihong's curry rice. The ramen is abit oily but still acceptable. Afterall, they're just instant food.

After reaching Taichung, we went to make our Youth card. It's for people below 35 years old and you get discount at certain places like Taipei 101, cingjing farm and the ferris wheel.

Went to find our driver to the minsu at 9.30am. Drama starts. We have no idea how to find the driver except to wait at exit B1. Then 9.30 passed and still no driver. So we started to worry. Muihong went back to the HSR station to get someone to call the minsu for us (the troubles of not having a working phone). Apparently, it's suppose to be at the opposite carpark. So there were like 4 people, including the driver waiting for us. Damn paiseh.

So we thought we can sleep on the minivan. Suddenly, the driver started introducing the place to us = no more sleep. He also bought us to pluck strawberries at puli before going up to cingjing.

Red strawberries

The driver told us because we're there on Sunday so there's only small strawberries left. All the big and juicy strawberries were stolen by the people on Friday and Saturday. The strawberries are really sweet! One box (plucked by us) like that cost 150twd.

We arrived at our minsu at around noon. Taking this minivan/car is much better than taking the bus cause it sent us directly to the minsu. Book the ride direct with the minsu and pay the driver. The ride cost 350twd.

We stayed at star villa basically because they allow us to book and pay online. Some of the other minsus required us to call them/pay through paypal so we opted for something more convenient for us.
We stayed at the cheapest room (Leo & Capricorn-comfy double suite). Paid 2000twd for a sunday night, They have different pricing on different days of the week.
I forgot to take a picture of the room but it's similar to the one provided on the webpage. Doesn't feel as small as the picture feels though. Able to connect to wifi from the room too. They provide teabreak and breakfast. We didn't get to benefit from the teabreak cause we were busy running around and by the time we came back from the farm to shag for teabreak and had to prepare to go to the hotspring. Their breakfast consists of porridge + a variety of side dishes (pork floss, vegetables etc) , drinks and bread/toast. They also provide egg and bacon!
The minsu owner is very friendly and he told us he'll drive us to cingjing farm at around 2 so we can catch the sheep shearing show.

Walked down to the 'main' area where the bus will stop in search for lunch. There's 2 zi char stalls there and we settled for lunch at this zi char stall which appeared to be quite crowded. It's the one right beside the road. The food there taste like crap. Their vegetable cmi, the pork is hard (apparently shan zhu rou is suppose to be hard and chewy) and their hotplate tofu tasted weird. So we had a not-so-yummy lunch.

After lunch, our room was ready and we went to our room and slack around and it's time for cingjing farm. The main purpose of coming here. At least my main purpose was to feed sheep.

Cingjing Farm

Entrance fee: 100twd

Sheep shearing show

The show is quite boring actually. Nothing much, just watch them shear the sheep. There's also a performance by the sheep-dog. I think we were to shag to fully appreciate the show cause we hardly slept the night before.

Sheep feeding time

This is my most calm photo of the process of feeding sheep. Didn't know I'll be so scare but IT'S DAMN FUN! I LIKE!!! Plus, it's cheap! The food only cost 10twd.

I strongly recommend to get the food in the box like the one I'm holding instead of the paper bags kind. It's safer. I've seen at least two people who had their paper bags tore by the sheep (if this happened to me, I think i'll get phobia of sheep). These adorable and hungry sheep. They made a few kids cry but still I think kids will like coming here.

Sheep milk & ice-cream

There sheep ice-cream taste like sheep. No joke, it really feels like I'm eating the sheep. Almost puke and to think I like goat milk. I like the milk though.

Shit

米田共 also known as shit. Haha, they should have that on every sweet. Then I will be giving everybody shit. Haha, damn funny. They're actually cola balls.

After feeding the sheep we walked to another place for the horse show. I was feeling damn sleepy during the show so no pictures. I regret not getting carrots to feed the horses.

It's time to return to the minsu. On the way, we have to walk down 487 steps. Thankfully, we're walking down and not walking up.
The scenery there is really like painted pictures. You're really like reaching/above the clouds and living in the sky.

Cherry/Plum Blossom

Sunset

We booked a trip for hotspring too. 700 twd for public pool. If you want a private room, it'll cost a freaking 1000twd. After fetching us, we went to another minsu to fetch another group and they're Singaporeans too. There's quite a lot of Singaporeans and Hong Kongers in Cingjing. They're advertised as the best hotspring in the world. You have to be in swimsuit and you need swimming cap too (unless you're botak). If you don't have swimming cap, they will actually give you shower cap or you can spend some money and get one from one of the shops there. They provide lockers for 10twd. Hotspring is damn shiok although when you first step in it's damn freaking hot. 先苦后甜。We reached at around 7 and the driver was coming back at 9pm to fetch us. Nobody will really soak in hotspring for 2 hours, most likely you'll faint.

So after 1h + we went to get dinner at this zi char place recommended by the driver.
He recommended dishes like shan zhu rou, fish (I forgot what kind), bing lang flower and gan zhe xin.

甘蔗心

We only tried one of the dishes recommended which is the sugarcane xin (shoots?).They taste abit like bamboo shoots actually.

At 9, the driver drove us back to our minsu.
Taiwan drivers are really nice, very chatty. They have to multi-task on the job, while on the job, they have to act as tour guide introducing the place too.

I'm not sure what's the temperature like at cingjing but I was wearing a short sleeve shirt + jacket + one layer of my trench coat. Kept me warm sufficiently. When I wore both layers of the trench coat for lunch, felt too suffocating. By the way, I got the trenchcoat from qoo10 at $42.80. It comes with a belt, but for some reason, I always forget to bring out the belt. :x

The hot spring ended our first day. Went back to the minsu to bath and sleep. We have to be up at 3+ am because we booked a hehuashan sunrise tour which is at 4.30am.

For the rest of my taiwan post, click here. 
13/1

Shin Sapporo Ramen

Today Carissa messaged me "has school been taking its toil on you? you never update your blog". So here I am. Haha but school has really been taking it's toil on me, I've been spending a lot of time when I'm not in school sleeping, trying to recuperate.

I should actually update more often now when I still have time before all the papers and presentations start haunting me. Presentations in class actually starts next week in correctional psy. My first presentation will be on the 4th week. Another one on 5th week. One more on week 11.Used to hate presentations, still hate presentations today.

Met Karen and Eunice for lunch on Thursday. Went to Shin Sapporo at Arc at Labrador Park.

 We all had the same ramen. I forgot the name of it but it's one of the two spicy ones. It's just midly spicy, and I mean really mild that I can't even feel it. Karen and me were like spamming chilli oil and chilli flakes into our ramen. Even Eunice added chilli oil and flakes, so it's really not spicy at all. The broth is quite yummy to me. I like. They uses thin and straight noodles for their ramen, which I don't like cause it feels different to me somehow. Of course, the egg is the ramen egg that usually my friends, except Eunice, will go "oooooh, I love the egg".

The ramen cost about $17 after gst and service charge.

Free Ice-cream

They're having a promotion now. Free ice-cream when you show them that you have liked their facebook page. Their ice-cream is nice.  

Side note, the person said my handwriting was nice. Haha, actually she said nice for a left hander which means maybe not nice for a right hander. Haha, I shall focus on the word nice. You should have seen our reactions there and then. Funny thinking about it.

<3

I really need bigger eyes or maybe a different eye shape. I need a smaller mouth too. A sharper nose too Lol. I need a new face.

I love meeting with friends, they help release my pent up tension and relieve my stress. 你们要知道，我很爱你们！谢谢你们愿意做我的朋友。

Back to school

It's a torture having to go back to school and having to wake up at such a crazy hour. It has been a long time since I last had a 8am lesson. Hate it!

한국어 숙제

저는 공부하기에는 너무 졸려요.
옷을 사기에는 너무 비싸요.

날씨가 너무 추워서 그런지 감기에 걸렸어요.
지금 방학이라서 그런지 지하철에 사람들이 거의 없어요.

한국 음식이 너무 맛있더라고요.
Bangkok 옷은 정말 싸더라고요.

이전 학기는 숙제가 많아서 그런지 너무 바쁘더라고요.
심리학은 재미있는데다가 많은 것도 배워요.
이 가방은 비싼데다가 색도 안 좋아서 안 사요.
 

책을 선배한테서(from) 빌려 보지 그래요?
주변 나라를 여행해 보지 그래요?

I have no idea why 그런지 ended up as 그려지 when I was typing my homework and why for one of the grammar points I ended up with 3 sentences. Must be my pajiaoness acting up again.
2/1 22:30

MPE

Arghhhh!!! Why people can get 3 modules and I only got 1. Sian diao. The thing is my friend got advanced abnormal but I thought I did MPE for that too. Okay, but I can't remember what I MPE-ed for so maybe I didn't. But but but, I thought I did. Damn, if I'm going to bid for it later and it becomes so fucking expensive and people got it for 1 point, I will want to bash myself up again.

Bidding horror starts tml. Please, give me my modules, it's my last semester! 

Funnies

Me:

Happy New Year!!!

Carissa: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

             What's that?!?!

             got fire uh?!

Me: -_-" that's fireworks 

Me: Do you have motion sickness medicine?

Pharmacist: Yes, we do, but it may cause drowsiness. How long is your trip?

Me: One and a half hours 

Pharmacist: Oh, but the drowsiness last for about 4 hours.

For a moment, I felt paiseh, who needs motion sickness medicine for a one and half hours trip. I think it takes more than that to travel from one end of Singapore to another. Haha, nevermind. I can use it for the airplane too, if there's turbulence.

Me: Is it possible for someone to have 0 free day for half of the holiday? 

Mh: You got ask her why she so busy?

Me: CCA & Church

Mh: Busy also got time to eat shit sleep mah

       Sleep less shit less got time to go out le

Me: Omg you're so funny.

       Can I keep you at my house

Mh: Lol then I become a pet ah

       When upset press my belly

        Ooh it tickles hahaha