Taipei - Final Note

Taiwan is really a beautiful place. Taipei City is vibrant, albeit more chaotic in terms of the traffic. The people are friendly and helpful. Youths are generally trendy and fair. Pardon me for not taking any pictures of those pretty girls that you guys want to see ;p There are plenty of them but you don't expect me to use my camera like a pervert or something right?

Anyway, I sure will like to visit Taiwan again, a different city each time. If anyone don't mind having me as a traveling companion, can I tag along? :p

Taipei - Day 4

1:02pm
I was wrong. My mum still managed to do some last minute shopping. Last chance to grab anything that fancy the eyes. Actually, items here are generally not any cheaper than in Singapore. Food and transport are definitely much cheaper. Electronic goods are on par with Singapore and apparel can be pricier. Books are definitely more expensive.

Note
Some stuff which we used to receive from friends who came back from holidays in Taiwan, such as Muah Chee, are surprisingly hard to find in Taipei. We finally managed to get some at the airport's duty free shops.

10:52pm
Touchdown... (Home Sweet Home!)

Videos
Stupid me! I only discovered how to use the video recording function of my phone during my last day in Taipei. And I have so much storage capacity which I didn't use :(
The links to the few videos I made before I left are as follow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwsggAcqfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXOUN6p_-EI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcudPzZqMlE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZyHRjFAFPI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbegcp9dTeA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVKa4Fyp-ns

Taipei - Day 3

12:57pm
The "Gu Gong Bo Wu Guan" (loosely-translated: Old Palace Museum) is huge. We have managed to finish browsing at most 80% of the exhibits before we have to go. My brother is not feeling well so we cut short our visit to the museum. Thus we don't get to take pictures to show that we have been there.

I am not feeling so well too. Must be either the food we ate yesterday or the water we took at the hotel. The water may not be suitable for us to get used to yet. What we ate must be conflicting with each other as well in our stomach.

6:35pm
Managed to buy some gifts for people at home and work. Nothing much as we can't really carry much stuff. And I really am too poof to walk and shop any further. (Backside pains from the wheelchair going over uneven roads...) Got lost for a second time while walking back to the hotel.

Taipei - Day 2

10:00am
Bought tickets to Taipei 101. Amazing view of the city, a city so huge that I don't get to see the boundary of it even so high up.

2:30pm
Just finished touring the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial. There is quite a large amount of information about this great man that any historian will definitely love to study.

4:30pm
After visiting the 'Ball' mall, we are now walking leisurely in the compound of the Chiang Kai-Shek Official Residence. Given the age and size of the place, one can imagine how extravagant the president was with respect to his citizens. It is now like a botanical garden for everyone to visit.

7:10pm
Shi Ling Night Market - too trendy for me :p
Got to meet up with a friend I know only online. Too bad she had to rush back to work overtime.

Taipei - Day 1

9:23am
Just finished breakfast and am watching the movie "Night At The Museum"... on board SQ872.

2:31pm
Hotel is really what I was expecting -- simply basic. Time to explore the surroundings.

5:43pm
Okay, we have wandered way too far from our hotel and none of us had in the right mind to bring the city map out. The map was lying on my bed. Thank goodness the hotel's calling card contains a small map of the surrounding roads. Now drinking Assam Milk Tea at the 7-11...

10:14pm
Just came back from a food tasting journey at a nearby night market, Hua Xi Night Market. So much food, so small my stomach. Oh well, the famous Shi Ling Night Market tomorrow...

Note
Eat but be mindful that finding a public toilet may not be easy. We haven't seen one in the night market while one my mum found was well-hidden in an office building.

Complaint
The guide that brought us to our hotel was lousy. His jokes were bland and wasn't much help to me on a wheelchair.

Apology Forthcoming?

How usually does one react when someone offended him/her with words? For me, I will wait a couple of days for an apology before commenting, in case I aggreviate the problem more than I should have. However, it has been about five days since the Taiwan Foreign Minister insulted Singapore and yet no apology has came from him. It's totally unacceptable, with him being a person of an important position. So Singapore should demand an apology which is only right. But then again, Singapore should not go into a war of words with him or his government. That will just be degrading ourselves to his level. So now I just feel pity for the people of Taiwan. I am so sorry that they have such a person representing them to the world. And my sorry is definitely not an apology :)