the DAY of the beginning
Taiwan Grad Trip! An event to mark the end of 4 years of my education and to symbolise the friendship that has been forged during them. Not all were able to join us for our graduation trip and off goes the 3 of us as we embarked on our trip together, Linghuey, Me, Andy!
There was to be no luxury of service, drinks, or movies on board the 5 hour budget flight, and had to survive on a solitary can of Pepsi which was gulped down shortly after it landed on the mini foldable table. That cost me $3! Well at least there were quite a number of us, the ME group, Sheerine, + us = 10, to entertain ourselves. Liwei had a nifty thing with cards but the real fun started when Andy took out his PSP, and choice of game was some word hunt thing, similar to the Yahoo! games, and first there were only 2 challengers...
but it soon expanded to 3!
even a crowd gathers!
Grand Champion: Andy! Can't beat the speed at which he is able to spot and link up the words, hack. CHEAT.
At CKS Airport, our first stop was to get the Youth Pass, which we didn't use at all! Haha, guess we still do very much look like students after all so didn't had to show it, not like there were many opportunities, hmm. It was then a 1 hr ride to the city on the Guo Guang bus. First glimpse of the sheer number of bikes in the city and their many face masks. We had to collect our train tickets that had previously been booked in Singapore and along the way grabbed some bread as we were already starving by this time. It was some extra large green tea bun along with a standard pork floss bun, done 'breadtalk' style. Yummy?
What followed was our first attempt at navigating the streets of Taipei and it was a failure! Luckily though, through it, we had a brief glimpse of the Taipei Underground Mall which we will not be revisiting.
Our hotel, Keyman Hotel was quite near the Train Station, really a quaint little hotel, very much non-descript but the room was ok, clean and bright. We managed to get through to Ivan, Andy and LH's friend, luckily! He was more familiar with Taipei and our unofficial 'tour guide' of the night. Oh at the train station we also purchased the EasyCard which is the equivalent of our Ezlink and we started "t-teeing" our way to Jiantan MRT for our first travel stop.
Shihlin Night Market. Ahh, just lots and lots of food, alot of must try, and with it being our first night and all, was probably the one where we ate the most! Shihlin's a huge place and after satisfying our initial craving of food, we did spend most of the night weaving in and out through the stores although we weren't interested to shop all that much considering our long journey ahead. Think this is probably one of the more interesting night markets, with a mixture of both food and shopping. We stayed there till around 11pm and although we did attempt to cover the entire area, didn't really succeeded with some of the portions left unexplored.
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