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Thursday, January 01, 2009, 5:51 PM

I suck at uploading pictures.
I've no idea how this whole blogging thing works,
I'm not going into the details but Day 2 will be in the next post.
okay so we arrived in Taoyuan's international airport at about 1750
Sis msged dad to tell him that we have to be out by 1830 cause she booked bus tickets to bring us to our hotel.

Suchhhh a long queue
So the bus took us to Ximending where our hotel is.
Our hotel is right smack in the middle of Ximending
When we arrived, i saw a huge commotion and the kpo me went to check it out!
I was pretty surprised to find out its XiaoZhu.
In taipei, by 1730 the sky will darken.
We were blessed with perfect weather for the 7 days we spent there.
Only for a slight drizzle on the way to the hotel from airport.
But by the time we alight, the rain stopped.
The weather was just nice for doing anything!
No matter how long we walk, we dont perspire AT ALL.
It really sets the mood for endless shopping.
The exchange rate was 1 sing dollar to 21taiwan dollar.
For ALL Show Luo fans, i guess he was signing his new album?


I tried to zoom in and thats all i can get!


In the hotel room. Sis booked 2 rooms to accomodate 7 ppl!


HAHAHA obscene!

This was our room for the first night.
We change room on the second night so as to have
both rooms on the same level.
TADA! Me in the bathroom slippers=/
So we took at 15mins rest before we head down to have dinner!

Ximending is filled with so many many small shops and they are spread throughout
different streets and you can just keep walking and walking and you wont feel tired, at least for me. Even the small alleys are lined up with shops. They really do make full use of the space there.

One of the many many small shops. It's considered winter over there
though the temperature was only about 15degrees? But we can never go out without our jackets for sure.

A really cool starbucks coffee house. But sadly we didnt get to try the coffee!


Some random pictures i took while we were finding a place to have dinner.
One thing great about Ximending is that they dont close until 2100 or 0000. So we still get to do some late night shopping.

KFC! Look at the Sunday crowd!
In the spirit of christmas


They have really cool small cafes to chill out.

At the other end of Ximending theres this huge screen, but i
didnt bother to find out what they were showing.


AHA! this cafe was named after this dog! ah damn, i should have taken a picture of the cafe as well =/ All the dog does was just to laze outside and succumb to stranger's pat!
Dogs are a common sight in taipei.


So we finally settled for a hotplate cum steamboat-like buffet! If i rmbed correctly, it was 499NT/pax.
Every bit of our stomach was filled up!
Had scallop, lamb chop, pig's tongue, pig's kidney, pig's intestine, pregnant fish,clams,mussels.....AND FREE FLOW OF HAAGEN-DAZS ICECREAM.
they had 4 or 8 flavours i think.
I heart the green tea ice cream the most!
This was only the beginning. beef and some lamb chop.
The soup!

And we kept eating....


See justin rubbing the stomach..Looks like his tee gna burst anytime.
So after dinner we just continue exploring Ximending while allowing our tummy to digest the overload of food.


Next post will be on day2 where we head down to Leofoo Village themepark for some thrill!
I'm gna take a break now, might continue later if i want to!
PS: there are 700 over photos but i'm obviously going to filter it.