Day 1: 15th December 2012
Was super excited for this trip because I LOVE Taiwan and I was going with my family and my aunt's family and the babies. The previous time we went to Taiwan was probably in 2009 and also with two of my cousins and it was so much fun! We took the morning flight and it's about 4hours so we arrived around 4pm. Had our private tour guide and another driver cuz we went around in a van and a cab. Didn't join the usual group tours like the previous time cuz we wanted more flexibility since we were with the babies, also cuz we didn't wanna see any temples.
Arriving in Taiwan! @ Taoyuan International Airport
The airport (before immigration)
The sun was setting already and it was like probably 4:30pm hahahaa.
My cousin in law is a little short so he decided to stand closer to the camera but my brother exposed him. HAHA.
Drove about 45minutes out to PLUCK STRAWBERRIES. I don't even. Most random thing ever hahahaha.
Strawberry Picking
The owner kept the shop open for us. Hahahahah. I still don't know why we went to pick strawberries really damn strange.
To make things even better it was super dark already and I couldn't really see shit. Anyway we just walked down the rows picking strawberries and popping them into our mouths. It was damn yummy.
Cldn't wash them first so it was abit gross but they didn't taste like dirt so it's fine. hahaha.
Some monster in the strawberry field
Dad & Korkor
The strawberry place was next to the road in the middle of nowhere.
Went next door to buy some cherry tomatoes
FengJia Night Market @ TaiChung
Drove to Taichung and we checked into the hotel (I wouldn't really call it a hotel but I dont know what else to call it) and went to the night market!!! Was starving.
Super crowded
Korkor buying a hotdog.
Hahahahah
BUBBLEEEETEAAA. The mandarin that Taiwanese people speak is abit different I think because I couldn't understand 80% of what they were saying. Most of the time I just stared back and laughed. Made me feel like a moron. Sian. Also my tour guide spoke to everyone in mandarin except me.
Ta Ma De.
Bubbletea is damn cheap man. Actually all the street food is pretty cheap. The conversion rate is like 23NT= 1SGD. So I paid like... Less than a dollar for bubbletea. CRAY I TELL YOU. IT'S CRAY. Unfortunately, bubbletea was nicer when I was here the previous time. Now it's not the 'in' thing anymore and they have alot of shitass variations like grassjelly and other weird shit (like KOI and Gongcha) so the bubbletea standard damn low. I eventually just drank milk tea w/o the pearls.
One of the new 'in' foods in Taiwan. Roasted corn!!! Damn nice I luvvit. They sprinkle chili powder all over it. It's one of the more expensive street foods. The price ranges from like 2-4 SGD for this.
This girl wore her pants the wrong way round hahahahah. SO CUTE. Her mother really doesn't give two shits.
Ate the chicken cutlet but this one wasn't very nice.
Korkor, my cousin and I shared a room so our beds were like this HAHAHAHA. Damn shiok. The bed was so nice ^^. It was the nicest out of the other rooms we saw. My parents' room had like Winnie The Pooh stickers on the wall and other strange shit hahahahahahaha. My aunt's room had TERRIBLE bedsheets. Like the kind with cartoons. She tried to scam us into swapping by saying she needs more space for the babies but there was no way the three of us were gonna squeeze into a King sized bed.
They had a CCTV channel hahahahHAHAH.
At night we were about to sleep when I tried my cousin's inflatable neck pillow but it was strangling me. Then she asked for it back and started to body search me in the dark and suddenly grabbed my breast and I was like W.T....F. and she was like "Oh sorry I thought it was your ass." Tell me why my ass is below my neck. Tell me now.
Day 2:
Wine Museum
Our first stop for today was to visit some wine museum where they sell like alot of different wine items like wine ice cream. LOL. We were basically on our way to some hotel in the mountains so the drive was a bit long so we stopped at a couple of places to make the journey more bearable.
I can't read the shit on the signboard but it goes a lil' something like "Pi (or Jiu, not v sure but DEFINITELY either one) sth sth li"
I bought a wine egg (which is like Tea Leaf Egg but with wine instead of tea) and iron eggs. which are like... preserved quail eggs I think. They are black and look like bubbletea pearls. hahahaha. Wanted to try the last time we came but I was scared. Anyway I ended up really liking them!
Korkor with the wine eggs (I hated them)
Wine Ice Cream. Damn shitty hahahaha
Wanted to show everyone my New Balance hahahaha
Kor bought ice cream while waiting for everyone. It was damn nice, surprisingly.
Dad & I
We gave Assthur some ice cream and she has this habit of SPITTING it out if she doesn't like it. So it went all over her shirt and all. I laughed like shit. She's too much. LOOK AT HER FACE.
Buying crackers and shit at the store
Paper Dome Church
Our next stop was a paper church which was beyond lame. HAHAHAHA. We just went to the cafe to have some drinks.
Mom & Dad outside the church
The church is damn small and not even entirely made out of paper (I think) But like I wasn't impressed at all. Please give this a miss if you go to Taiwan. Hahahaha
Biggest flower I've ever seen.Peacock Enclosure
We stopped by some peacock area also
So prettyyyyy
Ben looks so weird in this picture. I think he just woke up. hahahaha
ALBINO PEACOCK SO PRETTYYYYYYYYYYYY.
Damn funny. Assthur is huge.
Street Food Lunch
Ate a veggie burger and bought super nice mochi here!!!
Went to watch some aboriginal culture dance. These are my cousinssss- Jiejie Lydia and Jiejie Deb
The lake area was nearby.
Benbie's face is still red cuz of the rashes but it got significantly better cuz the weather there is not so humid.
These ladies are all above the age of 70. So cray.
SUPER cute doggy!!!!
My uncle decided he needed a time out from the family and sat at the opposite end. HAHAHAHAHA (he's the one with the crossed legs
They asked for volunteers to dance and my dad stood up followed by mom and my aunt. HAHAHAHAHAHA. I died laughing the next ten minutes.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Dad
Ah Yee
Mommy
Shao/Kao Shan Zhu Rou (not sure)
But anyway it means wild boar meat. Which we ate alot of. It's damn shiok.
Tea Leaf Egg Place
We stopped by some area which supposedly has damn good eggs, they sell like 8000 a day. CRAY. We went and bought 15.
Laughing like shit cuz my dad was initially looking straight ahead posing for god knows what when the camera was to his right. Unfortunately and as usual I end up being the only one who looks like a retard. HAHAHAHA.
15 eggs
Hot Springs Hotel in the Mountains
It was a scary drive up because the sun set already even tho it was like 5pm and the roads were damn narrow and shit. Anyway I really don't know what the name of this hotel is hahahahaha. But they had a dog!!!!!! Her name is La Mei.
Reached our Hotel!!!!!!!!!!! It was super nice. Check out our bags LOLOL
Went to feed the fish my feet. It was damn ticklish at first then pretty fun. My feet felt damn nice after that.
Day 3:
PUPPYYYY
Sheep Farm
Assthur refusing to look at the camera. Hahaha super naughty.
The background like windows background. And it also looks photoshopped.
The sheep just roam around on the hills and all. Quite cute.
The sheep photobombed but made it a nice photo in the end!
I love this photo.
Hahahahahahahahhaah. Gangsta Bensta
Hahahahahahahhah
Apparently Mini Horses aren't the same as Ponies. WTF is the difference??
My aunt slapping my cousin. LOLjk she's putting sunscreen. hahahaha
Hahahahahah Ben
Never realised this earlier but it looks like a gay couple and their son. HAHAHAHAHAHA
My cousin just happily buy food and feed the sheep don't care about anyone else. hahahahahaha
Hahahahahaha sorry baby you look terrible.
Paper also want to eat.
FATTY
Pamily Poto
We were pretty high up!
This is the result of "EH RARA TAKE PHOTO FOR ME"
My lovely parents~
I wanted to stand like the guy but my parents obviously said no and I was quite sure I'd fall anyway so I didn't protest. Hahaha
Cutie!!!!! This photo damn adorable. Jiejie Lydia N Assthur
They sell alot of goat's milk products there. I tried goat's milk and chocolate goat's milk and goat's milk ice cream. There's still a damn strong smell/taste but it was really fresh so damn nice.
Had lunch at the market area outside
Had the best apples EVERRR
This is some tofu dish. LOVED IT. It's not chou tofu though. That's fried and smelly.
Wild boar rice again
My uncle with the monsters
Hahahahahhahahaaha
More wild boar
Laughed while drinking water and had to spit it all out. Hate when that happens. Hahahahahaha
Up the mountain!
After lunch we went higher up the mountain to see the view.
Tour guide bought a bag of chips to show us how the air expands at higher altitudes until it explodes. I waited about 1hrs for it to explode and when it did I wasn't around. THAT. IS. GR8.
Plz look at how narrow the roads r.
Damn scary whenever another car comes.
TOUR BUS EVEN BETTER
I like taking photos of scenery but these shots I couldn't really be bothered because it was FREEZING.
Dad didn't let me bring the super pretty jacket kiron lent me cuz he said it wont be cold but it was mega freezing here but luckily my cousin had an extra jacket but that means I look like a frumpy garbage bag again :( This is my "I h8 u dad it's fucking cold why u always troll me" face. (Up till now everyone still laughs at my europe bag that Dad told me to bring)
My cousin and cousin in law. His face never maintain.
Speaking of faces that never maintain...................................... My hair also ahaha. The wind was SO strong.
Assthur really needa stop it ah.
Dying in the cold
Back to Sheep Farm
Went back to the sheep farm otw down from the mountain to watch a horse show. hahahahahaha
This guy gave like a half an hour long introduction of the horse show. I kid you not we were all just like .................................................
MAI BAYBEE
Whipped the bowling pin off this guy's head
Whipped the flame off 
Doing some stunts. Horsing around. HAHAHA. shut up.
Upside down. I bet I cld do that too.
Ok this was impressive
Monumental moment- First time my cousin in law carried Ben
Eating my fave apple
Sunset while going home. I loveeeeeeeeeee sunsets
Hotel Room. We stopped by the 7/11 and like seriously bought the whole store. The tour guide told us to buy SOME food in case we got hungry since the mountain/hotel area didn't really have any convenience stores. Clearly what my family heard was WAR IZ COMING BUY EVERYTHING.
Anyway Korkor Stephen came into our room cuz that's where the babies weren't + where the food was. He opened the packet of seaweed I bought and I left the room for 2 minutes to see the babies and when I came back he said he finished the seaweed and I was like wtf and didn't believe him but I rly cldn't find it anywhere it was damn funny. He inhaled it or something i don't understand how he demolished it so fast. Monstrous.
Our beds.
We had tea at the lobby area with the owners. They are a lovely couple. They love me also. I tied my hair into a plait and the aunty kept telling me it's damn nice and my hair colour is damn nice then she asked me if I'm a hairdresser. Dat is gr8. Then she said I'm damn pretty and my skin is very nice so Ok can forgive.
Went downstairs to the hotspring area at night!
Day 4:
Benbie sleeping in the morning. Everyone says I look like I'm breastfeeding. There is a special place in hell reserved for yall.
The Luce Chapel
Set off for Taipei today which is a loooongass drive away so as usual we stopped by a couple of random places
Went to some church in some University campus. The church is special cuz there's no roof. It's like if you put your hands together in a praying manner.
I love pushing Assthur when she's in the pram <3
The wind was damn strong here so it was really cold and my uncle one hero in his shorts hahahahaha. He looks like one of the three wise men
Twins. Dad & Ben formed a special bond during the trip. They were inseparable~~
Looks like Pororo whom she fondly refers to as "lolololo"
Lunch at some place with wooden decor
(My subheadings are terrible I know)
We came here with our tour group the last time we went to Taiwan!
It was Mom & Dad's 30th Wedding Anniversary!!!
This was SO yummy
This was really good too. Salted egg tofu and mushroom. I really should try to take pictures before they attack it but they all sure kaopei
Dinner at some Jap Place
We drove FOR HOURSSSSSSSS before reaching Taipei.
My hair was like this upon reaching the dinner table and nobody felt like they needed to tell me my hair was absolute shit. When i confronted them later on they thought this was the look i was going for. I can't even..........
Dad bought Mom black pearl earrings and a pendant. Ewww PDA
2nd Photo: Dad trying to point at mom's natural black pearl (HAHAHAHA) and failing (HAHAHAHA)
3rd photo: LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLwtf
4th photo: OKOKOKOKOK maintain
I spent the entire dinner picking up some ball that Assthur threw and running after her making sure she didn't bump her head on the corners of the table while everyone sat in the room eating happily. If i had a cage.................
Day 5:
Yomi Hotel @ Taipei
We stayed at Yomi Hotel which was really comfortable and I really liked it. It's about a 10 minute walk from the nearest MRT and there's a 7/11 and Family Mart and bubble tea shop right next door
^.^
Shopping @ Taipei 101
We took the train to Taipei 101 to shop today!!!
Split up at about 12pm and agreed to meet back at 1:30pm. At about 12:30pm after splitting into groups we all realised this wasn't Taipei 101 and we were all done with looking around but couldn't contact each other. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sibei jialat.
Assthur is SO CUTE. I bent down so I would be same height as her and she bent down also. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HOW CUTE IS DATTTTTT.
HEY I JUZ MET U
N I'M A MONSTER
Met up and went to the real Taipei 101. hahahahaha srsly losers. especially since we have all been to Taipei 101 the previous time.
Split up again and korkor, Jiejie Lyd and I went to roam around inside looking for Bernie's Christmas present. Spent AN ETERNITY but finally found something really nice at Dior.
Went to Eslite Bookstore which is a 24hr bookshop that's apparently very popular. I don't get the hype. It's like Kino. Nearly bought a Where's Wally book but I got a headache browsing through it. Sian really getting old.
Had an iced latte here.
Night Market
We all went out for dinner but split up cuz some wanted to go to the night market and others wanted a sit-down meal. I ate sashimi and my roasted corn at the night market. This night market was a really small one tho.
Went to look for the other members of our family and found them eating at this dilapidated place. Wat. Da. Faq. My brother and I LAUGHED our heads off when we saw them here. Cuz my parents are usually the first to flee from such places.
Wtf is going on really. hahahahahahahahahahahah
I went to Watsons everyday and even several times a day. HAHAHAHA. The make up removers damn cheap there so I bought about 10. And bought two BBcreams by Missha and Skin79 cuz it was like only S$22 there.
Day 6:
Shopping @ Xi Men Ting
Took the train to Xi Men Ting today to shop. Would have taken a cab because it's much faster and easier and comfortable and not very expensive either but Ben hates being in a car cuz he is slightly claustrophobic.
Ben's sleeping position NEVER MAINTAIN AT ALL.
HAHAHAHA Bffs fo lyf
HI YOU. hahaHAHAHAHAHA.
I can't read a single thing on the signboard but this is a famous oyster mee sua place. My uncle is clearly very excited.
Saw these super fat doggiessssss
Hahahaha. I hate these kind of machines because I never get anything and it's really addictive. Also, PSY looks so bad. HAHAHA.
BENBENNN. Didn't buy anything from this place because it's like all winter shit and hats and they did sell some bags and earrings and that kinda stuff but I didn't like em. I did buy a face wash from The Face Shop though hahaha.
This is the junction near our hotel!
Shopping @ Wu Fen Pu
Went out at night to Wu Fen Pu which sells like wholesale stuff. But the clothes were mostly winter wear.
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Raohe Night Market
Walked about 5 minutes from Wu Fen Pu to Ruohe Night Market which was way more interesting!
Ate super yummy Herbal Ba Kut Teh
And oysters!!!
Played some fish catching game. The paper is tracing paper and dissolves in water. Damn funny and difficult. My cousin managed to catch one tho!
Day 7:
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I LOVE THE ZOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE SERIOUSLY NOBODY UNDERSTANDS MY LOVE!!!
Singapore Zoo is the best so it kinda spoils the game for the rest of the zoos in the world but I still do love going to zoos overseas. The Taiwan Zoo is MASSIVE and it costs like SGD 1. Insane. AND they have pandas. AND they don't charge extra to see the pandas.
Korkor rocking jiejie Pam's longchamp bag
Entrance to the zoo
Went to Mc Donalds to get food and Assthur LOVES the fries
Assthur had flu so I had to take out her nose shit............. This is the biggest nose shit I have EVER seen.
Mc Donalds druggie. High on Fries. Snot + chocolate on her face.
Look at my bro's eyelids. Mine r like that too which is why I have to put my eyelid tape. :(
Benbie <3 He looks so calm and tame compared to Assthur
HAI MY LITTLE SWEETIE
Dad was couldn't even wait for ben to come down he had to go up the escalator and wait at the train station.
Too cute diz bromance.
Bought Assthur a froggie hat
KOALA BEARRRZZZ
Pundah
They have an extremely elaborate enclosure for the Pandas. Like an entire three storey building complete with a gift shop and a cafe. They have two pandas and when we went they were both sleeping with their backs facing us :(
Panda Cafe for Lunch. SOOOOOOOOO CUTEEEEEEEEEE
They sat in the chairs for about 2 minutes before they tried to climb out.
SO happy after having her second ice cream of the day. She ended up eating icecream all three meals. LOL
Wearing the hat we bought at the gift shop
Pandas woke up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWTTTTTTT
They behave exactly like humans wearing a panda suit.
HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI. wanted to hug them so badly
Hahahahahahaha
Hahahahahaha
My mom took a look at this and said, "WOW What is this? The word Zoo in Mandarin is it?"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
In case yall are retarded too it's a freaking elephant and koala bear and other animals.
Croc
Pygmy Hippo
Hate Monkeys
Ewww so disgusting like some old man
The enclosure was really interesting tho
MASSIVE spider
Threw a leaf and it attacked it thinking it was an insect LOLdumbass.
Lololol really together forever these two.
Gloria from Madagascar
Assthur looks SO cute
We walked back after this even though we covered only about 10% cuz da babies were tired/sleeping. I was like OMG CAN WE GO SEE THE KOALA BEARS? And everyone was looking at me like wtf r u serious cuz I forgot that we already saw them. HAHAHAHA MA BADDDD.
HAHAHAHAA
Yucksss
By the time we went to the "children's zoo" the children were all sleeping but I really wanted to go so I dragged and begged Korkor to go with me. HAHAHA. LOOK AT DA BUNNIES SO CUTEEEE.
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
This was damn funny ahahahahahahah
Bought a hat for Coopcakes (Nut's nephew) so he and assthur can have matching hats when they have their first playdate
Drinking milk in her sleep
Dumped all the bags on the handles of the pram and even with Assthur sitting in it if we didn't hold it the pram would tilt back hahaha
Went to take the Gondola which is more like a cable car. Was damn cheap also like 2 SGD
Scenery was stunning!!!
Crystal Cabin- Glass floor. Which was lame cuz it's all trees below anyway.
LOVE this photo it's so beautiful and makes me so happy hahaha
The cable car brought us to the top which is Mao Kong Station and they had some food market there so we went to grab a quick bite 
Pig's Blood. Idk how they make it like this. I didn't even know I ordered this. It came with my tofu. My Dad wanted to eat some tofu so I gave him some and his face was PRICELESS because it's apparently chou tofu and he didn't know and he HATES it and I didn't know so he glared at me for a good 10 seconds which is something he has never done before and my brother and cousin burst out laughing cuz korkor was like "Daddy just said fuck you with his eyes"
Well said.
Dinner @ Sukiya Taipei 101
We had dinner at Bernie's restaurant!!! It was lovely. Steamboat buffet and they had ice cream also which was damn yums
Carried Ben while he slept but I really wanted to eat ice cream so..................... hahahahaahaha
Raohe Night Market again
Went to the night market again because my parents and aunt and uncle hadn't been there yet and I had to buy some presents for my friendsssss
Pacman frogs which my cousin fell in love with
Day 8:
Shi Fen Old Street
Drove up the mountains again to Shi Fen Old Street to walk around.
Awww
It started drizzling which was extremely annoying and it's quite narrow inside so carrying an umbrella is really a hassle. My aunt damn champion really there are no other words to describe this. hahahahahaha
"Erm............................ Do you need an umbrella Ah Yee?"
"Nono, I have my hat ^^"
Needless to say my brother and I LOST IT.
Went to this eatery and the walls inside were PLASTERED with the owner's face EVERYYYYYWHEREEEE.
Then went to find the rest of the family who were at some restaurant.
Hehe
Shi Fen Waterfall
Look at the fish!!!
I wasn't even ready...
Went to some town nearby to buy firewerqqqssss. It's legal in Taiwan and also FRIGGINASS cheap. Like the small ones were 1 SGD and the bigger ones that you normally see were only 10 SGD
Taiwanese tradition where they write wishes on floating lanterns
Bing Lang which is some kind of beetle nut or something that is very common in Taiwan. Usually they get sessymamas to dress like hookers and sell it to truck drivers and all who chew them so they don't fall asleep. We tried it last time I think. Sucked. And spoils your teeth if you consume alot. Our tour guide says they used to be naked. HAHAHA.
Fireworks
Family Dramz back at the hotel before a couple of us set off to go play with the fireworks. Had to drive out about 45minutes to a less crowded area.
Obviously I couldn't light the fireworks because I am extremely scared of fire/lighters.
Didn't know how to set my camera settings properly PLUS my camera was dying so the photos I took.......really............ wow.........................get ready.
Dat. Iz. Gr8. Luckily my brother took a video. (I'll put it at the end of the post) Anyway it was seriously SO cool. gr8 way to end the trip (minus the family fight hahaha)
Packing to go home! Our room was such a mess.
Day 10: 23rd December 2012
Going home!!! :)
Really fun and enjoyable trip spending quality time with my family but I think having the babies with us was really stressful so the adults didn't have THAT much fun. But it was still a really lovely trip!
Cuddle time before going home
For some reason the last day was the coldest like really 10 degrees or something and I was not prepared AT ALL. Ended up freezing even in the airport and had to wear gloves which my brother found extremely amusing. _|_
Flying back home. Yey!
My cousin fell after she lighted the fireworks. I didn't see it but we laughed like shit about it after that. HAHAHA.
Thanks for reading!
~End of Taiwan~
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