3 days left

Time goes by fast, when you are…SHOPPING! EATING! SLEEPIING! Repeating these 3 steps each day, makes me forget how close i am to returning home in Australia and starting a new school life. I’m excited for what is comming for me. I’ve shopped so much that i dont want to ask my mum how much I’ve spent in Hk, Macau, Taiwan and China. Luckily I look back into my security locker, i still have few hundred Australian dollars. Seriously, how am I going to live when im back to Australia… two shifts a week at Camelot might not complete my bills by the end of the year.

Anyway its been nearly a month since I’ve updated about where I’ve been and what I’ve done even though I’ve also been on a comp and updating my facebook status. Really…I couldnt bother updating since im doing sooo many things in one day!!!

First week back to Hong Kong was exciting. Because I’ve spent about of the buget I brought with me back to Hong Kong. Then UNfortunately and fortunately, Vicki my dear friend received a bad news about her trip to Taiwan, so she rang me the day before to ask if i could join her. In surprise, mummy didnt…reject it and allowed me to GO!…even in such short notice. Its my first time travelling without my family to another country, I’m a lucky daughter compare to some reallllllllllllllly traditional chinese families. (people might think im in the ‘family rule’ comes first jail)

So Vicki and I met at Central MTR express line to catch the subway to Airport at about 7.30am in the morning to catch an early flight at 10am! Argh*

 

We arrived at Hotel in XiMenDing 西門町 at around 2.30pm after the toss and turn bus ride from airport. The most memorable bus ride ever from an Airport to a Hotel. The bus was full of honkies from our flight, everyone talking in rude slangs and bitching like a honkie. The second reaction we shared was…TW looks so much like China in area and building wise.

 

The hotel we stayed in called ‘Just Sleep’ opend only for half a year!

 

What the city looks like from our Level 9 window.

We went down towards that direction from our window,(of course…we went down to the lobby and exited the hotel first..) and hunt down FOOD! Then at night time, we went down to night market. For each night we slept around 1-2am since the first night. The second day, I think we missed out our breakfast, so went to Taipei central looked at XinGuangSanYue shopping centre. Following on, browsing in another section we found Pepper Lunch and Daiso. I spent around $1,500 NT dollars in the 2nd morning! Anyways, shopping is what i went for! Then went for a few snacks that are famous in Taiwan. We also visited the popular shopping place for wholesale buyers, WuFenPu. shopped abit, and back to near our hotel to have TOILET DINNER* ( to my assumption, it wasnt as good as what I heard from others)

We planned to have the giant tall iicecream, but fail to succeed because we were so full from the toilet shit.  

This is the trend? of Taiwan style cut? We saw few franchise from the place we’ve been.

The lovely lighting resource we got busy with before we went to sleep. we took lots and deleted…lots =]

The breakfast we missed out on the second day, and then after the third day, we ‘wanted’ to miss the last day’s breaky too.

The famous Ding Tai Fong, I was there the 2nd time in 3 years, and I remembered what I left there last time and this time I must re-order!

  My favourites!!!!

On the same day, we pretty much covered around the main areas of Taipei. We even visited the Hello Kitty Cafe , (which has min spending of $300 NT, which didnt even taste good)

The Hello Kitty Tiramisu cake, that I suffer from, “OVER-CREAMY”ness.

On this last night in Taipei , we re-visited the main night market in JianTan station. We ate so much more this time, compare to the night before when we arrived. We bought HEAPPPS back to our hotel.

Finally, speed and brief reporting of the Taiwan trip, on OUR last day in Taiwan, we woke up early to have our breaky and went down to get our last shopping done. Sadly, we were too early for the shops that normally open at 10/11am in the morning. So we waited at starbucks with our magazines. I was suffering from stomache and returned to hotel tgt and slept for 45mins and headed back out to the streets to see if the shops open…            After around an hour, we’ve accomplished our last shopping spree, spending my last penny. Returned to the hotel by 1pm and was ready for the ‘flying dog’ company shuttle bus to arrive.

This is such hectic trip, to make it short this is what we did;  # checked in at Taipei, TaoYuan Airport, #waited at Gate 29, # Listened to noisy mid age ladies blabbering on about the trip and lives. # abroad the plane that was 15mins late. # took up a whole roll by myself by the window and arrive HongKong less than 2hours.

######Rushed Out to get through Customs######### waited for our luggage to be unloaded. (this nearly 10pm) Rushed to get on the MTR to get back to central. Arrived in 25mins  and took the taxi with Vicki back to my place. Changed the clothes from my luggage to new ones. Transfer my new shopping items from the ‘redwhiteblue’ bag to my big suitcase. Made sure i took the right stuff with me and off we went to the Hongkong Macau Harbour and took our 11.30pm ferry to Macau!!!!

The boat was so…drifty. We got picked up by Vicki’s dad, and they dropped me off at the local resturant in Macau to meet up mummy and the rest of my fam from Macau.

I will continue this post tmr, starting from what I did in macau =]

too tired now. =[ the nose block is really annoying meeeeee