Taiwan Trip! Part 2

Alright I'm too lazy to type stuff, shall just spam photos :D

My favourite caramel pudding! 

Roselle biscuits given by the hotel. super yumz. If anyone knows where I can buy this let me knoww.

One of the remaining city gates

BEACHESS but they were quite polluted.

Super cheap beach wear!

Gongcha. Their cup is humongous and costs only 1 buck plus! super cheap as compared to SG.

Apparently those 3 fan-like structures are where a nuclear plant is located. like seriously?? A nuclear plant so close to the beach?? and the tour guide was saying those beachgo-ers not afraid of death, so much radiative materials in the sea and they're still happily swimming in there. 

Binlang - Betel nut? Taiwanese love them. Tried it but it was like tasteless/ had a weird aftertaste. eek.

Night market at gaoxiong!

Snake meat zomg.

Fried mushroom! good stuff loved it :D

Chou Dou fu. 

It really wasn't that bad! 

Papaya milkshake. I actually think SG's ones are much nicer!

More food hee hee. they had alot of seafood but we didn't dare to try any! 

Okays shall continue the spam another time.

Next stop: Krabi

Leaving for Krabi in less than 12 hours!

Taiwan Trip ! Part 1

Finally got down to blogging about the taiwan trip haha. Didn't have the mood to do so the past few days with the release of component grades and results every other day. But I'm thankful that my grades are not as screwed as expected, although they did pull down my gpa by quite abit.

8 DAYS OF TAIWAN

Headed to the airport early in the morning to catch our CI flight!

Pretty clouds dotting the air.

Weather in Taiwan was erratic! It could be pouring one minute and completely sunny the other. Same as Singapore.

For the first night, we headed to Dan Shui. Sadly it was raining and at night so couldn't take photos of the pretty river :/

Tried some taiwan food:

Fish-meat balls, noodles, some tofu skin wrapped noodles kinda thing I forgot its name D:

When you open the tofu skin its noodles!!

Tornado potato with 3 different seasoning. quite yumz.

The next day we went to the Gugong museum! or rather, National Palace Museum. 

Couldn't take photos inside the exhibits, but they had thousands of artifacts :O and my favourite was some fei cui jade bangle. first time seeing a red and green jade!

Toilet signs super cute :D

Later on in the afternoon we took a train to Hualian! It was my first time sitting a train lol.

Testing out the effects of my camera haha

The train was delayed so I stating toying around with the different functions

This one colour function thing is really cool!

At night we went to this night market near our hotel, Marshal Hotel...

Busy busy street.

Had cravings for xiao long bao! and there was this famous shop called 公正包子店. The queue was like LONG. so we decided to try it out.

Xiaolongbaos at only NT5!! thats like $0.25 for each bao.

But to my disappointment it was not the usual xiaolongbao we have in sg! 

It was like a normal pau. something like our chicken pau, just that the filling tastes the same as a xiaolongbao. Oh well but for the price i'm not complaining.

Apparently the kind of xiaolongbaos i wanted was called xiaolong TANG bao (meaning soup).... hahaha. 

Headed to Taroko National Park the next day.

Look at the cloud!!!

Tour guide was telling us about the history of taiwan and this place. And about how there are many falling rocks etc and how one of them broke his foot a few years back D: dangerous! We had to wear helmets while walking around.

Some hot spring water coffee which cost as much as a starbucks coffee :O

Whole taiwan was filled with land/rivers like that. When it rains it becomes a big overflowing river!

Bento stop on the way.

Still prefer Japan's bentos heehee. 

More to be continued in the next part! time to go for dance~

Grades this semester have been a major disappointment - so far I see nothing higher than a B. Such a stark contrast from my first semester, and it baffles me because I put in so much more effort this sem but the results don't seem to reflect it. So does the problem lie with me? Sometimes I'm so tired of all these tricks fate plays on me, I just want to get a grade that is equivalent to the effort that I've put in.

Being constantly surrounded by people who say they are screwed simply because they got an A- doesn't make me feel any better either, when deep down I'm just praying to get a 3.0. Tbh I'm disliking SMU more and more by the second, and I would say I'm completely regretting my choice to study there, or rather, my choice to study business management over law in the first place. The teaching pedagogy is not one that allows me to study optimally. Times like this make me wish I had gone to Notts, a less cut-throat environment, a complete change away from Singapore's rigid education system. But then again if I had left, I would not have been able to do many things as well - dance, be close to loved ones, etc. Guess we can't have the best of both worlds.

Thoughts of quitting school crossed my mind several times, but I suppose I have to live with the decision, whether right or wrong, that I've made. At least I still have 6 more sems to work hard for. Oh well such is life.

Back from Taiwan!

Hello! I'm back after a week long tour to taiwan haha.

We went to so many places, need some time to sort out and recall them. But just some random shots:

shall blog about the trip another time! first unpack everything~