First week of School

Well, it has been a week since I started school, and there's not much time to travel around anymore..

so,

on the 22nd of September,

Xinrong, Hyunmin, Hahye and I went to Taipei. It was Hyunmin and Hahye's first time there so we decide to bring them around. Went to 西門町 so that they could try 阿宗麵線! And of course I had to get a bowl too! Who could resist!

And for dessert, we went to...

Their 雪花冰 is a must-try! Highly recommended haha. Loved it to the max. There are many other flavours too!

After which, we went to 五分埔 for some shopping! This place is totally a heaven for girl's who love to buy clothes. It is an area that gathers wholesalers. So the clothes here are really cheap. What's more attracting is that they change their clothes every week. So you will never have to worry that there is nothing to buy!

五分埔 then leads to a very popular night market - 饒河觀光夜市. Which is where we went next.

There's basically two entrances for this night market. At the entrance that we were at, there is definitely one stall that catches your eye. And this is something you definitely have to try when you come here.

This! It is like a bun with minced meat and spring onion filling. The most important thing, it has a lot of pepper. Enough for you to taste it when you eat it. The queue is always very long (well of course since it is so famous).

There's a lot of food around too. Many choices haha. And there are also stalls selling clothes. The store for the taiwan online shop PGMall (sells bags) is also here.

It was a Saturday when we went to this night market so as you can imagine. It is super crowded. But too bad weekends are my free-er days.

On Sunday, Xinrong and I decided to stay in Hsinchu because we were too tired to travel. So, we went to the shopping mall here - Big City.

It is actually very convenient because they have a shuttle bus from Sogo near the railway station.

Big City... is really big. Haha. It also links to another SOGO departmental store there. Inside, there is a cinema, foodcourt, hypermarket, there's even Daiso! It's not a bad place to hang out, and outside Big City there are shops to walk around too.

And I had a first time there ----- Cold Stone Creamery!

My first time trying it. There are stores in Singapore! But I have never gotten down to trying it. So here I am eating it for the first time in Taiwan!

That's all for travelling till now. Till the next time.. It's studying and more studying... XD

台中遊

Went to 新竹市區 to buy tickets for Shin Hyesung's music show on the 10th October. Totally underestimated the fans here haha. The VIP tickets were totally sold out and the Cat 1 tickets only left the side blocks, so we got the Cat 2 tickets instead. Haiz. Anyway, after that we travelled to 台中. Wow. It took really long. About 2 hours.

When we reached the terminal, we did not know where to go. Want to go to 薰衣草森林. But then we would not have time to go 逢甲夜市. Hence, we decided to just go around the city area. As we were taking the bus to 新光三越, Shirlynn spotted a fansign on the way.

對，就是汪東城. Haha. Decided to just see how it would be like, so we got off. Fortunately, nearby is 台中市一中街商圈. So we still had somewhere to walk. There wasn't much there, but we had to spend time. After which, we went to the place we really wanted to go.

逢甲夜市!!!!

Yes we are here! And how could we miss out on the food that is the most famous here?

官之霖 的 大腸包小腸. this is the trademark food here so it is a must try! If you do not believe, you can come here to take a look. The stall has a very long queue. That is how popular it is. I also bought bubble tea here! For 45NTD (around SGD 2) but you won't believe the size of the bubble tea.

Yes it is this big!!! OMG 超划算. I LIKE.

After that we went shopping for clothes. I spent the most on apparel here, mostly on shoes. Haha. But the shoes are really cheap! and nice too! How can I not buy them!

By the time we went back to the bus terminal, it was already almost 11pm. Then. we found out the last bus to Hsinchu left at 9pm. So early! Weekend eh! so people take note! Wasted our return trip ticket, and had to take the railway instead. The scary thing is we almost missed the last train too. The three girls (including me) didn't know how to read the railway schedule. It was until Hanwei pointed out that the last train leaves at 1105pm that we realised we only had 5 minutes to decide whether to buy the tickets. In panic we just bought and rushed to enter the platform. We even ran to the wrong direction. Sigh. Luckily we managed to be on time.

Administration and more

Woke up at around 9am today. Not knowing what to do. Wondered how am I going to settle everything alone, from school administration issues to setting up a bank account.

Luckily, I met the two Singaporean exchange student girls who live next door, and I asked if I could follow them. They gladly agreed. Thank goodness.

Left to Right: Xinrong, Shirlynn, Me, Bryan

Hence, with them, we met up with their buddy, Bryan, who is a very nice guy. He brought us to have breakfast first. The breakfast is really cheap. And nice. After which, he brought us to the administration building to find Juilin, the teacher-in-charge. After which, he brought us around to settle everything. From the registration, to the dormitory internet, to even our taiwanese phone line. He helped us sign the plan under his name because we could not get a post-paid plan without a second identification. That was when I first had my internet again. YAY.

We wanted to settle our bank account in Taiwan, but we have not gotten our student ID. After that, he followed us back to our room to settle the wired dormitory internet. YAY! internet on the computer! finally. I was so miserable the previous day because I could not call anybody in Singapore, not even my family :(

After that, Bryan had something on and had to leave. The three of us decided to go to 新竹後站夜市 to have a look, as well as have our dinner. XD

Now for some food recommendation!

If you can read the chinese words, good for you. if not, erm. well it is some kind of spring onion pancake. What makes it special is that, there is egg inside. and when you bite it, the egg yolk oozes out. Really nice!

Papaya milk! Of course! how can you miss this in Taiwan! It is a must to drink if you ever come taiwan. The milk and the papaya is really well blended.

Yup, Didn't eat alot because my appetite is not that big, but this is some of the nice things here in this night market. The night market is not very big actually so there was not much.