Babe For Life

This is the third time I had been to Taiwan. I have not been going for holiday since the past 2 years, and due to the tiring work I had in 2010, I really looked forward to this holiday for a long time.

My friends in the office know that I have been working without buddy for almost a year. Although everyone is kind enough to lend me a helping hand whenever they see me drowning, I still have to do major reports and adhoc requests from the HOS myself.

This break was like a life saviour, bringing work out of my mind for the time being (at least for 8 days). My Taiwan kakis even had AGM together, in order to make full use of the 8 days in Taipei. However, we had a change of plan and decided to travel out of Taipei for 2 days. First to Sun Moon Lake, then Qing Jing and after that, to Tai Zhong before going back to Taipei. All agreed and set off to Taipei on Boxing Day.

As there were really very funny incidents happened during the trip, I decided to keep my trip kakis' names a secret. So I have nicknamed them as CSB (Crazy Smiling Butt), MPP (Most Protected People) , and SQ (Shopping Queen).

CSB was not the first nichname we gave to her. She was formally known as 吃不停. Before we set off from Taipei, we had breakfast at Mac Donalds. On the plane, we had the meal served to us. After that, all of us had not eaten anything until we touched down Taipei and checked into the hotel. However, she told us, she ate a 凤梨酥which she kept from the meal we had previously. When we all went out for dinner at night, she ate heartily just like us. After that day, we witnessed her special talent. From normal meals to snacks, and ice creams, she never failed to show us that her small stomach could actually fill a lot of food, anytime.

By the way, we are really grateful to her, even now, that she spent her money on food, instead of shopping, because her super light luggage actually save us in the airport, as the other 3 of us had overweight luggage. As for why is she called CSB, that is a little secret between the 4 of us.

MPP was the most protected person during the trip. She was prompt to fall down in the unexpected time. If I have not remembered wrongly, she fell down twice and nearly fell twice. First time,she slipped down the steps when we were walking down in 九族文化村. Second time, she fell down in the van when 黄先生suddenly braked the van. Then when we were in 清境农场, when she nearly fell down. I happened to be standing behind her, so I managed to grab her before she fell. The last time was when we walked out of Mac Donalds in Tai Zhong. We were supposed to board the van to set off for Taipei. She came out from the shop and walked over the rail to the van. Fortunately I turned around to check on her, and managed to catch her before she fell again.

Oh!!! There was one mysterious incident too. SQ and I heard her shouted 'Aiyah' in the restroom when she said she wanted to take a shower. The first thing we shouted out was 'A! You fell down again har?'. Though she kept insisting that she actually dropped her towel, we still keep that as a mysterious fall. Hahaha! Since then, the three of us decided to protect her. We will walk beside, in front and behind her every time, in case she falls again, we will be able to catch her on time.

Before I forget, MPP is really very prepared Travel Kaki. She prepared all our itinerary and researched on information on our hotel, 民宿, transport, places to visit, things to bring for us. She provided 暖暖包for us. Really thankful of her.

SQ is still SQ regardless in Taiwan or Singapore. She could buy something in the places we went. Sun Moon Lake, Qing Jing, Tai Zhong and Taipei earned a lot of her money. Hahaha! She was the only person who came back to the hotel every night with something in her bag. Even if we went to 7-Eleven, she could grab a lot of of snacks, tidbits and things. She bought shoes, bags, books, DVDs, accessories and gifts. Fortunately, she brought additional bags to Taipei, because all the things could not fit into her luggage. I am really impressed that she can even bought instant noodle and soup and even 饭团back to Singapore. She definitely live up to her name!

I had 8 days of fond memories and new experiences, over 1400 pieces of photos. I will be blogging about my trip. So stay tuned.

And time to save up to recoup my damage cause in my bank account.