Taiwan photologs!

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Anna Ker

Finally finally. A part of the Taiwan photos are with me. The brother is sooooo lazy he’s so slow!

I abhor DSLRs/semi-pro cameras which takes photos in .RAW form. At least for now, I don’t require that kind of detailed processing of my photos. I’m TOO LAZY and its TOO TIME CONSUMING. Kudos to all photographers! All your time and patience spent on the processing photos is a virtue, I respect.

Enough of rumblings and rantings.

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Photos! I shall let the photos do the talking.

Jiu Fen old street!

Spot my greedy face. *guilty* We were eating tang-yuans (glutinous rice balls) alike stuffs, which are made of yam/pumpkins.

Smiling for the camera!

I look like my mouth is filled with half a dozen of tang yuans-alike!

It was more food than anything else, at this Jiu Fen old street. Daddy ate this traditional fish balls! They were quite yums too, alot of meat inside their fish balls.

The peak.

Catch the name of the shop on top of the photo. Its a shop selling lots and lots of goodies! Be sure to visit them when you’re here. They allow samplings for most of the goodies so you’ll definitely buy the right snacks home! :DDD Remember its “AH XIN DE DIAN”.

Brother’s photo taking skills #megafail one. Has to retake few times and see the difference in lightings..

These little kittens are massagers! Their rounded paws are for us to massage eg our forehead area..

Outside Jiu Fen old street.

We’re at Ye Liu!

If you read Chinese, the blue signboards thats the two words “Ye Liu”

I was trying to imitate the ‘statue’. Obviously i failed.

Lol, ponchos rock!!

Not many photos taken there because of the rain! :O It was more important to protect the camera.

Next day. The night was spent at the motel. 汽车旅馆! Read more about the hotel HERE!

The garage of our hotel!

Isn’t it damn cool!

The following night, was spent at the resort I previously blogged about here!

It was an orchid based hotel/resort..

& There were many many different types of breeds of orchids in their lobby!!! I’m not sure if I’ve taken a photo of everything actually..

At the hotel lobby waiting for the tour around the resort!

Look at my slippers. Epicccccc. I wore this hotel slipper out instead of my shoes because they were wet from the touring earlier in the morning! =.= It was damn funny everyone was looking at my unique shoes.

Mua chee making time!

Funny mascot at the resort. HAHA! :D

& Then Mua Chee was readyyyy! :)

Alright its been a really long post! More photos in the next photolog! :D

Welcome 2 Taiwan! part 3

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Anna Ker

Hello sweeties! :)))

More of my Taiwan Adventures! Glad I brought my camera as well because the brother is so slow, he still hasn’t uploaded our photos! >:(

No more hotels for today!

People in Taiwan REALLY LOVE DOGS!! (Haven’t seen much of cats though) And they bring their dogs everywhere they go. Thus I’ve been seeing dogs everywhere on the streets. So pampered and cute!! Alot of people are selling dog’s clothes as well, I believe especially in this season due to the chilly weather. This dog’s owner bought the pom a dinosaur attire. SUPER CUTEEE but I didn’t capture it! :O

This is 玄天上帝神像! (I had to refer to my itinerary, :/) Its a super huge statue! :)

A close up of the pretty statue!

This is another tourist attraction spot! The mouth of the dragon is the entrance!

Pretty background! Its called a 亭 in chinese, where people can take a rest in it!

Two pagodas spotted afar! :D

The entrance!

Streets at night.

One of the night markets. I can’t remember where already!! =(((

Uber huge sotongs!! Or do you call these octopus!?

OHHH, its LIU HE YE SHI!!! :) Spot mommy queuing for this Hu Jiao Bing!! Its not bad, I feel :)

It is baked inside this well-like thing with charcoal! So unique right!! All the little round buns you see inside is the Hu Jiao Bing! (Pepper biscuit – directly translated!) The person have to dig out the buns one by one!

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The next day, we went to Sun Moon Lake! Pretty pretty place!

Daddy’s friend says it would be perfect if we could spend a night there, but our tour package didn’t! We only went on a boat ‘tour’ around the lake!

I don’t know how to describe its beauty.. But this photo is definitely not doing the place justice! You need to be there to enjoy the breathtaking view!

If I didn’t remember wrongly, the tour guide mentioned that Sun Moon Lake is made up of two parts. One side of it resembles a Sun while the other resembles a Moon! Thus there comes the name!

Our boat docked at a little island..

&&& THIS IS THE FAMOUS AH PO CHA YE DAN!!! <3333333 Its mad delicious.. I had TWO eggs. I would have gotten more if eggs were free of cholesterol!!

I’m missing the CHA YE DANs as I’m typing away now! :(((

& Back to where we boarded the boat! Ain’t the backdrop beautiful?! I took a photo here as well but its with the brother! >:(

Super duper long bananas spotted there!! haha.

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Some self-loveee!

all from my iPhone!! =^^=

Its so true that once we get an iPhone, there is no/less need for a camera! I almost didn’t camwhore with my camera this time. HAHA, because I have my iPhone! :D

Hello from my Apple*pie! :D

HEHE! HELLOKITTYYYY.

One of the pair of shoes I bought there! Super cuteee its hand drawn! (YESSSS I’m well aware I’m 21 this year! :P)

<3 this photo with the parents! :D Except my fringe .___.

& These are my ear muffs!!! HEHE its baby pink in colourrrrr I love it! :)

Alright its a long post! :D Shall post again real soon!

GOOD DAY PEOPLE! :)

Welcome 2 Taiwan! part 2

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Anna Ker

& So continuing my photolog…

This post consists mainly of photos of the hotels I stayed in! Interesting because its my first time staying in such hotels lol.

I think they call it Motels. I used to think motels are cheap hotels, but after staying at this, I thought otherwise. Correct me if I’m wrong! Because the motel I stayed in was so good! The only bad part is I stayed in it with my brother. =.=” They are called 汽车旅馆! It was an experience I’d say. ;)

Awesome hotel, but with the wrong person. HAHA!

Lovely (fake) flowers at the corner of the room, beside the make up table!

A small platform beside the bed area with a small table! Nicely furnished right!

The wash up area. Its not enclosed!

Shower area. I specially took this photo because the shower head(s) are so awesome! There’s THREE or FOUR outlets of water.. Super comfy! From the top (reaching our heads directly), then then usual angle, as well as another one that will reach our back area…

There’s also a sauna area. The toilet bowl, shower and sauna areas are demarcated with GLASS. So basically everything was see through –_____ – when I bathed, the brother was restricted from the area, and vice versa..

There’s even a mini Jacuzzi inside the room! How awesome. But I didn’t manage to use it, felt so sore about it :(

It was open as well, only located behind a “wall”. Everything was so exposing wtf. hahaha. That is why I said I was there with the wrong person. *Sorry for the blur photo. Didn’t realise!

&&& Not fogetting a huge TV!! :D If you can recognise, behind the TV, its the wash up area. So the toilet, shower and sauna is all there. Infront of the TV is where the beds are!

& Why is it called a 汽车旅馆? Because you can drive your own car into this garage, and your hotel is inside!

Its like a super nice hotel for honeymoon. *But also for people to 偷情. hmm..

Anyway I didn’t do anything that was not-decent there.. So it was just an experience for me!! Because I’ve never stayed in such a hotel before.

That’s my “room” number!

Before setting off in the morning!

We went somewhere..

Which I can’t remember what it is anymore. #fail =/

*Its 中正紀念堂!* My teacher and friend told me on facebook! I’m such a disgrace HAHA!

Same for this, I forgot what is it. #failagain

*This is Taiwan’s 國家音樂廳* Thanks to my dear friend Yih Yun :D

& Thats all the photos I took during the day because it was a really bad rainy day. I could only remember my shoes were thoroughly soaked (of canvas material T__T)! So it was crazy uncomfy for me the whole day.

The hotel we stayed that night was interesting too!!! It was like a little resort and they had activities prepared for their guests! ;)

Guess what are we making?

Mommy love mixing the flour and the mixture.

Ready to steam!

HEHEHEE.

After its steamed, its whacked with the wooden stick to make it more Q~~

And TA-DAAAAA. ITS MUA CHEEEEEEEE!!! =DDD The stuffs you see on top the flour is peanuts and sugar! It was super noms!!!

Besides, they also let us write our wishes for the coming New Year, and we tied it on a tree!

We wrote our wishes on this cute rabbit! & Tied it around a tree. They had a little temple infront of the trees! May the Gods bless and grant our wishes! ^^

The words you see in chinese, is the name of the ‘resort’. It is called a farm stay if directly translated.

After that, we went to their KTV rooms! Didn’t sing though, we sat around hear some of our tour-mates sing and left soon after to rest! :D

& That was all for the night!

Alright I’ve been typing a bit! So tired now because I just came back from a 3D2N camp! I’ll update again real soon! :)

Welcome 2 Taiwan! :D

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Anna Ker

WELCOME 2 TAIWAN! :D (Do you remember those advertisements years back?)

I’ve been hearing and seeing Taiwan tourism related advertisements for years and years, compounded with my obsession with Taiwanese pop stars, so I’ve been longing to step my foot into this heavenly place (I assumed). *day-dreams that I’d meet stars like Wu Zun, Jay Chou, Rainie Yang, etc etc….*

& It was my very FIRST time there! Can you imagine my excitement!!!

*Beware, heavy post with lots of photos!*

Boy, I was so impressed with this country, it will be a place I would never get sick of visiting, I guess!! Not just because of the shopping, which everyone raves about. But also because of their excellent service and attitude. I would elaborate more as I blog of those instances! (Of course there would be some exceptions but generally, I’d had pleasant experiences in my 9 or 10 days spent in Taiwan!)

(I just so happen to be bloghopping, and saw QiuQiu’s post about bad service, and yes, I totally agree Singapore really have to improve in the service sector.)

Since it was my first visit, the parents decided that we should tour the whole of Taiwan. Not literally though, (it can never be done in 9/10 days!) but generally we went to the few main cities there, like Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, and of course Taipei!

After so much praising, the only thing I’m unhappy about was the weather. It rained so much when we were there it just dampens the mood! =( Everything was so inconvenient, and we even bought ponchos because of the rain! You’ll see in some of my photos! Rawhh..

Alright the photos shall do the talking! The photos will not be very organized because these photos are from my camera itself. Still waiting for the brother’s!

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Taken at Jiu Fen. A very famous place I guess? Will show another photo with the name of the place!

Taiwanese’s favourite Bing Lang!! I didn’t try it though.

Random little crabs we had for lunch. Nothing really fancy!

See, I told you, we were in ponchos…… How memorable!! :3

This place is called Ye Liu. A must-go tourist attraction!

It was supposed to be a very scenic and picturesque preserved ‘park’.

But the weather was horrible. Not only did it rain, the winds were extremely strong. So disturbing we barely explored the place, took a glace from afar and left. Lol.

Photos look blur too because my lens were tainted with water droplets.

Brother hid his new and more pro camera. So I sacrifice my old Canon.

I take photos of them, nobody take photo for me. So, self-camwhore lor! :O The wind made my hair a total mess!

Hahah, we saw many people with overturned and out-of-shape umbrellas due to the wind! Hilarious sight, so glad we got ponchos instead of insisting on umbrellas.

All the stones you see in the photos above are naturally shaped by the waves through wear and tear over the years. & There is this particular stone there, that is said to resemble the Queen’s head. I didn’t take a photo of the real stone because of the weather, so this is what I captured instead! :p

Next, we went to Dan Shui!

Thats the Qing Ren Qiao (Lover’s bridge) in the background!

The lovely bridge! We didn’t walk through it because of the bad weather. I was alone anyway! So it might be a good thing else later I #foreveralone! :O It is rumoured that couples must walk up and down the bridge holding hands!

Afterwhich, it was to Dan Shui Lao Jie! (Dan Shui Old street!)

Basically to eat some delicacies there. This is something like a huge fishball called ‘Ah Gei’ with ‘dong fen’ and some stuffs in side! Quite yumyums in my opinion!

Very yummy!

Mountain pork sausages. Directly translated lol.

& This veryvery yummy red bean pancake!!! Which costed only NT.10!! Which is around RM1. LOTS OF FILLING! :D I got a photo of the name of the stall, will post later! So when you guys get around in Tw you can try this if you see the same brand! There’s alot of stalls selling all around Tw and we’ve tried several of them, and this is the best by far. (This is at Dan shui and we saw their chain stall in Shihlin night market too!)

My cute “stupid looking toy” which my brother rudely calls it. Urghh its so cute please.

We were on our way to Shih lin Night market! :DDD

According to our tour guide, this is the best fried chicken stall! Which explains the queue. :3 I actually queued for it.

There you go! If you wanna try it, remember that its the blue signboard one! I actually saw another stall just a few stalls away with the exact name but in a yellow signboard, and there was no queue there. :/

HAO DA DA JI PAI! :D

Happy face with the huge chicken cutlet! Om nom nom nom! It costs NT. 55 only! ^^

Saw this huge melon in one of the fruit juice stall. Thats mommy’s palm. Can you imagine how huge it is? HAHA.

Daddy says its a water melon. But why the ‘stripes’ like that one! Wheres the dark and light green stripes? Mommy says its a winter melon. But got people make juice with winter melon?

Alright its a very heavy post I shall continue in my next post!

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Have a good week people! No Monday blues I hope! ;)

i LOVE taiwan! :D

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Anna Ker

Its the 17th of December today; and I just got back from Taiwan yesterday! :) Which explains my disappearance from the blog, as well as the winter-ish looking photo (does it?) from my previous post! :DD (I love my scarf! Its so cuteeee with the pompoms!)

T’was taken with my iPhone!! MAD LOVE MY iPHONE’S CAMERA!! HAHA. Though I’m still missin’ my Blackberry’s qwerty keyboard, I would definitely prefer iPhone’s camera. ^-^

Its exactly 1 month and 6 days to Chinese New Year.

Before Christmas and New Year arrives, I’m already looking forward to CNY! ;) Its my all-time favourite, because of new clothes, new shoes, everything NEWWWW :)

Anyway, this time, a lot of the photos are not with me because it was taken with my lil bro’s camera. So, meanwhile.. self-loving photos for you! I’ll sort the photos out and update my trip soon! :DD

Mommy love :)

with my new ear muff! :DD CUTEEE THING.

As you can see from the photos, the quality is still quite bad right? Hopefully its because I didn’t remove the plastic film from the phone yet, when taking the photos. :((

the lil bro. one of the pathetic few photos i have with him becos he refused to take photos :s

my loves. :)) daddy&mommy. they are the best! <3

lovee my parents! <3

& guess what. I met WQ in Taipei, in the SAME HOTEL somemore!!

We only found out that both of us were in Taiwan thru’ twitter, and then it was way toooooo coincidental that we stayed in the same hotel as well.So of course we had to take a photo together :D HAHA!! BUT photo quality is bad. >_>

Alrightttt I’ll be back with more updates!

For now, I LOVE TAIWAN :))) and I want to go back there again!! Hehehehehe.

p.s. all photos taken with my iPhone. :O

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