Sunday 23 October 2016

Taipei Day 8: National Palace Museum & Raohe Night Market


On our last day, after checking in our luggage at the luggage center a few minutes walk from Taipei Main Station, we headed back to Shilin for breakfast.



Again, we opted for the Taiwanese style breakfast and our choice this time is Yong He Dou Jiang Da Wang (永和豆漿大王) a.k.a. Soy Milk King @ShihLin MRT.
 
salty bean curd, anyone?

We were initially looking to get to the branch near to National Palace Museum via taxi but was told by the taxi driver there is another right beside the station! He was such a SUPER honest driver! I mean, he could've just earn some cash just getting us to the place we want but instead described to us the direction, which wasn't too far.

Direction: Just head towards Zhongzheng road, or from the station, towards the Watson store direction.






We had youtiao (cruellers) wrapped with egg and biscuit. I didnt know it was called Shao Bing so I simply showed the pic I got online from my friend's Ipad. Then we ordered soy milk, mine sweet and my other friend's, the salty version which they were raving. My friends remarked it was better than the one we had in a small shop near Chiang Kai Shek MRT! I'm quite meh about the salty version, somehow it isn't really my thing... In case you wanna order it, it's called Xian Dou Jiang.



On top of that, we had one rolled rice with floss (I think) and egg which we shared, which was alright. And you bet, we were so-o-o stuffed right after.



Dropped by the nearest convenience store after that to get my favorite Taiwan coffee.

 
After our meal, again, we boarded taxi to National Palace Museum. We spent a good four hours exploring the three levels of the museum. We didn't snap any pics inside, just taking our time checking out the arts and artifacts which was pretty cool.

Later the evening, we explored the museum exterior. The weather was getting gloomy by then. Nevertheless, it was super bright my eyes hurt so bad.



Fast forward to dinner time (after we had a short walk around Taipei 101), again we headed to Raohe Night market because we wanted someplace we were familiar with and close by to the TMS. It was a good idea because despite having been there the day before, we seemed to have missed out on exploring another side of the market.

This time we had beef noodles because my friends insisted on having some before leaving. I have forgotten the name of the place but it is one with photos of famous (I think) people who had dined in the restaurant.


Oh, if you read Chinese, this bill might help.


My friends had braised beef, beef meat noodles and another and I had beef noodles with combination of beef meat, tripe (a lining, I've just learned) and tendon.


Personally, I'm no fan of beef and even eating the parts was new to me but I thought the soup was alright, very clear but flavorful. The tripe though, was the least favorite having some strong inards-sorta taste. Think chicken liver.

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After our meals, we rushed back to Taipei Main Station grabbing our luggage from the luggage center before frantically looking for the bus station only to find the Kuo Kuang Bus Station neon sign looking down at us. Funnily it took one non-Chinese speaker/reader who could only make out the shapes of the characters to point that out LOL. We found ourselves in similar situations quite a number of times back in Taiwan hahaha.

On the ride towards the airport.


The journey was pretty smooth and thankfully we could checked in our luggage immediately and had some time to explore the rest of the airport before flying back.


Of course it's gotta be the window seat!


Anddd that's it! This post marks the last of my adventure in Taiwan~~ If you would like to find out more about my travel, check out the rest of it in my last few posts~! Thanks for reading.

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Wednesday 19 October 2016

MOTD on my former colleague's wedding

Hello lovelies~! I'm back with another post, dedication to the MOTD from last weekend when I attended a former colleague's wedding.

Malaysian Chinese wedding


FACE
❤   Hada Labo's Air BB Cream Still an all time favorite. It light and most important, doesn't turn flakey after a while. Affordable too!
❤   Etude Hose Precious Mineral Any Cushion in Natural Pearl Aura & Magic Any Cushion in Magic Peach - I sorta regretted using the former because it made my face and neck skin tone difference somewhat more distinct.
  Majorlica Majorca Puff de Cheek in Coral


EYE
   Eye Coffret 1 Day UV Contact Lens in Base Make - I used to love wearing this contact lens but of late I notice I could barely stand having this in my eyes for over 4 hours! My eyes started hurting so bad and watering by night it was still irritating. This morning I noticed bruised under my eyes, my goodness!
❤   Kate's Liquid Eyeliner in Black - Loving this so much because it's the BLACKEST, most water resistant eyeliner I ever had. Regretted not having discovered this much earlier.

❤   Dolly Wink Mascara in Volume Black
   Majolica Majorca Jewelling Eye Shadow in #66 - Only using the pink part for the bottom eyelid.
❤   Loreal Paris OpenEyesPro in #02 Plum Harmony
❤   Catrice Velvet Brow Powder Artist in #020 Brow fASHionista & #030 in Brow(n) is the New Black


LIP
❤   Tony Molly Dalcom Gloss Delight (Orange Cap)
❤   Loreal Paris Lipstick in P502 Cherry Crush


NAIL
❤   Innisfree ECO Nail Polish in #07 Of course, I wore shoes and handbag in matching color. This is definitely my favorite nail and accessories color for this year!!

Malaysian Chinese wedding

Malaysian Chinese wedding

In case you girls want to know, I'm wearing a super cute floral dress from Something Borrowed, Vinci nude heels and Esprit, also nude handbag.

Sunday 16 October 2016

my birthday celebrations, a random adventure in Kanching Falls and a wedding

Hello people~! I know I had neglected my blog for a few weeks now. Got caught up with work which is obviously my main priority and after that I had to study for my language test which I passed, which means another level up YAYYYY!

From the title you might have guessed what's this post about. Thought I should fill you on what I've been up to when I wasn't busy LOL. 

Last month, I turned 26! Despite all the hectic-ness at work, my friends made sure I celebrated my birthday, which was super nice of them :D I'm usually not the type to bother about my own birthday nor appreciate surprises but I liked them. Mostly because I get to spend amazing time with two group of friends turn awesome buddies which made it wayyy more enjoyable! Though there were a number of drinking session which definitely is a new personal record LOL. Yeah, I'm not one who find pleasure in alcohol.

In the first outing, we had our dinner in this cafe-bar place called Uncle Don's. Handsdown they're my new favorite spot. The food was absolutely delicious!



The place was so packed luckily a friend was there earlier to reserve seats for us, else it would have been quite a wait. They also served mocktails with rather amusing names. We had this S*x on the beach and Margarita. They tasted amazingly disgusting IMO tho my friends loved it. Closet alcoholics.




On my next meetup with another group of friends, we had Shabu Shabu before heading to this amazing bar, I-don't-remember-the-name Bosko that serves like, 15 types of Mohitos which is one of my newfound favorite alcoholic beverages because it's pretty much lime-y and sweet. Nothing too disgusting hahahah. But this one way quite rum-y it was quite rum-y so meh.

Shabu shabu dinner~


My mohito~




Oh, I almost forgot! The place serve this pretty amazing drink called Flaming Lamborghini on the house for birthday people and it was such an amazing experience. Luckily I had my guy friends helped me drink part most of them cause it tasted too sweet to my liking. I just pretended to drink along hahahahahah. Didn't have a pic cause we had to drink it as soon as it was lighted and flowing.

Also got this brownie from them and they were nice to add the firework sorta candle on top LOL


Dearest Cherlyn got me this Shiroi Koibito and Gummy Choco as prezzies sweeeeet!!

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Later that weekend I had potluck party among my language exhanged friends and I made this Kek Batik which turned out to be quite a hit and because of that I couldn't take a decent photo of my masterpiece LOL



This is my kek batik LOL

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Fast forward to just last weekend, my friend decided to go on this random waterfall hike at Kanching Falls and invited me along. It was quite a long ride from the city but we were super excited and energized when we arrived. That didn't last too long for me tho WTF. 

We hiked up the like, five flight of uneven stairs and just the second flight of stairs I was heaving and sweating, needing to stop. Was so embarrassed of my level of stamina.. 


Nature's stairs

Along the way up, we passed by several waterfalls. I was quite amazed that there were quite a number of levels of waterfalls. It's my first really, to hike by the waterfalls. 

One of the level we passed by~ The waterfall is spectacular!


We stopped at the fifth level, as there was no one and thus more privacy before taking a long, nice dip in the pool which initially appeared shallow but we were surprise to find it's quite the opposite.


The water was super cool and refreshing! Can't get enough of all the dipping!


Afterwards we had some nice Chinese dinner before heading back. Nice day, I would say. Would definitely love to do more hiking~~~ Gahh I'm already missing the place.

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And now, fast forward to just yesterday, my former colleague got married and held the ceremony in their new love nest LOL. Super happy for this lucky couple!

#MOTD




It's a garden theme wedding so the whole place is decorated with flowers including this table center piece.



Those are what I've been up to! If you're interested in what makeup I was using, don't forget to checkout my next post! I'll be listing them down~~

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