one day trip..yeah...

6th june 2009 - happy birthday to my foster brother who is
in Laos for his birthday..neway, i had my own share of fun for
the day as well..6 of us, may feng (the main organiser of the
trip), may hou, amy, xiaopek, joan and myself, started our one
day trip as early as 7.30am.. we were ready at about 7.15am
and decided to stop by at our favourite breakfast shop to
order some sandwiches to fill our empty stomachs. i still love
the 'kala chicken' burger as the meat is marvolous, just nice,
not overly fried. while we were waiting for the sanwiches, the
taxi driver called..so we basically rushed the poor aunty for
our breakfast and rushed of after paying..yippie, get to sit on
the 'toyota wish'..our first stop was at the lake (.i dont know
most of the places' names as they are in mandarin..so those
who knows how to read mandarin, can view my photos in FB
which will be loaded soon) we got into the boat for 6person
and all of us had the chance to paddle(it cost 150NT per
person, more expensive than we expected)...its a tiring task
just trying to get to the opposite side of the lake but we had
our own share of fun though..the scenery is just splendid... u
just have to come and see it with your own eyes (and i wil be
repeating this phrase many many times along this blog)... the
water in the lake is clear that we could see the base and since
it was also the venue for the dragon boat festival last week,
we could see some 'zong zi' floating around..after 1 hour of
paddling, our knees were really screaming for some rest. we
bought the famous papaya milk blended drink(50NT per cup)
but it wasnt as nice as expected.too little papaya and too
much milk..after that, we continued our journey but stopped
on the way to get some special sugar cane blended ice or
something and u are allowed to have 2 toppings. the original
ice itself is nice as the toppings covered the original taste..but
it is still something special and recommended. one bowl cost
NT50 as well. our next stop was at the park or garden which
is so huge and consists of cow farm, orchard, mini zoo etc
etc.the entrance fee is abit high, 350NT per person.we rented
the car(something like those golf kinda car) for 500NTand a
2person tricycle for NT200..we had some fun and crazy time
over there especially when we were rushing like mad as 2
hours really passed by too fast and we still had lots of places
to go.we snapped quite some photo but it was too hard to
cover every corner of the place.my body is aching real bad as
myself and may feng were helping to pull the tricycle with
xiao pek and joan on it while may hou was stepping at the
accelarator. we were using the help of the 'golf car' to help
pull the tricycle as it is impossible for them to cycle that far
journey in 5 minutes time...at one moment i thought my back
bone was going to snap as my position wasnt that
proper..thank god we were allrite..
after that, we went to some historical place..i really cant get
the name (i will bug my frens for the names of all the
places..give me some time.)..it was a short trip but we were so
impressed by the word carvings or sculpture done by the
people...it needs a lot of hardwork, patience and of course
skills to produce such beautiful pieces of work. too bad we
werent allowed to take photos of the carvings..so..just have to
come and see it urself..i had a good time eating the taiwan
sosej thou..oopsie...then, we stopped by at some place for
lunch, i know its a famous place as well..we ordered some
'traditional' kinda food..its pretty costy as our lunch came up
to 1300NT with only 5 dishes;1 meat, 1 fish and 3 vege dishes
and the special 'purple rice'(which consists of multiple
grains).. after lunch, we stopped by at the place which is so
famous for ice cream. we ordered 2 types, one tasted like
ribena and the other is made from 'brandy'..nice nice..
then, we continued our journey..on the way we saw a lot of
interesting view, and we were shown the prison from a
distance..it doesnt look like a prison but more like a nice
building of shopping complex...impressive..and the older prison
we passed by also look like a building for school, and they
dont need all those 'big grossy wires' in their fencing..guess,
their security is better in a way.. the sceneries along the way
was marvellous.. we had a short stops after that as we were
pratically rushing for time as the taxi fare would be
depending on the extra hours we spent... i really couldnt
express the contented feeling of seeing those views we
stopped by as its beyond words..we had our ''ooo and ahhs' all
along the way...one of the best was the cliff like thingy in
which it reminded us of the simpang mengayau in kudat sabah..
ya, its just so so special..before the trip came to an end, we
stopped by at the famous food stall selling some 'roti canai'
thingy with half cooked egg in it..its super nice..yummy..
so my conclusion for this trip was enjoyable thou it burnt a
big hole in my pocket as the total came to 2000NT..ya,i am
damn broke as i didnt prepare money for outing, tot 10K NT
is more than enough, mana tau its not enough.. din realise
things are expensive here...so..have to bermaggi ady this last
week and guai guai cannot go out liao..i still have lots of things
to buy back...sorry my dear frens, i not enough money to get
gifts for u all ady...till then..last week ady....