enlarge the screen by clicking on the enlarge button on the bottom right corner of the video. Or press on the menu button to enlarge it! get tissue for all the food shots but bear with the lovey dovey (not really very mushy...so dun worry!) and crazy shots!
i had to admit that i was disappointed that we didnt manage to have any photos taken of us with our tian teng. i couldn't sleep. yah silly but i was upset but more upset with Gx for not being sensitive to my feelings!
was super excited when i got home, head straight to room to check out the cds. althou not well think ate too much from dinner (but dinner was good! tong shui cafe @ thomson), keep wanting to puke, hate that super sour taste in thoart, think i stare too much at the screen too (since morning 10 till about 6pm).
to Mr & Mrs Soh, i really appreciate the pic you created! really! i appreciate your thoughtfulness. but me upset is unavoidable cos i am a softy. gx say i am silly to get upset over such things cos is true its forever in my memories! which is more important. i only can blame myself cos of the low batts! Mayb its a good time to get a new camera! haha... jus kidding... too broke!
anyway tried to sleep but really couldnt cos thinking there must be a way to solve my little problem. then i found a way! but needed advice! so i got off bed prob 1+ almost 2 bah and on com and the person i needed most was online! Was so glad to see yvonne cos she can answer my enquiry! and yes with her help i tried and was able to solve my problem! THANKS A MILLION YVONNE! LOVE YOU GAL! of cos she laughed at me for not being able to sleep lah but i tried many times till i didnt realise that i got into bed finally only at 3+ almost 4am!
now i jus hope and pray that the images i created will be ok when printed... praying hard. Fingers are all crossed! well its small cos if not will be very pixelated... but hopefully keeping it small will be fine and its better than not having any at all...
thank you Mrs Soh!!! i am so touched! This picture is photoshoped by her... why soooo touch cos she haven't do one for herself! i love this picture alot! i truly enjoyed the moment we did the writing on the lantern, letting it into the sky and watching it float away! Thank you so much for this picture... it reminds me of the fun we had in Shifen! Thanks so much!
here are the pictures of the super harvest we had in Taiwan. i dun think we had alot thou cos our tourmates defintely beat us in all ways! would love to be back there for more shoe shopping, chicken pipi, chicken chops, load of ice desserts and more!!! if our wishes on our lantern come true then surely there will a next trip there! fingers-crossed! 
the food stuff we bot filled our dining table! my in-laws were haha prepared to be shocked bah... knowing i will buy as much as i can to let every try whatever i can get from taiwan! lucky me gx bot me my long awaited agnes b bag! love it! i oso like my $5 checked pink bag!
got lots of cute cute pencil, wooden animal magnets, cute little torches for the kids, the hello kitty and little melody are clocks for teaching kidos to read time. i got 2 pens one snoopy one which have 10 colours in it, and the kitty one had 6 i think. its for myself still a big kido who loves stationery!
well i cover my music area too! the lime green cd had a guzheng song used in kungfu movie. haha thats why i buy! i like it! when i went to enquire the blue cd and white cd the lady told me got promo buy blue cd and get the white one free. and i bot an old dvd of richard claydeman cos when i was young he was my inspiration why i loved piano and he got me started. and of cos my favourite buy in taiwan my wind instrument!
bot an orange dress or actually i consider it a along top and rest were all tops and sweaters. Gx jus bot tops, cos they berms cutting are too straight cut.
here are the "cake" harvest! the first thing to clear the very nite we arrive was our 8 mister donuts! they were very different, chewy in texture. LOVE it... and i oso love the chineses pastries in taiwan they are soft skinned and lovely!
th sesame biscuits are nice very aromatic and crunchy! the sun biscuits from jiufen was nice but my mum complained that it was too sweet. my famly according to gx eat quite bland. haha. 
this was recommended i have yet to try it yet but my mum say nice. we managed to spot it right before getting outa shilin. jus to let u know how big each piece was we did a comparison foto! haha big right so we only bot 1 box cos of space problem... 3 each for each family,
other then pastry we bot jiufen peanuts which tasted so good cold! they have dark coverings! oso in jiufen we bot a bottle of grape extract! good for health! taste like vitagen grape! danshui hei tang mochi cubes and tie dan. Duck tongue for my bro this is bot at XMT the street opposite watson. this is the most expensive cost S$20+++. the cuttlefish was very nice even when its refrigerated!
gx was doubting if my lantern project will be churned out smoothly. i was quite sure that it will turn out fine jus worried if MIL will like the surprise onot. that nite i slept early cos headache cos starred at the com too long! only next morning i woke up early sat in living roomn watching the mobile turn then when MIL woke up she told me it was pretty and she was surprised. cos in the day before she did asked me why so many lanterns are they for giving away. i didnt answer her cos i didnt wana lie and didnt wan her to know that was gog to be surprise.
the finished product! now i love sitting in the living room looking at it spin around! reminds me of the big lanterns we let into the sky! had loads of fun then! would love to do it again! pictures of us with our lighted lantern will be posted once i get the photos from Mrs S cos i took video while she took photos and haha my sis cam as usual no batt... yah lucky got Mrs S cam there was no way to travel bac to XMT to charge! gog to send camera for check and oso the charger... think both something wrong... charge full then cam in less then 30mins screamed low batt! errr... even bot new 2gb ssd card and the new battery oso prob! hopefully the check will solve my prob!
the huge and the tiny bottles! these popcorns were heavy adding quite abit to our load too! this was recommended by May. it is good! and i have to apologise to her that i manage to get 2 each for her only! SORRY MAY! cos the other 2 each i bot for my family! my friends oso bot some cos we saw the staff doing oit for some youngsters who were gog to catch a movie. it smelt so good!
gave the kidos the cartoon torch yesterday, they loved it! they managed to press the buttons and the twins were gog around to explore where to shine to able to see the picture better! they loved the popcorn too. they watch as the popcorn popped in the mircrowave and they smell got them very excited. they loved the big strawberry bottle! the bottle almost didnt make it my bro helped me pump air into the float but somehow he burst it instead! gx then try to pump into a 2nd layer, it had 2 airway dun know why but lucky gx saved it and it was a huge bottle as tall as the twins! i brought home like 5 recipe books haha dun know when i will make them but when i do try you guys will get to read about it! haha... lex see if successful then! 
i bot the tia maria to make tiramisu... and we now have all the flavours of baileys.
the sq flight was good as it was spacious. the only thing was there was a delay to go onboard and the brunch menu was not really good. watched 2 movies. blades of glory and korean 200 pounds beauty. both not bad. then we took a freego bus to our motel... the motel was a disaster. smelly old and no way at all i feel safe to leave our luggage there!!! after we left our luggage we went to rainbow hotel but it was fully booked and we walked on further to east dragon i think and we managed to secure rooms for the next few days.
with the hotel settled we headed to ah zhong mien xian for our 1st taiwan meal! filled with people even thou it was raining. as i was told everyone stand around to eat it and it was piping hot! the big intestine was good! chewy one and with Shanice's advice after tasting it original i directed gx to the corner to put some more seasonings. and i remember not too much chili! you said it would burn and a little had power too so can't imagine a whole spoonful!
it was here when helen ordered guotia that i saw pretty transparent umbrella selling for NT100 which cost $5 for a long standing umbrella. i chose a yellow pokka dotted one. so cute. helen got a lime green hearts, pretty!
then we headed to the train station to get to shilin market. we decided not to buy the storage card so we opt for pay for each trip when we travel and were surprise to see tokens dropping out. use as like our ezlink jus tap these tokens to get it but when we wanted to get out we drop it into a slot. the taiwanese are so orderly. they like HK people will stand on the right and leave the left of the escalotor for people to walk up. then while waiting for train they really will line up in a line behing the slated line... it actually was good experience. they will oso really wait till all the passengers come out then they will enter. but of cos there aer still people who will hurry in last minute and push. i gana elbowed and got so mad at his auntie cos my back hurt!
to get to shilin market we got off at Jiantan and not at shilin stop. it was still raining when we arrived
Lucky i decided to take pic with us under the newly bot yellow pokka dotted umbrella... we lost it later when we walked thru the HUGE area. and lucky the next 6 days no rain! 
the very 1st thing we tried was to q for the famous CHICKEN CHOP! it not only huge but it very hot too! it was really hot couldnt bite into it straight away. the seasoning is definitely nicer 100times than the one in singapore cos singpaore shilin one like jus pepper this had a mixture of powder to season it and the chicken piece not only huge but inside its well seasoned! Yums!
we took this pic while the boys were q'ing. we tried something hong one dun remember full name verdict: not very nice not to my taste. gx was excited when he ordered his 1st stick of chicken bumbum! but he was disappointed cos not bbq to super hot. this was the 1st time Mr & Mrs S and i tried it. haha Mrs S dun like it cos its bumbum. but onwards Mr S and I will ask Gx to get us one each when he ordered. its jus like round almost like a ball, jus nice to bite and tasty.
this is taiwan fried oyster. i dun like it cos the sauce is sweet and have cabbage one. basically i like our singapore one better. i find sweet oyster taste really ... weird? this is where i had my 1st piece of smelly beancurd also known as fermented beancurd... its stinkier than Hk one and i dun fancy it. i did try it, jus haven got to know how to appreciate it yet. but this was Mr & Mrs S favourite cos they will defintely order it! to each is its own. 
we walked on to a area where the pushcarts are. Mr s ordered prob his other favourite octupus! it was a huge one! not bad the seasoning was nice. then i wandered off further and found this freshly made fried potato chip! it is peeled in a curly form and we have to start eating it from the bottom. i ordered cheese so they sprinked cheese powder on it taste like cheddar.
then we went into the building to get some aircon and oso to look around and there was an area where it was all pet shop and they had many pups and they are all minitures. we suspect they are all breed specially to keep them small we even suspect they are sort of "muted" u can hardly hear any dogs bark at all! this dog looked like a fake toy dog! it slept with its tongue sticking out!
and doesnt this kitten look fake too! its eyes was very yellow! and fur was soooo white and fluffy.
then we moved on to play shooting game! the boys did the long riffle and i chose to play the short gun. it was almost real! heavt pistol and have sort of rebound kinda stuff when shooting.
this is my score! i had so much fun... got super duper excited when i managed to hit a target! this is where i got a free plastic fan. that came into use thruout the trip as i used it to fan gx and myself!
in bewteen where there are no other pics taken except when we stop for food is becos the street was filled with people and there were many shops that we stopped at to take alook or started our spree of bargaining and choosing! at shilin first nite i got the kidos in my family some kind of miniture torch but when they press a button there are cartoon pics in full colour! it was so cute. i got my 1st bag here too. think that was about all what i got here... mainly food here. Gx got this konyaku kinda dessert but there is filling in each like black sesame, red bean, yellow bean and yam. okie lah he say its bcos its not cold enough.
we stopped and sat down for a bowl of pigs' blood soup... again not my favourite and 2nd round of FBC. this was like we could smell it a street away! thats how strong the stench was! guess is either u love it or u hate it.
another favourite i found that nite was 3 brothers ice! snow ice with fresh and really sweet mango was GOOD! loved it! it kept us cooled from head to toe!
but not long after we decided to try this crab starcy soup a few shops away! our 1st bowl cos later we had one in KL and one last one in this same shop again on the nite before we depart...
when gx saw this almond dessert he had to had it cos it had a story to go with this dessert. it happen during his army dayz. his 1st taiwan food! this was okie liked the one i had in raohe better cos that had almond milk this was jus ice and the pudding.
with that we walked to the main street and at some point dun remember when gx managed to get himself a nice pair of leather shoe. i chose it for him and he liked it alot! dun remember what else we bot... thats was our 1st day and i had cramps since then. the hotel stinked and couldnt sleep well was jus waiting for dawn and we had decided to moved out!
