naruwan taiwan. day 3 (:

had our usual morning call at 0700hr on e 3rd day.

but we had to pack our luggage to leave sunworld dynasty. ):

our grp photo outside our rooms. (:

my 2nd n last hearty breakfast in sunworld dynasty.

it's REALLY alot of food.

fried rice, fish, egg, bread = CARBO. hahas.

after breakfast, we headed down to the lucky charm centre. (aka qi lin guan)

did some fortune telling for free. :D

they could tell my character jus usin my birthdate n lookin at my chinese name.

realised tt i lacked e water element. gt

n ALL of us gt "tricked" into buyin e qi lin for NT 1K plus.

if seeing is believing, hearing is believing for us tt day. haha.

the wood element which randy lacked.

nw i noe y he owned green pants. lols.
hmm. maybe i shld buy more black clothes too. hahas.

we headed down to five cents driftwood restaurant for lunch when none of us were hungry at all.

but it's a really great place to dine cos e entire restaurant itself is an artpiece.

designed specially by its owner, an artist, each five cent restaurant branch has a different building sturcutre.

was kinda excited to be there since i'd seen e restaurant on tv for many times n i was FINALLY there. (:

wu jiao chuan ban. (:

heard from randy abt e story behind e origin of this restaurant's name.

e owner was ponderin abt e name in a beach when she discovered a piece of driftwood with a 5 cent coin stuck in btw e splints.

tt sparked off e name. lols.

there's a total of 3 storeys.

all linked via stairs.

but their staircases is really scary.

each step is seperated by a huge hole.

great ambience.


some art pieces made n painted by e owner herself. (:


so.. we CAMWHORE!!
aint we look like another masterpiece?
cn blend in with e background so well. hahas.


our 6-course lunch came.
n we are STILL nt hungry by then.
but we ate nonetheless.
felt darn darn bloated by then ):
but i enjoyed drinking their soup. yummy.
n their speciality: milk muai chee.
cn feel reminiscence in my tongue. hahas.


accomplishment!
for eating so much food all by ourselves. (:



we continued to camwhore after lunch.
e entire building is really intriguing.



5 cents driftwood is missed. ):

we headed down to e national taiwan democracy memorial hall after lunch.

it was changed to zi you guang chang by president chen durin his regime.

luckily president ma is changin it back. (:

spectacular structure.

e sun gt really strong tt afternoon.

so esther, denise n me put on our sunglasses.

grp photo (:

me n some temple-liked structure.

it's e sort of scene u'll see on those typical dynasty/ palace drama serials.

hahas.

onli then was i shocked to realise it's actually a national theater.

faints*

mermaid out of water?

discovered this beautiful bridge n lake.

a very olden day type of scene.

we were lucky to meet tw students as there was an event held tt day.

dont they looked like they were doing taji?

in fact, they were all rehearsing for mass dance.

using a-mei's version of ah li shan as background music. lols.

looked at e no of steps we had to climb to reach e top.

heard from randy there's a total of 89 steps.

FAINTS*

we made it up there nonetheless!

n took a photo with sun yat-sen. hahas.

e founding father of tw. (:

me with my unkempt hair.

e wind jus got stronger n stronger.

luv this can-can photo!

on our way to tai-chung from taipei, took this random shot off e street.

taipei railway station.

we went past xiao ju dan!!

went down to ximending for SHOPPING. as usual, randy gave us a very short period of time to shop. ): we made used of all e time we had n scurried off to e shops. e clothes there are much more xpensive as compared to wu fen pu. some shops dont allow for bargainin of prices somemore. ): nonetheless, i bought a white bag, 1 shorts, 1 blouse there. it was rumoured tt xiaogang from energy was at ximending tt day too. if only it was xiaozhu/aaron/ethan instead. hahas.

next off, we headed down to e lingzhi specialty shop n almost fell asleep hearing them talk abt e uses of lingzhi n drank some lingzhi tea. hahas.

reached jin yong quan hot spring resort in late evening after a dinner of shabu-shabu.
ate pretty little for dinner since lunch was so filling.


e rest of them changed into their switsuits for hot spring while i cn onli stayed onshore.
unlucky me n denise's mum. ):
could onli soak my legs in e water. ):


so meanwhile they soaked n tried out different flavoured pools,
me n denise's mum camwhored ard e spa resort.



we found a open space cafe on e 2nd storey of e resort.
n e nite view is really splendid!

it's a pity i didnt bring along my phone.
enjoyed my 3rd day as usual. (:

await more for day 4!! :D