Day 9 -- 15/06/08

Our second last day in taipei.. we woke up at 9.. had mac breakfast as our hotel has alliances wif mac.. den we headed for Ximending.. we took the tapei metro from beitou to taipei main station and change to danshui line to take to ximen station.. It was said that ximending is a muz visit place if one goes to taiwan.. so we planned to shop there.. we reached there at about 11am.. many shops werent open yet.. it was hot... as we walked along the streets.. we went into a few shops.. for the same quality and design, the stuff at ximending was tripple the px of the station front metro mall.. Xt bought a monkey pencil case and i got 2 cute coin pouch for my little cousins.. After shopping for around an hr and a half.. (as most shops are still not open yet), we decided to go back to the station front metro mall.. We shopped and bought things like nobody's business.. haha.. The heels there are nice and cheap.. it cost around S$20 onli.. We shopped till around 3.30 and within this short 2 hrs.. we had many many bags wif us.. As xt needed panadol and we cant possibly carry so many things to the next destination, we headed back to our hotel.. Went back there to get some stuff and met xiao gu and xiao shu shu at taipei 101 buikding (taipei city hall oso at danshui line).. We had Thai food for dinner.. though the fish gravy was sour and spicy.. its indeed nice.. haha.. we had curry, tom yam soup, prawns and some veg.. sumptuous dinner..

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After dinner, we took a cab to wu fen pu (五分埔).. which is a wholesales center selling clothes.. The clothes there are free size and we cant try on them.. Xt and I bought a few clothes onli.. coz the clothes there din really grab our attention.. the clothes there are mostly for youngsters (age 18??) haha.. i bought a top for jh, 1 dress and 1 top for myself.. so dissapointing coz my mission to tw was supposed to be buying lots of clothes.. haha.. i ended up buying lots of gifts for my family, relatives and friends.. not forgetting myself too.. but i bought way too little clothes!!! sigh.. xt oso.. haha.. We had mango iced (芒果冰) for dessert.. thumbs up!!! its very nice.. one wont regret trying it.. yummy (salivating..), I tried raspberry iced too.. but mango iced was nicer.. haha.. xiao gu and xiao shu family left at around 10 as the kids were tired.. we continued shopping for awhile.. we got ourselves a belt and xt got herself another top which she like it very much.. As most of the shops were closed.. we left at around 10.30.. it took us more than an hr to reach our hotel... wat a tired day.. we went shopping for the whole day!!! but at least our last 3 days at taipei was fruitful!! we managed to sweep out many stuff.. 好有满足感 wor.. We spent alot on transportation too.. haha.. travelling to and fro by mrt..



haha.. although we had satisfaction from those buyings (except the clothes part).. the ma fan part came.. how to squeeze all those into our luggage... very problematic.. haha.. luckily we brought a large luggage.. mentioned to squeeze everything in after repeated repacking.. See the no of shopping bags we had.. tts like half of wat we bought only.. haha.. Shopping queens? NO... we bought gifts for many pple ok.. more than 3/4 of the stuff i bought is not for myself.. wahaha.. we still haf some NT left.. haha.. after bathing and all.. it was around 2.30am liao.. super tired.. I actually slept earlier than xt!! woah.. first time.. haha.. we had to wake up at 6am tmr morning...

Btw.. as i recalled.. we actually tried out most transportation tools in tw.. bullet train, mrt, (shuttle) bus, taxi(yellow cab) and private car.. wahaha..