Taiwan 2009 food galore!

All the following food went straight into our stomach and got digested =D

@ Taichung ~

Mashed potato covered with cream cheese and bacon

Huge takoyaki balls with plenty of ingredients inside. yum!

Bread filled with fried noodles. Popular in Japan

Cold squid with mayonnaise. I liked it >.<

The muahchee balls that got mx's stomach so full she got scared of it Our first mango ice shaving in Taiwan!

@ a dimsum restaurant @ somewhere. lolz!

Xiaolongbao that isn't super nice

Cheecheongfun. I like this kind! the wet wet one with fillings

I loved this because there's prawns inside =D

@ a shopping district in Taichung, in one of the recommended restaurants.

Soft egg and cheese toast? i can't remember >.<

This is the rice pudding.

Beef noodles! Omg this was reallly good. I loved the soup

@ Sun-moon lake. I didn't post all the pictures cos not all of them were nice. We ate a lot there though.

Fried yam cake. I love the crisp of the skin.

@ Fishermen's jetty in Danshuei, Taipei

Long ice-cream. Woots!

@ a shopping area in Taipei. We were hungry so we got some crepes.

Savoury crepes with lots of ingredients. This is mine

This is hy's chocolate banana crepes. I think it was nicer than the savoury ones. Anyway, they are not exactly crepes cos the skin is like...pancake skin.

@ a pseudo-japanese restaurant near our hotel

Tofu with bonito flakes

Yakisoba. Doesn't look like right! it looks like some chinese chow-mien with udon.

Doesn't look appealing but the fish slices were thick and fresh

Cheena/taiwanese omurice! Quite oily. haha! Those food satisfied our hunger for the night.

@ Shilin Night market

Giant sausages! I didn't eat my Taiwan sausage there so I just had the bigger version.

Spring onions wrapped with pork. The onions' taste was too strong for my liking.

The shilin chicken cutlet. The infamous one! lol...Mango shavings. Do i need to explain more? Yum!!

@ a food court near Taipei 101

Huge hotplate with plenty of ingredients. Looks really yum!

@ Jiufen

Stall owner's photowhoring. These are just 1% of all the photos in her shop.

The meatballs sold in the shop. They taste really good. Worth a try!

a coffee cafe. I loved the coffee! their coffee had jelly inside. These are just the cakes on display which i was tempted to try as well.

@ toilet bowl restaurant in ximending

the menu was omg!! hu-lu-lu xi bian (watery stools). omg i couldn't stop laughing while reading it.

Hy's pasta that came in a sink plate.

Mx's curry rice that came in a toilet bowl!

My baked rice that came in a bathtub. Not that bad >.<

Fried nuggets that came in a squat-toilet. ROFL!

Ice-cream that came in squat toilets with the shape of shyt. rofl!

@ Wakaru in Taipei

My ramen set. It was huge but i managed to finish the protein parts. haha! The soup tasted a bit weird but still alright. I preferred the soup base at Ajisen.

Hy's Katsu set i think. Looks yum as well!

Taiwan trip

I finished my attachment at National Heart Centre already. I was supposed to have a 2weeks attachment at SGH but the nursing department was busy with some audit stuff. Anyway, I was placed at the cardiothoracic ward and whatever I saw were pretty interesting. Had a better understanding of how the local nursing environment is like. At least I'm not that frightened anymore. The clinical educators were all so helpful and nice! they tried to counsel me out of my paranoia regarding adapting to the local nursing environment and taught me many many stuff which I can't learn in LTU.

There's many things I should update about but i haven't.
I love this photo a lot. I took this when I went pancake parlour with toto and faezah before returning to sg last year.
We look like dwarfs! but i think we looked really cute XD

During the post-exam period, i also went to Great Ocean Road with a bunch of guys. Great Ocean Road definitely looks nicer in summer when the sun is out. My prev experience of Great Ocean Road was in Autumn and it even rained while we were there. Unfortunately, those guys decided to leave really early because GOR didn't appeal to them as much and flies were pretty much annoying them. I was disappointed, frankly speaking, since I loved sceneries.


Here's my Taiwan trip photos! I shan't type too much about it. Too lazy to upload many photos since blogger isn't accommodating my photowhoring.
We went to Xin Chu first when we reached Taiwan. Our 2nd day (1st day was spent on the plane) was spent at the amusement park! We arrived there like super duper early and we were the first to enter the amusement park. Talk about kiasuism! We really thought it'll be crowded. Anyway, we finished whatever we wanted to take within a few hours since there weren't much queues around in the wee hours. The rides were not as exciting as those in Gold Coast but they had their own uniqueness. We took a few 360deg rides and the pirate ship was omgawd scary!


If I'm not wrong, this is our hotel in Taichung. We went to Taichung after we left the amusement park. This is the Kiwi hotel if i didn't remember wrongly. I love the room. I love the ambience. There's a tv which isn't in the photo la. I remembered screaming every night while scrolling through the TV channels cos we'd chance upon some porn channels. GEE!!! Then the bathtub in this hotel has jacuzzi! Playful me went to press the jacuzzi button when there was no water in the tub and omg, the whole toilet shook!! The bathtub was so cool the 3 of us (hy mx and i) sat by the bathtub to soak our aching feet.
While we were in Taichung we visited certain places. We visited a flower exhibition. It's something like Tulip fest but has more varieties of flowers. Then we went to Lavender garden! I love the garden! it's so sweet and it's sweeter when u go somewhere, write a wish on a card and tie it somewhere around a wishing tree. lol >.< I love doing this kind of things even though i noe my wish would not come true just like that.
We also visited some night markets there but i don't seem to recall the names XD
We visited a science centre (was it in Taichung?) Anyway, we just had some fun with the gadgets on display for people to try. The following photo is a photo taken of the security camera, which displays me trying to get pass some infra-red lasers in order to infringe upon some private area to steal something =D
This is Sun-Moon lake. We went there when we left Taichung for Minsu (staying @ a holiday chalet operated by a family or someone, usually located at the suburbs in a village) at somewhere. I'm seriously all over the place and there's no sequence XD pardon me. It's a big beautiful lake but too touristy. Full of ahtiongs fighting to take photos with a piece of rock that has characters (sun-moon lake) on it.
I caught some cool uncles posing with their bikes, so i just snapped a photo =D
A very random hotel found @ the same touristy area. It's seriously just one rectangular block standing all by itself. I bet it topples really easily >.<
This was Jiufen in Taipei area. Does it look like a scene in spirited away? I didn't think so >.< onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZ1t60PCSA_-oW8ZiFLTe5Mw_piMMj69qb_JJD8rmcVoVeG9zLU7fr5gNhPTDGkTSeoMsgzgvawMyvmYy_0thssqEctKh4VyoCBihDmqyR8IuxXdwEoPCsjsZwQe71hFnLGlG4X0yuf4/s1600-h/DSCF9345.JPG">
We went to participate in a recording when we were in Taipei. yes! it's bai-wan-da-ge-xing! haha! The photo's evidence of our presence in the studio.
We went there on our last night. Yes! it looks like the lounge of a hotel but NO! it's the lounge of partyworld (KTV). i was like OMGGGGGG!! the whole partyworld building looks like a hotel as well, full of karaoke rooms. Our room even has its own toilet!! coolness~
To summarise our time in taipei, we went to quite a few places to shop and we walked around for a bit. Oh yes! we definitely went to Shilin and we spent some time shopping for bags and shoes and clothes as well. haha! I had a great time in Taiwan. There's more pictures taken of course but i shall not post la.

yesyes Jaey... i'm updating

Jang Geun Suk is going to China for a fan-meeting! Why isn't he ever going to Singapore for a fan-meeting? If there's one I hope that it's not gonna cost 188bucks to get in to see him >.<

Anyway, I've got a new phone! It's a sony ericsson W995! haha, no more touchscreen phones for me at the moment. Too much research and review-reading deterred me from getting a touchscreen phone. Thinking about the practicalities of getting a touchscreen phone and paying that price for such a phone, I thought I shall downgrade myself and get a slider phone instead. Anyway, I'm liking this phone quite a bit. 3.5mm jack + conversation-mode messaging system + walkman + cybershot, it's like a compilation of whatever I want in a phone. However, the camera is a bit of a disappointment. It wasn't as good as what I thought it would be.

For the past week, I've been entertaining myself with lots of dates with different people. It has been great catching up with people. Also, I've been entertaining myself with CO practices. I joined a CO by chance and have only 3 weeks to practice before the concert. So that's... supposedly 3 practices? Fortunately, I chance upon their practice camp so I got some intensive practice at Pasir Ris PA Camp. Nothing interesting... just practice practice practice. And oh yea! Pasir Ris park has a smart ice-cream uncle who discovered an orchestra of people at the camp. So he came in during our mealtimes, specially, to sell ice-cream to us =.= The poor me decided to tolerate till the last day of the camp. Just when I wanted to buy the ice-cream badly, the ice-cream uncle didn't come T.T Anyway, the concert's coming and i'm pretty excited!

Other than dates, I've been entertaining myself with shows XD I finished Mr Brain, Orthros no Inu and now, i'm watching JIN! haha! It really takes me a LOooonng time to survive the first episode of any series. But beyond that, it was pretty easy for me to progress. I've also watched 4 episodes of Wild bunny - a variety show that showcases the other side of the members of beasty idols 2PM!! It's pretty funnie when u watch with eng subs.

Wild bunny 2PM - Eng subs Ep1 1/5



HAha!! I'd really love to influence those around me with Kpop XD Then can share more interesting stuff!

November~

Hey bloggie!

I came back just in time to blog my november =D
Yes yes yes! I've finished all my assignments and exams ever since my last update. I'm not sure about how I fared, but I think I'm not going get my dream grades. Oh well, I still hope they'll be good. I haven't been doing much these weeks other than lock myself up in Chisholm to study and do assignments. Oh, there were a few birthdays during the month. Had a few good meals as well.

The moment exam ended, Sutyee came from Sydney to visit Melb so I spent a few days bringing her around the city. Found a few good stuff to buy. I shopped for quite a lot of clothes in preparation for Taiwan. I've got a nice jacket that I'm gonna wear when I'm in Taiwan =D

The time has come when I have to move out from my room =(( I hate packing!! I hate packing and moving. I can't pack too early cos I still needa use certain items. I really wanna finish packing everything and get it done with and enjoy the rest of my days lazing around and shopping in the city.

I guess my life, as a student, wouldn't be anymore interesting during the exam period. I shall see what goes on in the next week before I fly back to singapore =DD Look out for me!!

My Oct~

Hey bloggie,

I just finished one of my assignments and I'm left with one more!!
I've been pretty lazy lately. I just procrastinated so much and I didn't do much work either. I didn't even cook nice meals for myself!! Anyway, I finally gathered some energy to cook for the next few days. It was a pretty simple meal but guess wad? I'm addicted to it. Probably cos I've been gorging on unhealthy disgusting food the past few days.

I didn't take a picture... but that dish pretty much evolved quite a bit within 10mins of cooking. It was supposed to be just a simple stir-fry involving minced meat, onions and egg. Then it became sambal stir-fry in the end. lol! I got addicted to the nyonya sambal chilli from Glory. It's awesome! My tolerance for chilli went up so much i didn't think that the sambal chilli was spicy at all. Goodness! I need more potent chilli to satisfy my never-ending craving for spicy food. <3 chilli! To think I got diarrhoea a few times last year when I was still in Glenn just because I ate the chilli tuna/curry tuna from Ayam brand. I can't believe it!

My glory sambal chilli!! yeshhhh...
Sorry hy!! =P
Oh yea... darling mx! Don't think u'll see this but thanks for listening to my unnecessary troubles. lol! at least I got over it somehow and started my craze and cravings for the chilli =D

My Sept ~

Dear bloggie,

I haven't updated you for ages have I?
Haha, I've been busy!! Not super busy but pretty busy. After I came back from Korea, I had a concert with Chao Feng CO. OHhh... I love concerts =D Concerts are the time when you bond with other members in the CO and we have a lot of fun being crazy. And i do like being serious and performing my best for the audience. The auditorium was full! It was kind of unexpected being in Melb and getting a full auditorium.

Then I had my mental health placements at Austin Hospital. For confidentiality's sake, all I can say was I really enjoyed my placement and I had a wonderful preceptor who guided me really well. He was a nice guy and we even had a mini gossip session on my last day of placement =P The patients are well... patients. Got to witness how schizophrenia is truly like during this placement. The main downside to this placement was the nursing students in fact. Had one very irritating fellow nursing student on the same placement as I. I don't feel that she has the qualities and knowledge to become a nurse and I didn't feel justice when she passed (not due to her abilities). Oh well...

After my placements, I went straight to Gold Coast!! LOL!! Dream tourist place for most people. Went with Xin, Sue, Fang, Angela, xiaoyan and peisan. We stayed in an apartment and it was awesome >.< It is really near to Surfer's Paradise which is a really pretty surfing beach. To summarise the whole trip, we went to the three major theme parks, Movieworld, Dreamworld and Wet & Wild. The most insane rides are at Movie World and Dreamworld but I didn't take everything cos some of them are too scary. Wet & Wild's fairly alright. It's just the water rides and slides which are really fun =)) I didn't manage to catch any pictures as you don't really wanna carry your camera around during water rides. We also took Jetboating as well. It seems much more fun than the one I saw at NewZealand. He just kept spunning us around all the time and I got really wet. I loved it! Too bad I didn't get to do some sea sports like para-sailing. I guess I can do that in Thailand =P

The tower of terror @ dreamworld. It involves a carrier that will move -> at high speed and then upwards till it goes vertical to the highest point. It is extremely fast!! then it'll drop down backwards back to the original starting point. lol

This is surfer's paradise! We went there in the wee hours in the morning to watch the sunrise and take pictures. Beautiful place =D

This is the Superman ride/Metropolitan Rapid Transit/MRT at movieworld. It's insanely fast. It shoots up fast and goes down fast and it just goes up and down really fast. It took like...10 - 20 seconds to finish the whole course the moment it started speeding. When i got out from the roller coast, I was really tearing because I was sooo scared!! That arc is really really high up.

Yes we took pictures with Mr Spongebob @ Dreamworld!! and yea we aren't looking at my camera. We looked at another one.

A farm dog used to gather the sheeps. It's soooo friendly and I loved it so much i hugged it while taking the pictures. When i got close, I realised that it stinks a bit. LOL

Yesh yesh... we saw a cute koala at Dreamworld as well. I got to stroke it!! sooo nice.. like a soft toy.
This is the wild wild west log ride at Movie World. It's pretty high up. The amazing part was, the log actually went backwards for the first fall. For the 2nd fall (as seen in the picture), it's head first yea. This is the first time I've experienced falls that go backwards!! Tower of terror came later cos we went Movie World first.

And yea, this is jetboating. We just got spun 360deg all the time and we just kept getting wet. You don't get the adrenalin rush like roller coaster rides but all the spinning and water splashing just makes u get excited. We just kept waving to other people on the boat as well. haha.

The following are pictures that are taken during the rides. My friends went to buy the pictures so I just got the scanned ones from them.

The motor ride. It's just a roller-coaster that involves riding in a motorbike. awesome!

That's scooby-doo roller coaster. It freaked the hell outta us the first time we took it. First, the roller coast actually had to take a lift upwards. And the lift can shake and that scared us. After u get lifted up on the lift, you reach the highest point where u slide back and the roller coaster goes backwards down a slope. We were screaming like hell then!


That's the tower of terror ride. It starts off really fast. 4G-force? Don't know what that means but it's freaking fast.

And lastly, our jet-boating photo!! lol! nice =D

Korea trip!

Trying to squeeze some time out to reply some messages, emails, and update the blog. To summarise my 5 weeks of school, it has been really hectic and i was really stressed out trying to catch up with my work and arranging measures to ensure I keep up with tutorials and lectures i'd miss during that 1.5weeks to Korea. Oh yea, not to mention, dealing with assignments which were due after the Korea trip as well. Anyway, I didn't regret going at all =D

Well, this programme is named Global Leadership Programme. It's held at Daegu in South Korea (Duhhh....) which is the 3rd largest city in South Korea. It is organized by Daegu health college which obviously specializes in health sciences. They paid for all our expenses - accommodation, transport and food that are related to the itinerary of the programme. I think pictures speak a thousand words, so i shall let the pictures tell their story.

This picture fairly sums out the members of the programme. 20 Koreas, 3 Australians, 1 Singapore (me!), 3 Americans, 5 Japanese, 5 Filipinos, 2 Chinese and 1 Canadian

Anyway, i shall start from Day 1...
Day 1 - Set off from Melbourne for Sg and Korea. I stayed in sg for about 1hour plus and in Korea-Seoul for about 12 hours. Too many pictures to post. too troublesome >.< align="center"> My room! Very different from the Chisholm room

Day 3 - Met some other foreigners (not internationals =P) and also met our Korean counterparts. We went to Donghwasa Temple @ Mt Palgong. I had a really Korean/Japanese feel when i went there.

The buddha statues there

The temple. This is just a small part of course.

I got a bit lazy recalling what I did on different days. So i guess i shall give a summary and bombard the post with pictures. The programme didn't really involve leadership elements unlike leadership programmes in Singapore. It is more like a cultural exchange programme. Anyway, we got to do some sightseeing at temples, gardens, museums and at downtown. The college wasn't exactly situated at the city area in Daegu. It was at the sides.

Other than the sightseeing, we had various academic programmes. Lecturers - entertaining ones - were invited to give us talks on cultural differences. It was fairly enlightening as we learnt about the differences between korean cultures and other cultures. Then we had discussions on the importance of global leadership, globalisation and cultural issues. We were supposed to give presentations after discussion. It wasn't a big problem cos they don't require comprehensive presentations, just a small speech to present our points.

We had... a Korean fan dance lesson and a cooking competition as well. I like these kind of activities!

However, i felt that we wasted a fair amount of time on random stuff rather than the activities itself. We had plenty of time constraints but I also felt that we have insufficient time on more fun activities. We should have less time allocated to lectures (cos we have plenty of rest times) and more time for other activities.

Anyway, at night, we don't have an organized activities in the itinerary. One of the Korean guys would organise night activities for us. We went out for extra meals, karaoke, pubbing and did plenty of random stuff like playing with fireworks within the school compound. haha! We played plenty of cards in different people's rooms as well. So, night-time was the main socialising time i guess.

Overall, i made lots of friends and I really missed all of them. They are really nice people, including the foreigners and koreans of course. Kept in contact with them mainly through facebook. As for those who don't use facebook, we either influenced them to use or kept in contact via emails.

Gyeongju City - old buildings (on a sightseeing day! - it's a lovely place since i like old buildings and stuff) I'll post my pictures later.

Downtown at Daegu (we went there during one of the night trips). Plenty of shopping to do there but we didn't have time. During that night, we went to a park to watch a Korean movie (obviously the foreigners couldn't understand). So we just sat around, interrupt people, play games and ate lots of good food (spicy rice cakes, fried chicken - yum!!)


Daegu Health College - looks so nice!! So much nicer than my university. They even have artefacts in the central area.

The eye chart used at the clinic where we took our temperatures (swine flu precaution). Look at the last column! they actually have pictures! Anyway the funny thing about this clinic is, they didn't change the thermometer cap when they took everyone's temperature. Talk about infection control!! luckily i was the first few to have my temperature taken >.<

Due to the instability of blogger, i shall post all these first =D