Annual Dinner @ Disney Land

So tired after back from Taiwan. Hardly had any winks during whole trip. Forgot it was annual dinner on wed! And worse, it was at disney land.. sigh no choice, had to abandon work hafway and follow the office people to catch the coach to destination.

Overall was ok. Wasnt that impressed with HK disneyland after been to all the rest and universal studio. But seeing how happy and excited Joanne was kinda make it more interesting! ha ha ha!The gals moved from site to site and we started with space mountain. After the ride, the gals were all agreeing that it wasnt terribly exciting as it wasnt dark enough, so we could see all the rails and expect what to come. And there was wasnt enough drops! Boooooorrring! After space mountain, we realise the rest were really kiddy rides. OMG, and we have a few hours to kill! We went off to play buzz light years and winne rides. Oh well, buzz light year was pretty alright and i had pretty high scores, considering i was half texting vendor about quotes at the same time! haaa haaa!! Dun piss me off or i will blow your head off! haa haa

Headed off to the hotel and the dinner night was pretty alright. We had pictures taken with Mickey but honesty, I didnt quite know what to do with Mickey. Didnt have that "attachment" to cartoon character, only took one for memory! haa haa. Won myself a dinner for 4. Josephine got herself a gucci pouch. Food was pretty decent actually. And i love the choc fondue! Yuummmmy!

Spooky nite in taipei

People were asking me why i was so tired back from taipei.

One reason was too much work, second reason was more spooky.

We came back from massage and kate wasnt too well and so we went back to the room for a rest. By dinner time, we grab a cab to Ding Tai Feng for dim sum with Jo. I boarded the cab first, followed by kate. What was weird was the cab driver was staring at Kate the whole time!!!
And honestly, his eyes from the rear mirror looks really really spooky! 阴深的样子。

The minute Kate closed the door, the cab driver told me in mandarin "there is a ghost next to your friend" I freaked out!!!! I screamed and literally covered my ear and told him i didnt want to hear. Ok i am chicken shit! haa haa

kate saw my reactions and heard the word ghost and she got scared. What was more spooky was the cab driver said "your colleague has a younger brother correct? And she has a K in her name" That totally freak me out. I told him i didnt want to continue the conversation and I ignore Kate to ask me to repeat what he said. I felt i didnt want to talk about scary things at night, and considering Taiwan is not known for "clean" environment, i didnt want to invite more "trouble" by talking about it.

So the whole night, both of us was disturbed by teh cab ride and kate agree his eyes looked scary. The whole night, i didnt sleep and for once in my life, i left every single lights in the room on. I think what spooked me the most was that when i got back after dinner, every single freaking channel on TV that i turn to (about 10 channels) were about ghost when i flick to it!!!! Talk about bloody coincidental broadcast!!! It was either about some ghost places, screaming ghost movie trailers, and reporting of a dead Taiwan celebrity that night. Bloody hell, i was totally scared shitless as my imagination runs wild!!!!

On Monday, i looked and felt like shit and was increasingly frustrated and bad mood. Lack of sleep does that to you. And all the work problems didnt lighten my mood and i was ready to aim and shoot. I wish I didnt have to repeat myself a thousand times. By Tues, I didnt sleep well again, i guess elephant memory doesnt help in this case....Arrrggghhh!

I am just glad to be home, even if I am still by myself. At least i have my comfort pillows! haa haa

My shanghai Biz Trip

My vendor brought me to this restaurant @xin tian di interior all decorated by the Liu Li gong Fang glass ware etc (same boss). They even have fusion perfomance which was pretty cool.

After dinner, they brought me to Bund 3 where there are many great restaurants and i had the "seriously serious cake" super goregously good! I was pretty impressed! And the place had a fabulously elevated view of the bund across the street.

One more nite in Taipei

Time flies when you are on business trip and before i knew it, half day passed!

Shirley brought us to eat pork rb noodle with tomato based soup near our office.. OOOOOo yummy! I missed such simple soup based noodle. Hard to find in HK. So i happily slurp off the soup and headed off for Bubble milk tea at "50Lan". Ooooo soooooo gooooood!

In a flash, i was late for dinner by an hour with Allen and the rest. Havent seen Allen since he quit his previous job. Absolute delight to catch up, and of discussing the "absurd" TV variety shows which i missed so much on crappy HK TV. I didnt realise how influenced SG TV is by Taiwan movie that it had become so integrated in my life!

After TGIF, we headed off to iCE Monster @ Da An Yong Kang Jie coz i was craving for local dessert. It was soooo nice! Too bad jumbo mango was off season..(damnit!), so Allen and I settled for Mango yorgurt while Tim and Rosie went for more local options of sweet potato, grass jelly and green beans.....Its quite nice to be eating cold dessert, sitting in the open cool weather. I think I will so hate to go back to the humid heat in singapore if ever!



By 1am, we decided to call it a night since everyone has to work tomorrow. I didnt realised how much i missed hanging out sessions with friends like this and just chatting after work. Plus there wasnt anyone else in the lounge and felt like we were at home lazing at the sofa. In HK, never got to do anything like this. Just didnt feel the same. With allen and gang, felt theraputic..like back home with my old friends....

Despite being Monday, the group headed off for a quick drink @Lounge (Xiao Ke Ting). The moment i entered the place, i thought the guy behind the bar counter looked super familiar. I think he kind of realise and he didnt really want to make eye contact initially. I kept telling the group that he looked familiar and i thought i saw him on TV Taiwan drama before. They all laughed and said if that was so, it must be some second grade show or they are from "singapore" to not recognise their local actor. Anycase, we started chatted about other things like why chewing gum was banned in sg and i was telling Allen to head to geylang for food. (Sooo embarrassing that i actually forgot the name of the Geylang street!! Oh god, i am away from home for toooo long!!!!!). Tim shared more "disgusting" past that boys he knew ate their nose shit when they were young!!! the girls went "EEEEEEEeeeewwwweeeee grosssssss!!!" Haaa haaa

As we were clearing the bill, i couldnt help but asked the owner if the guy i saw the whole night was ever on TV. The boss paused and said yes!!!!!!! And i asked if it was local idol drama and he said yes, that he was from the show "Prince turned frog series" ! I was like "I KNEW IT!!" and the rest of the group all laughed responding "OH! we are all from singapore!!!" It was hilarious! Imagine that i actually watched MORE Taiwan drama than the Taiwanese?!?@!! Haa haaa.
Anycase, a pity i didnt ask earlier or i could have a picture! I demanded Rosie to head back and take a picture of Antony tomorrow!!! I dun care!!! Arrrrrgggghhhh!!

U-LAI Hotspring @ taiwan

We were totally in love with the hot spring spa session at Spring Park Urai Spa (春秋乌来）. Kate and I spent 4 solid hours for Onsen soak and massage. We took 40mins- one hour cab ride from Taipei city to the hot spring spot (about NT$900). We were in love with the green river and forest green view where the private room overlooks. Imagine the tranquil of soaking in your own private onsen with the cool breeze blowing, and the gentle peace amid the green. Abolsutely fabulous.

I fell asleep through the whole session, with the gentle rythmic touch. I almost thought i heard myself snoring from total relaxation of body and mind! After kate lunch after 4pm, we grab a cab back to the comfortable bed that awaits us... If u are in Taipei for the weekend, and your body craves for gentle touch, you should so give this a go!

Shopping & Eating & Drinking @Taipei City

we met Jo at Mitshiko mall so that we can attend the roadshow for spring collection today. Kate was so nice (not to mention rich) and she bought the whole brush collection, eye shades, the brushes stand and whole shades of mascara today! In today, it cost her NT26,000 (S$1,300) just for the makeup at retail price. The BA was so shocked that she said she has never had anyone bought so much in one go.

Then we went to have beancurd downstairs in foodcourt@Eslite bookstore and it was OMG. I LOVE IT and i missed good beancurd so much!!! The syrup is not just cane sugar, there's something different about it with brown sugar and its not sickly sweet. Plus Muah chee was soooo goooooooooood! Comfort fooooood!

Then josephine was telling us she bought these necklace at the "hawkers" stall outside the MRT station and it only cost her NT$100 (S$5). My jaws drop!!!! its sooo cheap and nice!!! So we went to the store and i grab 3 necklace and feeling so happy! In between picking, there was police raid and the guy just packup and went off. So we were staying there with necklace in our hands wondering what happened. Shirley told us"cops" and we went oh! The best was everyone just stood around waiting for the guy to come back and collect the money. No one walk away with the necklace! How great is that for honesty!!!

We got hungry and headed to 川巴子(www.cbz.com.tw). Again, it was OMG!!!!!!The soup base was sooo good! we had the double pot of fish stock and the spicy stock. The fish is sooooo soft and tender! AMAZING!

After dinner, we craved for icecream and headed to Haggen Daaz. So we sat there and swopping stories. God i was dying from laughing the whole night!

Then we moved on to Organo (886-227840555) @An ho road. The fries are fanastic!!!! We had another 2 friends of shirley and Jo to join us and again we swopped ghost tales of this famouse hotel chain in Taipei and stories from different companies. It was funny! Joseph used to be from a known brand chips and he was sharing how they invited chef from Japan to make a dish and how they convert that taste to chips etc. It was amazing to know stories from behind the scene! Not to mention him gaining 6kg from eating all teh chips and drinking softdrink due to food testing!

By 1.30am, we called it a night but it has been such a great night. I went crazy and bought lotsa mandarin cds. and tomorrow, we are heading to U-Lai for hotspring and massage! Meanwhile, i feel my tummy skin being stretched so much from all the food and drinks that i think my waist is so going to sag by morning..!!

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Extra "Mobile" Service

Did i say i love the concept of the mobile service in Les Suite Taipei? It is sooo cool!!!Basically the hotel provide you with a free motorola phone in the room. And u can use the phone in Taipei city for the whole stay., Best of all, land calls are FREE and you can do room to room calling using the mobile. Press "8" and it connects you to the service desk and you can ask for anything! It is amazing concept and me and kate love it!I didnt have roaming service for hp (fk up HK sim card doesnt even allow sms service even when i am willing to PAY). So This hotel service is a blessing!!!

Abbreviation

How do u tell one is a Singaporean in HK, apart from singlish and our uniquely peppered speech flavoured with awesome string of words from different dialect+ language. Simple > Our love for Abbreviation.

I just realise, absolutely realise that no one except singaporeans have a clue as to what D&D means. If u are a singaporean and u just went "Huh?", You ought to be shot!So happens we had a gals night out last friday at Soho@ Sole Mio (Italian) and we were discussing about D&D. And when i said D&D, everyone on the table gave me a blank face. One was a philippino who worked in singapore before, one is a HK born and worked in New York for 15 years, one is Taiwanese who migrated to sea seattle, one is HK who grew up in melbourne, and one is just native Hk gal. So imagine. None of the 5 gals has a clue what D&D means, until i said "ANNUAL DINNER & DANCE!" They went "OoOoooooooHHHHHHH!!!"

FInally back from Lijiang

Finally am back from Lijiang in China. After all the lack of sleep in Lijiang, i was completely knocked out for whole of sunday. Tomorrow have to fly off to shanghai again for meeting.

Banyan tree is really awesome and fantastic there! Desmond the sales director at banyan tree, and from singapore, was fantastic and working with him on coordination had been a bliss. I love the singapore efficiency. The great news was that the event went smoothly and well! In fact, the greatest compliments came from this Taiwan colleague that she has never seen my big boss so relaxed and happy in all the 3 annual event she had attended, not to mention cracking jokes and talking to me. She said the previous 2 organisors had it really bad and he gave them the death look! So it was a huge relief and satisfaction that i pulled it off!!! My big boss had a appreciation session for me during lunch and they got me this scarf from banyan tree. I was honestly touched.

And my colleagues from HK had been wonderful! Seeing how hectic it was for me, they really tried to chip in and help me throughout the whole event whenever they can. Here's some pictures from Banyan Tree Lijiang and did i mention how great it was to soak in my villa's jacuzzi and watch the stars at night?

Descended from Snow Mountain (Part 3)

Ascending the Snow Mountain (Part 2)

Before ascending the snow mountain (Part 1)