Taipei Day 1 (22/11/2012)

Finally D day!

The maxi cab we booked arrived on time and viola! at exactly 5.40am, we set off for the airport!

Since we are taking budget airline, need to make sure tummy is full before boarding the plane.  All of us had a heavy breakfast at McDonalds and checked through immigration at 7.40am.  Hearing scary tales about how Tiger Airways always have flights delayed, I was expecting the worse..but hey, not too bad, plane took off on time lei! Oh one little tip..bring an empty water bottle in your bag with you if you are traveling on budget airlines.  Once you check in and waiting in the holding room just before boarding the plane, you can then take out your empty water bottle and fill it up with water from the water cooler in the holding room.  Haahaaa...cheapo because a small tiny weeny cup of kopi costs SGD4/- on board the plane.

Reached Taoyuan Airport at 1.15pm

As Mr Lai (our pre-arranged driver cum guide) has earlier mentioned in our email correspondence that he will not be able to pick us up at the airport, a Mr Deng was waiting for us when we arrived, holding a plycard with my chinese name on it. I told him we need to get SIM cards for our phones and he kindly brought us to the telco counters.

To get to the telco counters,

Preparing for Taiwan Trip 22/11/12 - 1/12/12 Part 6/6

Counting down! 5 more days before our trip! Yay!!

Work is so darn busy that there's simply no time to do anything else. Old folks went for a tour in Cambodia last week and I was running around like a lunatic, shuffling between work, meetings, fetching kids for tuition, picking them up from school, preparing their meals etc. Not a schedule for the faint hearted! Colleagues around me are most wonderful.. Keeping track of my time and literally nag till I cheong out of office to pick kids. Hahaha..in case you are wondering still ... Yes I am a super lousy time keeper !

Finally finally found sometime today, sat down and calculated the luggage weightage that we will

Preparing for Taiwan Trip 22/11/12 - 1/12/12 Part 5/6

Old folks and kids made a trip to the Taiwan Visitors Association Singapore Office today finally. :). It is located 30 Raffles Place #10-01, Chevron House..

Collected loads of brochures. Kids are sure of great help, grabbing whatever that is within reach!

Show your flight tickets and hotel confirmation slip ..and for this period of time, you will get TWD100 worth of night market vouchers each pax as well as some discount coupons booklets. Ok, so I flipped the discount booklet and out of the whole booklet I guess I will only be using the buy two get one free tickets to Yeliu Ocean Park! Haiz..


Discount Voucher Booklets and the tickets which I will likely be using...complimentary $$ to spend at designated night markets...brochures and more brochures !