Taiwan Day 5

The makeup lesson was enriching. Now i know the correct order of applying and the correct colours to apply!
The spokeperson was pretty, charismatic and has green-greyish hair.
I like her hair colour. It just seems to shine under white light.

Simba bought me Her World magazine and we spent our time reading it in the Spinelli Cafe. Loving my dates with simba.





It was the 2nd last day of our Taiwan trip and we were really sad. Didn't want the days to pass so fast :(

We were proud of ourselves for 'roaming' successfully in this foreign place.

We also take a morning photo in front of the mirror every morning!

Good morning mirror!



The other breakfast house




Yes, i'm very tired by day 5. My eyes betrayed me. Simba woke me up so that we don't waste time sleeping lols.





Toast bread to be safe. U can't go wrong with just toast (except when it's burnt)!

Watery eyes! So tired! Purple contacts.The Taiwanese were very friendly. They will ask me about my contacts and recommend me places where i can get cheaper color contacts. (They are of the same brand as Singapore's but they are half as cheap!)

The other things they noticed about me is my teeth, my height (But they very tall meh??) and why i kept smiling. lols.

We change train at 忠孝复兴站 and pretended that we went there :P
We intended to go but didn't have time :(

In the brown mrt (brown muzha line) to the Taipei Zoo Station. We wanted to take the cable car! It is a very short and cramped train with few seats.

We were in the train and passed by this tall tower. Simba quickly asked me to take a photo!

I was so much in anxiety when i took out my camera and captured this! It was a near maximum zoom but the effect turned out good!

I took note of everything i saw, including this SHE advertisement board. CUTE!

Many animals drawing on the walls of Taipei Zoo Station.

He asked me to pretend to eat the panda's bamboo!

While going down the escalator :)

SO CUTE! I love this pic. He sure has creative poses. Two fat pandas and 1 slim one!

My tanktop and shorts from ShiDa Night Market!

Simba's new Sasi bag from Shi Lin Night Market! Nice right! My choice.

MacDonalds' burger seats.

We walked down from Taipei Zoo Station to Mao Kong Station. The sun is so scorching!

The pandas' vending machine.









Simba's sneakers that saved my feet from pain.

Finally reached the 2nd Taipei Zoo Station after such a long walk in order to take the cable car. hehes.

Our plan for the day:

We bought the 3-2-1 tickets!

(3 cable car stops, 2 internal bus stops at Mao Kong Station and 1 internal.. (i forgot!)

1st stop: MaoKong Station

2nd stop: Taipei Zoo South Station

and from the south station, we can walk back to Taipei Zoo (main) Station, taking photos of animals on the way back.


I quickly kapo all the brochures from the stand nearby while simba was queuing for the tickets.

Before hopping into one of the cute cable cars. I was choosing which cable car we would take. I hoped it would be the cutest one like the pandas prints on it.

We shared the cable car with 2 Hong Kongers. They smiled and we smiled back.

I should have smiled first hor! If not, they think Singaporeans are dao people. I was just thinking about some pride problem lols! What if i smiled and they don't smile back?

One of them were afraid of heights. She screamed when the cable car makes a slight turn or jerk. Her friend had to help cover her eyes whenever she tried to look down.

I wasn't afraid, i enjoyed the ride very much! I enjoyed looking down at the green grasses.

We spotted an isolated someone in the grassland. He may be a botanist, who knows!

HAHA. Lovely work, camera! It can zoom very well.

At the next stop, the Hong Kongers alighted and a group of Malaysians boarded. We got one to help us take this photo. Love the scenery behind us. I volunteered to help them too but the 6 of them can't squeeze into the photo. The best i can go is to stand up as far as the length of the Gondola could take me.















We finally reached after the long ride. Mao Kong is well known for tea culture (tea houses, tea exhibitions and museums). :)







The cute bus. It was packed... We had to wait for the next one.







We waited so long for the next bus and it was the 'red' route where the bus would pass by only a few tea houses and a museum. We made do with this route and chose the Teapot Museum. We intended to go some big tea exhibition but this bus didn't go there.










Here we are. How do u read these Chinese characters?
It is a tiny museum and is attached to the small house where the owners live.
I was wondering it must be so inconvenient to live here since it is so far away from Taipei Main Station.











We paid SGD$5 for the entry ticket and were given a Mango pudding and a bottle of mineral water each. We had to finish our mango pudding here before going upstairs to view the exhibits.





Our tickets :P










Yes, it is fixed..




How to make a teapot.













They hung the Gondola ornaments. Nice.








We went one floor up and were disappointed to see only the rooftop.
There happened to be a chair and we used it lols. It is really a mountainous area!






We ended our visit pretty soon and waited for the bus back outside the museum.
Decided to head towards the zoo.. It wasn't in our itinerary cos it was planned by me. But simba was thrilled to see the zoo once we reached.
Hence, we shortened our time at Mao Kong and used the leftover time to spend in the zoo.












At the souvenir store.




The biggest mochi





We bought a few packets of their local products and a stick of mochi.
Had never seen mochi in a stick!




At the Taipei Zoo bus stop waiting for the shuttle bus.

























The reptiles were all in the enclosures.
The air-con reptile house gave out a smell that i can hardly bear with.





























And we had a look at the biggest and oldest turtle.
It was too bad that it always hid its head under the grass.
We can't get a good picture out of it. :( Maybe it's too shy.