POV Taiwan Trip ~ 29 December 06

Day 2: 29 December 2006

Woke up at 7.30 by the phone. The rest of the 3 flowers were still soundly asleep. We were supposed to wake up at 7 as we have to be at the lobby by 8 and YL set her alarm to go off at 7 and all of us actually slept thru it. Keke. Seeing that the rest are still asleep, I pulled myself out of bed unwillingly and went to wash up.


When we were all ready, its already 8.10. There goes our thought of having the hotel breakfast. 6 of us (ZY, rebbec, YL, Bob, Richie and me) squeezed into a car which drove us to the office in Xin Zhu. The weather was cold but slightly better than the night before. Guess we are slowly adapting to the temperature there. Once we reached the office, we took a tour around, did our registration and waited for the POV course to start. I was in anticipation, but yet at the same time, a little fearful.


When all of us were settled down in the training room, 张老师 walked in. Actually, she more of like floated in, like an angel, very light, very happy, very compassionate and very full of love. And there, the first day of POV began. (I will save the details of this course for another post. POV deserves a post by itself)


The class ended at about 6.30 and we went to a vegetarian restaurant for dinner. We each ordered a different set meal and when the meal came, we were very enticed because it looks very appetizing. But sadly the taste don't match the appearance at all. DISSAPOINTED!! That was the most horrible food I had in Taiwan. Like I told the gals, the food there is a classic epitome of looks delicious but taste kana sai. We also ordered different 小吃. Nick bought a dish of 臭豆腐 to our table and asked us to try. Curious how it taste like, I took one piece and popped it into my mouth. And I immediately regret!! It smells like rubbish dump. The taste is ok though but after that I can feel the rubbish dump stench emitting from my mouth and its simply yucky. pui pui pui!!


After our not very satisfying dinner, we took a cab to one shopping complex. But by the time we reach the shopping centre, it was quite late le and the shopping centre is about to close. So we make a quick dash to look around. But the clothes/shoes/boots there are all quite expensive. After the shopping centre, we decided to go to the night market to walk around. There was nothing much there except there were lots of food stores. But we were all very full from the dinner and most of the stores are selling non vegetarian stuff.


Nevertheless, we found a store selling fried mushroom!! Super yummy!! Veron bought like 10 packets for everybody to share. We also tried the bubble tea there. Because there were so many of us and all of us ordered a cup, we stayed around at the bubble tea shop and started chatting with the stuff and made 2 new frens in taiwan :). The guy asked us where we were from and when we said Singapore, the first question he asked is: 那你们会不会讲新各里? We were all blurr. What the hell is 新各里? Seeing our blurred look, he said he saw it on 小孩不苯 movie. And that is started to: ooorrrrhhhhh... Singlish... Haha...


After our bubble tea, we decided to head back to the hotel to rest. And so we walked all the way back to our hotel. Cant remember how long walked. I think we walked a good 30-45 mins. But its fun to talk and joke and walk with the wind blowing in our face.


Back in the hotel room, we started talking about how we felt in the course during the day. We talked about a lot of stuff. Our childhood, our relationship with our family, BGR, the things that were bothering us... We chatted all the way till 3+ am. That was the first time I bared so much of myself to the gals. YL even rested her head on my neh neh. And sadist ZY, came over and said 我也要!! But 我是 kiner, 我要用摸的. That woman 变态!! Hahaha. I told her too bad lah she cant because she did not share the same bed as me. YL and I slept together last night, so 她已经是我的人了. Hahaha.