Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Drama Queen

All of my friends know that I love watching dramas. However, it does not mean that I watch every drama that is broadcast. I'm also rather picky when it comes to watching dramas. In this entry, I gonna share the dramas I have watched so far since the start of 2014.

Taiwan Drama

The casts in bold are those who I watched the drama because of them.


回到愛以前 / Deja Vu
Continued from 2013
Rating: 2.5/5

真愛配方 / First Kiss
敖犬 Owodog, 林逸欣 Shara Lin, 周湯豪 Nick, 魏蔓 Mandy

Rating: 3.5/5

愛上兩個我 / Fall in Love with Me
炎亞綸 Aaron, 李毓芬 Tia, 李運慶 Jack Lee, 王凯蒂 Katherine, 方志友 Beatrice Fang

Rating: 4/5

喜歡·一個人 / Pleasantly Surprised
郭雪芙 Puff Kuo, 劉以豪 Jasper Liu, 賴琳恩 Lene Lai, 簡宏霖 Jolin Chien

Rating: 3.5/5

媽咪的男朋友 / Tie The Knot
楊謹華 Cheryl Yang, 豆豆 Irene, 陳乃榮 Nylon Chen, 王傳一 Kingone, 孫其君 Steven Sun, 陶嫚曼 Mandy Tao

Rating: 3/5

再說一次我願意 / I do²
Drama still airing
魏蔓 Mandy, 林佑威 Yo-Wei, 李維維 Vivi Lee, 張勛傑 Michael

Rating: 4/5

幸福兌換券 / Love Cheque Charge
胡宇威 George Hu, 袁艾菲 Phoebe, 謝坤達 Ken Hsieh, 是元介 Jay Shih, 翁滋蔓 Smire, 趙杰 Jet Chao, 張本渝 Jessie Chang

Rating: 3.5/5

Hong Kong Dramas

貓屎媽媽 / Coffee Cat Mama
Continued from 2013
黃宗澤 Bosco Wong, 米雪 Michelle Yim, 岑麗香 Eliza Sam, 胡定欣 Nancy Wu, 王浩信 Vincent Wong, 古明華 Jerry, 羅敏莊 Mimi, 陳嘉佳 Siu Bow, 張惠雅 Regen Cheung, 狄易達 Det Dik, 朱咪咪 Mimi Chu, 楊愛瑾 Miki Yeung

Rating: 2.5/5

叛逃 / Ruse of Engagement

Rating: 4/5

忠奸人 / Black Heart White Soul

Rating: 3.5/5

使徒行者 / Line Walker

Rating 4.5/5

再戰明天 / Tomorrow is Another Day

Rating 3.5/5

名門暗戰 / Overachievers

Rating: 4/5

飛虎II / Tiger Cubs II
Drama still airing

Rating: 4.5/5

Upcoming Taiwan Dramas

Upcoming dramas that I gonna start watching very very soon. 

俏摩女搶頭婚 / Boysitter
Premiere Date: 6 December 2014

我的寶貝四千金 / Dear Mom
我的寶貝四千金 / Dear Mom
Premiere Date: 16 December 2014

Sorry for the lengthy post, just sharing what I had watched, watching and going to watch.
If you have yet to watch those dramas above, do start now.

Monday, 15 December 2014

#Pigsters 1 2 3 4 6

I arranged a meet-up with Pigsters last Saturday night. It had been too long since we last met and the last time we met was during Emelia's 21st birthday celebration.

I do not remember why we were named as "Pigsters" but I do remember when we were formed. 
"Pigsters" were formed on 30 April 2009. 

All of us came from different classes; we girls, and the boys came from different stream. We girls were from Express and the boys were from Normal Academic stream. The actual fact was, we had known each other since we were in Secondary 1 and the boys were in Secondary 2. My girls and I were in the same class from Sec1 to 2, and later split up into different classes due to our subject combinations. However, we were still in very good relationship even until now. Grateful.

#ootd for Pigsters' date
From deciding to have steamboat at Bugis up till we ended having our dinner at Sembawang Shopping Centre's Astons Specialities. SSC was the most often place we had our meet-ups. I met up with Emelia first at Sembawang and we took the shuttle bus to SSC to meet the rest.

Three cheers for John because he treated us to mushroom soup (okay, he was forced to do so). We were too hungry to even bother taking photos before eating. We talked, we joked over dinner. 


Yes, we were wearing the same sunflowers shorts we bought from Factorie last week. It was so cute of us to be having and wearing the identical shorts. The guys did not realized we were wearing the same shorts until we asked them. John's reaction was the most epic. He was like, "We do not have grasses here to grow all the sunflowers." 



They took selfie using Emelia's phone when we asked them to take photo of the three of us. 



The things we did in the the toilet while waiting for Yeelian to be done. 


Featuring Yeelian at the back


Final shot before we left the toilet

Yay to sisters' shorts

Group shot at the red brick wall
Simply Chocolate with Waffles
We headed to Daily Scoop after dinner. The guys watched us while we were eating because they do not like sweet stuffs, oh well. 


While only Emelia and I were ready
I didn't know I had a cup cap on my head. Thanks Junwei.
It was a short yet heartwarming meet-up with my Pigs. It was such a pity that Jiaqi could not make it, there would always be next time. They were the group of friends I would not want to lose. 

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Taiwan Trip - Mar 2014

Yes, I went on a second trip to Taiwan with Ed's family again. However, for that trip, we had engaged private car and driver because we had specifically some places which we were like to visit. We flew with SQ (omg I love SQ so much) as there was a promotion price.

I mentioned in the previous post that we had engaged a different driver from the March trip because the previous driver do not want to reduce the price any further, hence we settled for Mr. Lin.


Itinerary (23/03/14~28/03/14)

Day 1: 台北自由行 Taipei Free and Easy

Day 2: 淡水老街 Danshui Old Street (半天遊 Half Day Tour), 台北自由行 Taipei Free and Easy

Day 3: 日月潭國家風景區 Sun Moon Lake National Scenic Area, 文武廟 Wenwu Temple, 逢甲夜市 Fengjia Night Market

Day 4: 溪頭妖怪村 Monster Village, 寶島時代村 Taiwan Times Village, 士林夜市 Shilin Night Market

Day 5: 九份老街 Jiufen, 黃金瀑布 The Golden Waterfall, 陰陽海 Ying Yang Sea, 十分 Shifen, 野柳地质公园 Yehliu Geopark, 士林夜市 Shilin Night Market

Day 6: 台北 Taipei - 桃園機場 Taoyuan Airport - 新加坡 Singapore


Accommodations

Day 1: 台北愛客發時尚旅館-萬年館 ECFA Wannien Hotel

Day 2: 台北愛客發時尚旅館-萬年館 ECFA Wannien Hotel

Day 3: 台中逢甲艾菲爾租屋套房 Eiffel Tower Hostel

Day 4: 台北愛客發時尚旅館-萬年館 ECFA Wannien Hotel

Day 5: 台北愛客發時尚旅館-萬年館 ECFA Wannien Hotel

Day 6: Home Sweet Home

Taiwan Trip - Sep 2013

September 2013, I went on my first overseas trip via plane to all-time favourite country, Taiwan.
I traveled with Ed's family and because it was our first time visiting Taiwan, we opted to go with tour agency to save the hassle of planning ourselves. We flew with TransAsia for that trip. 


Itinerary (14/09/13~20/09/13)

Day 1: 桃園自由行 Taoyuan Free and Easy


Day 3: 花蓮靈芝茶藝館蓮靈芝茶藝館 Linzi and Tea Center , 太魯閣國家公園 Taroko National Park, 長春祠 Eternal Spring Shrine, 瑞穗牧場 Ruisui Pasture, 台東知本溫泉 Taitung Hot Spring




Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Taiwan Trip (Itinerary + Accommodations) - Dec 2014


I will be going to Taiwan (again). Yes, for the third time and I will be travelling with my Ed's family (again). However, I gonna be covering some places I had yet to visit before. I shall share my planned itinerary for the upcoming trip and for this trip, I will be flying with Scoot (my first budget airline experience).


My Planned Itinerary (22/12/14~30/12/14)

Day 1: 綠光森林 Furano Green Forest, 大溪花海农场 Ta Shee Blooming Oasis, 大黑松小倆口愛情故事館 Love Story Building, 宫原眼科 Miyahara, 逢甲夜市 Fengjia Night Market

Day 2: 觸口 (天長地久橋) Chukou Eternity Suspension Bridge, 奮起湖老街 Fenqihu, 阿里山森林遊樂區 Alishan Forest Recreation Area

Day 3: 阿里山看日出 Sunrise at Alishan, 達娜伊谷 Tanayiku, 新堀江商圈 Shinkuchan, 瑞豐夜市 Ruifeng Night Market

Day 4: 旗津 Qijin, 駁二藝術特區 The Pier-2 Art Center, 高雄愛河 Love River, 新營鐵路文化園區 Train Recreation Centre

Day 5: 武嶺 Wuling, 合歡山 Hehuanshan, 青青草原 Green Green Grasslands, 觀山牧區 Animal Husbandry Area, 小瑞士花園 Small Swiss Garden

Day 6: 彩虹眷村 Rainbow Village, 中社觀光花市 Flower Market, 淡水老街 Danshui Old Street, 淡水黑殿飯店 Dark Palace Restaurant

Day 7: 台北自由行 Taipei Free and Easy

Day 8: 台北自由行 Taipei Free and Easy

Day 9: 台北 Taipei  - 桃園機場 Taoyuan Airport - 新加坡 Singapore


My Accommodations

Day 1: 台中逢甲艾菲爾租屋套房 Eiffel Tower Hostel

Day 2: 阿里山櫻山大飯店 Ying Shan Hotel

Day 3: 高雄簡約高鐵館民宿 Simple Convention

Day 4: 清境雲海景觀渡假山莊 Sea of Clouds Vacation Villa

Day 5: 清境雲海景觀渡假山莊 Sea of Clouds Vacation Villa

Day 6: 台北民宿- 西門町 『自然居』

Day 7: 台北民宿- 西門町 『自然居』

Day 8: 台北民宿- 西門町 『自然居』

Day 9: Home Sweet Home


We booked private tour car so that we can actually go to places we had yet to go before. Having a private tour car and driver will be easier for us to travel around, time will not be so scheduled like travel agency tours. It costed NT$40000 (~S$1750) for two-way airport transfer and 6 days' tour.

We have engaged our private tour and driver from Mr. 林佑昌. He is the contact person, the price he quoted was very fair. I went to Taiwan for a 6 days' tour in March, back then, we also engaged private tour. The reason why we did not engage the previous driver was because they ain't willing to lower the price, hence my Aunty introduced me Mr. Lin. If you're looking for a private tour driver, you can contact Mr. Lin at kenjouline@yahoo.com.tw.

Sorry for the lengthy post, I hope I will remember to take photos of all the places I will be going and accommodations I will be staying.

First

Hi blogger, I'm back after N years.

Year 2014 coming to an end in 21 days and I'm glad that I had experienced many FIRST TIME(s) this year.
  1. I had my twenty-first birthday celebration at SAF Treehouse Villas @ Changi.
  2. I went for a getaway on Star Cruise Virgo.
  3. I finally had a photo taken with Aaron Yan.
  4. Applied and booked a BTO flat with Ed.
  5. Aaron Yan liked my Instagram photo.
I'll be blogging backwards for some major events of 2014, so do bear with it.
My life isn't perfect, but I'm thankful for everything I have.