day 4 - 太鲁阁国家公园

yes - on day 4, we went to

otherwise known in mandarin as 太鲁阁国家公园; more information on this park can be found on their website - at

http://www.taroko.gov.tw/tarokoportaleng/2_1_0/Default.aspx

here are some of the pictures Mummy took

Above is the stall where we bought our packed lunch or 饭包

This is me enjoying the nice aircon at the 7/11 ... taiwan apparently has a extremely large network of convenient stores (otherwise known as 便利店), where you can find food, magazines, drinks, even 茶叶蛋... apparently taiwanese love it cos its in each and every 7/11 store... and one of their competitor chains - called "FamilyMart" - even sells diapers for me :)

day 3 - 花莲海洋公园 (Ocean Park)

This was my very lovely breakfast on Day 3 of my taiwan trip.

Mummy's breakfast also looks very yummy - nicely done omelette with a side fresh salad + chicken nugget - all courtesy of the nice people at 玫瑰园民宿



Mummy took these pictures along the 20 min drive to Farglory Ocean Park... cos she felt the fluffy clouds look very lovely as it surrounded the tops of the mountains.

Bukit Timah? Clouds ? No... Maybe pollution ... :)

Here we are at our destination -

FARGLORY OCEAN PARK (Hua Lien)

http://www.farglory-oceanpark.com.tw/index.php?site=1



Daddy and I are pretending to relax on the deck chairs at the ground levele of the ocean park - where the vehicle drop off points are...

now all we need is some brilliant sunshine!!!

Oops. Spoke too soon.

Wow, from the expression on Daddy's face I think he got more than enough of the sunshine he was requesting for :)

Maybe a beach attire would be more appropriate?

Ocean Park was built into the side of a seaside slope. The entrance to the park was actually 3 stories up via escalator... thus, what you see above is a the scenic view as we walked to the 1st child friendly attraction of day 3 of our taiwan trip.

What happened to day 1 & 2 some may ask? Well, we spent it travelling to and fro singapore / taipei / hua lien... you get the idea?

Below is a picture of Daddy and Mummy taken in the mini ferris wheel, as can be shown I have drifted off to sleep.... snnnnnnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............

I especially liked the aquarium.

In fact, Daddy was concerned I would miss it altogether as I was taking my afternoon nap... thankfully the nice aircon helped to wake me up just in time at 145pm... for the 2pm feeding time show where we saw lots of sting rays... large large ones.... and 1 huge nursing shark... and many many more creatures of the sea.


in the evening, we went out to one of the 夜市 which was about a 10 minute drive via the taxi. this is what it looks like -


Daddy also spent quite a fair bit of time (and money, apparently) trying to retrieve this toy which i set my little eyes upon...

See how happy I am? (the smile is a little forced, but hey, no one's perfect. :) hahaahahhahaha

day 2 - 花莲

Wake up! Wake up!

Rise and Shine.

Today, we woke up really early, earlier than I have ever woken up since I was a year old. This morning, the sunshine shot through the glass window at 6 am, yes you read right... its 6 am only and it looked as if it was 7am which it gave us a wrong impression at first.

Well it was a good idea to wake up early as we are going out for breakfast at the Hotel's lounge before leaving for Taipei train station.


Daddy was busy packing up the stuff and I, busy with the TV programmes. What about Mummy? She will be our photographer for the whole of this trip thus she will be busy with snapping here and there. :)


Below showed a picture of the lounge where we took our breakfast.



This was us playing while having breakfast, again we never let go of any chances to play whenever this was. :p

After the breakfast, we headed straight for the train station, where we experienced a few hiccups along the way. First, it was the unexpected rain, 2nd it was the stairs, can you believe it, there wasn't any lift and both the Daddies had to lug the luggage down the long flight of steep stairs.

A big thank you and SALUTE to the Daddies!!

Yes entering the station, Aunty Claudial was busy looking out for the correct signage to the train which we were taking.


This was the "VICTORY/ 盛力" pose by Aunty Claudial and Kiet Kor kor.

Luckily we were there in time, we were about 10 minutes earlier than expected there we rested for a while. While waiting to board the train I fell asleep in the Ergo Carrier. It was a great sign of relief as Mummy was still thinking how to keep me entertain onboard the train... the train ride was for another 2 1/2 hours.

Problem settled!

hehehe !!




The Sleepy Little Jeremiah.... snoozing away for the next 2 hours .....



I was awoken by the discussions that was going on while I was asleep for the past 2 hours and yes its only half an hour before reaching our destination and I am up and ready to go.

Yippee we finally reached Hua Lien Train station, and there will be someone fetching us from the Hua Lien train station to Rose Garden Min Su. The ride will take less than 15 minutes.



Daddy striking a pose with our luggages for the 1st 3 nights.

Mummy with her only "Luggage: ME!!"... :p


Before we left for Hua Lien there was this old lady, she owned a store just at the 1st floor of the hotel at where we stayed for the 1st night in Taipei.

She warned us about the occasional showers in Hua Lien and that it will pass really quickly. True enough, on our way to Hua Lien there has been light showers throughout the whole train ride.

Above picture showed Hua Lien Train station where many people are waiting for the rain to stop before moving off.



This is the lovely hotel (known as a 玫瑰花园 民宿) that we stayed in 花莲 for 3 nights, from 13 sep till 15 sep 2009. If you stare really hard, there is a small door where there will be a long flight of stairs leading us up to the Min Su.

Please click here for more info http://www.roseland.com.tw/english.html




This is the reception area where the customers surf the internet and have their breakfast every morning. There are 3 stories altogether and we stayed at the 2nd storey.








i love the timber flooring.... cos it makes my footsteps sound large. not sure whether the aunties and uncles staying there agree though :)

After checking in, the Wongs rested for the whole afternoon and woke up only around 7.00pm to start looking around for food. When we stepped out of the Min Su we got a shock, it was so dark outside. We thought it was already 8pm but its showed 7.15pm on Daddy's watch.

This was a picture taken from inside the restaurant which we took our dinner, the dinner was satisfying and we headed back to the Min Su.

Above showed a picture of the very Happy Daddy with his laptop and he was surfing the net for the first time in Hua Lien. That makes him very happy, but while he was surfing, I missed my cartoons from Playhouse Disney, Cbeebies, Jim Jam etc. So I got Daddy to play a video for me and I was so happy that I started to sing along with the video.

Below showed a clip of my mini karaoke session :

day 1 - changi / taiwan

Hello folks, finally our long awaited trip to Taiwan has come, yes we're off!

The 2 pictures shown above were taken before we boarded the plane. Yes, there's another little boy in this picture, his name is called "Kiet". He is our neighbour, and my playmate for this whole trip.

This trip was pre-arranged by my parents and Kiet Kor Kor's parents as both of the families wanted to visit Taiwan. Ok, enough said, do stay tuned for more updates.

We are going to board the plane now, bye!!

Finally after a 4 1/2 hour flight - we finally arrived at Taipei. By this time, it was already about 7pm. Thankfully, there was a nice 7 seater taxi waiting for us at the airport to fetch us to our first night hotel stay at Slove Hotel / Taipei.

Below are some pictures of the hotel.

This was where we stayed for the 1st night... Daddy told me we had to stay near the taipei central train station cos our train to Hua Lien (花莲) was very early on Sunday morning - at 830am.

After checking in, we washed up and immediately headed towards Taipei central train station to collect our train tickets to Hua Lien. On our way to collect the tickets, we took our dinner at some store near the train station.

The amazing bit about this was that the underground mall was full of small foodstores selling all kinds of interesting delicacies... as we walked further into the tunnel, we were overcome by this stench that caught mummy and daddy's noses and attention... and practically everything else. Can you guess what it was? Some of you might have guessed it, yes its 臭豆腐 otherwise known as smelly tou fu, its smell is akin to those smelly drains.... eeww...

As we were getting really hungry, we walked further in and finally settled down in a small stall selling dumplings. The stall didn't have a fantastic appearance but the moment the food was served, boy does it look and smell GOOD!!.

After we finished with our dinner, we had to return to the hotel for an early night rest as our train was 8.30am in the morning and we wouldn't want to miss the train. :)

Along our way back to Slove hotel, we passed by a 7-eleven store where we bought water and some other necessities. There I saw this toy fire engine that my eyes wouldn't leave, thus Mummy decided to buy it for me. This was my 1st souvenir from Taiwan... but not the last... wahahah.. :p