• FYP Poster Presentation

Finally had my last presentation as a student on 8 May 2009. It was my FYP poster presentation. As usual, I was late. Was suppose to reach Nanyang Audi at 9.30am. Guess what, I reach at about 9.50am when the event starts at 10am. When i reach, I was frantically trying to find where is my board to stick up my poster and was rushing off to fill my bottle with water. In the end, I came back into the Audi behind the profs. Lai Zhiping saw me walking into the hall and he was my moderator. How lucky can I get...lol. Waited till about 11.20pm before Lai Zhiping actually came over to my poster and ask me to present it. My presentation was not very smooth. He keeps stopping me and asked me lots of questions for each section of my poster. This makes me more nervous and I did not manage to present my poster the way I practice, missing out on things here and there. I did not manage to finish presenting the whole poster too as he stop me and ask me to just wrap up with my conclusion. Have a feeling he had not really read my report as he was asking me all kind of questions. Hope he is lenient and would give me a high mark.

After presentation, was walking around a little and taking photos with friends. Well all the photos are in facebook. Had a mini buffet which I did not eat much too as I dun find it nice to eat. After presentation I went home, sleep, give tuition and pack my luggage for my Taiwan trip.

• Taiwan Trip

Well..too much photos will upload onto facebook soon. Went to taiwan from 9 May till 14 May. Generally the trip was quite pleasant. Notice that the mrt and expressway system, roads etc are all veri similiar to sg. The people there are very polite and courteous. They actually line up to keep right when they use the escalator. They also give up seats to the elderly and line up to board the mrt unlike singaporeans who are rushing to enter. Their road are much wider then sg road although I find their traffic is a bit messy. Their driver side is also on the left (opposite of sg). They have rubbish bin in mrt station too and they have bin for rubbish and for recycle. Their buildings are mainly squarish shape and most look rather old. They have alleys and backstreets and their house structure is a bit different.

Day 1

Took a 7hr + air flight which transit at hong kong in the morning 10.10am and reach taipei taoyuan airport at about 5.30pm. We took a 1hr + bus journey to our hotel (good ground hotel) at ximen. By the time we reach the hotel it was about 7.30 pm and we arrange to meet at 8pm to go for dinner. Was just walking around ximending for the 1st nite. Ximen is a very big shopping area. There were food cart selling all kind of taiwan food and we bought some to eat. We also went to eat the famous "ah zhong mian xian". It is delicious..yummy yummy! =p the rest went to room 18 in the nite while me and huiping was just walking around ximending. Think we got quite familiar with the place through all the walking. However all the shops started to close at about 11pm so we just head back to hotel to bath and rest.

Day 2

Arrange to meet at 8am to go for breakfast. In the end, the rest got hangover and only me and huiping woke up early. So we juz went out to walk walk. Was so bored!!! Taiwan shops actually start to open only at like 11 am. So when we went out, the whole street was empty. Went to eat KFC's egg tart and prawn ring. Something different from sg and it taste yummy yummy! Waited for the rest and left the hotel at about 1+ pm. We headed to "wu fen pu". It is like a gaint bugis street. About 20 times bigger than bugis street. The trend is a bit similiar to bugis street and their clothes are cheap. Mostly cheap lar..some still quite ex. In the night, we went to raohe night market and eat all the different kind of taiwan xiao chi. Meet my brother at wu fen pu and at rao he there too!

Day 3

Went to the so called "orchard" area of taiwan like xin guang san yue, sogo and the electronic market. The shops are mainly like taka isetan and paragon in sg. Super classy and upmarket. Never buy anything from there. Just took a walk around. In the evening we went to taipei 101. Not as fantastic as I thought it would be. Spend about $20 sing to go up to the 89 story where I just walk one round to see taipei night view then there is nothign else to do there. It has the world fastest lift whereby it took onli like a a few seconds or maybe 1 minute to reach the 89 floor. Saw some fireflies up in the open there too. Next we headed toward shilin night market, which is one of the biggest night market there. As it was too big, we did not maange to walk finish the entire shilin market.

Day 4

Went to beitou hot spring and spend almost the entire afternoon there. Took a private room with huiping and was enjoying the hot spring. In the evening we headed toward dan shui and went to the fisherman's warf in the nite. Wanted to shop at dan shui old street more as it is super far from our hotel so I dun wish to travel back again. But due to time constraint, we had to rush off to fisherman's warf to go see the lover's bridge. I don't really understand why it is call the lover's bridge as it seems just like a normal bridge to me.

Day 5

As everyone have different views on where to go, we decided to go free and easy on the last day. So me and hp decided to go the taipei underground mall. Wa..their undergroung mall is like a never ending path with shops along the way. Was so tired from the walking. It is like a whole stretch of shops streching across 3 mrt stations. Actually I feel that it would be good for sg to adopt this too since space is limited in sg. Taiwan has a no of underground mall. In the evening we went to "taida" (Taiwan National University). It was beautiful. Their path is very wide and he building is rather unique. Most of the student cycle there as I think it takes quite a while to walk to the different block. Went to eat at thier so called eating points and their crispy chicken cutlet is fantastic. The nicest I have eaten in Taiwan. Yummy! There was a night market just opposite the university called "gong guan night market". So we went to take a walk around there. Nothing much over there so we headed towards "shi da night market" Bought "qing ting zhuang nai" (pearl milk tea) and che lun bing (japanese pancake) over there as this are the 2 famous xiao chi over there. Then we headed back to shilin night market. However I still never manage to finish walking shilin night market.

Day 6

Time to return home. Was packing and went to 7-11 to buy cute mini bottle drinks b4 i left for taiwan. Took the bus back to taoyuan airport at about 11am and reach the air port at about 12.30pm. However our flight was 3.20pm. So I was just walking around and using the free internet acess at the airport. Took another 7 hr flight which also transit at hk airport and reach sg at about 10pm. Bought 2 bottle of martel and 6 cans of beer, took a cab and back at my sweet home.