Most of the time in Taiwan we were busy in Romantic Life (a bridal company) with my sis & Niall who went there for their wedding photoshoot.
Day 1 (1st Nov): Left Singapore on sunday afternoon. Was at the airport at ard 10...11am to meet up with sis & Niall who just arrived back in Singapore from their KL trip (they went over the day b4 for a friend's wedding). Arrived in Taiwan at night. Checked into Yo Chun hotel, rested for a while then headed to Shilin night market to walk around & have some food. We had oyster egg (which is better than those in Singapore. They've more oysters and veg and less flour), smelly tofu, silky beancurd with pearls, sausage in a sausage (which is a piece of taiwan sausage in a glutinous rice shaped like a sausage) and bittergourd juice (it's not even bitter). Oh yeah...we also saw a lot of lil yorkshires (exactly like yogi when he was small). They're so small size lo & so kawaiiiiiii! Feel like carrying a female yorkshire home. But it's difficult to import back as there're a lot of paperwork & procedure to be done. Also not forgetting if we carry a female yorkshire back home, yoko will get jealous & beat her up (yoko is like double yogi's size as she's NOT a miniature but a mini that means she's triple the puppy's size).
Day 2: Went to Taipei 101 & New York New York dept store to walk around. Bought myself a lime green laptop sleeve/bag for my new lime green dell laptop. Match really well. =D Went to the 85th floor of Taipei 101 for lunch. Good scenery, good food and superb service! After which we headed to Romantic Life to help select gowns and suits for sis & Niall's wedding photoshoot. That took the whole day. Went for dinner after that at a pasta pizza place my sis's friend recommended to us (she & another of their friend were in Taiwan too).
Day 3: Woke up early, mum and I accompanied sis & Niall to Romantic Life to get their makeup and hairstyle done up for the photoshoot. After their makeup and hairstyle are done, mum & I headed back to hotel (which is just 10mins walk away) to rest before going to Ximending & Wu Feng Pu to walk around. Bought some new stocks to try selling in our suntec shop. Went back to hotel to rest & wait for sis to call. Walked to Romantic Life at 7+pm to meet up with sis and Niall and headed to have dinner at a nearby Dan Dan Mian shop which have this Japanese feel to it (at first we thought it was a Japanese shop). The photoshoot including the makeup & hairstyle took them about 12hours (8am to 8pm). They were shack after that.
Day 4: Went for the Northest Coast Tour in the morning. Lasted about 4hrs. Had lunch then headed to Romantic Life to help sis & Niall select the photos of the wedding photoshoot they had yesterday. The photos turn out quite good. Sis don't want us to upload any of the photos as she don't want people to have a preview of the photos before the actual wedding day (which is on 20th March 2010). So I won't review anything. It's just different from we usually see of wedding couples taken in Sin.
Day 5: Check out of hotel in the morning. Went for Taipei City tour in the morning which lasted 3++hrs, had lunch then headed to Romantic Life (yes...AGAIN!) to have some things settled. Then back to hotel where we were picked up to the airport.
That's my 5D4N of Taiwan in a nutshell. Schedule was rather tight so didn't get to visit many other places I heard/read about in the Taipei travel books. Got to go back again one day. Anyways, the staffs at Romantic Life keep telling me to go back to them when it's my turn. Mum told them in 2 yrs time. LOL! Not so soon la. But I think even if I were to have my wedding photoshoot. It wouldn't be in Taiwan. Already know what to expect. Also it's only those few places. Maybe Korea or Japan? But it's going to be ex definitely. Ha. I'm just dreaming for now. My "bai ma wang zi" have yet to appear.
Right now back to Singapore = back to reality = back to work. I didn't tell any of my staffs that I'll be going overseas. Once bitten twice shy...after what happen when we were away in Koh Samui. I just told them I'm not free and won't be coming to the shop, get a couple of them to OT to cover the days I'm supposed to work in the shop. Thank God nothing big happen during the time I'm away. 2 out of 4 of our FT are friends in my facebook account (our weekend PT who used to work FT for us is the bf of 1 of our FT). If they read my blog, they'll know sooner or later. But it's okay la, at least this batch of staff is quite settled. Don't give me big problems like the others in the past. Only thing is that I feel that their sales is not up to standard; need more improvement.
Anyways, other than the new stocks we got from Taiwan, my cousin also bought us some new stocks to try sellling. All these new stocks are ladies clothings. The competition for ladies clothings in Singapore is really high. We bring them in juz to test the market. Not much stock. Just a few designs. 1pc each...those we think can sell also only have 2pc. Very limited stock. Our new shoes are also coming in soon. Hopefully all these new stocks will sell well. With all these new stocks coming in, I'll have more work to do again. And more accounting to be done is piling up.
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