Sorry that I hiatus on my taiwan posts for damn long I know... But I shall continue with a post camp post first because this camp is so awesome that I cannot afford to not post about it. For Taiwan post, I still working on it ah...really believe me. Its slow because of the photos...haiz.

ANW.

Let me start off with how I joined this camp. I attended the C4SR talk with Dino on one fateful day 12 July 2013 then we got introed to all kinds of camps targeting freshmen like me with their presentations and all. I must say I wasnt paying much attention because I see all the camps seem to clash with my schedule. I initially thought I secured a job from 31 Jul to Aug 12 and I have so many dance practices on weekends. Therefore I just mentally erased all those camps that clashes with weekends. Dino was telling me that many people are interested in joining the Starring camp. It seems fun too but the thing is that there are too many dates that I have to turn up for. Then i see this brochure of Kscope camp which only has a 2day 1 night camp. Wah not bad. Then the presenter was so funny telling us about how the camp is going to be hippie with all the tie dying and silk screening and RUNNING MAN and FOOD HUNT. My eyes light up at the runningman game AHAHAHA. FOOD HUNT sounds great too. Basically it comprises of all the activities in this short camp. CHOP. I decided to join this camp.

( even though I also sign up for both starring and kscope at their booths. but i am fated to go kscope la. Because my sundays schedule wont be messed up)

Dino didnt join the camp with me so I actually signed up this camp on my own??!!! I feel damn brave.
After the Asoc camp, I learnt how to pack minimal stuff for camp LOL. The Asoc camp bag really very convenient yo.

19 Jul 2013
So I turn up in the morning on the dot but got confused while taking attendance because I dunno which color tee I am suppose to get. I heard a RED TEE ( I dunno what happened to my ears because red tee is actually for org comm or sth) I stood aside looking as blur as I can because I have no green shirt. Turns out that I got sorted into the RED CLAN GROUP 1 and I got my fave color green shirt to change into. YAY.


YES THE GREEN SHIRT GIRL IS ME... looking blur

After that we went to the sports hall and I had a hard time looking for group 1 because there is no obvious indicator where they are LOL.
Some nice facis guided me to the right group and I see 2 guys and 1 girl??!!

Then i guess someone helped to take a photo.



Everyone was introing their name but I couldnt hear their names properly, and we have 3 facis??!! so many for such a small group of people. ( first impressions yo) I pretended I can hear everyone but actually I only can hear zhilin and weihan or sth. Cos they were the ones sitting right beside me. Soon, more ppl came and then we started playing some circle games. I only rmbed playing --- Charades and I have never.

Charades was pretty fun, we were split into two groups and the facis gave us some words to act it out ....like...Finding Nemo, Justin Bieber, David Beckham, Running Man, Titanic, the last one took as some time LOL. It was The Incredibles. We keep thinking of some Avengers or sth.

I HAVE NEVER RAWKS
I love this game because I will always win.

I have never done alot of things leh.



Then we start to play some mass games because the emcee says so. I was worried that we play some very hard game yo because I suck at games and I scared forfeit. Turns out to be Squirrel Tree Hunter game.
Mentally let a sigh of relief because this game always can get a whole group to die together so forfeit most likely to be a group one eh? This game actually quite lame but I guess everyone is quite cooperative and the lazy dead atmosphere seems to be lifted by alot. And special mention to ZHILIN who survived this game for so long eh!

#Specs Vs No Specs Vs Take off specs to pretend no specs
#Gwiyomi
#Slippers

Very soon we went to take our bags...put bags at classrooms ( I have recollection of what i did during the trip there) Im glad that our group got few girls -- Zhilin and Geokmin and Me only
AND WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON

We kope the window seats and then set off for our Silk Screening
LOL. Oh before that, I mentioned to a faci that I brought my school uniform to do tiedye and she was like Wah U love ur school so much ah? Which school are u from?

Guess what?

We same school. T.T
So touched.
First time see Rvian at SMU.
Gonna cry.

#bernicethelawstudent

The facis collected 3 dollars from us. then found out that actually is 10 dollars. so we had some fun collecting money and returning money LOL.
In fact there is no need to collect money la. We didnt know we so cheapskate LOL


Eh dun have much photos of us doing silk screening but I have to say we are the most efficient group.

Silk Screening

1. Get a Silk taped on a frame firmly...must have tension
2. Paint ur acryllic paint on the silk
3. Ensure no holes...the paint must put gao gao. (thick thick)
4. let it dry
5. Put a piece of plastic in your shirt ( so that paint wont seeep through)
6. Put frame on ur shirt, in line with the plastic
7. Put paint on silk and spread evenly
8. Take out frame and plastic
9. Let it dry

#artistzhilin
#draws on newspaper
#pours water on table
#never realise about mirror image issues

#brokenheart
#triangleone























Followed by silkscreening is the tiedying, I shall post the video that i cannot find currently which teaches you the basic steps to tiedying. It is really quite easy to learn but hard to master.

After the silkscreening, the FOOD HUNT STARTS. But before that we did the complicated money thingy.





After the artncraft session, the FOOD HUNT STARTS. But before that we did the complicated money thingy.
The game started soon with a clue that until now idek how to solve it. It is at Raffles Place.
#Klinsen and Joel stares 深情ly at the money note
#Song lookes like he talking behind Martin's back
Weihan the GPS volunteered to lead us there with his shortcut because he works there before or sth.
Our sightseeing trip starts like this.
:D

On the way, we took photos like some tourist groups while Weihan explains so many things that I couldnt absorb much , like a tourguide.






Then we had to find an old couple and take five fun shots with them....within 10 mins.

Where were we again? RAFFLES PLACE. HOW TO FIND SIOL.
But we did.







YAY WE SO CREATIVE IN OUR POSES RIGHT.. not. LOL
 I like the point to camera shot the most because it reminds me of Yushan LOL.

Next clue we got from this station is this freaking alien language card.




We then had to piece this jigsaw puzzle that took us quite a long time to figure it out what it was even though we knew it was at Millenia Walk ( how we noe it is millenia walk?  heh heh dun tell u)



So like a finally when we finished, we took a bus to Millenia walk but the uncle obviously forgot to alight us so we had to alight one stop ahead.
Its sad that i couldnt find photos for this station. But we had to find take photo of 4 food from each of the category below and must have the physical food for the last category.

Staple ---- WE ALL HAVE THE RICE from the previous station. NO NEED BUY
Fast food --- photo of subway
Snack --- photo of  our cupnoodles? (did i imagine this myself)
Dessert - photo of a food from a dessert shop
Drink ( issit? i cannot rmb) -- photo of someones gongcha

Then we had to sing twinkle twinkle little star with Klinsen being our dear maestro/conductor
We took freaking long to get the eureka moment.
Then me n zhilin had to be blindfolded to touch this clue card for the blind ppl. the answer was HELIX.
I didnt even get to realise it was an H when zhilin shout the full answer.
LOL.
Then in order to get bonus points, our group drew Kscope with our butts but WHERE IS THE VIDEO? I WANT TO SEE.

Next stop >> Helix bridge.
By now my stamina gone by 50 percent for ur info.

We see ppl looking weirdly at collages of photo. but...we just note it down mentally.
While running/crossing/crawling(me)  the Helix bridge, someone (i think is Andy) suddenly got overwhelmed by the fantabulous scenery and decided to take a group photo.

And so we did.

So we reached the station and saw this two faciss...

#LOOK AT MY CUPNOODLE
#LOOK AT GM RICE (Lol sounds like Genetically Modified Rice)




Then we got the mission to find this lady in the sea of collage.
OKCAN. NEED TO CRAWL/ROLL DOWN the BRIDGE AGAIN.
























And we tried to do jump shots but to no avail.....





Then we got more free gifts!! Also must take photo!








I concluded that the giant cup is useful for catching spiders at home ( I really did)





WELL DONE ONE CHEAPSKATE!!! U DESERVE A CLAP!

As I carefully cut out label tags, while my wound on my pinky comes remindig me of its existence through messages from nervous system, sense of irritation arose. How do you describe the annoying feeling that comes when you try to cut carefully and straight along the printed line with a not very sharp scissors? Its the same tingling feeling in the stomach when one tries to pass a string through the needle hole. Then it gets worse when you have to endure that sick feeling for 22 times because I have 22 labels to make. But not all cutting tasks are that annoying. It is very shiok to run the scissors across the imaginery line when you cut the plastic that you use to wrap books. Then I was thinking why there isnt a commercial or office printer that can just cut out whateverI programme them to? There should be this flexi knife in the printer that can bend whatever shape can chop away unwanted pieces of paper and then recycle the unused paper to remake them into new usuable pieces of A4 sizes or sth. or Sth like toilet roll of paper that the printer,by agga-ration, determine how much paper to use when printing labels like this. Also the printer should have a UNPRINT function so that when I print sth wrong, I can use laser to unprint it to be a new paper. Or I can unprint all these useless extra copies of powerpoint that ancestor clerks before had mass printed then use it as new paper again. All these rambles lead to my one motive which is to have less contact with paper and less chances of getting paper cuts  so that i wont be pissed off again. But again, printing tasks are still more relaxing to do compared to other tasks. Cutting and artncraft is still a NO.

then around 9 30 am plus we neh sleep n decide to go crazy n listen to songs n blah blah. then around half n hour before or sth, the captain pilot starts to speak again in his very obvious Thai accent. so....are we going thailand or taiwan?? Guy beside me n guy beside lianying decide to make fun or thai accent n kept repeating SAWADEEKRAP WELCoME to ThAi Pei~~~~ with super emphasis on thai accent. TAIPEI~~ Kc beside me also laughing...太好笑了。因为没食物，没电视看，我们除了笑也没事做了。

So finally arrived...to damn hot weather. n check out...We went to buy databplan prepaid cards but to my horror, only 20 age n above can get to buy. This is the time where i wish i have Jamie's or Scott's power where i can juz hypnotize n tell them we are indeed above 20 yo. While they were enquiring at the counter, i snooped around at the customer service counter and grabbed potential useful food guides and maps.. I almost took the free 方文山 cd. but no use to me. Throw it back. n we grab tickets from 国光客运  to take bus to Taipei main station. take taxi 太贵了according to Yuandashi。

While we head for the bus, we quench our immense thirst at the water dispenser with interesting paper bag/cup.

The ride was surprisingly quite short to me...to me only la. got one angmoh couple sit near us. #jussaying

Becos i like to 隐隐约约 throw in english words in my sentence of chinese to hint that i can speak english. Eh...to show off purely.

Throughout the bus trip, everyone damn hungry like shit. no la...nvr eat cannot shit. so i shared some bread yo. but also damn thirsty. my water in the luggage . my luggage in the storeroom compartment of the bus. -.-

so nth to do just watch the awkward tv about some 西施和范郎。 ？？？？

And so we arrived at the Taipei Main Station briefly. I was only quick enuf to take one phtoophoto and we hopped on the taxi to advance to our XINCHEN Hotel. 星晨大饭店。 也没有很大。

We split into two taxis. Lianbra n Me. Kangbra n Yaobra. The thing is that we paid 100 NT while they paid 90 NT. UNFAIR!!! not. I guess the 10 NT discrepencies goes to the extra service of the uncle helping to unload our lugagge while their taxi uncle sleeve hand bladder.

I remarked that the street looks as ulu as wad i saw on google maps  while on the taxi. YES. I STALKED the hotel on google maps prior the trip. I was worried that the hotel is terrible and spooky . But the moment i step inside ....i had a pleasant surprise. SO LOVeLY can!!!!!! I lurve the pond outside that transform the ambience 540 degrees from what i saw from Google maps. We had a quick check in and I marvelled at the pretty corridor and mirror and flower and realise that each room actually has different design and color!! Me n Kc tio the so called 色情 room,while yao n lian got the greenish room. I guess our room is slightly bigger though. According to Lian our room has a smelly smell. But instead i find their room to have a anticeptic smell which i cannot tank.

So I did my little ritual with the flag and we head for lunch after tad going towards gugong. :)  

i have to say kangchyi should try to scream out her order into someone ears next time....to break the first meal spell casted on u.

Things to mention:

-Yueyao found the toothpick amazingly

- I singlehandedly flip open the issue box

- The soup daebak

-Logo looks like Fei ge.

Next. 吃饱了可以飞了。We walk to the Mrt station Dongmen? and we took to station Jiantan.

And then we take a taxi to Gugong. Oh. And we bought the youyouka which I took some time to comprehend how the machine works. Thx Lianying for verbally coaching.

I have to say the taxis are everywhere!! We rarely had to wait.

*Taiwan Taxi 小黄 介绍*

There are generally two types of taxi but they look the same and same color

1st - XXX车队

To differentiate u have to see the mini rectangle thing that all taxis have ...I am not sure the technical name for it . But in SG it is the one u get to see the Green Taxi or Red Taxi word to know whether it is occupied. In Taiwan,  those that has a name that ends with 车队，it means it belongs to a Large taxi group/company.

2nd - XXX / 租车

Those without 车队 means they are private taxis. i assume it means self declare taxi driver. I heard they prefer to fetch long distances. If they know that u are going to short distances places, they most likely help to hail another cab that belongs to a 车队。 ,Omg so friendly.help u hail cab..but if you hop on their cab beforehand, they have to go wherever u ask them to. They cannot reject to fetch you,and if they do, u can complain them to authority. Wah.

Sidenote: The cabbies so well equipped until like transformers. Some cabs even have WIF that they AAAre ever welling to share with you their password. Also, it is hard for taxi to cheat you becos now ppl have data plan and GPS is there to tell you whether you are scammed. But We,young travellers, do not have data plan except for Lian Bra..hmmmm.

We spent lots of time camwhoring and zipaiing outside the Gugong and i was attracted to a restaurant about 500 m away and i was 点醒by Kc to stop googaing over food.

We entered the place but we had no idea where on earth to buy tickets but was confused by this queue to get audio guide. we 傻傻queue at this weird queue and found out that the queue was ALL ThE WAY AT THe OTHER SIDe. We also heard that the place 5pm closed. RUSH HOUR. THen we were forced to put our bags n water at the 寄放处 and dear kc chose not to keep her beloved camera. She still had to keep away her camera in the end becos the merciless entrance guard said so.

After the hassle we finally get in n i was bombarded at how big this place was. HOw to finish seeing this place by 5pm?? We sort of zap through exhibits that we might be interested in...but they couldnt find wad they are most interested at er which is Clothing i think.

Suaku me practically grab every leaflet i see and shunbian help KC take. Let me summarize wad i learnt

1.The ancient foremost top consideration when they design furnitures is to combine Practicality and Aesthetics. Most (Every) furniture I see are made of quality wood and they show super delicate designs. I am quite proud at one point when we saw furnitures for an ancient study room which were mainly 四四方方 and uncomfortable. 我竟然神奇般冒出一句：这样他们才能坐得正。Applause for myself. Which makes total sense. Muz be some Zen Master 上身。

2.   Curio Box 多宝箱

Refers to Boxes with complex and interesting design that were meant to keep some valuables. It also usually have some damn unique designs or compartment that can double as a Magician box...or a wooden kind of transformers that can have many pattern of 摆设。it brings lots of entertainment to the ancient ppl and i guess it is sth they like to show off ...to see who has a more interesting box. Of course the more 神奇 it is, the more expensive. i guess it is a sort of status symbol that the rich could have. and for it to contain other expensive small treasures since it is a BOX.

3. 小白菜 Jade

According to my own recollection and if i am not wrong, this white cabbage is a very unique piece. The top grade jade should little impurity.. However whoever the designer is, he managed to turn this not so valuable piece of jade into something valuable. He manage to make use of the flaws of this jade and turn it into its strength. He carved/ shaped it into a white cabbage and it looked very very real becos of its impurities at the right places. I guess this jade taught many ppl a lesson becos it depicts how a great artist can turn something thought to be useless to its greatest strength. Applause please.

4. Rhino Horn

We went to this exhibition that showcase many exhibits carved/made out of Rhino horn.  It is said that emperors like to use this Rhino Horn to make cups and bowls. Why? According to this tourguide behind us, it is becos Rhino Horn will change color when it is in contact with posion !!!!! So amazing but i havent find out if it is true. If so, it is a great material for paranoid emperors. Wonder if Silver or Rhino Horn more expensive....

After all the rush hour, we head to Taipei 101 , but we had a small encounter with scary cabbie drivers asking us where we going. we act blur for a while, comtemplating if they are thugs...then they help us hail another cab..which i go Heng ah....they so scary...

Taxi driver also nicely tell us which is the better Eslite Bookstore to go

and poof! we reach. We barely had chance to camwhore becos we see huge teams of 观光客。We made the best decision ever. We ran for our lifes. To the lift...and aiya..despite pressing the close button the door opened for a team...we shifted ourselves close to the lift door. once we reach lvl Five.. we chiong out of the door and ran towards the ticket counter in this Artas Classy Place

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Yet the queue is still quite long. but the queue Behind us got even longer.  It is quite worth the wait...I was very amazed at the lift ride where the whole lift blackout and when u look up , u see stars. ok..sounds like u fainted but the ceiling turns pretty!! then the 电梯先生 kindly tell us to swallow saliva to unblock ears if we have....but he said it so fast n in english that i almost cannot understand. Beside the lift doors there is a animated screen that shows how our lift is moving up the buiding.

And we arrived to evening view. Before we camwhore, (My photos fail so below mostly is KC camera grabbed de) the persoj handed us sterilized audio guide which looks like a 大哥大 transparent phone .

Also to mention i met my moe colleague. World So Small.

Then we werent paying attention to the audio guide anymore. Photos more impt.

I shall spam my own face.

We  went up to the lvl 91 open roof and got facesmacked by the strong wind. I tried to selca but due to low light...photos become blacknwhite. Nice horror effect  We look like dementors. Then it became too cold for us. Back to 89 lvl.

                   

We  got confused by the icecream shape thingy and walked pass Antartica simulation gallery mirror  walkway where everyone simultaneously kept to the right for wad reason i dunno and we arrived at spam Coral exhibits. 直接fast forward. We end up queueing damn long at a quite fast queue for the lift. Spam tourist area. Fast forward to amazing lift ride down and Kc completed her facemask dream. I was very amazed at the 101 types of mask available and 101 areas of the body u can put mask on. I feel more guyish when i see so many cheem technical girl stuff.

And after rounds of cantfinddirectionjustwalksstraight and we end up at the same Face Mask Shop again.

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The taxi stand was actually right behind this shop. Clever us. So we took taxi to 通华夜市。which is 800m Radii away from the Taipei 101.

I find the place quite small...since this is my first encounter with a Taiwan Night Market. I am feeling quite guilty actually, for being not so daring to try more chicken stuff because of my mum’s repeated reminder before I set off...: 最好不要吃鸡肉！

She might as well tell me to eat vegetarian for the whole of my trip eh? But I did not heed her advice and bought ABIT of chicken. The smokey chicken wing which I advise ppl with poor shaky no strength teeth like me should avoid. It is too hard for me to chew and i cannot sense any meat. It is like eating crispy chicken which I cannot appreciate. Im tat sort that likes to eat chicken chest meat. Even if it is dry but I can feel the meat. HA!

So we went to buy drinks and i think i bought sth related to plum drink...which i sort of regretted because I should try their signature tea drink or sth. But my plum drink is still nice and helped to sooth my throat and quench my thirst

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I am quite amused by Yao’s expression at the bottom right hand corner...she tio shock after eating nice potato balls i guess.

Photo above is spam potato and our long time fave: 羊肉串！The malt sweet potato was a great disappointment because I tot it was smoking hot. But it turned out cold :( I dun like cold sweet potato. Sweet potato rule is that it must be hot if not not nice le :(

Which is why the fried potato balls was DAMN　Nice!!! And super cute! Each ball turns out so Q and 弹牙!!

And then it started rain...which the uncle proceed to bring out his Huge Umbrella very 淡定ly.

So we flag for a taxi and went back to our hotel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is this 色情？？

I Finally Finish this post OMG. HAPPY MAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX~

I guess the coming posts will be less naggy than this one...I will promise you~~ not.

BYE!

*ends with my face and airport fashion*