It's my life....: Taiwan trip. 12 feb 2009 Day 1 @ Tai Chung

Taiwan trip from 12 feb 2009 to 20 feb 2009. This trip was with Hokkien Kong Huay Siang Troupe for performances at TaiChung and Yilan. How i got involved with Hokkien Kong Huay Siang Troupe was back in 2006 where we went to Taipei for a performance. How time flies and now we are back to Taiwan once again!

Pictures taken at the Changi Airport T1 before boarding the plane. We took China Airlines and it was pretty comfortable. At least it's much better than what i expected compared to other China airlines which i took few years back.

This is Irene AKA Ailian....she's also my "diadia" which means father in hokkien. How we got affliated was back in 2006 in Taiwan where we started to re-enact the play.lolz. It was perhaps of this that bonded our friendship stronger!

Upon reaching Taoyuan International Airport, we were welcomed by Sister Lijuan from Taiwan. She was a representative from Tang Mei Yun Troupe. We were each given a "welcome snack" with bread and cakes. Check out the cute box below! It was really nice of them to take care of our stomach the moment we touched down.

From the airport, we took the coach to Tai Chung. During the bus journey, we sang (or rather THEY sang) KTV on the coach. I guess singing in Taiwan is pretty popular and it's even available on the coach. And the system is quite updated just like singing in the lounge!

This is Siew Tin, our chairperson of Siang Troupe.

This is the clip of SiHui singing to Junhao...showcasing their "暧昧" relationship in front of Ailian somemore!! lolz... forgot to mention, my diadia ( Ailian)'s husband is Junhao (AKA XiaoMa).

They decided to sing the Karaoke version!

Ailian decided to sing back 路边的野花不要采!

With the fun and laughter, the 2.5 hour journey passed by fast.However i was feeling nausea then. We checked in at our hotel in TaiChung- Hamilton Hotel. Check out the room!!! Each of us had a double size bed to our own!!!

Rested for a while before we depart for our dinner.

At the lobby while waiting for the coach...

Some shots of Taichung....

This is the venue for our dinner.

fOod was sumptous and delicious! Check out the dishes we had.

After dinner we headed to our performance venue. On the way there, we saw many motels called 汽车旅馆.They said the interior of the motels are usually with beautiful romantic concepts.