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Instead of snuggling under my blanket watching Korean soapy drama like how my every night is like for the past few months, I decided to logged in blogger apps & write a little.

Bad at thinking post title hence the title above, hahahahh!

I know right I'm supposed to do an update on my birthday celebration (from last month lol), I even uploaded some pictures and drafted a first few sentences, but when laziness strike in, draft stays in draft, you get what i mean?! Haha my bad! By next sat, I promise it will be up latest by next sat! I still have many half-written posts though, Taipei trip, Guangzhou trip, holiday back home, etc. Pheww totally fail if I were to make a living by blogging.

Anyway, I don't know if its due to I'm ageing now, I actually started to get all these pms syndromes recently, which is something never occur to me before! I've become really sentimental & extra sensitive like few days before I start my monthly menstrual cycle nowadays. When I say really sentimental, I mean I'm really really very emotional! And I don't like it seriously. I realised I tend to throw tantrum to people around me over some small matters easily, and I cry a lot without any reasons! So sensitive so annoying. I hope this doesn't last long though! I mean the pms =.=

Oh ya if you ever notice, I've changed the layout/template of this blog. I actually want something in vintage style, like something in beige color, but I couldn't find any nice one from the blogger customised designs. Let me search from other website next time. This will be a temporary layout :)

Too much caffeine from the dinner just now, I couldn't sleep at all now. Continue with my all time favourite running man!
Till then, ciao! ♪( ´θ｀)ノ

二十三岁

昨晚12点整，我又长大一岁了！
我还是比较喜欢用＂长大＂多于＂老＂，因为我觉得我还在成长的阶段中，还没成熟到要用老这个词。(⌒▽⌒)

所以我今年二十三岁了。
我个人是觉得自己在二十二至二十三岁之间，有些很大的变化。并不是在说样貌，而是心理和一些思想上，好像和一年前不太一样。

硬要我形容的话，其实有点难。只想说，一年以来经历了很多很多。以前执着的东西，现在忽然觉得都无所谓了，以前渴望的东西，现在都不想要了。现在的我觉得，长大了，我不能想说什么就说什么，而是必需要为自己说的做的都要负起一定的责任。也真的要开始为自己的未来负责任了。

本来今年就没有很期待自己的生日，只想在当天放一天假，好好给自己充电。可是周围的朋友们还是很用心得帮我好好庆祝了一番，用心热情的他们给了我很多的惊喜！今年共切了三个蛋糕哦，还有一个在台湾，所以总共有四个蛋糕。不过第四个只能看不能切，因为没办法寄过来，可是那是我人生中最想要的彩虹蛋糕啊！！（涙）
更多生日庆祝活动详情请待明天的post.

每年生日都会有令我很感动的事，今年也不例外，而且还比去年多！ :)) 没想到我平时随便说说想要的东西，竟然都会有人放在心上，原来每个人都有把我说的都听进耳朵，记在心里！真的很惊喜又感动！我的家人，我的朋友，为什么我身边的人都对我那么好，都那么疼我！\(//∇//)\ 感恩感恩！ 我永远都不会忘记你们的啦！！！ <3

希望接下来的日子里，无论以后遇到什么累人的事，都要想起今时今日，你是被那么多人珍惜着的！记得尽量选择快乐的渡过每一天。

谢谢大家的生日祝福，生日礼物，生日惊喜和生日歌，全部都收到了，都放在心里了！谢谢你们！（≧∇≦）

最后，祝自己 生日快乐！

|(￣3￣)| ＜3

在这里送上一张很骄傲的脸给你
(￣^￣)ゞhaha!

Hello braces!

Oo Hellooo!

So last year around June-Aug, I started to noticed that I was actually facing some difficulties in biting foods with my front teeth. In example, I found it really hard for me to bite vegetables/ noodles into smaller pieces with my front teeth, they just wouldn't cut into half albeit how hard I tried to bite them.

However, this hasn't been trouble me much by that time because I just didn't seem to care when I can use my inner teeth to do the flavor. But when I flipped through my pictures, I realized that my tongue tend to stick out all the time. It pushes my upper teeth and lower teeth apart, which the force eventually caused a horizontal gap between my teeth and my upper and lower teeth do not able to touch each other even when my mouth is closed, which, in dental term they called this disorder as "open-bite".

 

As you can see, although its not very obvious from the pictures, my tongue is sticking out most of the time. My dentist said it is due to my tongue is apparently too active (wtf?!) and maybe also because I have some nasal congestion problem (true especially at night coz sometimes I snore when I sleep but yet to check with the professional) so, unconsciously I'll breathe using my mouth instead of nose when I sleep, and which also lead to causing my front teeth to flare out.

They are not used to be like that though, I myself also not sure when does that happened but it is getting serious day by day and I really don't wish to see myself with huge gap between my teeth years later. After much hesitations, I decided to apply alignment braces to help in improving my jaw shape, to straighten my teeth as well as to cure the biting disorder which has been bringing me lots of trouble in eating.

First day of having braces

It was on 4th June when I finally made up my mind and give the braces a try, lol.

It has been a month now, except having a little trouble in eating, having to brush my teeth after every single meal and having to smile without teeth in pictures, I think so far I can adapt it very well. :)

So braces on now, and let's see how it goes maybe one and a half year later! *fingers crossed* 

bless me! <3

Love Taipei #1

This five days trip to Taipei was actually a last minute plan. We originally plan to go to Beijing at first, we even paid travel agent deposit to join a 5days tour to the capital city of China. Although people around us have been asking us to prepare a back up plan just in case Beijing trip get cancel last minute, we still have other options. I don't know why but both of us had been really relax on this, we were like, its fine if it got cancel, we still can go to HK to shop, no big deal, lol!

Well yes apparently the trip is cancel eventually. Reason was because there isn't enough people joining so it was forced to cancel. =.= And they only informed us about it like One week before the departure day. Freaking panic at the moment because due to the short notice, we have to decide and come out with another plan asap. By that time we don't feel like going to HK already coz we realized that it was a waste to spend five days there.

So we were deciding between Taiwan, Hang Zhou and Shanghai. Taiwan wins all the hand down because going to Hang Zhou or Shanghai is a little over budget for us, maybe next time. Yes so Taipei it is! Talked about this, I have to extend my gratitude to two people who made this trip runs smoothly for us. First is Carol who is so kind lending us her credit card. To reserve flight tickets online through Eva Airline, Hong Kong/ China Airline was such a pain in the ass. Unlike Airasia, these three airlines actually require the credit card holder to on broad together as well pffft dafug is this! Both Sin Mei & I have NO credit card and we were running ups & down borrowing people's credit card to reserve tickets but stupid airlines have so many unacceptable rules & regulation, we nearly fail to book any flight. Super panic but luckily we still left with one last option, which is Carol had to help us to sign a third party credit card authorization form at the airline center, and that has to be approved by the company at least 48 hours before we depart. =.= gan jiong. Thanks big time to Carol babi. <3

And obstacles have not ended at this part yet. "Accommodations" our second challenges.
Nearly all the budget hotels were fully reserved on our traveling period. Sial. I don't know why since it is not any peak season. Later did I know it was because Lady Gaga was having concert tour in Taipei, and Kim Hyun Joong was also there to meet his fans, so most of the hotels were reserved by their fans. Bad times. It was 5 days before our trip and we still had no idea where to stay yet. However, this second VIP to receive our big Thanks is my sister! Thanks for her effort and times, she successfully booked accommodation for four nights (First & forth night- Nihao@Taipei, second night- Rose Boutique Hostel and third night- Jiufen Jing Jian Hostel) I don't know how she did it when I tried and failed. Thank you thank you so much we love you! Big Hugs! <3

Everything settled finally. On Friday, we on board happily to embarked our journey to the land of food, finally.

To describe Taiwan, I would like to say it is a place where all the friendly people come from.
Its true! You will never have to worry about yourself getting lost in the city because everyone is so willing to help showing you the path, even when they are not sure how to reach to a certain place, they would actually stand by the road side and google map it for you. Some more they would bring you to your destination and make sure you reach there safely. lol! Taiwanese are all so friendly and helpful! Besides, their foods are so cheap and yummy, even their onigiri from 7-11 taste so good I actually had it most of the time, lol.

Enough of the windy words, lets pictures do the talking from now.

 

 Boarding with Eva Air, it just takes 1 1/2 hour to reach Taipei from Macau. Just nice for an episode of variety show.

First night at Nihao@Taipei Hostel, located at a very convenient place - Taipei main station.

Clean and neat room, love how they keep the room so homey. The only flaw is we have to share bathroom with other floor mates.

Flight got delayed so we only able to visit one place on day one. 

Which was Xi Men Ding 西门町, the infamous shopping district for youngster.

The Red House Theater 西门红楼 which has been keeping well since the Japanese era. Its one of the touristy spots in Taipei.

Inside of the Red House Theater.

Walked into the theater, there are some display of the historical structures and a cafe, and unexpectedly, there are several shops selling designer arts in there. Each and every of the shops selling interesting stuffs and all are originally designed by the owner themselves, so you cannot find the same products else where other than here. I love independent artists' arts, they're all very special, albeit they cost a little much, lol.

 

Especially this shop above selling all kinds of vintage design goods, its my favorite! I grabbed a phone case and a camera pouch here. Would love to revisit this shop again if I ever go back. :)

While waiting for my sis to finish class, we wandered around the shopping area. Found this must eat Taiwanese style fried chicken 盐酥鸡. It is fried chicken seasoned with basil, chilli powder and some minced garlic, very common snack in Taiwan. Heavy flavored but we just couldn't stop eating this. :)

Another must eat in Xi Men Ding, the popular 阿宗面线 Ay Chung vermicelli. 

Its a stewed rice noodles with pork intestines and a strong smell of dried bonito flakes. Not bad, I think people who likes shark fin soup would love this too, it is more or less the same taste and texture.

Must drink in Taiwan. This 青蛙下蛋 direct translate Frog giving birth wtf.

It is named after the pearl balls which looks like baby frog, taste like pearl milk tea without milk but with lemon. Geddit geddit!? =D

Bought some donuts home for supper.

These onigiri from 7-11 are so so good that makes me wanna go back to Taiwan again, lol!

Remember the package and my favorite is always the chicken floss one. <3 Please buy some for me if you go to Taiwan too.

Looks cute but taste meh. Too sweet for my liking.

Head back to hostel and met up with the sister who just ended her class! 

Glad to have her around during this whole trip.

Day one done. More upcoming posts on Taipei coming soon. :) Stay tuned.