我在垦丁。天气晴！

Day One

Setting off from Taipei Train Station, we thought that no one would be as crazy as us to leave at the stroke of midnight. But boy were we wrong. Being the Spring Break and more importantly Tomb Sweeping Day, people were rushing to go back to home. See for yourself the CROWD. We bought offer tickets before hand so that we could take the bus at anytime. Bad choice. We waited from 12:30am to 4:55am. But time passed by relatively fast coz we were entertained by a hyperactive girl. It all started when Shu Hui offered the lil girl a piece of Krispy Kreme strawberry donut (courtesy of LayMing Thanks!!). The girl got all friendly and started playing with us. It must have been the sugar overdoes.

On the coach to Kending, Shu Hui & Yiqi were busy catching some shut eye. I think Lay Ming eats batteries. Don't know where she gets her energy from.

Our dear guide Meixin! The reason why we can enjoy a worry free trip is thanks to her planning.
Our first stop was our camping ground where we unloaded our bags. More pictures on of our camping ground up ahead...

We headed off to 垦丁大街where we did some aimless browsing... the shades there are really cheap. You can get funky looking shades we fake crystals for NT100 (S$5) and that's the expensive ones. 垦丁大街was flooded with people who were going to attend 春浪or 春呐...the Taxi Driver that took us to our camping ground was saying that 垦丁is only so crowded this time of the year. I bet the shop owners including the taxi drivers made a killing out of the exorbitant prices they charged us.

But we did get freebies.... in exchange for a temporary ad space on our skins.

Cool huh... 唯我独尊tatoos.

Louis Koo. Jolin & Edison

Realized that each bottle had a different celebrity plastered on it. Wanted to keep my Jolin bottle but due to space constraints....

Our lunch for the day. 卤味 Wu Master Froods?? Food??Not bad but I still find 卤味too salty for my liking.

春浪@猫鼻头公园

Tanya

The last act of the day was Tanya. 不懂是不是看到“自己人”，感觉有莫名的亲切感，让我特别捧场。她说的每一句话我都会做回应，听她音乐会跟着摆动。能当压轴戏我想Tanya还真的蛮有人气。新加坡之光！

自弹自唱的新加坡才女

海洋乐团

The first act we saw when we reached. The only thing I rmb was the lead singer screaming into the mike and he saying that he was afraid the audience would forget them. Kinda sad but not my kind of music.

新人王若林Joanna

When she sings you just feel so relaxed. A jazz kind of singer. She sang lots of English songs, in fact most of the songs she sang was in English. Even some of her own compositions, though I found "Trilogy" warped. It's three songs stringed together- the first abt how an old woman who fell in love with a young boy and so she kidnapped him, the second when the boy grew up, realized he was abused and kills her, the third he stares at her dead body not knowing what to do. Interesting huh.. you can google her. Definitely not your average cutsie pie Taiwanese singer.

Soda Green 苏打绿

苏打绿主唱Qing Feng唱腔不仅特别，本人还真的蛮搞笑。While we were strolling on the streets on Kending later that night we met 3 members of Soda Green!!! 我们宝贵的合照在我们身在香港的丽敏同学的手里。。。

张震岳

张震岳的音乐好high! 他歌词真的会让首次接触他音乐的人感到惊讶！Think 4 letter f words blatantly peppered in his songs....tsk tsk

烟火

In Taipei, people can buy boxes of firecrackers to set off. Imagine the extents we Singaporeans go to watch the National Day fireworks. It's peanuts to them here. But it's pretty scary sitting on the beach amongst people setting off fire crackers. I saw a runaway sparks zoom across the beach nearly scorching a person who was lying down....

Day 2

Breakfast for the day was flown in specially from Hong Kong - 老婆饼!

We headed off to 鹅卵鼻,the venue of 春呐. A little explanation of the difference between the two music events. 春呐 features underground indie music whilst 春浪features mainstream music. 地下乐和流行乐之争!

A young girl peddling her wares. Perhaps because of her age she's rather honest... when Shu Hui asked if the sand in the bottles were from the beach of Kending she frankly said NO. Haha... Oh well.. sometime ignorance is bliss. But they still bought souvenirs from her...

The main attraction there seems to be the white, tall and majestic lighthouse. Me & Yiqi couldn't resist taking the customary tourist shot. One of the rare shots where you can see our legs since we came to Taiwan.

Lay Ming caught in the act doing sit-ups... no lar she's trying to take a full shot of the light house.


We climbed and walked and climbed and walked just to reach the southern most point of Taiwan to see this rock. We were joking that we should try opening a tourist attraction like this in Singapore and collection an enterance fee. Brilliant huh? :)

Water Sports

One of the taxi drivers brought us to sign up for a water sports package the day before - we chose snorkling and a ride on a water motorcycle. (Is that what it's called!?) Honestly I was totally freaked out at the mention of water sports. But I recall the last time I tried it out during camp I did enjoy it just that the apprehension before the actual thing scared me. Well we're only young once. So I went ahead with them. Thank goodness I didn't back out. It was a great experience seeing the fishes and corals before my very own eyes. The water motorcyle was scary coz 4 of us squeezed onto one. And I was seated at the back so I kept slipping off... and finally when he made a turn I slipped... :( Haha

Soaked from top to toe

The coach who took us out to sea...

Finally I get to wear my orange sun dress... Do you spot my tatoo?

Yiqi and I made it a point to patronise the Taco Pachi stall of the lorry owner who gave us a lift the previous night.

又是另一名创作才女-陈绮真

The act everyone was waiting for - 五月天

I'm not kidding. Before this act, some of the audience. One die-hard Mayday fan remarked to me that she saving her energy before their act so that she could go all out. I was amazed at how Mayday managed to get everyone all high! People were jumping and waving their light sticks madly. All eyes were on Mayday...esp during Love-ing!大家都好配合。跟着阿信比LOVE!不愧是台湾天团！

Our blinking horns we bought to get in the concert mood...

Thank goodness we managed to catch the shuttle bus back to the main street. Unfortunately there was no space and we had to sit in the luggage compartment. 好像难民。。Ever since we came to Kending we really tried all sorts of transport. This trip is really memorable coz everything is unplanned.. so things are so unexpected.

I have sinned

Since I've set foot in Taiwan, I was counting how long before I finally take the bait... looks like we will never be able to escape the claws of the omnipresent MacDonalds. It's really EVERYWHERE. Though I can't say it's very clean. The bins are overflowing, leftover meals are strewn all over the tables... it's hard finding a clean table. There's no one cleaning up.

By the time we reached our camping ground it was 3 am in the morning. Since we were planning to leave early in the morning, there was a preposition that we just stayed up till then. One by one they couldn't resist the allure of Mr Sandman. Shu Hui was the first, followed by Yiqi. It was amazing Shu Hui could fall asleep coz me, Lay Ming and MeiXin were playing Tai Ti around her. We joked that we used her as a table.... haha.

Packing up to leave.... we took a mini bus down to 高雄. We all had difficulty find a comfortable position to rest, but thank goodness the trip was shorter than the time we took a bus up..

TO BE CONTINUED...