I had about 4 , 5 days to explore Kaohsiung after minusing duty onboard and stuff. Weather there wasn't as cool and welcoming as i thought. sighz. it was freaking hot! just that u dun sweat as much as u do in sg. Kaohsiung is filled with towering giant shopping malls, with many familiar deparmental stores, isetan,sogo blah blah. They didn't have much to offer, no cheap bargains. except for kuah... who enjoys oogling at the shiseido ladies at the comestic section..haha. heheh the only thing that was interesting was the tian ti xiao jie, who will press the lift buttons and go on rattaling and introducing abt what each floor/level have to offer, while everyone in the lift actually pay no attention to her at all. poor thing lei. =P

things in taiwan are generally expensive, except for food i guess. thats like also the highlight of the trip! really enjoyed the street snacks at liu he ye shi, the equivalent of shi lin ye shi in taipei i suppose. Yum yum! i got sick of the xiang ji pa(chicken cutlet w lots of MSG) by the 2nd or 3rd day.. Lots of interesting stuff to see at xin jue jiang, a place equivalent to taipei's ximenting.. its like heeren but open air concept..

bought quite alot of local products, like taiyang ping(sun biscuit?), nai mei(milk prunes) and also some souveniers.. i had so much things to carry that i had to travel two times when I disembark from my ship..

talking abt sailing.. sailing on LST certainly is very different from many other ships. I was rather busy thru out this trip compared to my prev trips.. basically on LST there's actually a fully equipped medical centre facility.. and basically we have to see sick parades everyday, being the only medic onboard and given the no. of shp crew theres quite alot of things to do.. i'm also suppose to help to clean parts of the ship, like sweep floor mop floor wash toilet... abit not used to it cox i normally do nothing onboard other smaller crafts hahaha. but in a way time passes alot faster this time round. i was assigned to bunk together with the divers.. haah they really know how to enjoy.. brought 2 tvs, 1 ps2, 1 xbox, 1 dvd player.. they were a group of very nice ppl.. let me play their games, eat their tibits, snacks, help me out and stuff... i lobang one of their car back home on that day we reach sg as well. haha there was one time they tried to get me drunk.. we were playing this card game. each person are given 3 cards, the total points were added up and only the last digit was to be counted. eg, u get 2 kings and a 6, the total point would be 26, and therefore u would get 6 points. so the person with te smallest points would have to drink a small cup of chivas.. mind u its 40% alc.. and we are drinkning it without diluting it.. i was super duper heng... they kept missing me... so i din drink much.. hahahaha but i stilll got an splitting headache the next day.

hmm thats abt all i have to say for my taiwan trip.