- When Shanna boarded the plane the 1st time, she was very friendly with the uncle sitting next to us, hitting him with her toy, her hands, etc. Uncle was quite taken with her. Then she started crying... uncle asked me 'Her first time flying?' 'Yes' 'She's good, when my kid flew the first time, they threw up!' Guess he must have been worried about getting thrown up on? ;)
- Travelled a lot on Taiwan high speed rail to and fro from Taipei to Hsin Chu and Kaohshiung for work. The high speed rail travels at a speed of 300kmph. The train service is very prompt, down to the exact minute. Some views taken from the train. And my daily breakfasts on the train.
View from the train: Taiwan countryside
View from the train: Taiwan countryside
The train at the station
Train interior
My breakfast from 7 eleven
Another similar breakfast on the go
Train carriage map
Taipei buildings
Me and my colleagues donned our 'space suits' for the subcon visit
- Due to the inavailability of facilities at customer's site, I had to use the toilet to express milk for Shanna. The fact that toilets were clean was proven by Shanna not getting sick :) Due to all the time limitation and tight schedules, I was under pressure to produce enough for Shanna to eat throughout the whole trip. Thank God she did get enough. My supply dropped slightly by 4oz/day after the trip though.
- As Tim mentioned, we did not bring enough cash. For the first time on our travels. Must be due to the lack of planning for this trip. We ran low on cash by the 3rd day. When I tried to withdraw cash from Citibank ATM, my card got locked as I couldn't remember my password :P Hardly use the ATM card mah... After failing to change any ringgit in the local banks, I had to call up Citibank Malaysia to get help to unlock my ATM card. I was given another 3 attempts to remember my password, if failing I wouldn't be able to withdraw any cash. Thank God I managed to remember :) Was so relieved... phew.
- I also lost and found my purse. After I paid the taxi driver, I put my purse in my bag and got down from the taxi, but it dropped out of my bag. When I realised my purse was missing not more than 10 mins later, the taxi had left and I did not know how to track him down. On my colleagues' advice, I cancelled all my ATM and credit cards immediately. Then I took another taxi back to the train station in effort to locate back that taxi driver. To cut the story short, I found my purse where the taxi driver had left it at the train station information counter, with everything intact, thank God! I gave the taxi driver a call to thank him :) I was credit-card-less for the rest of the trip, good thing Tim's credit card covered my hotel bill :)
- That same evening was when the earthquake happened. I had just arrived back in Taipei, when the announcement was made in the train station about all trains being stopped due to earthquake. Immediately I called Tim, after all our hotel room was on the 9th floor... thankful to find him and Shanna safe and sound. I was fortunate to be back in Taipei before the earthquake happened... some of my colleagues were delayed by 2-3 hours transiting in train stations due to the interrupted train service.
- Our trip was all about makan (eating) hehe. We enjoyed Taiwanese food a lot! The beef noodles, the beef steak, deserts, yum yum :D
- Shanna had some food allergy starting 2 days before we left Penang for Taipei... in the form of skin rash on her cheeks. That is why she had red cheeks in some of the photos :P We saw the doctor and got her some medicine which help control the rash. She is fully recovered now and we're debugging which food caused it. It has been kind of rough 2 weeks for her since the trip. She barely recovered from all the 'travel lag', then she had discomfort from teething, slight diarhea/loose stools for 3 days, and she had another vaccination (2nd Pneumococcal) which gave her mild fever for 1 day. She's all well now.
Taiwanese Mamypoko. Not as good quality as Malaysian one.
~ Audrey
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