// //: Face towards the halocline

Before I begin, I just want to thank this lovely human so much, thanks Yiting, you're really one of my most spontaneous friend ever. Since I've met you in JC as my beloved table partner, you've never failed to make lessons feel a little less drier, the bus rides a little less mundane, and life a little less routine.

Day 1

Had a flight to catch at 8.45am so we decided to meet up at the airport 7am to check-in early and have a quick breakfast at Macs. Anyway, we booked our flight 2 days prior to flying and each ticket costed $278.37, which was quite cheap already but I think if you book like 2 or more weeks before, you can enjoy cheaper rates of merely $230? (YES, it's quite a steal).

The flight time was around 5 hours and since we travelled on budget, there was really nothing to do when we were cruising above the clouds, so thankfully I brought a book :') Re-read Norwegian Wood, if there's one book that can cause someone to be depressed, I think it's this one. The first time I read it, I was just...paralysed with misery??? But nonetheless, it's a good read.

The first thing we did after touching down was to purchase a SIM card with data cause...typical Singaporeans can't live without the internet. Since we were staying for 6D5N, I bought the 7 days unlimited data plan which was priced at NT$450(around SGD$19). It was super worth it, especially if you don't have a fixed itinerary, so you can make use of Google Maps on the go. And it also helps if you're a Snapchat whore. I ended up using 4.29GB of data in those 6 days, which was really a bang for the buck.

Taiwan's Taoyuan Airport isn't really located in Taipei, so to get to the city, you still have to travel around 1.5 hours on the road.

Paid NT$145(~SGD$6) for our bus ticket to Taipei.

Our first glimpse of the city

We made our way to our Airbnb apartment where our host was there to welcome us when we checked in. He's this Taiwanese-Japanese guy that was really nice to us during our entire trip, cause he was constantly asking us how are we, where are our whereabouts to make sure we don't get lost and giving us advice on having a good time in Taiwan aww :)

After checking in, we had our first meal which was this simple plate of noodles omg they tasted really, really good. Not sure what they're called but the handmade noodles were really chewy and soft and the sauce was just great.