Taiwan trip journey fr 7to12May 2007

This is my lst plane trip... Before I write the details of my trip, would like to thank a few ppl...
XinYing for selfishlessly sharing w me her plane experience and offering advices on buying of motion pill and wat to do when I have a headache on the plane(open my mouth as wide as possible), Yifang for sharing her fren's itinerary and wat to bring list (Really useful for a lst time plane traveller), Beth for typing out the finalised itinerary (tho we did not follow the planned itinerary but we did manage to find most of the food listed there and it tasted great), Joon for reassuring me on the plane ( Man, I had quite a fright when the plane took off) and teaching me how to use the remote ctrl on plane, Zewei for offering to lend me his cam ( was able to take pics with it) and finally Mr. Li, a Beijing based singaporean who offered to pay more than half of transportation for our trip to jiu Fen and for treating us the snacks and giving us a farewell lunch at Ximending duck meat bian... Think he was our Gui Ren, we were able to go to all the wonderful places ( Yeliu, Jinguashi,Jiu Fen and finally Shilin on a one day tour with a chartered bus) at a much lower cost. Taiwan is a memorable place with great scenary and food.. The ppl are quite friendly too...The only pitfall would be the not so safe traffic, even if it was green light, cars and motorcycles would dash past the roads.. The nite mkt was another great experience, the stalls located at the middle of the road offered the lowest price but there will be a commotion once in a while when the police came.. This was cos the owners would run away in fear of being fined by the police (Heard the fine was NT1200, ard S$60 which was considered a big amt for a small biz like them)....