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i am quite happily counting down to Taipei. Come this Sunday afternoon I would be flying EVA with beau and his parents (some of the nicest, well-adjusted people i know) to the city of Taipei!

Yet my first encounter with this exiled land (somewhat, dont you think?) is flawed when i went there almost 10 years ago for work with my Israeli bosses and i stayed all alone in this apartment with a huge balcony that beckons a freak accident from the 14th floor. Initially i was dancing around the apartment cos it is all so big and exotic- old-fashionably furnished- dark oriental furnitures, kitchen, 2 bedrooms blah blah. After our little adventure to Shilin Night Market, the room turned a shade into scary as night falls, and horror shows start appearing on my screen. Just before i can fall asleep, the tv screen turned to a lumi blue, and even turned off once by itself!  Freaked and alone in a foreign city= big scary experience (there were tears) I bolted with my wallet and passport (a girl scout at heart) i spent the rest of the night in the lobby. The next day having hardly slept, i had the attention span of a 2 year old and looking like the Bride of Frankenstein, we flew to Kaoshiung. I was so happy to leave!

So Taipei was akin to Sadako-land, until now.

10 years on i am determined to put the bad experience behind and determined to milk the destination for all its worth, poring over travel brochures, tourism websites and travel blogs. I believe all the dumplings, ah-ger, oyster omelette, mee suah, coagulated pig blood, mango ice, stewed meat rice and beef noodles i am gonna eat will exorcise the creepy unpleasant experience.

Till then…