Mine Life Affairs

6:50am -- Arrival at the studio

Yes, its not a mistake! Actually, we got to reach the studio at 7:00am, but we are early, not on time! You must be scratching your head thinking dun have to be so "Kua Zhang" bah? I can tell you, "Boh Bian", got to be "Kua Zhang"!

7:00am -- Start to Make-Up

Start of a busy day!!! The procedure is abit different in Singapore! In Singapore, they will start off with the make-up first and curl the hair with a hand-held curler. But in Taiwan, they dun use hand-held curler. They used the pre-heated plastic curler.

I look like some Hong Kong "Bao Zhu Po"! Its very difficult to be "Bao Zhu Po"! Wah liao, the curler is killing me like crazy! Ouch ouch ouch...


Finally, my make up is done! Opps... my hair not done yet and its like 9plus already!

9:15am -- Darling's turn for beauty consultation
Im done! My hair had grown long! I can recommend you the formulae for hair growth... Haha... That's the difference between Taiwan and Singapore, they seems to like long hair. So if you got short hair, they will give you wigs.

Some shaving of eyebrows to be done to make the overall effect better!

See, now Darling's eye brow looks much more neater!

11:00am -- Our first location, 黄金瀑布
Its a pretty small waterfall, but what makes it beautiful is that water that flows down seems like golden in colour!

Actually, the water the very clear! Just that there some chemical reaction going on that causes the rocks to have a change in colour! That's why, its golden in colour! And the surrounding view is very outstanding!

The industry ruin was very ancient looking with great taste! And you can overlook very famous sceneries from there. Right in front, you can get 金刚山. It was an unknown spot. If not for our driver 龙哥, we would not have take notice that the mountain looks like a "King Kong"

And by the right, we can see 阴阳海. The view of the sea is splendid! It look super majestic! Doesn't look like the normal kind of blue sea due to the contrast of the colour.

Once eaten, back to work again! My make-up artist, Peggy whipped this up within 20min!

How do I know? Because Peggy was timing her speed constantly!

3:00pm -- Location 3, 野柳
This was one of the very famous tourist attraction! It was super famous with its "Queen Head". When we reached there, it was flooded with tourists, photographers and couples who are taking there wedding shoots.

I had counted! There's a total of 4 couples altogether, including us!

This is only a part of 野柳. We had yet to move on to the "Queen Head", then we got to run! Cos its starting to rain.... Haiz... Such a waste! I must come back here again to be the Queen at the "Queen Head"

4:15pm -- Location 4, 三芝白沙湾, 珊瑚礁
This is also another doubtful location! When we are serving the net, doing our homework. 白沙湾 was our last option, because the picture we gotten from the internet was not very tempting.

So why still want to go there? Its a last minute change due to the weather! And we want a beach feel, plus the sun is setting soon, so we need to settle to the nearest beach.

Quickly, i change and do my make-up!

Fantastic for such a short period of time, rite?

Honestly, 白沙湾 is super huge! Majority of the Taiwanese and tourist will head on to the beach part, which I will intro later. So not much tourist would know about the Coral Reef part.

The place dun look fantastic just using our common mortal eyes. But together with the lighting of the sun (which finally came out!), the pictures turn out to be totally different from our bare eyes! SUPERB!!!

Btw, please be careful when ur walking on the coral reef! I had a fall and im not wearing heels, ok! Its really very slippery!

5:30pm -- Location 5, 三芝白沙湾, 沙滩
Basically, the coral reef and the beach is side by side! So its only a 5min drive down! We are literally running to the beach once we are there cos we need to catch the sun before it sets.

Based on the internet pictures, this place looks very dirty, not that attractive. But is actually the sand which is black in colour that gives the dirty feel, the water is very very clean and clear! And before we hit the water, there's some burnt tree trunks that we can take picture, and its very beautiful!

So its definitely a great place for a great shot!

6:30pm -- Back to the studio
Luckily, the sun sets slightly later, then we have more time to take more shots! By the time we are done, its was pitch dark, machiam like 8:00pm in Singapore!

8:30pm -- Thank You Speech!

My make-up artist, Peggy! She is so sweet and thoughtful! I told her that I need to collect something from the main office in the morning, and she stills remember it in the night, even I had forgotten!

He is also a tour guide! You can ask him to bring you around in Taiwan, not only in Taipei orh! And I think the price is normal tour package lor...

Our photographer and his assistant cum girlfriend -- Ah Chang and Xiao Hui! Thanks a lot for all your advices along the way to make the photo shooting process smooth sailing! And the pictures are splendid, I love them!