Taipei Trip Part 1 (departure from Manila to arrival at Taipei airport terminal 1)

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Friday, October 10, 2008... the day we were going to Taipei but it seemed like my mind was in Taipei already since Monday, Oct. 06 :)

Last weekend before going to Taipei (Saturday Oct. 04), cathy and i met up with our other friend, kat (who couldnt make it to taipei) to... envy her ahahah jk... just to talk and she gave her money for con goods also.. and... well wishes ahahaha

after meeting kat, cathy and i went to greenhills to buy cathy's yellow shirt and me to buy a pair of jeans (been losing weight so my clothes are kinda loose yebah!).. then we went to megamall... to buy things needed for making uchiwa (illustration board and neon paper) and light sticks.... and other things needed for our trip...

Monday, Oct. 06,, been checking for money changer who can give us the highest exchange rate for our philippine peso... gosh ntd rate fluctuates everyday... 2 weeks prior to departure twas ntd1=php 1.4... then week of departure twas ntd 1=php 1.7, 1.6 argh!!! luckily we were able to exchange it @1.5php=ntd 1

Tuesday, Oct. 07, cathy mentioned that in AAA Taipei 2006, there was this big black cloth and japanese characters were written on it...  that's when i thought that we should just have a tarpaulin instead of uchiwas (to write philippines in kanji)... since tarpaulins can be easily carried compared to uchiwas...  and i already asked eiri before how to write philippines in jap (since this was what we planned to put in the uchiwa)... so... everything will be ok haha.. called cathy and she agreed lols... she fixed the characters until wednesday morning...

Thursday, Oct. 08, met up with cathy in the morning... she told me arashi is arriving in taipei at noon the following day (i had this feeling twas late evening).. and that they were leaving for japan on Monday, Oct 13 around 9am... so as soon as i got back to the office, i checked for JAL and ANA flights from tokyo to taipei hahaha cathy said someone mentioned that they will be on a different terminal... but i didnt give much thought about this.. and so i got the flight details already... as per katie chances are, theyre taking ANA,,, but to be sure, i printed both airlines' flight details hahaha.. that afternoon i got the tarpaulin!! sugoi!!! ahahaha i asked my officemate CV to go to one end of our office garage while i go to the other end to check if the tarp can be seen clearly hahahaha...

our light stick (butterfly kirei ne) and our tarp..

after leaving office that day, I went to my friend's place in Marikina to pick up the yukatta we were gonna wear for the 1st nite con (i got the other yukatta the week we applied for visa)... then i fetched cathy at Mcdo Q. Ave/Edsa (where you can see the rejoice  billboard  ahaha >> she too was shocked that alan looked like nino there hahaha)..

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my brother wrote this on the whiteboard in their room... sweet ne? before we left i found an envelope on my doorstep with pocket money from dad (argh why only now ahahaha) and their letters for me (i made it a habit since i was a kid to write a letter to any family member who's gonna be away for some time...we do it up to now... and they do the same to me whenever i leave :d)

we got home around 8-9pm... had dinner... then we went upstairs to my room... we're gonna distribute the things we're bringing.. so we were opening her Team Philippines luggage... but.... it wouldnt open!!! ahah ahahahaha cathy used the luggage lock wherein u just put the zipper in and work with the combination ahahaha i swear she was panicking since all her things are in there ahahaha and if ever we don't get to open it,,, going home to get things to cavite is way too far ahahaha she called her brother, her cousin whose hubby owns the luggage... but still no luck...  so i just got a hairclip and forcibly opened the luggage (hah feeling mcgyver :p)... but she didnt have padlock... luckily i had extra ahaha cathy what u gonna do without me hahaha

then we started working on the uchiwas ... ooppss rather I and only I started working on the uchiwas while cathyw as on the fone talking to kat.. we couldnt think of what to do witht he uchiwas... write AIBA? NINO? or their names in kanji? argh too difficult since we're both not artistic... so we just settled with doing arashi in kanji (too bad forgot to take a pic of it... left it at the hostel room.. twas sloppy anyways har3)...

we watched a few mins of AAA... before going to bed around 1am...

woke up around 3.30... woke up my dad before leaving at 4am... our house is kinda far from the airport... so cathy and i slept on the way there... arrived at the airport a few mins before 5am... 

i knew beforehand that there will be other fangirls in the same flight... teeny and em (whom i met already during matsujun's party... the sakuraiba sisters har3..)... then krissy and crissy (i only remember how crissy looks like from the matsujun party)... since our flight was at 7.50am... cathy and i had lots of time to loiter ahahaha... we first bought some food... 

 then we were taking pix of the plane, the airport, etc... when we heard someone mentioned "megaupload"... then "pikanchi double".. uh-oh another fan... there were 3 of them... who were they? ahahaha we had no idea... then i asked cathy to text and ask vicky (she was source E in this post of mine hahaha) her flight details... and yeah... twas her that we saw together with 2 other fangirls, sheela (whom i knew from aibaka) and mandi (she doesnt maintain vox or lj.. just multiply).. and so we chatted... after a few more mins,, i spotted teeny and em... so they joined us... then... i spotted krissy and crissy also... i was telling cathy we should approach them... so we did... ahahaha  

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see how many filipinas watching the con? ahaha and this is just within our flight... there are others hahaha (as of last count 22)...

so all of us chatted and chatted and chatted... but u know... i still feel like there's this wall between us since its the first time meeting the other fans.. anyways, cathy and i brought up the topic of waiting for arashi's arrival... crissy said... theyll be on terminal 2 and that they have the details on how to go to terminal 2 lols but... they don't have the flight sked... *chajan..* i have the flight sked ahahaha combined effort ne? so twas decided... we were gonna wait for their arrival..we boarded the plane as scheduled but we departed earlier than 7.50...

ETA at taipei was 10.00 but we arrived 9.30 (argh hafta wait longer since arashi's arriving at 11.50 or was it 11.55?hahaha)

notice that terminal 1 is kinda small... :)

newspaper and beverage vendo machine at terminal 1...

our navigator krissy had to look at this map.. we didnt have much time to lose to go to terminal 2..

The PS (nope not paksyet ahahaha) Philippine Stalkers... leaving terminal 1 to go to paradise oopss i mean to terminal 2.. looking at us no one would think we just met that day hahaha icebreaker : arashi stalking hahaha

only 5 of us will be waiting for arashi... since the other fans are on packaged tour, someone's fetching them at the airport... gosh this is the first time im not on packaged tour and im sooooo loving it that our time is ours mwahahahaha...

okei i hafta end my post here nyahahaha... will be posting again later on so as not to bore you har3...

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I forgot to include this one in the first part of mypost... this was the plane we took from Manila to Taipei... twas rather small compared to other planes used for itnernational flights... and when we got inside... it really is small ahaha similar to those planes used for domestic flights.. and there were heaps of empty seats hahaha... no wonder people were really curious whatthe hell im gonna do in taipei hahaha its not a usual tour-destination country after all...