My recent trip to Taiwan with Redken Taiwan

23-29 Mar 2009

Being a person who is qualified and certified as a Professional Colorist has its advantages, the benefit of travelling. March 09 had been a busy month for me as I have spent 2 weeks in Melboune, a week with Redken Malaysia and another on my own at St.Kilda beach. After a week here in KL , I left for Taiwan with the invitation of Redken Taiwan to conduct two sessions of color seminars. 1 in Taipei and 1 in Kaoshiung. My clients has been screaming for me as they could not book me for color work in Mar. Dear clients, my apology.

It was my 3rd trip to Taiwan since 2008 but this time has brought me a whole new experience of what I thought about the city. At first it was like a giant Sg.Wang ,believe me, that was my first impression when I arrived there last year. I think it was partly due to the way the trip was organized. We made stops at street markets for food,street bazaar for clothes like our wholesale fashion street ala "Ho Cheng Yuen" (Kenanga area) and what I did was making my own Starbucks stops while waiting for the hairdressers to complete their shopping spree.

This recent trip was different, I had the opportunity to experience the regular city life.Bear with me, I grew up in KL therefore I do like city lifesyle most. After the two seminars, I had a few days off on own to enjoy Taipei. I went to California gym , more Starbucks and enjoy food at

great restaurants.The express train from the North to South ,Taipei to Kaoshiung was really impressive as it took only an hour and a half to arrive.It is similar to the bullet train in Japan.

Here is my obsevation about Taiwan, despite the popularity of many chinese celebs and singers who are well known globally and its own Channel V chinese music channel, I can't really find the whole city to be metropolitan. As a matter of fact KL has more high rise buildings, the one and only world famous landmark is Taipei 101 which is very similar to our KLCC. Office tower on top and shopping mall at the lower floors.Redken Taiwan(L'oreal as the whole company) is located here so I had the time to wander around the mall.

I might be going there in Sep 09 as there will be another show there so I hope I will have a new experience again.

Cheers,