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Bali - Day 2

Posted on October 21st, 2007 by GracyBee.
Categories: Places.

As we can’t managed to get more rooms in the hotel due to the peak season, 6 people would be sleeping in 2 rooms. So J, me and his sister X were sharing 1 room. Oh….I’m holidaying with J’s family - sisters, bro in law and friend.

Amazingly, I can’t sleep despite being so tired.

The highlight of the hotel - not me

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J’s eldest sister XX has hired a driver and car to take us around Bali. Today we are going to East Bali to visit the Tanah Lot Temple and water sports in Jimbaran Bay.

Bali’s town and surroundings don’t differ a lot from Malaysia, so I felt pretty quite at home. What are different: the ultra narrow road that can handle heavy 2 way traffic; the kampung area that do not have wooden houses and the sparsely dispersed shops and quite nicely decorated for some I have to say.

On our way

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We reached the area of Tanah Lot in late morning. I’m quite surprised that there are 2 lanes of ‘Domestic’ and ‘International’, which needless to say the latter would have more expensive entry fee. Haha….as J’s family are Indonesian, I just tagged along and keep mum that I become a local for that 5 min!

The fee entrance

 

Shops

Tanah Lot Temple is situated on the small island by the sea. Gosh, that is a breath taking view! The sea breeze is cooling, the stones and cliffs……..aww….

The entrance to the temple

Tanah Lot Temple. Isn’t it amazing?

 

 

hehe…din expect to see this!

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After the photo taking session, we head off for lunch. Our driver introduced us to Kudeta.

 

A restaurant with a nice view facing the sea. The sea breeze greeted us and we don’t feel warm and sticky. Mostly served western food, but pity the food don’t quite fit with the ambience.

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We wanted to do snorkelling, but as it was all fully booked, we can only settled down for something else. Waiting for the photos to come!

While waiting for our driver, I came across this structure. Gotta wow at this

You can practically see this all over in Bali, no matter in houses or restaurants. It is evident that they incorporate their arts and religion in their daily lives.

After that, we went for Jimbaran Bay for seafood. They recommend this restaurant

The seatings are by the sea, admiring the sunset. It was quite an experience. However, we were quite disappointed with the service. J told me that the local restaurants look down on Indonesian themselves, and so they tend to serve the tourists 1st. Indeed, after a fruitless 1/2 hr wait, they decided to leave for another place.

So don’t come to this place!!

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We went to another restaurant further down the bay.

Here the service is much better and not so packed. B, J’s bro in law ordered the food and here are our feast!!

The seafood are yummy!!! Better than those served in Malaysia!!!

We heard the traditional Balinese music not far away. Oh my god, is the traditional dance celebrating someone’s wedding! Quickly went over to take pix

Dance
End of Day 2 - quite an exhausting day

 

 

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Bali

Posted on October 20th, 2007 by GracyBee.
Categories: Places.

Juz back from Bali!!

Yeah, it was a last min decision trip. J came to Singapore and ask me if I want to join them in Bali for holidays for 5 days. Well, why not? However, I’m worried about my leave as it was indeed last minute, but I still try anyway. No harm trying right?? AND HOLA!! They really approved my leave 2 days later for next week!! YIPEE!!! And they found a hotel to stay for 6 person! Yipee!! And all of us found air tickets to Bali! YIPEEE!!!

Date set: 15 Oct 07

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My flight was at 1630 and I was in the airport early, so I took a walk around. Didn’t know that there is a catus garden! Chey! How can I not know right??

Not in a desert

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I flew with Garuda Indonesia, and the journey time is 2 hr 20 min. Getting quite restless, so decided to have a wine this time.

Cheers

I were to meet J and the rest in Bali itself as they were leaving from Jakarta. I reached there at around 7pm. Alas…waste a day already..the said holiday was 5 days, but in fact is only 3 days as 2 days will be spent on travelling. But who cares?? I’m still on holiday!!! GOSH, till the time I have arrived in Bali, I still can’t believe I’m in Bali, and J also can’t believe that after 1 year, we were holidaying together in Indonesia!

After having dinner, we went for short walk around the area. As it was already at night, we can’t do much, so after a short walk we rejoined as a group and went to Hard Rock to listen to the band. Not bad, but the sound system is not really that good….eeks….

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At midnight, we decided to call it a day. Check in hotel: Hotel Kuta Paradiso

End of Day 1

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Another gathering

Posted on October 7th, 2007 by GracyBee.
Categories: General.

Yesterday, after I met up with my P sch friends, I went on to meet my friend J whom I know him in UK. It was the last min decision for him to come over to Spore, so we met up for dinner.

We have been keep in contact via emails and SMS. It has been a while since I last saw J and so I was expecting to see some little changes in him. He keep saying he has aged…ok we shall see!!

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It is refreshing to see old friend again, and as usual we gossiped and talked about what has happened during that year of absence in UK. A lot to talk about, family, work, friends we knew etc. We went to Clarke Quay for dinner.

What was upsetting was to get to know about the work. We knew each other in this restaurant and both of us worked together for 3 years b4 we resigned. It was enjoyable working there for that 3 years as I have met wonderful colleagues to work with, despite having gloomy politics coming from our bosses. I have faced quite a few incidents at work that sad to say try to break the friendship with my friends but all don’t seem to work on me as I strongly believe in myself and J, despite facing several . As he was telling me all, I couldn’t help but start to think back what had happened = all the same. The sad thing is that, another friend and J’s friendship were affected by it. Well, that is nothing much we can do, we just hope that time can heal and solve all problems that come with it.

J says it could be due to the business strategy that bosses are behaving like that. Perhaps so, and I’m not in the position to argue that. However, what I do not understand is that why involve your personal life into work politics and get people into trouble.

My bosses treated me well, but they are not the nicest one to work with. Through the years I was there, I get to know more of their behaviour and try to adapt to save myself amd my friendship with others. It was a bore and mental torture at times, but it was the friendships and customers that keep me in high spirits. It was so much to the torture that I was so relieved during my last day at work, and never again keep in contact with them.
Anyway, they don’t treat people that nice and quite often belittle people. I always believe in retribution, and I’m not sure if they got theirs already. Their newborn daughter was dead after 3 days, they have a new son, recently diagnosed with autism. As much as I don’t quite like them, I felt sorry for their children. I hope the best for them.

As for me and J, we want to move forward and leaving behind the work place’s memories. In my opinion, after so much trouble, I’m still glad to keep my friendship with J.

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Lost N Found!!

Posted on October 7th, 2007 by GracyBee.
Categories: Memory Lane.

Phew, what a hectic period at work! Don know why, been feeling tired at work lately. Thus, I was looking forward for my 3 days break and I have managed to arrange to meet my primary school friends I have not seen for 15 years!!

I felt apprehensive, frankly speaking. Like would I recognise them? How much they have changed? Will that 15 year long gap make any difference to the friendship etc etc

I met KW 1st in Orchard MRT. I tell you, no matter how much the person changes, there is still a bit of him that remind me of the then him. hahah…..well, he recognised me 1st!! Then we went to Far East Plaza to meet JH to have Korean cuisine, SU restaurant, as recommended by E.

Hot Korean Tea, tasted like half cofee, half tea

The side dishes - Yummy!!

Rice and herbal chicken soup

Oh gosh, it was a wonderful feeling to see old friends again. It was like yesterday I last seen them and we just get on to talk like old times. We caught up with each other’s activities and talked about old memories. Each of us have their own portion of memories and after we shared with each other, it struck to me: ‘oh yah ho…..i nearly forgot!’ When we mentioned names of the people we remembered, we were: yes yes, there is such a person! don noe how they are now!’ ahaha…conversations went on~ What are the names that sprang out? Dengli, Caiyun, Yujiao, Shanshan, Pauline, Qiye, Guihao, Guiqi, Liping, Liyuan, Lairong, Pinyao, Rongfeng, Lianyu, and few others. Where are all of you?

Then my dear old old best friend, E came to meet us in Coffee Bean in Paragon. We finally found each other via friendster. Well, we all found each other thru friendster!! Though it was only for 2 hours we meet, I felt so happy to see her again.

During our time in Primary school, there is no such thing as Internet. Thus, to keep in contact, we exchanged telephones numbers and addresses that time. However that can get obsolete and they get changed and we not informed. Thus, I’m really grateful to the internet and friendster to find our friends back again.

Had a great time, guys! Must meet again next time!!

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