I am who I am: September 2011

WooHoo~ Really excited when i finally booked my trip~

Planned to go in Aug but parent does not allow us to go as it is the 7th month of Chinese Calendar~

Listened to them as i also scared of ghost and no point make them worry for us while we are enjoying ourself~

hahaa~~

Never been to Bali before and i nv tot of going there b4 marriage! Reason, cos the place looks so romantic and is a good place to "create" love~ wahahaha~~~

But dun know why, the tot just came and off we go~ wahaha~~~

1 day before my trip, 1 of my colleague told me that, there are myth, rumors that, Bali is a cursed island.

Unmarried couple go there will be curse and they will break off eventually. between 6weeks - 6 months time.

Was affected, but many colleagues ard me, ask me to ignore the myth and name me the couples who went and happy married after the Bali Trip~ wahaha~~~

So, i just leave it to fate~

LA LA LA LA LA ~

Is a 5 days 4 night trip~

Stay @ Astana Kunti Villa [$230+++ per night]

Flew : JetStar [$240 per pax]

The hotel and flight cost us bat $1400 ++

Not a good price, just Normal Price

I believe can get cheaper air ticket price when there is a promo~ can go as long as $100 per person~

Day 1

Flight @ 0940

We reached airport @ 0700++

Mum wanted to have breakfast with us but due to she is real tired after she visited casino and only came back home in the morning @ 0500++

Heehee!

They left after they dropped us @ airport.

1st thing that we do is to check in our bags~

Waiting in Q for baggage check in.

cabin baggage label

Went in to the transit area directly and we had BK for our breakfast.

Posting with the Foods

Our gate

Took this pic when we are boarding~

Airplane packed with people

wanted to take the seat num but was blurred

The flight was delayed for about 30 mins i think, i dosed off before the flight move. When i woke up, the flight is not moving, i tot i have reached Bali~ But i am dreaming la~ waha~

Many plane Q-ing to take off

FOC KAYA BUN by JetStar

Never tot that i will have a FOC Kaya Bun and a cup of Plain water from JetStar!

To me, all items on budget airline need to be purchase.

Very Green Kaya~

Us on Plane~

The flight was bat 2.5 hr. Is a complicated airport with 3 different check point!

All Singaporean/Malaysian, please ignore the 1st 2 check point, where you will see many ppl Q and is mostly ANG MO. This 2 Q is for those for need to buy VISA and who need VISA to travel to Bali~

Singapore/Malaysian, just need to walk ALL the way out will do~ is like the finally Check Point of the airport and you Q from there~ The Sign indicate foreign Passport.

Bali airport is a very Busy airport. With many tourist, many tour guide waiting for their cust and also many cars to fetch the tourist~

Tourist waiting ard.

i also part of them~

Many cars~

Flowers for us when we reached~

I have booked driver/car/tour guide from nakbali.com

They are friendly and helpful~

It also the cheapest airport transfer i have searched. 100.000 ph per way

380.000 for 12 hours tour.

Loading the luggage into the car

car interior

Jam

out of the airport. Still many car~

The weather @ Bali is really HOT~

it took us a about 30 mins to reach our hotel~

Reaching Hotel~

We Stayed @ Astana Kunti @ Seminyak

It is located away from the main road and is deep inside~

The small road to the hotel is really bumpy~

As it is located Deep inside, it is really peaceful @ night~

There are hotel rooms and Villas in Astana Kunti~

If i am not wrong, it has only 18 Villa and we are staying in 1 of it ~ wahaha~

FOC WIFI is provided by the hotel. But reception is really bad when we are in the room~ Signal is strong only when we are out of the Villa... BERY =_="

Hotel Reception~

Checking in

The Tour Guide Ketut from nakbali

He came from airport to the hotel to discuss with us on the tour itinerary. Very Nice of him~

I think they know that airport is too crowded for us to talk about anything~ ahaha~

We are lead to our room by the friendly staff of AStana Kunti when the room is ready for us~

Walking towards our Villa~

The long "corridor"

Where signal is stronger then when we are inside the villa~

Room Number~ 310~

Going in Le~

Super excited when the door is open~

The service staff do a walk through of the villa with us. Telling us where is where and wat is what.!

I forgot what they say, i only remember i "wah~ waH! wAH~ WAH~ all the way and i think they laugh @ me~ wahaha~~~

Pictures shall do the talking ~~ hehehe~

View from the entrance~

Bed

View From The Room/Bed

Bath Room. Half Open Roof Top

TV Area~

Showering @ night is really scary. I scare got ghost as right behind the wall is out of Villa compound.

There are banana tree ard~ Scare got ppl jump in and etc~

The toilet bowel is ECO friendly! got Auto wash butt service! shahhahaha!

Mr Lee Tried!

Basin~ Bath Tub on the right~ Shower on the Left~

BathTub

Kitchen~

Sofa~ Lounge

SunTann

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Abit disappointed with the towels they provided. There are stain and is in dark colour.

My feeling tells me that they are washed/clean but did not use any bleach to remove the stains~

Mr Lee with the FOC Welcome Drink~

Me + Welcome Drink~ Is Dripping~

Welcome Note

FOC for the 1st Day~ in the fridge~

We started to watch the videos that we had bought along and ordered room service[club sandwich] when we rest @ room~

me + FOC coke + munching on the sanwich

Kinda hungry, so we ate the sandwich without taking any picture~ wahaha~~

The Villas does not have any shelter to the hotel Lobby, they have umbrella for us @ outside our room.

Thoughtful of the Hotel to have umbrella @ the door steps

We headed out for our dinner @ about 5pm+

We did not call for any Cab and walk out of the Villa ourself.

Is a about 10-15 mins walk to the main road.

Mr Lee make me walk up and down the dust main road as there are really lots of cars~

and we finally settle down @ this Chat Cafe~

THey offer FOC WIFI~

Ginger Ice Tea

Chicken Nuggets

Salmon

Tuna

Me Bz with the WhatsApp~

Our Table Num~

The dinner is ok ok only, not a must to try la. But if u need the FOC WIFI is worth going~ wahaha~

After dinner, We packet this grilled chicken which is beside the Cafe for "Supper"

Mr Lee is very tempted by the chicken, dun know why!

We headed by to the hotel and the sunset really early @ Bali, @ about 1830,the sky is dark already~

No lamp post @ all on the road that we walked back, luckily Mr Lee bought his torch light and i used the torch function on my phone!

Same, the road is dusty, uneven and is so quiet!

I really hold Mr Lee arms/hands tight!

I super timid~ ahaha!

Quickly me, changed into swim suit once we reached our room~

Step by step enter the pool as the water is REALLY COLD~

After the swim, we used the bathtub! is huge enough to fit me and MR LEE~ hahaha!

Did not spend too much time in the pool and bathtub as we are heading our early the next day~

Bath and enjoy the chicken that we Ta Bao back earlier on~

Flower Shape

Chicken in the cute position

He dismantle the chicken

Wine we bought @ Airport~

Day 2

Morning View of Pool~

Our breakfast is provided by the hotel.

Breakfast will need to be ordered daily @ the reception is you wish to have your breakfast in the Villa.

From the reviews i read online regarding the hotel. Many ppl complain that the breakfast was always late~

So we ordered the breakfast to be delivered to our Villa @ 8am, which is 1 hr before we set of for our trip~

But they were 45 mins LATE! Therefore we were 45 mins late to start our tour~

Breakfast in the Villa

My Omelet

COCOCrunch

Flatten Crosssion

scramble Egg~

After we had our breakfast, we quickly head out to meet our driver. I also went to poo poo before we headed out~ wahaha~

Remember to empty your poo poo and wee wee if you can before you go for tour.

Reasons :

Toilet is really hard to find @ Bali

All toilet got entrance Fee

Toilet is not that clean

Any any 1 of you are like me, dislike dirty toilet. Pray hard you will not have any stomach upset along the way.

Different car is used to fetch us ard

Diff Car interior

We head towards mountain area for our 1st day tour!

1st Stop : Coffee Keluar

Dun ask me where, cos we just told the guide what we want and let them decide where to bring us.

Entrance

Smell Smell the Cinnamon

COCO Fruit

Coffee Fruits

The guide of the plantation

Bee Hivas

Explaining how is the coffee keluar is produced.

nice plant along the way

Coffee Fruits

1 Type of Coffee

animal that eat the coffee fruit and shit our the expensive coffee bean

Cool Huh

FOC Tasting of the diff Fav of coffee and Tea

The Coffee Keluar

Every thing is FOC but except for the coffee in the small white cup! But i think they have calculated the cost of the FOC sample and add into the chargeable coffee Keluar as 1 cup of the coffee cost S$7

Mr LEe and Guide

THis guide been to Singapore for 6 months.

He told us that he got lost when he is trying to get into Sentosa~ wahaha~

Mr LEe Trying out the Coffee

We posting with the Drinks

The guide brought us to some hill, which is opposite of Mt Batur~

If any 1 of you like adventure and trekking, can go Trekking @ Mt Batur.

It needs lot of WILL and STRENGTH

Go read the review of Trekking Mt Batur.

The sunrise is breath taking[from the review] and make me feels like doing the trekking~

But i know i got no stamina and out of shape. therefore i forgo the tot la!

Back to my trip, if you can, don't go to this place where we had our lunch.

Is abt S$17 per person after tax and we are accompany by lots of FLIES~

But the view is not bad la~

Volcano~

After lunch, we were brought to 1 of the temple.

Oh Ya, 1 thing i dun like bat Bali, every where also need to pay $$ up the hill to have lunch, need to pay entrance fee

Go temple also need entrance fee~

Police are there to guide the entrance. HAI~

Back to temple~

Holy WAter

The guide say, if you think you kana black magic, the holy water can help you clear the black magic away

Pregnant woman will also come to pray and shower with holy water for both baby and mother to be safe.

many ppl Q-ing to be shower by holy water

The water is cooling...

No shorts allow in the temples, therefore we need to wrap ourself with sarong before we enter the temple.

Something i wish it will not happened, happened when we reached this temple.

My stomach is upset! the pain cannot be tolerated and need to poo poo IMMEDIATELY!

Thankful that it happened @ the temple there.

Thankful for the auntie keep washing the toilet.

The toilet @ the temple is acceptable. The outer appearance tell u the toilet is smelly and dirty as it is really run down.

Indeed, it is run down but not smelly or dirty! The squat towel bowl , the hole is clean. Not like those malaysia 1. BLACK BLACK!

I felt good and luckily!

Back to the main track! haha!

Do give some donation to the donation box when you return the sarong.

us with sarong

Holy water flow out from the floor

The police will make sure you exit the other way where lots of shop along the way.

the shopping exit

Next Stop : Rice Terrance

There are lot of rice terrance along the way, we stopped @ the "photo shooting point" of the rice terrance.

not shy pee-ing guide

any how Pee Mr Lee~

There are too much food we want to try in Bali, the tour guide is new and dun seem to understand what we trying to say.

We wanted to try all the food but not having it as proper meal. Like buy 1 set of it and try it.

He dun seem to understand.

So we tabao the food we want to try and eat it when we are back to the hotel after the trip.

HAIZ!

1 of the food that is recommended by the TV travel show

Dirty Duck~

photo taking ard the restaurant

1 of the pic i took which i like

Cool dinning area

Real Flowers

Next, Naughty Nuri's

Recommended by TV Show and TRavel Book~

FAmous for their Baby Rips

Mr Lee love sunset, i also like sunset. We quickly rush to our next destination after we tabao the food.

Sun is setting soon!

Nice pic captured along the way

TANAH LOT~

well, "entrance" fee is collected again @ TANAH LOT

Below will be the pictures of nice sunset shoot by us~

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Try the restaurant @ Tanah Lot.

We did not manage to try the food there as we does not know there is such restaurant there!

The view is not bad and ambient is nice too~

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Tanah Lot Rest Entrance

Famous Tanah Lot

The temple is famous as it is located in the sea, only low tied then you can walk near the temple.

I strongly recommend every 1 to visit KrisNa Oleh Oleh

Things are cheap, no need to bargain and cannot bargain!

Lots of varieties!

such big bag cos less then $10 per bag!

Back to hotel after shopping~

Realised that we did not have any proper dinner? The tour guide is not too considerate on this part.

Dirt Duck Packing

MAsh Potato that comes with the Duck. Is yummy!

Naughty Nuri's Rips

Day 3

Kuta Area - Beach

Bali's beaches are really nice, but too bad i am not a beach person and not prepare to be expose under the sun for long time!

Wonder ard the shopping MAll beside the beach.

I bought a shirt from ADIDAS and Mr Lee said i look like pumpkin~

ALong the way to our next destination, we pass by Malioboro.

Famous food recommend by the guide, Tv and Book~

Should give it a try~ This chicken is really special~

Orignal

with Salted Egg Yoke

This drink is very rich!

AVOCADO with chocolate

Why the chicken is special?

Cos the chicken bone can be eaten and is soft~

Believe it is fried in some high pressure equipment

Bone Breaked by just pressing it gently

Mr Lee said the bone is crispy and is like eating chips~

We only ordered 1 rice to share as we dun wan to make ourself too full and no appetite to try other food.

THe guide bring us to GMK.

Well, "entrance" fee collected again!

My DO NOT suggest any 1 to visit this place of interest as it has nothing to see!

We always prefer sightseeing then shopping. But this place is really not worth to visit and is meaningless to visit ! At least to us! Take Note! i Respect the GOD

GOD

GARUDA

Above are the pic of what you will see if you visit GMK. THere is also another part of the GMK we did not visit, is where they put the hand of the GOD. The guide ask if we want to see the hand, MR Lee rejected immediately~ haha~~~

Next Destination is Beautiful~~~ The DreamLand ~ Beach~

Well~ Shuttle Bus Fee is collected again~ REALLY pissed and TMD~

The beach, sand is white, water is clear, sun is REALLY HOT but the water is COOLING~

WAves are huge too~ i nv seem such big waves b4.

Is not really big like those western country, but is definitely bigger then Singapore 1. waha~

River - Walking towards the beach

We find it cool as there is a not so clean river before a clear seawater beach.

Covered by sarong me~

The sun is real hot and strong and i forgot to put on sun block on that day~~~~

so i cover myself with sarong~

1st time see ppl surfing~

MTV style~ hahah~

Alright, most upsetting part of this trip, my old injuries , back pain, came back after i left the beach!

My leg is dirty after walking along the beach.

I bent down to wash my leg and dust off the sand before getting up the car.

When i stood up straight, the pain just came back~

SUAY TO THE MAX~

Agua Mr Lee~

We visited another beach, forgot the name.

I find the beach special as you need to walk down a cave path before reaching the beach.

the path is small and there is only 1 route for ppl to go to and leave the beach.

With my bloody back pain, climbing the steps of the cave path is really difficult for me!~ Duper painful!!! Some more i need to keep bending to let the other pass. Steps are high too!

Knowing my having back pain, the guide still make me climb slopes back to the carpark!

Feel like slapping him @ that very moment~

We did not mange to take any pic of the steps as Mr Lee is busy helping me to climb the steps.

Pushing me up or holding my weight from the side.

ULU WATU~ is the next destination~

Well, entrance fee collected AGAIN~

ULU WATU : Beautiful Mountain Cliffs and Indian Ocean View

Standing Beside the Cliff Me

My Leg turn a bit Jelly standing there. Super scare i slip and fell off the cliff and i will be died! haha~

After Ulu Watu, we head to Jimbaran to have our seafood Dinner while watching sunset~

Those front table with shades are all taken up~

To have the best view of the sun set i have no choice but to welcome the sunlight to shine STRONGLY on me~~~~

our Table~

Using the menu to block the sun~

Nice position to view sunset!
The shade belong to other table~

HOT! HOT!

The dinner is set dinner. We choose the lobster set dinner! 900.000 ph before tax.

which is about S$150, Can try, but not a need to return again~

fanda - Strawbery

Set Veg

Lobster Set - 1 pax 1 set

Rice~

Sun is Setting

Candle !

So far, except for the MAliboro, all the other food that we had are not HOT. All @ room temperate including the Seafood Dinner.

Went to their Carrefour after the dinner, wanted to grab some food for our 4th day @ BALI as we plan to spend the whole day in the VILLA~

Disappointment, we did not mange to get anything, only bottles of water.

Only excitement is, i manage to get a set of bikini of my size @ S$30 @ the shopping mall which Carrefour is located @.

Knowing my back is pain, the driver ask us to cross a super bz traffic road to Carrefour, he does not want to do the U-Turn as the U turn is far away. This is the 2nd time he ask us to do that.

I am fine with it for the 1st time, which is on the 2nd day, as i dun have any backache.

He make me stress my back for 2x a day knowing what happened to me.

Well, forget it. i will just assume he cannot understand english.

The pain was real bad that, @ night, i woke up from pain!

I slept on my right side, my usually position. I could not move my body @ all from the pain, i need to wake Mr LEe up to move me,pulling my shorts to the side and help me turn my body, so that i can lie on my back.

Day 4

same old breakfast

After the breakfast, we rest and watch TV before dipping into the POOL!

Already the last day, we have yet to finish the wine!

Therefore, wine @ Pool Side~

The Pool water is still cold/chilling even though the hot hot sun is shining~

Picture taking with MR LEe Sun Glasses, Flower Hair accessory, Wine!

Reading + Resting @ SoFa after Swim~

Usually you will feel hungry after swimming ~~~~

Room Service~~~~

The room service needs 40 mins to prepare!

I swim again before the food arrive!

The water is still so chilling that i DASH into the pool! hahaha!

Wonder why we ordered so many fries? Not we are crazy with fries. Just that the menu is misleading. it stated potato chips! and we ordered OTAk [the small round brown thingy] and it came with fries also!

The whole afternoon was spent swim - read - swim - eat - swim - read! ahahaha!

Also realized that the hotel is thoughtful, they help to close the curtain in the bedroom[curtain was left open when they do room service in the day!] and also replace the insect repellence.!

Happy hours PAss REALLY FAST !

Sun also set early~

We pack up and return back to room!

Bubble Bath Time~

Enjoying the hot Bubble bath before the actual shower?

hahaha!!! Shiok shiok!!!!!

LAST DAY

nothing much~ as Mr LEe does not want to take a later flight home. He felt is wasting of time waiting for the time to pass, so we have choose the 1st fight to retune home. Also not that early, is 2pm++! Just nice after check out. Can head to airport!

Last breakfast was nice! The room service help us to do the set up!

Breakfast with setting

After breakfast, i refuse to pack up and refuse to leave!

Regret not waking up early to swim again before going back!

Me refuse to leave - 1

Me refuse to leave - 2

Me refuse to leave - 3

Me refuse to leave - 4

Me refuse to leave + Mr Lee - 5

Me refuse to leave + MR Lee - 6

No picture was taken after that.

Was given a souvenir from Ketut @ NakBali! So Sweet of him! But due to we are busy checking in and had forgotten to snap a pic of the souvenir! hahaha!

Side Tots :

Toilet : Hard to find. Need $$. Not clean.

Hotel Water: Somehow, dun know why? my hair dun seem to be clean no matter how long i wash it! it has the sticky feel, which seems like still have shampoo on my hair! really pissed off!

Airport Staff : Not too friendly + Helpful. Personally felt that they are to cheat us as long they have a chance. Maybe due to too much "entrance fee" collected. I bought the air ticket with 20kg luggage. With all the soap used, my bag should be lighter as we did not do much shopping. Luggage weight @ 2.2 kg. He actually told us to take out the stuff or must pay USD 50! After that sit back and relax! Usually if you exceed 1-2 kg. The counter staff will allow for check in without any payment required.

No choice, open the luggage and took out the bags that i bought, which i think is less then 1kg.

When Mr Lee wants to put the luggage back to the weight machine again. He saw the machine is not reset to 0.0 kg but starts with 2.2 kg! When we ask the counter staff to see, then he "oh, oh"! then reset the weight machine! We have to re-open the luggage and put all the stuff back! Just nice 20kg! Felt TMD @ the moment!

Driver : 2nd day of the tour, i felt that he is not too keen to bring us ard. Dun know whether is it becos he is tired or wat. He grumble a bit for waiting for us due to the breakfast was late. All the places of interest that he brought us to, he did not guide us and did not explain to us about the historical places like the other tour guide does.

He will drop us and wait for us in the car!

He is not informative enough or maybe due to language barrier when we ask him about certain places or stuff he could not really ans.

Usually he did not get what we meant and we don't get the answer we want.

hahaha!!!!

Maybe he is new, young and is a freelancer.

Therefore not so thoughtful as the other experience tour guide.

+ point about him : without fail, always open the car door for me as i sit behind him.

He is polite and Fun

If you are some 1 who does not like to be follow by any 1 or you have been to Bali before, just need some 1 to drive you ard to places that you want to visit again, or dun need any explanation for the historical places or you just need airport transfer. You can book him.

His charge rather affordable.

I will look for him, if i go to Bali again and if i bring my parents along. Cos i already know what i want to do and where to go!

I am who I am

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