Getaway to Bali - Ubud

We left the famous tourist spot of Bali - Kuta Beach and bound towards Ubud on the 3rd day. Ubud is a small town in the middle of Bali island, it is quite far away from the beach and we were there for the unique cottage ON the scenic paddy fields.

The Hibiscus Cottage

We stayed at the Hibiscus Cottage for 2 days. The cottage is surrounded by a great view of paddy field. The cottage itself has very rich resemblance to the Balinese culture; the doors, the windows, the furniture are all a nice piece of art with the fine craft on it. I felt like a princess staying in an ancient palace, haha.

At night, we can hear the cricket chirping and frog croaking which makes it a soothing lullaby, and there are fire flies on the paddy field under the starring night too. It is really a good place for relaxation, what's more?it only cost at rm90 per night! But there is no air-cond and Angeline dislike it because she said the deco looks spooky. Haha.

The greenary from the balcony of our cottage

On the first night, we decided to rent motorcycles to explore the Ubud. It was fun!!!! By asking around the locals, we able to find the restaurant for the famous Bebek Bengil a.k.a Dirty Duck. The food was great as well as the ambiance. Then we thought of looking for massage parlour but too bad it was closed although it was just about 10pm. Thus we just drove around the Ubud again and went back to our cottage to feel like a prince/princess again.. :D

The door and the corridor

The bathroom and the exit to the balcony. It's really nice to have a cuppa at the balcony under the starring night.

The bed with stones underneath it.

The wooden window

The wooden door in fine craft

At the corridor in front of the main door. We were so relax.

F1 2009 @ Sepang

This is my first time to the track and watch F1 racing live. Unfortunately, it was pouring. I think we were really lucky, it only happened few times in the past that the F1 race have to stopped half way due to heavy rain, how lucky we were to witness such rare occasion and end up we only able to watch 33 out of the 60 laps; yeah, disappointed.

Anyway, I had fun with Danny and my colleagues. It was really an eye-opener to me - to experience this international event, to see how fast can the F1 car race, to hear how harshing the engine sound can be, and not to mention to feel how crappy the carpark is, and how terrible the traffic jam is..

The view from our seat

It is really not an easy job to capture the photo of the car especially on a straight track, it is too fast. By the time I release the shutter of my camera, the car already gone out of my sight

Then it start raining

And then the safety car appear

Talk about the crappy carpark, it is not cheap wei, it cost a rm50 for the carpark which we gotta walk for a long long distance to reach the entrance of the circuit, moreover, we gotta soak our feet into the mud while walking to the carpark due to the rain, thank god I was with my slippers..

All of us

Our seat. See the guy in pink at the back? Don't you think he looks like Jay Chow? Hehe

Me and Danny

New member - Goppy

Yo!! We got a new member - Goppy!! hehe.. He is just 7 weeks old and still very tiny, can't even walk properly yet.. he is soooo cute, isn't he?

Last night was his first night home and he cried for the whole night, yawn~~~ guess he is not used to the new environment yet and probably miss his siblings at the pet shop. ;). Hopefully he doesn't make noise again tonite... yawn~~

so manja~

He loves food!!

Getaway to Bali - Mount Batur the volcano

Throughout the 8 days of my Bali trip; the itinery for the hiking at Mount Batur is the most exhausted, yet a pretty interesting experience for me. This is my first time climbing an active volcano, somemore at the wee hours just for the sake of viewing the sunrise from the peak.

It was 2.30am when we dragged ourselves out from the cozy bed, we reached the foot of the Mount Batur after an hour drive from our hotel at Ubud. The moment I got out from the car, I was awake by the freezingly cold breeze; I started to realize wearing shorts and t-shirt for this hiking is a bad idea. Luckily Danny brought along his jacket and he gave it to me. :)

After meeting with our tour guide; we started our trekking. It was all dark, we can hardly see our surrounding with just the dim light from our torch light. I was shivering while walking and find it hard to breath either. It's really not an easy one, the volcanic ash and sand is not easy to walk in, somemore my sneakers just don't mean for hiking.

After struggling for about 2 hours, we reached the peak. There is a hut where we can sit down and took our breakfast while waiting for the sunrise. The breakfast provided by our tourguide was bun and egg. Not a good one after an exhausted exercise like this. But of course, the view is great. We can see the colourful sky nicely set up on top of the Lake Batur surrounded by the greyish volcanic ash. It's BEAUTIFUL~~~

After the sun rose, we were guided to the back of the hut which is a crater. The crater was emitting steam and there are rocks with warm water dripping; the dripping water is said to be the holy water by the locals. We walked around the mountain for some sightseeing, then it's time to go down the hill.

It's not any easier to go down the hill than going up. The slope is very steep and slippery due to the volcanic ash, moreover there are no shades and we were exposed under the big hot sun for hours. I have no idea how long we have walked, but seems like a decade for me and finally we touched down at the base and ended out hiking..... then at night, I got fever.. -_-'', told ya, it was exhausted, isn't it?

Home Sweet Home

I am back from my 8 days of getaway to Bali...

Me on the first day we touched down at Denpasar airport in Bali...

This is after having big fun under the sun for 8 days... ewk~ I hate sun burn, god know how long I need in order to get back my fair skin

Besides the sun burn, I was having fever, diarrhea, vomit and sorethroat during my trip.. This is really the most exhausted trip I've ever had.. However, it all worth for the superb surfing experience I had.. Stay tuned for more blog about the BALI!!

I am Leaving on a Jet Plane ...

... to Bali!!!

Bukit Tabur @ Taman Melawati

It was an idea by my colleague - Alvin to climb the Bukit Tabur on last weekend in order to boast up ourselves for the coming Bali trip which included an itinery to climb the volcano. Bukit Tabur is located at Taman Melawati, or Gombak Forest Reserve as shown in the GPS. It will definitely able to pump up your adrenaline if you love hill climbing and enjoy in embracing the mother nature.

Bukit Tabur is famous with its spectacular view of KL city and Klang Gate Dam from the hill. Besides, it is also the longest cyrstal quart outcrop in the world! huiyo, geng ler? No wonder I can spot so many beautiful crystal quarts formations along the trail, making it a special hiking experience for me.

This hill climbing session was quite challenging as the hill is steep and the trek is very near to the edge of it. Too bad we only able to conqueur 3 peaks out of the 7, but it already took us more than 2 hours to reach the 3rd peaks, then another 1 hour plus to came down from the hill. It was a wonderful experience and I don't mind to come back again to conqueuer the 7 peaks!

The breathtaking view of the Klang Gate Dam

The KL city view. Try to spot the KLCC and KL tower at the right of this photo

This is just the first peak. Both me and Danny still with the fresh look. It was raining in the morning, that's why it was foggy but luckily the trail wasn't slippery.

Not to mention, this is a good place for bird watching. See the eagle? By this time, the sun was already hanging high up in the sky and it starts getting really hot. The rocky mountain even worsen it.

everyone with the dead fish look. Wahahaha.

The caption of this picture is "Neh~ that's the dam lo...". Haha. This is the 3rd peaks and we really cannot stand the hot weather, so we decided to off the hill after camwhoring.