468 - ?

Hello everyone.

Happy New Year~

I am back in Kuching for the holidays. Yay.

I had Penang kueh tiaw, Cantonese fried noodles, cha kueh and teh bunga for dinner last night. It was quite late at night, still, lots people were eating. Hahaha. The difference from Christchurch.

And for today, we had chicken rice for lunch! GOOOOD. The only unfortunate thing about the lunch was that, they used a watery salty kicap, not the thick manis one. Oh well. Still happy to eat chicken rice as always.

Our Singapore trip was... not good.

First of all, at the start of our long international flight, our plane from Christchurch to Sydney was held on the runaway for about an hour, despite arriving early in Sydney. Our docking gate was still held up by the plane that was scheduled to leave in 20 minutes by then. But, 30 minutes crept by, the huge plane was still not moving. Captain said, they were still waiting for 10 passengers to board, so should take another 5-15 minutes. Ok... And then, those minutes passed by, still NOT MOVING. Apparently, they were still waiting for another 2 passengers to clear custom!! SO!! What's happening here???!! Another plane delayed or what?!!!



...

In the end, the airport arranged another docking gate for us. We reached there within minutes, and to wait for someone to connect the bridge for us. HAhahahaha.

Flight from Sydney to Singapore was alright. Slight delay though. And at the leg of the journey, I got motion sick. Threw up twice. By the second time, I was just heaving. There's nothing left in me anymore yet still heaving. Painful.

Touched down. Threw up again in the toilet. OMG.

Went through custom like a breeze. And then baggage claim. That was when I received the second bad news. My hotel booking had been cancelled by the hotel. 3 hour ago.

WHAT THE HELL

They said my reservation "has been cancelled as no updated credit card was received (current card provided has been declined)"

What the hell does that suppose to mean. They never happen before. I used this credit card to book all my Singapore reservations these few years, and yet you are the only one saying it has been declined by the provider. Huh. I fired back the message saying we just touched down and were on the way to the airport, and whether the room was still available.

They replied "as your reservation had been already been cancelled due to declined card, you have to find another accommodation."

THAT IS SO IRRESPONSIBLE.

WHERE AM I SUPPOSE TO FIND A PROPER ACCOMMODATION AT 6:45PM IN SINGAPORE FOR THE NIGHT?! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW BUSY THIS TIME OF THE YEAR?!

I asked them why was it declined and told them they were not suppose to drop this on me at the last minute. I checked back my email. There, they emailed me like sometime an hour before their check in time saying that my card had been declined and to update the card details or to pay not to secure the place. And gave me four hours to do that. All those time I was on my long international flight, how was I suppose to know?!

Days before my trip, I kept checking to see if I could pay first to further secure the room, but nooo. There on the site state clearly, "pay on site", so I trusted that. Apparently I should not.

We ended up paying roughly the same place for a much worse room, but still glad to have a place to sleep for the night. We didn't even bother to grab food once we reached the room.

The room was sooo small. And only one double bed, and hard mattress too. Oh well.

Next day was much better.

We checked out early and went to the airport straight. When I said early I meant like 9:30am. Father texted saying his flight had delayed and was left stranded in the airport. Reached airport, dropped in our luggage for the flight in the evening and dropped our overnight handcarry at the baggage storage. Long queue. Father arrived from terminal 4 via shuttle while we were in the queue.

Oh ya. Jewel is big. Huge. The shops looked elegant. As yes, I firmly believed that I was in an Asian country because of all of the restaurants inside Jewel, instead of apparel shops and what not in malls like in Christchurch. The Apple shop is so wide and clear and simple. Random thought. There was a huge waterfall in the middle of the building. Another convenient thing I found, it more or less linked all the terminals together! Great!! Though the long walk.

We went straight to Bugis after that. The night's hunger had caught up apparently. hahaha. Went to the Japanese western restaurant sis and I had been last year. wanting to show Father the beautiful food. This time round, sis ordered something different. I still the same, omu rice and Father ordered something beef. Sis ordered seafood paella. Spanish dish. Taste nice!! I liked all the seafood in it.







OMG. Why is this in draft?!!! When is this suppose to post????????!!

I have no idea how to continue on, so might as well just posted it as it is.

Oh well. I will set the date to 6 February then, the day we arrived back here....

464 Australia Part 2 - Gold Coast

Second stop: Gold Coast

Gold Coast. First thing I felt stepping out of the arrival gates, warm. Really warm. And sunny. The last time we were here was about ...14 years ago? Wow.

Our trip to the apartments was long. Really. The other day sis said it was about an hour? Wow. And warm. Outside the windows, it really looked like some sandy warm country, hahaha.
We reached the place in the end, after I received an email stating information about late check-ins. Then I realised, it was Sunday. And the reception closed at 12noon on Sundays. Oh my goodness. Australia! Really!! This is a tourist spot, and the reception closes at 12noon on a Sunday??? Seriously?! Gah, anyway we got in alright as they had everything planned.

The place was spacious, but stuffy? The air-conditoner is running all right, but the air coming out was just normal temperature, not cool. So basically it was just blowing air. We got 2 rooms. One for father, another one for sis and I. Got a small bedside table between our beds, and a table lamp on top. It was unplug, and the socket was way at the end of the bed on the wall, no way they can connect. Hahaha. What's the point of it? We found a stand fan in the wardrobe, again, it had mirrors at the outer side of the sliding doors. And surprise, the fan was not working...  Father had his own en-suite bathroom in his room, and we got one full bathroom just outside of our room. Great.

We headed out after settling down. It was sooo warm. But a bit windy, so that helped, sort of. Still, sis and I wore hoodies. Father on the other hand, just a t-shirt and 3/4 length pants and out he went. Hahahaha. The contrast we made. We walked all the way to McDonalds. And believe me, it's quite a distance under the weather. It was a relief to finally stepped into McDonalds. And fries. We ordered fries! Yay! 24pieces of nugget cost $9.95? THAT'S CHEAP! We all had a burger each and I had my blueberry frozen drink.

Our first meal in Gold Coast. 

After that, WE WALKED ALL THE WAY BACK. Huh?? Why didn't we continue on... But it's good that we went back to have some rest.

We went back out there after some rest. This time, we stopped by 7-11. We had some interesting conversations with the cashier about the bus so and forth. We wanted to take the bus to Movie World the next day and also wanted to head down to Surfers Paradise. I think, father didnt really understand the bus card system. So the cashier kept repeating, hahahahaha!! We bought each a bus card (for life the cashier said, the card would last), and headed down to ...town I suppose?

It's Sunday, so it was pretty empty. We walked down further, and took the light rail and reached Surfers Paradise. Ooo. Now that was where all the people were. Lots. Compare to Melbourne, there's much more blondes there. We passed by car racings on the way, of which many more people boarded the tram. We reached Surfers Paradise finally. Lots of people and lots of shops. Souvenirs. We bought some souvenirs too.

Movenpick Ice-creams

Surfers Paradise

We headed back once the sky started to turn dark. Light rail then bus. It was dark. Totally dark.


Next day...

We woke early and check-in at 9am at the reception and then we were off to Movie World. Took the bus to bus station in Halensvale then from there, we took a special bus to Movie World, we stopped by Wet n' Wild on the way. Which turned out, just next door to Movie World.

So, now these are all the photos. We spent the day walking around looking at stores and attractions. I am not much a rides person, so we only sat one. Wanted to try the spooky Scooby-Doo one, but it was not operating that day. Oh well, we were not in luck.

That's the Superman ride. The colours matches.

This is just plain adorable!!!!! 

We bought our lunch here.

Nice aren't they. We bought the souvenir cup too. :)

This is still so impressive to look at. I wonder how it would look like at night, with spot lights and rainy weather. 

Just some random thing I found. :)

One of my highlights of the trip, seeing these guys. Looney Tunes.!!! They're my absolute favourite!!! I got more emotional seeing them than the kids, hahahaha.

They have DCEU posters on each frames for posters. HAHAHAHA.

They had photoshoots for heroes too. We saw Superman, Green Lantern, then Flash, Supergirl and Wonder Woman. Oh.. Wonder Woman still had her old suit from New52. 

They even had a full section of the park dedicated to the Legion of Doom. Wow. The statues are amazing. I personally like Scarecrows. When I stood there staring at it, that was incredible.

Scarecrow is really good!!!! He's emitting gas occasionally.

Poison Ivy 

Killer Croc. I think, there's water blasting out of the pipe? Or not, just water fountains.

This is so big!!! Fit for Doomsday. A long queue for its ride. 

Captain Cold

Gorilla Grodd

This is really trueee.

Just around the corner was the Wild West section. The sun was super hot, really suits the area. There's water ride, of course we didn't go for that. Went to look around, collected the coin souvenirs. In the shop, I saw a big RoadRunner plushie!!! But it's only if you bought something from the store, then you could purchase it. NOOOOOO. We ended up leaving without it....

After this, sis and I went over to the WB kids section. AHHHHHH. LOONEY TUNES!!! I took way lots more photos here. I am not gonna post much here cause most photos have us in them? Hahahaha. 

Anyway, we took lots with the statues. And saw Baby Taz board! AARRGHHH. We sat the RoadRunner roller coaster like sis wanted. Hahaha. We ended laughing during the ride. LOL.

Moving on, we went to Justice League's area near the entrance. And went for the 4D experience, shooting alien stars. Starro? I didn't take any photos inside the Hall of Justice because apparently, we were rushing to the 4D experience? Grrrr. Was so pretty inside.

Once done, we went to look at the famous DC Rivals Hypercoaster. Wow.... that's incredible. My classmates went for it a few days ago. OMG. And I realised it now, I forgot to take a photo of it!!!!

Anyway, we went back the same way we came.

Before heading back to city with the other bus, we went to Westfield at the Halensvale station. They have EB Games etc. We stopped by the toy shop which I can't seem to remember the name of, and they have this Nightmare Before Christmas theme going on. They had on displayed, a pair of big NBC Jack and Sally mug. ARRGHHH. Those were so pretty!! And The vinyl figures too!! We saw a HTTY doormat too. We walked over to EB games, nothing much, and we headed straight the disc shop. Lots of stuffs inside, we saw TITANS and ROSWELL. WOW. And we bought both, hahahahahaha. So happy. We had hot drinks before leaving the place.

Went back to our apartment. Rest up a bit, went for dinner. We had steak! Texting my friend while eating throughout dinner, that was fun.

I can't remember what this is....

My steak, with mushroom sauce. Medium rare.

The 3 sides. Something onions, mushrooms and garlic prawns.

Salmon!

Happy to end our trip with steak. Dinner was nice.The picked the steak right while we were ordering.

Next day...

Our long trip back to Christchurch. A day. Needed to spent a day to get back to Christchurch. urrgh. 

We had brunch at the airport. We tried the Red Roster chicken of which we kept seeing on the roadside.

Happy with our trip. Bought lots of stuffs in WB Movie World. 

Our All-Stars!!!

463 Australia trip Part 1 - Melbourne

Yup. We went to Australia for my old classmate's wedding. Figured that since I am just across the sea, why not go and attend? A few flew in from Singapore/Malaysia, I should really make the trip. Food trip too.

First stop: Melbourne.

And it was great. Always happy to see my old classmates. The wedding venue was lovely. Decorations are pretty too. It was a long drive though, from the city. The weather was ups and downs. It was sunny, windy, rainy etc. Wonderful.

       

The colour theme was rose gold, I think. As most of the colours tend to go that way. I tried champagne, tasted weird. Lol

Anyway, sis and I were in Melbourne for 3 days 2 nights. Glad to come to Melbourne. Lots of different food to see, but we didn't get much chance to do so. Walking down the streets, were shocked to see that everywhere we see, Asians. Hahaha. Can't really find any natural blondes in the crowd. Felt like Singapore. And I didn't felt like the odd one out with my colour. Lots of Asians shops. And the food!!! Oh!! Malaysian food!!!! There's one “Laksa House" OMG. Though we didnt try any of the laksa. Hahahaha. First night we arrived, we tried Japanese food, becauseeeee, Laksa house was full!!!!

Seafood yakisoba & chicken katsu don

Looks nice aren't they? But not so much on the taste though. I don't like the katsu sauce though.

For the next night's dinner though, tasted much better. We went to "Laksa House"! We were early, so many seats and tables! And ordered iced milo! Chicken rice always tasted good! Gahh...

Hainanese Chicken rice

I can't remember the name but this taste so nice!!!

Old classmates and I made plans to have dinner that actually. But then, until 6:30pm, there's still not a beep. Sis and I decided to just head out for dinner instead. We had an early flight tomorrow, not going to sleep that late. Kind of disappointed not able to have dinner with them, maybe next time. My friend met up with us after dinner. We wanted ice-cream (I was craving Natural ice-cream at that point), friend drove us this apparently quite popular Italian ice-cream some distance away. There's a queue in front. Ooh.

Chocolate and Cookie & cream

I have no idea why did we got such normal flavours. Hahahahaha!!!!

On the side note, I love our place in Melbourne. It's an apartment. Everything is in it. I specially like the wardrobe sliding doors big mirrors. That was nice! Also, they have the washer/dryer thing. That was nice. And the airconditioner. Great. Always happy to see air-conditioner.

Next morning's trip to the airport was... a down. I knew they gave us a 20min window, but still, did they have to push it that close??? I think the van arrived at 8:20am, OMG. Other than that, Melbourne airport was homey. Maybe because it's just a domestic flight? We took off on time. Yippee.

433

How do I start this....

nah.... just start however it goes.

So, I finished all my exams last, last week. I'm officially on holiday now. woohooo.

But for some reasons I don't feel that fulfilling or relax at all......Stress level is building up hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

I can't picture myself being in a workforce. Really.... Can't imagine it at all. But, I would want a office job. I mean, looking at computer or papers only are much more comfortable than facing people directly. OR, I can't work as a assistant to some professions. I mean, I'll not hold any direct responsibility to the customers or patients. I am just there to help the professionals.

aihh,,,,,, So somewhere like a hospital? I wonder... with my degree, would they even accept me to work in a hospital.

Before all of that, I need to start on my CV. CV.......

Next,  my recent obsessed is ONE PIECE and おそまつさん~~~ Beside than those, I am waiting for Haikyuu second season to finish. I want to watch it in one goal, since it is a sports anime. I don't want to wait for a week to finish a match!!

热血番要一次性看几话才过瘾。真的。

Haikyuu很热血哟哦哦哦！！！ 有机会要看看！！ 强推荐！！

OP，Law桑帅死了！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！ 天啊。当初在Saobody刚出场的时候，比起Kid，更喜欢这个看起来...不真么显摆的Law。还有竟然带着一头白熊，奇怪的组合。由于出自北部，所以带着一头白熊很正常？？？？ 哈哈哈哈 然后和Luffy 和Kid同一战线对抗海军。哈哈哈哈哈 感觉很淡定，完全让着Luffy和Kid吵，自己不参与 XDDDD

然后！！然后！！！ 两年后到底经历了什么？！！！！！ Punk Hazard现身的时候气质不同了吧！！！！！！！！！！！！！要死。服装真好看！！！ 和草帽团比起来，可能是年龄的差距，真的很沉着，淡定。但是和草帽团待久，高冷性格开始崩坏了 XDDDD

在哪看到饭说，Law桑对Luffy的印象应该有很大的差距吧。前几次，都是特殊状况：打天龙人，和海军开战，拼死去久Ace的时候，然后昏死等等。2年后，和正常情况的Luffy待在一起，完全被吓坏了吧  噗 和想象中的不同哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

话说结盟好棒！！！！！！！！！！！！！ 看到能够和Luffy平肩而行的人物好棒！！！船长、新时代的新星、几亿的bounty等等。。。呜哇哇啊啊啊啊啊 还有，身高差莫名的萌

嗯。。。神谷さん配音也站部分原因。苏死了·····

突然好想收OP漫，就Punk Hazard 到Dressrosa 篇章。现在的篇章还进行着，再看看要不要收。然后，Sanji终于要出场了吧！！！！！！！！！！快出场啊！！！！！！！！

おそまつさん 这个···完全是个搞笑番。偶尔也有细腻的剧情啦（比如第五话）。话说，我觉得我看的东西刚好足够看懂他们的梗 XDDDD 有些地方还不足啦。。。

话说，第1话变成传说了 哈哈哈哈 玩得太开，不能收进DVD了 哈哈哈。第三话的短裤man也是。这两部分得重新收录了~~~~ 我订了DVD+特典 呵呵呵呵

完全不知道这番的走向啊。好笑是好笑，但有些剧情还真是黑暗呐。不是很清楚六兄弟之间的感情是什么状况，偶尔想想还真是残忍  囧

最喜欢十四松~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~！！！！！！！！！！ 好可爱啊。

呵呵呵呵呵呵


还有啥···· 对了，我看了SPECTRE!!! 刷了3遍！！！！！

剧情还不错，scene还真是漂亮。最喜欢的是Mexico City 的sequence。很美！！！！ 全部都很美！！主题曲很棒啊~~~！！ 应景！！ 配乐完全融入BGM!!! orchestra真心棒。

我看了那么多次，重点在于服装、007、MI6、Q！对不起，女主真的不入我眼。我关注点在Q身上。我觉得007和MI6的剧情比和女主的对手戏来的好看···· 话说，在火车上，前半段还很高冷啊，为啥换了装，性格也稍微换了？？？？？？？！！！！！or is it I'm too conscious of it?? For me, the chemistry between 007 and MI6 squad is so much more........oh well.

要不要4刷？

423 - end of August

Hello there, this is the last day of the month, 31st of August. Which means, Happy Merdeka Day to Malaysia!!!

Get another day off because Merdeka day falls on Sunday. woohooo...

Not for me though, it's still the same. I'm on my term break anyway, 2 weeks. The 2nd week of the break starts tomorrow.

So ya... I'm going to finish my Psyc essay next week. Hopefully. It's due Monday, 8th of September. Also, I need peer-reviewed a reviewed article due that Thursday... and! I have one final exam on the following Friday, I think. A 3 hours test. hahahahahahaha...

I'm totally pushing everything to next week. XDDD And I HIGHLY DOUBT that I could finish everything. I would be sooooo happy that I could even finish the Psyc essay.

This Psyc essay.. I need to write a ..erm... an essay about one out of three topics. I haven't make my mind yet what to choose and I'm not sure about the details yet. I mean, the "requirements" of the essay, eg. word count, references, font etc.

I should be worried sick now, but NO.... I'm just starting to feel a littttle bit panic. Hahahaha. My response to the situation is so slow.

So... August is ending.

Jun-kun's birthday was yesterday! 
Happy 31st!!!! Please take care and be healthy in your 30s!!!

Next... Oh ya, New Zealand stopped showing How to train your dragon 2 (HTTYD2) this Wednesday. I mean, at least it's in my city here. I don't know about other parts of the country, but I think it's the same.

So, I know some of you guys realized that I've watched the movie... quite a few times, for the first few weeks. Later on, I stopped updating whether I've watched it still. So, for over 2 months, I broke my own record ( 3 times for 1 movie in the cinema). This time, my record is a double digit. I'm not going to say more. No one is really interested in it anyway. If you really are, just text me, friend.

Guys, did anyone go to the cinema for the movie?? Anyone?

If not, you really missed out the treat!!!!! I can't use any words to describe it. I think I've ranted enough in the previous post about the movie, so I'm not going to repeat that in this post.

Besides that, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy and Doctor Who: Deep Breath too!! Among my HTTYD2 trips. I watched this.. movie and drama between the time slots that were-not-airing-HTTYD2-but-I-was-free-at-the-moment time.

Guardians of the Galaxy was funny. I didn't know what ...vibe the movie would give out until the then Star-Prince started to put on his headphones and hit play on the player. LOL... The funny level went up when the movie title appeared. For some reasons, that was funny!!! Other then that, I've not much to comment on. Groot and Rocket were nice!! I like the scene where Groot brighten the space with small...firefly thingy. ^^ That was beautiful.

Next, Doctor Who: Deep Breath (DW). Since it only aired in one time slot for only one time, it was shown in the largest room in the cinema. And well, there were lots and lots of people. And I felt so comfortable sitting among adults. LOL. Because I've been watching HTTYD2 for so many times, all those times, kids were the majority. So, it's kinda noisy. In DW, it was quiet. With some occasional gasps and stuffs. Looking around, some were indeed excited when the theme song started playing. HAHAHA. I was so thrilled when the familiar-but-not-so-familiar theme song and scene played on the wide screen. Hahaha........... I felt... a bit proud actually. From the production in 2005 till today, where they can aired their first episode of the DRAMA SERIES in theaters WORLDWIDE (excluding some countries... I think), I felt so happy for them. OMG... I'm actually watching DW in the cinema! <- That was my mental thought.

And ya, 12th looked sooo cool!!! A bit cold and un-predictable actions as what I've expected, since watching 11th's behaviours and stuffs in the 6th series. Hmmmm. Overall, that was really nice! The cinematography was beautiful. I kept thinking back to the previous series and making comparisons XDDD I really shouldn't do that!!!!

Although it was suppose to be a one time thing, the cinema aired it again for another few slots on Friday and Saturday, "back by popular demand!" <—— that's what the poster in the cinema said.

422 AWESOME JULY

Hey there~ Once again I can't keep up with my own words. Woohoooo...

My second post of the month! On the last day of the month!

Anyway, I did try to write something up you know. Like the weather, small gathering, dinner and stuffs. But I just cannot write anything, at all.

You know, this is kinda like my first time writing... actual sentences that convey ...meanings since last semester??

I have not start on my essay, I have not start on my lab reports and I have not start collecting papers for my research proposal. Ya.. another research proposal. Well, research proposal is alright, as long as I "produced" it on time. See, that's the problem, I never do anything according to plan! I left everything to the last minute and I literally hate myself about that. I'm torturing myself at the last minute!!!

Anyway, I enjoyed July very much.

Well, you know.... How to train your dragon 2 came out in New Zealand cinemas in 3rd of July. So... yeah.

IT WAS WONDERFULLLLLLLL. 
THE SCENERY BREATHTAKING.
THE SOUNDTRACK WAS OMGGGGGGGGGG.
I LOVEEEE THE CHARACTERS since the first one.
TOOTHLESS IS SOOOO CUTE AND COOL AND DAMN POWERFUL.
HICCUP HAD GROWN UP! BUT STILL THE SAME HICCUP!
I REALLY LOVE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HICCUP AND TOOTHLESS.
EVERY CHARACTERS' EXPRESSIONS ARE BEAUTIFULLY CREATED!!! EVERYTHING LOOKS KINDA REAL. FROM COLOURS TO EVERYTHING.
AND! THE WORLD CREATED IS VERY VERY CONVINCING. AND YOU MIGHT AS WELL BELIEVE IT REALLY DID EXIST!

LAST THING, I REALLY, REALLY, REALLLLLLY APPRECIATE ALL THE HARDWORK THE STAFFS PUT INTO THE MOVIE.

THANK YOU DREAMWORKS!


I went to the cinemas 16 times this month for HTTYD2 and I'm so damn proud of doing that, supporting my favourite movie.

Let me tell you something, it's really, really, not a "kids" movie. Just watch it for a few minutes and you would get what I mean. If you still don't get it, watch the whole movie! You've got nothing to lose!

Yup. That sums up my July, with some other things like lectures, labs etc.

411 - How I spent my holidays weeks ago...

I didn't quite tell anyone... that I went to Singapore and Bali for holidays, between the end of November and beginning of December. ~

Actual date is 31st of November to 7th of December.

First 3 days, there's 5 of us ( me, sis, uncle, auntie and cousin) went to Singapore. On the third day, my father joined us and we went straight to Bali in the evening. We then spent 3 days 2 nights there and again, flew back to Singapore and had another 3 days there.

It's quite a long duration for us. Being away from home that long. We went to Singapore from Kuching without any check-in luggage. = = Only hand-carry. I didn't know how did I survive that. I didn't bring enough liquids ( shampoos, baths and lotions) and so, I spent some numbers on them both in Singapore and Bali.

Singapore. We went there quite lot of times already so there's not much things to say. Still the same. Busy place with lots of people. Crowds everywhere. The hotel we stayed, oooo.. small and packed. >.< The room was just right with only me and sis. But when we came back from Bali, it's 3 of us then: me, sis and dad. OMG. The space was too damn small!!!! Although we got used to the fact that there's no windows but big wide mirrors, it's still too crowded. ...

So, where we did we go in Singapore? The usuals. Takashimaya, Bugis Street, Bugis Junction, Marina Square, Vivo City and so on. The main thing was food I think, even though the food in Singapore kind of taste the same everywhere. I mean the hawkers.

Ok, in Bali. hahahaha... All I can say is that, it's really not my type of place. It's hot, dusty, hot, dirty(some places) and hot. Singapore is ok because of the air-conditionals and stuffs, but Bali is different. Lots of temples and statues, lots of sand. The shops and stalls are nice but they kept selling the same things. It's exciting the first time round but when you walked pass a few more shops later, it got boring.

We hired a tour guide. ^^ That's how we moved along to far places. The tour guide picked us up from the airport and sent us to the hotel/resort. If I'm not mistaken, it's a 4-star hotel. ooooo... The one thing I don't like about the hotel is that, the running water is not pure water. I thought it kind of taste like filtered sea water. Anyway, it's salty. Kind of. So everytime I brushed my teeth, it's... weird.

On the first day of our tour, we went...quite faraway. We went to see paddy fields. On the way, we saw monkeys and even saw someone washing pig's intestines. lol . It's sooooo white and long.

Oh ya, the only local food we ate in Bali is something call... Babi guling. The whole pork, I mean every part of the pork is being cooked and served. Other then that, we had mcdonalds, burger king and dominos. ~~

so.... what else...

hmmm.. Let's just head off to the photos. ^^

Hm.. it's the end of November and the beginning of December, so, Singapore has started its Christmas celebrations. Look at the Christmas trees~~~~ I personally like the white one, in the middle. It's in Marina Square. ^^ I like the red telephone booth. >.<  The last row of photos in the collage was from Changyi airport.


Next. These were taken in Bali. The first row was from the hotel/resort.

On the tour, we went and tried the .."kopi luak"..? I think that was the name. I forgot about it. Anyway, tea tasting. It's famous. The teas. The paddy fields. The last one is babi guling. ^^


Continue on.

Still in Bali. On the second day, we walked around the town. It's such a hottttt day!!! The best thing of the day was that we had lunch in a Japanese restaurant. My 14 year old cousin ordered shashimi set. ... He's treating the food with not much delicate. It's a cuisine... >_> Lots of the things on the plate he's not eating. What a waste... he should have just ordered the terriyaki chicken. I didn't ordered anything. I took some bits and pieces from my sis and father. After that, we walked slowly back to the hotel. aih... hot hot day. I went straight to shower upon reaching our room. ~ Uncle and cousin went for a swim in the hotel pool and then walked over to the beach. At around 16:40, father stopped by and we headed off to Burger King. ^^ It's buy 1 free 1 from 2pm to 5pm. Father really wanted to make use of that. We ended up buying 14 burgers. XD We took 8 and gave the other 6 to uncle and family. Spent the whole evening in the room and slept early.


The next day, we went back to Singapore.

We went to IKEA and had dinner there. The food will be in the next  next photo set.

hm... eat eat and eat. My cousin kept eating. 

The half of the second row and the whole third row were dinner in IKEA. Aren't they nice? :D

Last day in Singapore, we had bak kut teh for breakfast. We then had lunch in the airport. Not nice... expensive and ... low ratings. >_>

Oh yeah, I finally get to meet my youngest niece in real life!!!!!! She's sooooooo CUTE!! 

Her name is Hannah <- I don't know the correct spelling. She looks like her mom. :D We had dinner at Marina Square that night.

So, to conclude our trip:

Singapore is still the same. 

Bali is... not really what I've expected. 

And my cousin is really a 吃货。

Epilogue

Things I bought in Singapore. Comics. Japanese, Mandarin and English. Besides, I bought some figures. :D I finally get my hands on the Nightwing POP. >.< I can't find it in NZ. I found Batman I think and it costs around NZD22. There are lots of others in Singapore, S$ 17.70 each. XDDDDD