Batam Day Trip

5 FEB 2017 / I actually have three travel backlogs to post, and Im gonna start w Batam first! (there's still Penang from Dec last year and my HK solo trip five months ago) To be really honest, this Batam day trip with the ohana had been those kind of trips whereby you just follow your fam around coz you know there won't be anything to worry about (serious throwback to my teenage years when I really did that ???) ..... I mean, it's really rare (given that I almost always plan my own itinerary now) but I had no idea where exactly I was throughout the whole trip! (and I doubt any one of my fam knew) But what I do know is - we did some praying, had some decent seafood at Kelong 188 Restaurant LMAO, played go-kart (omg mine went super slow I think they gave me some beginner's kart), shot touristy pictures at Barelang Bridge, did some shopping at Idk which mall, had authentic Indonesian fare for dinner before departing for home at 7:30pm!

^ Used to gym at HarbourFront Centre and their treadmills overlook this sea view I liked watching those ferries come and go whilst contemplating life's questions at a speed of like 7.3km/h hahaha, so it's quite something that I finally got on one of those watercrafts heading for somewhere myself, not just wondering where other people were headed for or where they had came back from

作事奸邪整日焚香也无益

居心正直敬吾不拜也何妨

I think it's the first time I tried sea snails 真的有海的味道

AND YES, ANDREA 是会笑的

xx

BALI 2015

Ya know what, I should've just let Sis do all the video compiling (HAHAH waste my time)

Enjoy, I think it's dope x

Bali lovin' : Ubud

Gonna make this a quick post!

(I mean since there's only so much I can still remember hahaha)

We stayed at The Sawah Villa for one night and boy, ONE NIGHT WAS ENOUGH. Our experience there was horrible not so much as referring to their service etc. (in fact I find their service good!!) but came night time, our room was infested with insects UGH not small flys alright, it's those kroach-like thingy :( So we two moved all our things into the toilet (it's another compartment in the room with dressing table, bathtub, outdoor shower area and basin so it's actually really spacious) and camped there the whole freakin' night. It was so bad coz we weren't able to keep the insects out of the toilet area as well :( And then Sis insisted on going back into the room so she could sleep on the bed I spent so much time persuading her not to coz I didn't want to open the door and let more of those insects in omggg and then she cried coz I refused to let her sleep on the bed HAHAHA I told her to sleep in the bathtub OMG you might think Im mean but I said she could have the whole bathtub to herself + I will wipe it clean for her + buy her Artease sandwiches when school reopens LOL so many promises I couldn't keep coz ya know why - it was my turn to cry while hitting those insects with my slipper / wetting tissue papers and towels in an attempt to block out the door gap (which didn't help of coz) so she offered to wipe the bathtub, after which I gave up exterminating insects at like one or two am (physically mentally emotionally tiring) and joined her in there so I could catch up on a little sleep. But seriously, who could sleep well with insects all around FAKKK THAT NIGHT WAS UNBEARABLE (a super-dart of a grasshopper decided to join the party in the morning) and then when we got back to school HSS Artease was /poof gone. 

What I wanna say is:

I thought I was a nature lover, but apparently not after all.

AND WATER RAFTING WOOHOO ;D It was a two hour thing and I laughed the whole way through OH MANZ I MISS IT SO MUCHHHHH okay so glad I didn't back out of it coz my period came the day before and it was real heavy and all so actually I was like UGHHHH the whole time I was there as well hahaha I couldn't even begin to describe how disgusting it felt (not intending to anyway) but when our guide pull me down the waters and got me all wet I was like fuck it, just enjoy only (LOL does this sounds about wrong??) The first time he pull me off the raft Sis still grab on to my legs so at least I was mentally prepared (can you imagine that scene??!) He dragged me in the waters to this waterfall spot walao the waters hit down on me reallllll shiok actually. The second time was really no warning whatsoever I gagged and drank a few mouthfuls of river waters and was basically struggling to even breathe but he could transport me somewhere else and made me wade back to the raft alone WTF and there was this time our raft hit a rock which caused everybody to fall back at an almost 90º angle LOLLL so the Korean couple seated in the first row was really struggling to get up and the Chinese mother-daughter pair in front of us just lied down on our legs comfortably hahaha there was this all-Singaporean clique nearby who laughed so hard at us, and all those splashing competitions with them haha good times (Y) On a sidenote, the Korean couple was the sweetest thing I ever saw!! The guy was really protective of his gf the whole time omg 羡煞旁人 and he looks like some freakin' one I almost wanted to cry lol

Sooo we were scheduled to fly back on 5Aug but our Jetstar flight got cancelled and no way we're gonna return to Sawah Villa. Initially we just wanted to camp out at the airport but freakin' hell we booked one night at Harris in the end (very near the airport and quite cheap too) coz WEAK hahaha at least we had a good night's sleep (: and I got to bathe and change my pad, double (: hahaha sorry ah, if too much info. Anyway, even with a new flight booked there were delays everywhere so imagine the amount I could claim from insurance /smirk. Basically, it was a lot of photos editing while waiting it out at the airports. I was like "eh wait, I post this on instagram first!!" even right before we needa board the plane teehee. 

Actually there was this one hiccup after we checked out of Harris. Sis thought terminal D was like a counter D of sorts (it didn't occur to me too and we need to transit at Jakarta for our new return flight) so we went to the terminal for international flights. Imagine our horrors when we learnt that we should be at the terminal for domestic flights when the departure gates opened coz why hello terminal D(omestic) ?????????? So we thought we missed our flight and I swear I saw Sis teared up LOLLL I was like okkk pretty sure the other terminal had their flights delayed too (I mean they closed the whole airport right not just one terminal??) but I couldn't be reallyyy sure so yeah ..

My Bali trip for you (:

Below is my amateur effort at compiling videos hahaha plz take a look ok

I will post the one Sis is currently doing up if I like it enough lol

Bali lovin' : Seminyak

How did three weeks of school just passed by like that? Pretty sure I wanted to take in my last semester in university fully, as in making every moment count, making it worthwhile by putting in effort ya know, but somehow I always get too caught up in feelings that might not matter five years down the road (even tho it doesn't seem so right now ok) Just very ..... distracted, nua nua & forlorn MY GAWD SOMEONE NEEDS TO SLAP ME. But I just completed one reading (out of Idk how many) and here I am, writing about my Bali trip (: It's high time darlin'.

So, Bali. We were supposed to depart on 2Aug 4:05am but our flight got delayed due to crewing requirements wtf does that mean there weren't enough manpower or something??? Ok heng we were still at home when Sis received the sms from Jetstar but still damn downer can. Especially when the sms stated that the new departure time would be 4pm the next day, which meant our flight's only gonna be delayed for 11h 55min but my flight delay claim was $100 for every 6 hours of delay I was actually 5min away from another $100 seriously?! (Aiya, but in the end the plane delayed for another few minutes hahaha sooo -peace out-)

The whole of this trip I only took pictures with my iPhone hahaha too gungho, I was still struggling to leave my proper camera behind right till I step out of the house. Glad I didn't bring anyway coz Sis gave up on her DSLR halfway and ya know, iPhone HAHAHA anyway we two didn't think of a really nice hashtag for our instagram photos :( She only thought of one for her stupid postcard called #IBroughtABurdenAlong wtf ME??? BURDEN??? Welllll, maybe hehe I can't help it if I shit too much right lmaooo but she pee so many times eh!! And we saw the other HR intern on the same flight as us, I was like got so qiao or not wtf. And then I asked Sis whether she saw his girlfriend pretty or not, and she replied "没有，可是看背影不怎么样" WHAT A BITCH CAN but I laughed oops

TS Suites exceeds expectation so much I felt like I couldn't go back to those Sydney dorm days LOL but really, damn upz. Heard from their staff the hotel's owned by a Jakarta Chinese businessman (they don't have level 4 inside their lift one, quite scary when too superstitious to be honest) Our room got this gigantic sofa we didn't really know how to put it to good use except to spread out our clothes, and Sis was so thrilled by this bathtub plz she didn't even know how to run the water (not like I know also) so basically she was contented wading in her baby pool of a bathtub OMGGG I can still laugh at the thought of that image LOL and that jasmine body cleanser was sooo good I brought it home with me. The smell of it calmed me so much during the rest of our trip (like the Ubud nightmare and after a wet WET water rafting adventure and when we got to stay in Bali for another night coz of flight cancellation for our return trip). So basically everytime I showered I would tell my Sis - I miss TS :( which is the truth ok. Even their breakfast damn good I always go for round two, which explains why I shit so much la LOL

I should not have worn a pair of sneakers to the seaside wtf was I thinking. I thought I was alr keeping a safe distance from the waters but what the fuckery the tides just came in, no warning whatsoever, I was so pathetic jumping like a monkey away from the waters BUT IT'S A FAILED CAUSE my shoes and socks got all wet and sandy it was freakin' disgusting and I had to bear with it the entire time we were at La Plancha. The whole time I was jumping Sis just laughed and laughed until suddenly she went ... "where's my slippers" (she took it off before the tide came in) and woah look at how the tables have turned hahaha but I was still the one squatting in the toilet washing those sediments off my shoes "why am I doing chores while on holiday?!"

雨中清莲

(referring to myself lol)

And whoever say Bali quite cheap?! I doughnut think so manz. But yes, Balinese are friendly people (: Anyway, one of the highlights of our Seminyak stay was going for paragliding!! Actually Sis planned the itinerary I just okok anything but actually I was quite scared. Heck, I even got a little cold sweat while waiting for Bima (who drove us to the high ground and also the one who flew me 100m above sea level) but well, on hindsight water rafting was actually more wild and therefore more fun HAHAHA paragliding was very steady and smooth sailing, even tho I can feel my lips go dry after twenty minutes up in the air. Bima actually performed tricks which I had the honour of experiencing coz Sis's guide didn't do it lol but hor, I think the tricks made me so queasy in the stomach subconsciously I vomited back at the hotel hahaha BUT I WOULD RATHER VOMIT.

And coz we cannot afford Singapore's Ku De Ta, WE MUST GO TO BALI'S lol and it's not even called Ku De Ta at marina bay sands anymore, it's now called Ce La Vi woah that's posh to posh huh. 

Ending this Seminyak post with a really beautiful sunset we caught near Ku De Ta. Almost missed it by a fraction of a minute if not for Bima who ferried us back to TS so that we could change from paragliding attire into Ku De Ta appropriate outfit in ten minutes no less hahaha, will write about my Ubud experience in the next post which erm I hope will be soon!! LOL