Bali trip; 10th to 14th of Aug.

i have been very hardworking! (:

ps. pls excuse the ugly pictures. no eyeliner and feeling very ugly. :/



i stayed over the night before the flight cos it was at an ungodly hour of 6.20AM. *faints.
so yes, lugged my luggage all the way to simei for a stayover before waking up at 4AM to cab down to the airport. i think we went to bed at around 11 maybe? but we kept talking and talking, so we had less than 4 hours sleep. "eh siantar," hahaha.

we reached bali where it was nice and sunny and kiki (nez`s sister) was not there to fetch us! :O instead she sent her friend to pick us up cos it was high season in bali and we had no rooms to stay in! so she was out searching for other hotels. so yaa, that night we shared a room. me, nez, kiki and harrison (kiki`s bf). weirddd. but thankfully, after hotel hunting we found a place we liked and could move over the next day. (:

and yaa, so i nearly killed a horse. cos i had no brains to realise that to stop the horse i should pull on both reins. and also cos i couldn`t understand what the man was trying to tell me. :/ so the poor horse slow-galloped into the back of a car. but no injuries cos he was smart enough to siam his head. phew!

we went clubbing, and actually planned to go every night, but sadly that was the first, last and only time! ): mainly cos our hotel was quite far away from kuta, so it was a little inconvenient to get there. and also, we were in bali from sunday to thursday so we totally missed the weekends which are the best times for clubbing! :/ but i prefer phuture cos the music is better, so its alright.

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for lunch, we had Babi Guling, which is a famous dish in bali. inez has been telling me about this since last time, about how the skin is so yummy and all. but it just tasted oily and fatty to me leh. :/ maybe singapore and indo tastebuds different. i much prefered some other fried red meat or the fried intestines. heh.

we also went to Sukawati, this place where clothes are sold really cheap. but sadly, everything everywhere was the same and we didn`t really buy as much as we had expected. :/

that night after dinner, we decided to try mushrooms. :O i was quite scared but i wanted to experience what it was like! so we went to buy them for about $20 for 2 packets. they blended it with fanta and it was supposed to be enough but not too strong for 5 people.

back at the hotel we tried it and slowly got high. but it didn`t reach its peak. we all got high enough like as though we were drunk, but not to the point where we hallucinated or found everything immensely funny. not strong enough apparently. but that high would be good for clubbing. heh. but the side effects are that you cannot fall asleep. :/ when i closed my eyes i saw sukawati, as if it was that afternoon again. me and nez tossed and turned in bed and only fell asleep at around 4. :/

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the next day, we wake up really early and travel really far, up a mountain for pisang bakar. which was good but not worth the long long ride there. :/

and for dinner we went to this japanese restaurant Ryoshi. and suprisingly, i like the raw white marlin! better than salmon which i eat but don`t really appreciate. but i was so disappointed by the green tea ice cream. one mouth and i didn`t continue. ):

and i think i should mention that most of the places we went to, it was for the food. haha!

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watersports was really fun, except for that stupid big mable! its this game where you sit on this float thing and have to hold on to these handles while the speedboat drags the float all around and into waves and stuff.

so its really bouncy and quite scary cos if you let go you can fly off into the sea. and that silly ride is like, 15 mins at least and the whole time we`re hanging on for dear life. at the end of the game, i had a blister that had already burst on my little finger. not fun. and also, i got sun burnt. :/

we also went to turtle island where i realised that i do not like animals very much. :/

we had nasi pedas for dinner again, just that this time mine was non spicy. but maybe that was the problem. i had food poisoning that night. :/

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my stomach was still unsettled and i wanted to stay in the hotel but nez managed to convince me to go to ku de ta since i would be lying down there as well. and i`m glad i went cos i love bodyboarding! its just crazy how we wait for a bigger wave to come so that it`ll be more fun, and crash into the sand and water cos it was too strong. hahaha.

amazing how my stomach was fine while i was having fun but after we stopped, my stomach was weird again cos of the cold. play only, stomach also not pain. heh. but yaa, after that it just got bad so the photos end abruptly. thanks to veena (sp?), nez`s friend for letting me sleep at her house! i slept for like 5 hours till we had to leave for the airport.

but once we landed in singapore, i felt much better. i think its psychological. :/

and oh, we totally missed our flight back to singapore.
we were supposed to leave 24 hours before and we nearly panicked when the man at the airport told us. thank god there were empty seats for the flight that night!
it sounds damn retarded but its cos when we planned our trip, our plans were to stay in bali till the 14th. so when we booked the flight that was the return date we put and we assumed it was correct. actually it was for 12AM 14th, which is 13th night. hahahahaha. damn funny.
but i wish we had more time in bali.

i want to bodyboard some more!
i want more teh botol!
i want to try magic mushroom for real!
i want to tan more!

thanks to kiki for planning the outings, harrison for driving (pak pirrr!) and inez for the company and fun! :D