i had the Most Exhaustive Dream Evarrr last night.

firstly, to clear things up, i do LOVE fairies, spells, magic, unicorns, witches, and just about anything magical. BUT for some reason, i could NEVER see vampires being in that list.

so last night, i was caught in a vampire-infested town (think Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil, except replace zombies with blood-thirsty vampires). me and a bunch of people were wielding swords against them vampires and trying to pierce them through their rotten hearts and all that running and dodging seriously traumatized me quite a bit. i hate being chased!!!  i woke up with my heart thumping so fast, i nearly thought the person sleeping next to me was a vampire as well.

i blame it all on the movie, From Dusk Till Dawn which we watched in club med recently. in the movie, their protection against the vampires were crosses and sunlight so, guess what was my protection in that wretched dream?

JALUR GEMILANG. i kid you not. i was busy handing out stupid jalur gemilang badges to my fellow comrades to wear them on their shirts. and i, had the most powerful protection of all - i had a jalur gemilang flag wrapped around me just like superman's cape *wow wee, clap clap hands*
so dumb!!!
of all things, a Jalur Gemilang flag *roll eyes*

oh whatever, at least i got to slay some vampires and gawd, it felt so real with my wobbling sword piercing right thru them ugly buggers' hearts. niceeee

sue asked me whether they were western, chinese or indian vampires. i burst out laughing, coz at that split moment, i had envisioned an indian vampire with a pottu, lunging towards me  mr tay said i am being too patriotic (yuck, never!). i blamed it all on the current Kempen BERSIH demonstration oops, 'gathering' as reported by the local media. go to youtube and look for Al-Jazeera's reports on this 'gathering' and you'll see how our local media has been downplaying the current uproar that has been going on.

weng's 30th birthday bash @ loft
other pics are in friends' cameras at the moment

 

 

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i feel so confused. yesterday felt too much like a saturday and today... well, today should be a sunday right? wrong. today, i woke up with eyes bright opened screaming, "omg, it's 9am!!!" as suspected, that wretched alarm didn't go off. we scrambled up and got ready within 20 min. a record-breaking time for me. *pat pat self* :D

anyways, the supposedly 'Saturday' yesterday.

 

: mr tay pissed angry at this Beemer behind him :

 

and then, he was all smiley again

 

2pm, at this place where i wouldn't suggest you waste money visiting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mr tay refusing to pose with Nemo!

 

 

we finished 'securing the parameter' within 30min i think. so off we went to Mandarin Oriental for high-tea.
but guess what? MO doesn't provide high-tea!
rather weird isn't it, you'd not think a hotel like MO doesn't have high-teas, right? 
for high-tea, our favorite is still KL Hilton, fantastic spread of tummy delights plus free flow of wine :)

anyways, off we trotted over to Dome's, KLCC for cakes.

2 iced mochas for him and her

 

chocolate log cake brownie

 

   tiramisu

 

Jimmy Choo's Stardust limited edition
the shoes are a little too gold for me but i just like its name! :D

ok. to be honest, i'm actually so wanna be done with my stories on the recent bali trip and i bet you are too. it is seriously making me feel so sickeningly depressed writing about a holiday which i never wanna return from.

oh well. day 4.

: 23 Oct :

we took the bike and vroom-vroomed our way from kuta/seminyak to Club Med in nusa dua. timed ourselves - 30min. not too bad :)

 

the reception area
i liked this lamp

 

our very very simple room

 

chessboard in the garden! cute!
yes you can play them, the last time i tried playing with mr tay in redang (similar board), i lost

 

massage huts facing the sea!
you can have up to like 3 masseuses (sp?) working your back, bum and legs
~ bliss ~

 

spot the Crown?
look closer. they are all over the beach shades!
so niceeee

 

baby Shiloh Nouvelle Jolie-Pitt

lookalike.

 

the cutesy chairs all over the lawn

 

i love this one! you can adjust the length of the top shade
asked around and apparently you can buy them straight from the chair-maker himself who is a Balinese.
an African man came to Bali and bought 5 of these chairs from the chair-maker and brought them back to Africa :D

 

my slave getting us some drinks

 

my slave coming over to me with a Bintang and a Screwdriver

 

my hot slave acts as if he doesn't care

 

spot the best damned drink in bali

 

in his THIRD attempt to finish this wretched book :P

 

CROWN!

 

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PICS!!!
love the colors of the hopscotch board!

 

there was a show, demonstrating how to tie a sarong cross country styles
i.e. Maui style, Maldives style, Japan style, etc

 

this participant is quite cute, she's a Korean G.O (Guest Officer) of Club Med

 

nice ~

 

some of the female G.Os and guests

 

the pool is GORGEOUS

 

my feet wanna sibuk

 

is this pose familiar?
in my holiday in Phi Phi, mr tay had this same pose, same thought
"where's all the nihon-jins???"

 

baby swimming towards me! wahaha

 

keep your boobies closed at all times

 

the painting i told you about in my earlier post
what a spot-on eh! :P

 

paintings on display, or sale?

 

silly boy is just doing it for the camera. he normally has good table manners

 

check out the burnt shoulders. they were red and raw

 

upon arrival to club med. i looked so trashed
still prefer to travel by car, thankyouverymuch :P
see shoulders!

 

here's how you do it

 

now, shooting like a pro

 

don't mess with me, heh!

 

 

cute little bridge spotted

 

when there's a cute little bridge, there's usually a spastic prancing around too

 

the boy played some football and scored 3 (+1) goals

 

food pics

 

white chocolate fountain :D

 

this chef was hilarious!!! he saw me snapping pics of food all over the banquet area and as i was approaching, he just struck this pose without even me asking!
SO FREAKIN' CUTE!

 

oohhh... at Club Med, babies are VIPs too

 

so cute!

 

hehe, free wine every meal. just pop by this cooler and grab your fancy

 

sarong fashion show
models are the G.Os themselves and guests (mainly honeymoon couples)

 

 

staring at the bar
Club Med Orange Band (the package which includes Bar & Snacking) which you wear around your wrist basically entitles you to ALL types of booze at the bar
UNLIMITED :D

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friday nite was spent at La Bodega, Bangsar and KL Hilton with jason crimson (who was leaving back to New York the next morning), weng, anna, and of course the bf.

 

: one of my many favorite drinks in the world - white wine sangria :
:)

 

: my lambshank :

i forgot to snap the other fav of mine each time i'm at bodega
the sauteed button mushrooms ~ yum

 

: at KL Hilton for coffee and 'mind games' later on :
only those who were there will understand the meaning of 'mind games'
 

my hot mocha latte

: pressies from jason! all the way from new york :
he got me a lip gloss and mood | yearn perfume, both from Victoria's Secret

and for mr tay, he got him damn lots of cool funky new york shirts

and like, 6 huge bars of Hersheys chocolate

 

: saturday :

woke up, hungry. off we went to taman tun for lunch.

at Sri Paandi for banana leaf lunch

were leaving to collect our framed up paintings but it rained! not wanting to risk ruining our precious paintings (searched with much wasted blood and sweat all over bali ok!), we skipped it and will collect them on Monday.

dinner was at hartamas with gary and aiwen. arsenal was playing against MU and even for someone who doesn't watch football like myself enjoyed the game thoroughly. for some reason, i've been supporting MU since form 3. dad even brought brother and me to sign up as club members at MUFC in PJ ok! haha

anyways, good game really! even the cat was enjoying it.

 

: today :

I LOVE LOVE LOVE STARDUST!!!

i read the book many many years ago and for the benefit of those who doesn't know about Stardust, this wonderful tale was written by my all time fav author, Neil Gaiman. and ahem, i kinda like the movie better than the book :P

Lamia, played by Michelle Pfeiffer was fantastic! gosh, she was made up soooooooooo ugly! but she did have her gorgeous moments in the film, you'll see. Captain Shakespeare played by Robert de Niro was hilarious! excellent choice although initially i had doubts about him playing the cross-dressing pirate. but he was fantastic! arrrrr! easily my favorite character in the movie ;)

Yvaine played by Claire Danes was perfect, i thought. she portrayed it really well. i've loved Claire Danes back in the days of Romeo and Juliet with Leo Dicaprio :) and Tristan, played by Charlie Cox was ADORABLE. loved his look after Capt Shakespeare did a makeover on him :) :) :). not gonna touch on the storyline because you have to watch it to find out for yourself!

overall, it was a movie i would love to watch again and again. some of you might not enjoy the movie simply because this is a film strictly for fantasy lovers - the magic potions, spells, witches, magic and all that jazz. i.e. me, who kept whining to mr tay all the time, that i wished i was born in world of harry potter, so, ya, Stardust is undoubtedly, one of my fav movies for this year :) LOVE LOVE LOVE!

and oh, the theme song! the credits were rolling up and this song came up and it was lovely! told myself to go home and hunt for it and here it is - Rule The World by Take That. lovely song.

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- 22 Oct -

day 3 and we were on our own. we did not use the scooter at first, as we decided to check out the shops nearby. there were soooooooooo many shops to see, so i say it was a pretty good choice to stay there.

 

celebrity spotted!

 

*snap snap snap*

 

"yo, get out of my face, will ya?"

*tee hee*

 

eeeee... baby / toddler footprints in clay

 

then, along came the spastic...

 

 

    

so spastic man -_-

 

we walked into a few shops and came out empty-handed. until we came to Sedana Lhoka, i told mr tay,

"Bi... i have a feeling we'll get our paintings from this shop!"

 

hehe, another 'boy and girl' painting
can't help but snap a pic of it

 

we came out from the shop with 2 paintings. they are absolutely nothing like those quirky paintings that i have snapped. will show you next week when they're hung nicely on the walls of mr tay's home. we were the shop's first customer in the morning, hence, the good price for these paintings :)

we walked so so much and after getting the paintings, we decided to head back into our hotel to leave the paintings there and take a quick shower. it was a hot hot hot day!

after shower, we hopped onto our yellow scooter and it was more travelling on foot and bike for the day. the beauty of renting a scooter instead of a car, is that you can park your bike just about anywhere you want to. so at any instances that i shout out, "stop! here!", mr tay will park the scooter and off we go :) with a car, i doubt you can do so.

i changed into my miniskirt again, wore a bikini top inside and a rainbow poncho over it. loved the poncho for its colors and with its thin material, making it really comfortable for walking under the hot scorching sun.

 

 

 

 

my miniskirt is senget again. i swear, it keeps moving all the time!

LUNCH!

: before the meal :

 

: after the meal :

 

ooo... i like

 

we visited the first hotel that we stayed in with the gang in 2005!
this was really a CHEAP hotel so it was nothing to shout about but it brought back memories :)

 

wah... their minimarts sell Hershey's Milk!

 

and even Starbucks on the shelves!
why 7-11 here don't stock these i wonder?

dinner at

: seaside :

 

beautiful lanterns hung on a tree!
we are sooooo changing to a new camera, my ixus just don't work well during night shots, i'm not sure why :(

 

 

 

 

 

mr tay's chicken

 

my mahi-mahi! (fish)
niceeee, they gave generous amount of 'bok choy' beneath

 

stupid mr tay was only focusing on the tv!

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- Oct 21 -

*warning - damn kao long post ahead*

since we did not do the touristy thing in 2005 with the gang, we decided to book a one whole day tour for day 2. we called up this guy, Made (pronounced as Madir) who was recommended by Susan (mr tay's colleague) who went to Bali recently. Made was also recommended to Susan by another fella from Maxis. seems like the whole of maxis is using this particular tour guide. hehe!

Made picked us up at 9am after our scrumptious breakfast in the hotel. no, not club med. we only checked into club med on day 4. accompanying Made was sweet Little Mita, his 10 yr old daughter. he showed us the map and the highlighted places that we will be visiting: (will insert the names of places here when i get hold of the map at home later)

ok pics.

from a simple block of limestone

 

it metamorphs into these precious figurines

 

some of my favorites

 

i'm drawn to this, i dunno why

 

 

 

 

i love this one!!!

 

and this, is the infamous Ramayana and Sita figurine

 

Made told us that the King used to take his baths in this.
a bit the keras right?

 

hehe, i couldn't help it
them C-cup boobies are just too nice

 

temple visits were next.

i usually dread temple visits as i'm not really a fan of such stuff. hence, the not-so-enjoyable holiday to Cambodia last year. trust me, visit Angkor Wat and that's it. it's enough! don't go crazy over the 1 million temples there! you will only end up with a pair of sore feet and blisters at the end of the day. the rest of the temples were really nothing to shout about as all of them looked the same! ok, except for the one in Ta Phrom where they shot Tomb Raider. i didn't regret that one coz Angelina Jolie wuz 'ere, woohooo!

ANYWAYS

 

balinese prays a lot. A LOT.
Made explained that they will line up on the grass spots above in a single file and pray

 

before entering the temple area, you will need to donate and wear this sarong irregardless whether you're a female or male.
the sarong is provided free. many many colors!

 

mr tay in red sarong and that's Made in purple sarong

 

 

shy little mita

 

 

next temple visit pics after this. from this temple, we were off to an art centre. usually, if you are being brought by a tour guide to such places - art centres, places selling sculptures like the above pics, or even woodcraft centres - you really shouldn't buy because prices are usually more expensive and your tour guide actually gets a cut from it. not saying that i don't encourage helping your tour guide earn some moolah but seriously, the prices were wayyy off our budget.

and being the mr tay he usually is - he must always SECURE THE PARAMETER first. so how could he've bought anything from these first few spots when he had not secured the whole bali parameter? don't emo at me baby, you know it's true :D

ok, back to art centre.

 

 

this piece has been worked on for FIVE MONTHS by the artist above
i stood there for like 20 min just staring at him paint

 

i took a pic of this art and later realised that this piece of painting is currently very happening in the whole of bali, particularly in Ubud.
almost every art shop is selling this

 

and i also did a spot on for this one too! 
as it was featured in club med as i later found out on day 4. there's a pic which i took of it being hung on the walls of club med, will show on day 4's post
i had liked this for its vibrant colors

hehe, quirky!

 

ooo, i like this one

 

boy and girl
or
girl and girl?

 

tummyache? pregnant? muahahaha

 

next stop, wood-carving centre. wait, no pics of me ah? wait la, let me vomit back all the pics that i took first can or not? heh!

 

 

 

i lke this one

 

 

mommy and baby

 

 

so funny right!!! this was the first mask he picked and put on.
omg, i nearly didn't want him to take it off and spend the rest of the hols wearing that. hahahahaahaha

 

this one not cun la
the next one is...

 

PRESENTING...
FORBES TOP 50 MOST GORGEOUS

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so cantik sial

 

:)

 

:) :)

 

eww. can you spot his kuku?

 

up next, we went to visit the rice paddy fields grown on terrace hills. the view there was absolutely beautiful.

 

 

 

 

next, all the way up Kintamani. loved the air up there, as cool as Genting's. tour to Kintamani was an impressive experience where the Kintamani area has very beautiful panoramic view, encircled by mountain atmosphere with the windblast from Mount Batur. Mount Batur according to Made is dead as the gov has announced there will be no more eruptions.

you see the black area at the foot of the mountain? those are ashes

 

the restaurant Made brought us to for lunch
buffet style

 

the view from the table we were seated

 

i can't believe for my entire 26 years of existence, i have not tasted this fruit!
I LOVE IT!!!
didn't know what it was but took it anyway
i smuggled some out to give to Made and Little Mita
Made said, these are Passion Fruit.
i thought it was like some weird indonesian fruit which has a name like Buah Ganjil but no, it was all along a Passion Fruit. wtf!

 

Passion Fruit!

 

satay babi. mmm sedap!

 

poser

 

 

 

proof #12345 that mr tay takes better pic than me

 

 

pointy tointy

 

 

 

more temples... yawn.

 

 

balinese bathing in the water they believe to be holy water

 

 

mr tay in different sarong

 

me hiding my fugly sarong

 

next up, shopping!
mission: to purchase paintings

this is ubud. ubud is HUGE. can literally walk until you die. this is Ubud Art Market, though we didn't see much paintings sold over here.

 

 

 

mutated Nemo

 

got out of Art Market empty-handed and came out with a bottle of a much-needed Bintang. ahhhh...

 

more walkings!

ubud has many little shops all over the town and it takes quite awhile to cover the whole area. mr tay had to secure the parameter, remember? so make sure you put on a good pair of shoes.

spotted on display in one of the shops
SO CUTE! I LIKE!

 

by now, we were seriously looking for paintings to purchase. so we went in to practically EVERY art shop there was there in ubud. it was important for me that we both agree on the paintings. no point buying the one i like, hang it in the house and each day mr tay goes emo at the painting right?

 

we both liked this one very much. I SPOTTED IT FIRST!

but it had some stains on it and the shop owner said it was the only piece he has. so after asking for permission, i snapped a photo of it and showed to the other shops that we went to. this lady told us, there was none here in ubud other than the one we saw in the previous shop and the nearest place which has this was REALLY far away. aiya, why can't i fancy easier to find paintings? hehe.

by now, my legs were on the brink of snapping into two. took a rest at this cutesy stairway. I LOVE!!!

 

so cute ya!

we seriously walked for like 2+ hours, i think. so did we find our paintings at ubud, you ask? hehehe, not telling till day 3 post.

then just down the road, we had dinner at the famous Bebek Bengil aka Dirty Duck Diner.

 

 

lotus ponds and paddy fields surrounds this restaurant

 

 

 

we chose this spot over the tatami-style ones because my legs were killing me!
after walking for 2 hours straight, i couldn't be arsed to have to cross my legs just to have dinner!

not showing you the pics of my Bebek Bengil dish and mr tay's pork ribs (it was fantastic, the ribs!) because you really have to try them.

instead, showing you this Russian Pie.
content: kahlua, vodka and the rest of the cake ingredients

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finito of day 2!
i have just posted over 90+ pictures, i hope your laptop did not crash :P

Made sent us back to our hotel and we spent the night watching Gremlins 2 on tv.
it was the ONLY show available at that time! Made was an excellant tour guide, he explains very thoroughly and lengibly, so if you want his contact when you're down at bali the next time, do let me know! already recommended him to Hooi Siang & Angeline since they might be going to Bali during this coming deepavali hols.

day 2 was extremely tiring! however, it rained while we were sleeping, so it was really nice :)