Happy belated Chinese New Year
Xin Nian Quai Le!
(I stole it off the Gong Xi Fatt Choi song; the last time I had Mandarin or Cantonese lessons was back in school during class with Steph, so shushhhhh
)
Now someone take me out for yee-sangg! Pleaseeeeeeeee
Okay, Bali photos:-
On our way there;


We checked into our rooms at Hard Rock, and I liked the hotel a lot.
Hotel photos later.
After we checked in, we walked at the Kuta street and browsed the shops available. Had lunch at a local restaurant called Dulang. I had myself rice with basil beef. Aiman had a burger and boy was it goooooood!
Aiman had a swim at the hotel’s pool. Hard Rock Bali probably has the nicest swimming pool around. Instead of having tiles for you to walk on, the instead have sands from the beach. So it feels like you’re walking by the beach and it’s just so warm. They’ve also got a volleyball spot, cabanas around the area for rental, water polo and the swimming pool was bigger than my school’s field. It was just huuuuuuuuge. All these photos are taken at different locations. I could never get the whole place into view. There was a pool facing the Hard Rock Cafe, a pool with a dunk for basketball or whatever you call it when in water, a pool for just swimming around with fountains, another pool with fountains, a pool with 2 slides, a hugeee pool surrounded with cabanas and another pool where the beer shack was at.



After hanging out by the pool, we headed to the beach.



By night, we headed to the streets of Kuta again where some of them shopped a little. There were Macbeth retailers around and the price varied slightly of about 70 bucks. But they were all old ranges so I skipped. Mooks there is a lot cheaper too.
Had Pizza Hut for dinner and watched Vacancy in the room before dosing off.
Woke up early and had breakfast at the hotel. Breakfast everyday there was like pig out session for me. I ate sooo much! From an omelette to sausages to salad to pasta. The only thing I skipped were the pork strips and baked beans. I hate beans. lol. And having pork is just out of topic, the sausages probably had some parts of it in it, but the idea of having pork barely itself triggered me as something that would never happen.
Our tour guide arrived and drove us to somewhere so far away. Random locals knocked into the car windows trying to sell us newspapers. But funny thing is, they tried selling us Chinese Newspapers. And only one guy managed to recognise us as Malaysian and tried selling us the Straits Times.
We had lunch at somewhere so horrid. It was a halal restaurant that sold the worse food I had ever eaten. Canteen food is 10 times better! It wasn’t cheap too! We had it on top of the hill, facing an active volcano which last erupted in 2002. Cool kan? But it was too foggy for a photo.
We then headed to a temple after going to Ubud Market where I got myself 2 new pendants, one of which is a luck charm for my chain. The price of the things there were pretty high but they get you to bargain until like 80% off, and they’d never ever say no to the price you mention. All you gotta do is walk away when they say no, count till 5, and they’ll definitely call you back. I got my pendants for 15 ringgit each. She initially wanted to sell it to me for 40 ringgit and 60 ringgit. I managed to get both for the price of not even one. Ngeh.
The prayers were conducted in a cave. I found it to be fascinating. Flickr hates me a little now, so just one photo from the temple now.

We had dinner at Jimbaran and it was seafood. The food was pretty good but can never beat Malaysia’s. The total cost of our meal was around 400 ringgit which is not worth it at all because we had nearly half what we usually order in Malaysia. And in Malaysia, such a meal would probably cost just 120 ringgit. But the place was pretty. We had dinner by the sea side facing the sun set. That place has got the best sunset around but it just rained so the clouds didn’t give way to my sun
More photos later, here’s one. We had ‘Jagung Panggang’ by the sea there

The next day, I got up and bunked at the hotel. Breakfast that day was by far the best, I had myself bread pudding, salad, and the variation of food was way better. I managed to not have any sausages or any form of meat that morning since it wasn’t necessary kan? The potato salad was good and I had the vegan omelette that morning.
Walked to Kuta street again and well, I pretty much stayed in the hotel and watched Simpsons and How I Met Your Mother. By afternoon, our other tour guide comes around and this time he takes us for Nasi Padang. Food was good. And I saw a hot guy going into the praying room to pray. Heh.
We headed to a Turtle Sanctuary and went on a glass-bottomed boat. It was nice and cool.
I didn’t touch a single animal though. Was too icky for me. Hehehe, so I just took photos.






We then headed to see the Kecak dance. It was soooo cooool. And there were a whole crowd of people there. The route to the place had such a beautiful view. Photos of the view a little later. Not too sure if I took any.


We had our dinner at KFC. And then we went around to shop at Kuta again. Aiman bought himself a wallet and a water tumbler. lol. I got myself, yes, you guessed right, nothing!
Woke up next morning and had breakfast at the hotel. This time, there weren’t much choices for eatable ones (you get what I mean), so I didn’t go vegan but had sausages and pastramis with salads. You know, it is a little tough once you start staring at your plate, even with the fact that I don’t really mind, having to stare down at my plate of sausage coated with pig casings was a slightly disturbing thing. Heh la Mal. Anyways, this was at the hotel.

Aiman and Ma headed to the gym while I bunked in the hotel to watch more tv. We then headed to Poppy’s street and Legian and Aiman got himself 2 tshirts both sold at a ridiculous price of Rm 40 each, I mean, they were just tshirts with Bali written on it ok? We got conned lah, no kid. I got myself a Happy Tree Friends shirt form Rm 15. Thank God they accepted credit cards, we were broke!
They do this really often now. You’d see this everywhere by the roads of Bali.

We headed back to the hotel and watched Nacho Libre. Then we went to see Ma and Abah at Dulang for lunch where I had Nasi Goreng. Amni, Ma and Abah headed to the spa while Aiman and I went to the beach.
There was this coral, which got stuck a little on my baby toe. I was walking and I felt something stuck on my toe, looked down and there it was, pushed it away with my other foot and it rolled down. The bottom surface of it had small tiny hole on it and those hole were slightly sucking onto my toe. Eeeewwwww. I am disguisted even now, that’s why I’m telling this. But I don’t think it was anything alive lah, I honestly think it was just a stone and the holes caused pressure. Physics



We headed back and watched cartoons, soon after we packed and left for the airport. Had dinner at the airport and the food was gooood. Flight was delayed for 30 minutes. Ayadi took us back home from the airport.
Btw, the steward during our flight back was hot. Like tremendous hot. But dumb. Heh.