Bali Bali

My Goddess went for a conference in Bali last week. This was the first time she travelled to the location alone.

The queue to Bali was crowded on a Wed. Can you believe it?

The food on the plane was sucky. It has been a long time since my Goddess had sucky SQ food.

And they gave King's Mango sorbet instead of Haggen Daaz.

After touch down, my Goddess stupidly agreed to let a porter carry her luggage for like a 200m distance. And the porter wanted her to tip her, but she didn't have small Ruppiah change with her. In the end she gave her a S$2 bill. Waste her money to learn a lesson.

Her hotel was at some ulu place that takes an hour to get to anywhere - Pan Pacific Resorts. But her room was huge though.

View from her room balcony.

The Indian Ocean was just far ahead.

The food at the resort was sucky - breakfast and lunch included. In the end my Goddess didn't eat much and lost 1kg over the 2 days.

Luckily the first night's dinner was much better.

Ambient lighting at the dinner place

Behind my Goddess was the Indian Ocean, though it was too dark to see then

Yummy food

But sucky welcome drink - some smelly vegetable drink of sorts

Starters

Appetisers

And the most delicious meal in Bali - Wagyu Beef!

But the dessert was a big disappointment

The second night's dinner was at a really romantic place where there is a pool in the centre, and some sofas and cushions at the side. My Goddess sat under the stars to have her dinner.

But unfortunately, the food wasn't good once again. Not worth my Goddess' time to take pictures. The dessert was slightly better.

Doesn't this remind you of something?

Bali was quite a disappointment. Don't know why people like to go there. There wasn't much to see or do. The air is almost always thick and smoky cos everywhere you go, someone will be burning something somewhere.

And the hot chocolate and Teh Tarik was like diluted sai water. Luckily my Goddess didn't order them and taste for it herself.

Once back, she met up with the Horny Devil the day after next at 313, and had some comfort food followed by shopping in Mango's Sale. Luckily she decided to buy 2 items then cos the following week she went back, the items that she liked were gone~

Then the Horny Devil went to have his haircut at Suntec.

Looked like some bird poo-ed on his head

My Goddess also got herself a new pair of sandals/flip-flops then.

The hairdresser kindly offered to neaten the Horny Devil's brows for him.

Can you see the difference?

I like the Feeling of Falling in Love

I like the feeling of falling in love.
It makes you feel so good.
I like the way butterflies flutter in your stomach.
The way your heart skips a beat when you meet the person you think you like.
I like the way you long to meet the person.
And how the day seems so long when you haven't meet.
I like the way you hope that time will stop when you are with that person.
And to guess whether that person feels the same way as you do.
Why is such a moment so short and fleeting?
Why does things have to turn stagnant?
How else can I experience this feeling again?
Except on occassions when you go on a trip or plan for the big day.
I would very much like to experience the feeling of falling in love all over again.

Apparently you don't feel the same as I do

I just came back from a trip.
I longed to share with you all the things that has happened.
I even planned to go to your office to give you a surprise visit.
You said you are meeting your friends, after I called you.
I wouldn't have known until I called.
Apparently you don't feel the same as I do.

Blogspot has just gotten cooler!

The new editable templates are so fun!! Blogspot is now my favourite blog portal. If only wordpress has more of such customisable features, then it'll be the perfect blogging platform.

Lurving the new template and background I've just created.

Lurving the new collection too. Have you checked it out yet?

Wols Elas

Sales has been slow recently. Anyone care to share why?

Are the designs not pretty?
Is the price too expensive?
Is the lure of GSS too great out there?

Anyone care to share?

Tioman Dive Trip

This is yet again an overdue post.

My Goddess and the Horny Devil decided to do something out of their normal boring weekends of staying at home/taking pictures for Paper Polly by going on a dive trip at Tioman with their friends.

So they left SG on Fri May 21 evening at 8pm with their scuba diving school, U-scuba.

Reached Malaysia for a dinner/supper pitstop at 11plus. Think this was a pitstop for all divers cos u can see alot of young people in singlets eating there.

Sweet and slurpilicious winter melon tea

And extremely yummy & juicy satay with lots of tender fats!

And they reached their boat at around 12-1am. The boat was really small, but it had everything!

The beds

My Goddess was supposed to sleep in this little room with the Horny Devil. But it was just too cold (as you can see the aircon was just right above them), and too shaky (it was at the front part of the boat and so was shaking non-stop and violently) hence making her seasick. So she slept at the smaller bunks instead. On the first night, my Goddess couldn't get used to the shakiness of the boat and had to take seasick pills and put the 'giam giam' in her mouth for the night.

More pictures of the boat...

The fridge and dry kitchen area

The wet kitchen area

The deck

The boat really has everything. Beside the dry kitchen area, there was a 'lounge' area for them to watch DVD. Behind the wet kitchen was where they stored all the oxygen tank and dive equipment. That's the place where they launch off into the water too.

And being on the LOB (live on board) dive trip also made my Goddess feel truly like a goddess. Besides the sun deck that made them feel like some 'ah-sias' on a yatch, living a high maintenance life, every time they get back up onto the boat from a dive, they will be served drinks like orange cordial, ribena, barley drink and fruits!

And meals are really sumptuous with plenty of dishes and variety.

And there are plenty of fishes too who won't mind sharing their meal.


Tioman is also quite a scenic place.

Diving was quite a scary thing for my Goddess. She had to overcome her fear of going deep underwater after hearing a horror story from her fellow CY. She almost didn't want to go on the trip.



But in the end, she glad that she did. Because like driving license, it is a license that is good to have. So that you have one more option of going scuba diving when you are out overseas or planning for a short getaway trips.

Although I must say that my Goddess didn't get to see much things underwater. Probably because (1) she was too nervous underwater trying to remember the steps to take - breathe slowly through the mouth, maintain buoyancy underwater and equalizing the air pressure inside her body; and (2) part of her goggles were fogged up by the 2nd day, and she most of her time either clearing her goggles or peering through the fog.

Don't know how the others managed to see these interesting sea creatures.


My Goddess only managed to see nemos.

The U-scuba team and friends

Photos courtesy of U-scuba and Kok Teng.

Personal Training

My Goddess went for a complimentary PT session today and I think she almost made the trainer cry cos she refuse to sign up any paid sessions with her.

Only the super rich and who have no better place to spend their money will engage a PT. It costs a freaking $90/session!

That's equivalent to my Goddess' monthly expenditure on transport!

Anyway, it's always dubious to have PTs who don't look very fit themselves trying to teach u how to be fit. Somemore, the areas that my Goddess wants to target is already told specifically to her. During the session, she still go through all other areas of exercise except for the area that my Goddess wants to target. -___-"

My Goddess haven't seen the PT in the gym before, so guessed she must be really new. She was so smiley when she saw my Goddess at the beginning of the session, and must be thinking it's so easy to get a new client since my Goddess voluntarily agreed to the session with no reluctance. But by the end of the session, she was looking sad and don't even bother to shake hands with my Goddess.

What a realistic world.