More pictures from Bali!

More from my vivitar love! Finally get to develope my two rolls of slides from Bali! I'll let the pictures do most of the talking now~

I'm the slowest human who reached the top that day, but I managed to be on the peak in time for sunrise!

You can imagine how happy I am to reach the top!

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With views like that, all the pain is all worth while!

Goodbye, Mt Batur!

Great royal temple of Pura Taman Ayun, Mengwi.

The little boy is so cute, but he just hates camera. Haha!
 

On the field of Jatiluwih, the biggest rice terrace in Bali. 

Sunset at Tanah Lot

Surprise double exposure, which I don't know how it happened.

And not forgetting my lil niece's photos. Not a lot as the sun wasn't bright at that moment. She's in her pinkish swimsuit, on her 1year old bday party!

 

The thing about good services...

Remember I just went Bali for 6 days with my friends? We actually went Hard Rock Bali on our last few days to chill, and it left us a 50% bad impression. Well, anyway if you want to know what's the fuss about, you can view the review I wrote for tripadvisor here. (My username is lomomilo :D ) And yep, haha I actually quite irritated till I created an account in TripAdvisor to write a bad review about them.

And guess who sent me a message on tripadvisor today???
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Their Asst. Marketing Manager! Tada!

He or she actually bothered to send me a message regarding my review! Here's what I received.

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Dear Mr./Ms.,

Warmest greetings from Hard Rock Cafe Bali.

We would like to express our sincere apology in regards to what had happened on your visit to our restaurant. We deeply regret to have you encounter such experience on your holiday in Bali. We will promptly investigate this matter so no such incident will ever happen again in the future.

We want to make it up to you and would like to invite you for another visit and experience Hard Rock Cafe Bali in a true authentic way by extending complimentary lunch or dinner for you and your companion. Please email us at ten@hardrock.co.id anytime to accept our invitation and set up a time.

We hope to see you again to enjoy an authentic rock & roll experience at our restaurant.

Sincerely yours,
Ten Swaratama
Asst. Marketing Manager
Hard Rock Cafe Bali
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So at least someone in the Marketing department cares, but I won't be going back to Bali so soon. So let's just hope that they are really sincere and seriously do some improvement in their services.*cross fingers*

Sometimes, little things in life does matter a lot to people, and it shows how much one care about a scenario.

*Update* So the invite is changed to Hard Rock Singapore since I won't be traveling to Bali any time soon. Will see how it goes!

My "virgin" ukulele's song

Okay, so a few posts before I mentioned that I've bought a cheap ukulele. I practiced for a bit, and decided to record my virgin beginner song to pollute the world with my voice and the cheap ukulele's sound. Hope you guys didn't trash my blog away once you heard me. It wasn't easy to sing and play at the same time!

When in Rome?

I always love to visit Rome if I ever earn enough for a return flight and a one week stay. And perhaps, just like this movie, meet a cute guy and fall in love!



If I were Beth, I will definitely choose Josh Duhamel! And the reasons are so damn clear to everyone! Firstly, he's cute and handsome. That says a lot! Secondly, all of those who saw Beth plucking the magic coins in the fountain looks incredibly insane! I mean they freak Beth out more than creating chemistry! And lastly, the fact that Josh isn't poisoned by the magic of the "love fountain", that he's truly in love with Beth!

But well it's all about the fantasy love in a romance movie, and it's all different when it comes to reality. In reality, there isn't such thing called a magical fountain. And if there really is one somewhere out there, I believe there will be a huge chaos!

Unlike the movie, a real partner for life will be someone who truly understand each other, who could communicate well instead of using alienate languages, and not forgetting the similar interest/goal part so there will be something enjoyable to strive together! There's another two important points for myself, which is there shouldn't be any awkward silence and we should be able accept the flaws of our partner. Awkward silences are really... awkward... I had it once when I was much younger, and I could still remember how I didn't realized my hand is shaking as I hold on to the guy's arm. The silence is so over-whelming, and it should the the kind of comfortable silence, in which both of us didn't mind and in fact are enjoying it. As for the second point, it's just simply that nobody is perfect! Everyone must have some flaws, and if we can't accept that of our partner, then life will be hard!

So anyway, back to the movie. I won't mind watching it for the laughter and the fact that it's in Rome!

So, catch "When In Rome" Movie starting from 25th March 2010 and join the official Facebook and Twitter page!

Happy 25? Or just another 25?

It seems so unreal to me that I am officially 25 years old. It sounds old to me, but I'm sure there's many of you out there thinking that I still have a long way ahead of me. But well, what I'm trying to say here is that, I have a boring life already and I'm only just 25.

I feel weird writing out my thoughts now, as I'm trained for keeping weird thoughts out of people's way, from the moment I starts getting weird reactions from people each time I tried to pollute them with my weird-ish thinking. There could only be two logical possibilities, which is either 1) I do have weird thinking, or 2) They just can't be bothered with what I'm trying to fill them in with, 'cos life is miserable enough for them to absorb any more of my ranting.

The thing is, I think I found out the "secret" of being alive! Is that, there will never be any smooth sailing, and the sea will always be rocky and trying to drown you anytime. And to stay alive, you just have to keep fighting against it. And along the way, when your energy is down, you will start to recruit partner/friends so both of you won't feel as alone or fearful of what's going to hit you in the head. But the tricky thing is, everyone is so different that not every single one can match with one another. So, it's another rocky path (like the one I just trekked a while ago on Mount Batur, in which some might think it's easy 'cos they had overcome even worst path) where you will just have to keep your eyes closedopen to whoever that fills in the position of being your partnerfriend or whatever-so-you-called-it. And in all this 25 years I've been thinking what the hell am I living for? Why do things get fucked up again and again, and why do I have to fix things all the time, when is it even enough? It's always me who have to do all the dirty job. (And I bet people will start telling me that I am not alone at this point) And each time I just have to try to motivate myself, as it seems like there's hardly someone who could understand. So I am my own best friend? Trying to convince or fake myself into believing that things will be alright, and that the sea will be calm after each rocky storms. Am I pathetic or what? Or perhaps I'm just weird or over-reacting every time something just sparkles in the corrupted mind of mine.

I could be entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

For the Ukulele's noobies

I was out with my family for dinner, when something caught my attention. It's an old fashion looking shop selling guitars, which have been there since I don't know when. Well, I've been wanting to get a cheap ukulele, and so I went to check it out, hoping that a guitar shop will sell some cheapo ukulele for the poor me. And guess what??? I bought a white painted ukulele for just $20! I know, it's so damn cheap, but I just want to try playing to see if I like it?



See? How cool is that! I have a white ukulele! So, anyway I know nuts about ukulele and I got the shop owner to help me tune it. But when I got home, I realized it's out of tune, so I went to look for my new best friend, Mr google! Yep, he's my nbf. So I found this really good website to help tuning your ukulele.

Then, come the next step of owning a ukulele. For noobs like me, I found this really good video online to help me start playing something decent. It's the kookaburra! It's really good, 'cos he's slow enough for you to figure out where's your chords, and it's a video, so you can pause and re-watch it anytime! But, after playing kookaburra, I feel that it's really not enough. I mean, I don't buy an ukulele just to play one song? So, I asked my nbf again, and found this even better website for noobiesbeginners!

I was kind of frustrated at first, as my ukulele kept going out of tune. I was thinking am I that bad? Or it's just that my cheap ukulele sucks? But anyway, my nbf told me that it's kinda normal for new ukulele/strings to go out of tune, as it's trying to adapt being strung by a noob like me. Hehe.

And Bali I went!

Halloo!! I'm back!! And got darker, but all fresh from the holiday. Haven't had so much fun for quite a while, and it's really a good trip even tho the weather is freaking hot! Bali is like omg paradiseee not just for couple! Okay, I'm just going to let the photos do the talking! All photos are taken by my cute lil VQ1015 <3

Day 1: Outside Indra Homestay, where we stayed for our first 3 nights in Ubud.


Day 1: The view from this sucky restaurant we ate on the first day. It's like the worst buffet I ever had and it cost about 13 dollars each? Totally not worth it as I feel like I'm eating zhar cai peng.

Day 1: Some cafe with a rice paddy field! Can't remember the name, but it's near Monkey Forest in Ubud. We had fruit juices and some snack~ before the yummy dinner at Warung Enak!

Day 2: My first mountain climbing/trekking! I'm real slow and got over-took by almost everyone, but I still managed to reach the top in time for sunrise! :D The view is fab, but sunrise isn't the best 'cos of the clouds! But the experience is totally worth everything!

Day 3: It was a good day, as the clouds were dark but we didn't encounter any rain! The driver is good, and lunch was good, and we bought lots of fruits! Went to Mengwi, Lake Temple, Jatiliwih and last stop at Tanah Lot!




Day 3: Sunset wasn't fab, but guess it's still a good day. :D

Day 4 / 5: Seminyak! A day for chilling by the beach in the day, and chilling in Hardrock Cafe by night. Only bad is the toilet in our guesthouse isn't "okay" enough. 

We bought a kite and I guess it got the attention of others, and a guy actually came and started talking to me. He walked away after a while as I was just busy playing with my kite. haha

Day 5 / 6: Our last stop at Kuta! And finally staying in a room with air-con, good bed and toilet, and with a small pool! Kindly sponsored by holy grace as a birthday treat, and also seafood dinner at jimbaran! 

Food isn't the best I had but the combination is great, with dinner on the beach and a sunset view, it's a total bliss! And Grace is irritated by 2 middle-age looking guys who kept talking to us non-stop, and trying to get us our for party at night. Too bad they ain't cute at all. >:O!!

And I went home a happy girl! :D