Grrrrace

We all know that Mrs Lee Kwan Yew passed away just a couple of hours ago. Frankly speaking, I did not understand and did not know how was it like to have someone dear to you departing from this world until my grandpa passed away some two years back. It is October already and speaking of which, his second death anniversary is approaching... This morning when I was doing some simple packing in the living room, I looked through some of the photos grandpa and I took together when I was much younger and I always know he liked carrying me around :')

Coming back to the topic, I think it's a very painful experience to lose someone close to you and I hope the Lee family is coping well!!!

Now putting that aside......,

Bali Trip - 20th-24th September 2010

It was definitely fun travelling with my parents and I would love to go with my friends the next time I go there! It is good to have short getaways once in a while because I'm so bored of staying in this little red dot.

Did not do much on the first day when we reached Bali because when we reached the resort, it was already nine in the evening, so we just explored the resort and the area outside it.

At T3's Changi airport before departure!

Day 2

After breakfast at the resort.

We paid to hire a tour guide just for a day, to bring us to the tourist attractions in Bali. We also got to travel around Ubud, and up north to see the places we were gonna visit.

View from the room

We visited the batik factory to see how the intricate prints were carefully made, jewelery factory outlet to see how they were being made, visited the elephant temple. We were made to wear sarongs or else we will not be able to enter their temples.

This was made up of wheat, beans, and everything else food

And this, was taken in another temple

Preparing for the full moon celebration

Mummy and Daddy

Pretty padi fields!!!!

Visited one of the plantations in Bali

Had lunch at another tourist attraction. Swear the lunch ripped us off and worse still, the food there is horrible. But the best part of it was that we had a scenic view of a volcano, and we were so high up! Pretty cooling up there, and it felt like Genting.

Proceeded to Spring water temple. This is where all the royalties in Indonesia come here once a year to have their bath because they believe that the water will cleanse their souls.

I wonder how do those ladies do it. They don't seem to have a flat head...

Mmm, no apes or humans allowed?

Moving on, the tour guide brought us to see the rice terraces which were really pretty

And the last destination for the day, the Monkey Forest, which was located somewhere in the town area in Bali. The bunch of bananas I bought....was more pricey than the entry tickets to the Monkey Forest -.- Because I was walking around holding a bunch of bananas in my hands, THE MONKEYS FREAKING ATTACKED ME. They just ran to me and snatched the bananas :( But it was definitely cute looking at them eating!

Mummy monkey breastfeeding her baby

Day 3

While waiting for the shuttle bus to fetch us to Discovery Mall and then to the beach

We were.....facebooking!

We did body surfing

Mani + Pedi + Henna tattoo. Princess treatment, me likey

Check out my henna tattoo at the bottom of the post!

Spent only half a day at Kuta beach :( I'd gladly spent all my days at the beach trying different sports if my parents didn't mind the scorching sun...

Lunch was good btw