My Bali Trip - Part 3

It was the last day we stayed at Ayu Beach Inn. I had planned for the next stay at Ubud. We had our breakfast at the cafe and hubby took few pictures of the Inn. It was a nice place to stay, clean, quite cheap and very near to the beach. I heard few tourists stayed for weeks or months there. Here are few pictures of the Inn.

Ayu Beach Inn : From the inside of the room, the pool at the cafe and from outside of our room


The pool in front and the Inn's compund... My crocodile hunter posing before we leave Kuta

For the day, we had actually made a mistake. The driver of the Inn offered to send us to Ubud and stopped at few attractive places for IDR300,000. He promised that he will wait until we found a place to stay at Ubud. We took the offer where later we realised it should be cheaper. To any travellers to Bali, there are many travel agent offering services like this. So ask around and take the best offer. So back to the journey, we stopped at 3 places, the first one at the batik village, could not remember the village's name. The batik's are sold in USD, very expensive. The next stop was kampung celuk, famous for its silver. We stopped at one of the shops, if you wanna buy something, please bargain. They also had a very wide selection of old keris. The last stop was Batu Bulan, the village which is famous for its stone carving. The carving was a bit spooky for me.

The scenery taken from the van, at the batik factory and kampung celuk.


Keris at kampung celuk and stone carving at Batu Bulan

Just before noon we arrived at Ubud, a small town in the middle of Bali. A very quiet place and tourist just love to be there to rest. We stopped at few nice hotels where the price was quite good but we just want something very simple and cheaper. I read about Sania's house a try to look out for it. It is situated at a very small alley but the place is very beautiful. Again we paid IDR150,000 per night to stay there. We paid for 2 nights. Our room had a queen bed and a single bed. The toilet was with hot water as Ubud could be very cold at times. The staffs are very friendly especially Wayan. Tea will be serve in a flask at your room. We took our nap as soon as we checked in.

Inside of the room and the tea.

We took a walk that afternoon while hunting for halal food. We found a small restaurant nearby and ate. After that we went to Pasar Ubud. Lots of souvenir could be found here and people claims that it was the best place to shop for souvenirs but we found out we could find souvenirs somewhere else. We took a dip at the pool that evening and the water was cold!! We had fun relaxing in the pool. Ubud is a town that sleeps quite early. Nothing much to do at night except few traditional dance show. We ate instant noodle that night as halal restaurant is quite far.

Streets of Ubud




Our lunch that day!!


Kids parading on promoting a new restaurant and Pasar Ubud


the night walk... The theater for traditional dances (IDR80,000) and the makciks...

My Bali Trip - Part 2

On the second day I had planned for few destination. We had breakfast at the Inn, yup the RM45 (IDR150,000) per night is inclusive with breakfast. I had finally had a good look at the surrounding of the Inn. Quite beautiful but the best was it was clean. Bali architecture could be seen around us. The breakfast wasn't much. It was banana pancake day. We had free flow of coffee and tea also tropical fruits. There were an old couple having breakfast with us.

The breakfast at the Inn.. The Morning beach walk and my walking companion..

We decided to take a walk first before rent up a bike for our tour for the day. We went to Kuta beach to shoot few photos. The day just had began, surfers started their day freshening up playing with the waves. Few beginner surfer learning from the surf school you can found all stretch of Kuta beach. It was enjoying and the view was great. It rains a bit following the wind.

At the expensive hotel at Nusa Dua and our lunch..

We continued our morning walk along the beach and had been approached by some local selling stuff and offering something like "gores dan menang".. yupp... you will find lots people along Kuta beach doing this. At first we resisted but at last we accepted a guy offer. Then the story begins... we picked up two cards, one of it was for free t-shirt and the other one was with a bigger price but we had to go to the hotel to pick up the prize. All expenses paid. So we agreed and the guy and headed to Nusa Dua. Due to certain regulation that we could not fulfill, we did not get anything just discount vouchers. Well, we took it as a free tour for us, Nusa Dua offered high end of hotels, very expensive but the beaches are beautiful.

We went back to Kuta, had our lunch at a Halal stall one of the foodcourt nearby Kuta beach. The price was ok, KL standard and the food was good. We rent up a bike for the rest of the day. It cost us IDR50,000 (rm15) for a day. To any traveller to Bali, don't ever buy petrol at the stalls along the street. Head up to any petrol station (PERTAMINA) because it cheaper. We paid IDR18,000 for 2++litre of petrol.

The bike, filling in petrol and the scenery taken while on the bike!!

With a map on my hand, we went to Denpasar. The signboards were bad, just don't trust them to much. Anyhow we took it as sight seing so we don't mind getting lost. Heheheheheh.. we visited Denpasar's Art Centre when it rains again. It was raining season that time but it does not slow us down.

Denpasar Art Centre

From Denpasar, we went to Uluwatu. The famous temple on the cliff. Uluwatu is a must visit place at Bali. You need to pay a little amount for entrence fee (IDR3000 = RM0.90 and the bike IDR2,000). A guide will follow us around the area. The guide had warned us about the naughty monkeys there. The monkeys will grab anything that is shiny such as jewellery, sun glasses, spectacles, hat etc. We had our taste of it when my hubby was taking pictures the Balinese going to pray when this naughty monkey took his spectacles. It was in just seconds when there was a woman returned the spectacles back and asking for tips. We paid IDR10,000 for that (we wanted to pay lesser but the guide does not let us!!)

Scenery from Uluwatu and the stupid monkey...

We kept our eyes later after the incident and found out that lady was everywhere. She had a bag of fruits with her and everytime a monkey stold something from the tourist she will give the fruit and the monkey will return the stuff. It was like trading or to be exect, bribing!! Stupid monkeys!! The scenery was beautiful, we decided not to watch the Kecak dance because it will cost us IDR50,000 per ticket. We watch from a far, tried to take pictures from Man's 400mm but it turned out a bit blur because it was drizzling.

It was raining... My hubby in action and Kecak dance from far...

From Uluwatu we went straight to Jimbaran Bay.. oh my.. my favourite place of all. Jimbaran Bay had a row of Seafood restaurant and the food was yummy. It made our Umbai (Melaka) or any Ikan Bakar place looks like s*#@. You need to pick what you want to eat, they will "bakar" it with sambal. The rice, vegetables, dessert and peanuts are on the house. There are 4 different "pencicah" and we like only two of it. Anyway it gives us more choices!! The tables are arranged on the beach and we took the one near to the water. It was beautiful!! Later I realised it was our first candle light dinner for us. We ate until we could not take it anymore. The food could fed 4-5 person. The service was good, the food was excellent, the place was beautiful and we paid only IDR199,000 (less than rm60).. Damn..!! it was good and cheap!!

The scenery, appetizer and the candles...


The food!! Yummy....

We went back to the Inn for the night. Wait for my next post!!

My Bali Trip - Part 1

It has been quite some time from the real thing but as I had explained from the previous blog, I think you guys will understand. The Bali trip was planned long before we got married, we purchased the tickets after our engagement, back in February 2008. After discussing, Abang and I would like to make this trip a "dry" trip. No diving, just spending time discovering Bali in 6 nights with just IDR5million (yeay... we are millionaires... hehehhe it was about RM1500) spending money. Mummy had send us to the airport and we took the three hours flight to Bali. Huh.. it was a bit stress out spending that three hours in the flight but nevertheless we arrived safely at Denpasar Airport. The airport was impressive as a lot international flights came in.

(1)Crocodile hunter queuing... (2)While waiting to depart... (3)Taxing to runaway 32 Right...


On Malaysia's and Indonesia's airspace

We took a taxi IDR50,000 (RM15) to Poppies Lane 1, heading to Ayu Beach Inn, hoping there is a room for us as I did not book any room ahead. Just wanted being free and easy this time. Heheheheh.. Luckily there are rooms available and we paid around IDR150,000 (RM45) per night for a room with a queen size four poster bed and a single bed. We paid for two nights. After putting our stuff in the room, we headed to Kuta beach which is only 5 minutes walk from the hotel. There are all types of people around there, it was cool. Being very hungry, we walked around to find Arby's, a fast food being recommended by REZA AZIZ (King's Studio) which should be just around the corner but after walking nearly 45 minutes we gave up. We went to McDonald's, the one situated besides Matahari, not the one nearby the beach. We bought 2 large set with an extra burger and it cost us less than RM30. The chili sauce was a turn off for us, it was a bit different from the ones in Malaysia. After enjoying our meal, we headed back to the inn and on the way back we bought an adapter, to be used recharging the batteries for the cameras. Both of us too, got to bed early recharging ourself for the next day trip.

(1)My burger... (2)Saos sambal... no.. no... (3)My Hubby's... Big Mac...

empty...

Just came back from a walk with hubby. Trying to kill the time. I am still on MC until Tuesday. Had already excepted the fact that the baby is not with me anymore. But my body still acting like I am still pregnant, feeling nausea, the metallic taste in my mouth, very sensitive to smell and my breast had started lactating. I hope it will go off soon as I could not take this anymore.

I am getting healthier and I hope I can recover as soon as possible. I am glad hubby is always there for me. All the way through. It was not easy, experiencing this moment but I am glad that I had the chance to feel it. At least I could understand the feeling that other women had experienced.

To my hubby, thanks again. I love you. Even though I felt empty, you filled me up.

new year??

I had been planning of writing since after the trip to Bali. There was so many thing to share.. One day I will write about it.. Maybe these few days.. Planned to write as soon as we arrived home.. But my morning sickness had made my desire on writing it fade away..

Morning sickness?? yes... Just after Hari Raya Aidil Adha I took a pregnancy test and it was positive... It was confirmed when I went to Hospital Ampang for my appointment.. The morning sickness was quite ok... I had it mostly on the evening, tiring but I had gone through it with good supports from my hubby and family..

On the 31st December 2008, I went to visit my gynea at Kuantan Specialist Hospital and the baby was growing in a good shape... So I went back to IPBA happily for my pre-internship course..

The course was ok but the idea of being there was sickening... I prayed all the time that it will end as soon as possible.. Then it comes when we were to be sent to our new school.. The 10 of us was divided by 2 groups, 5 in the SBP group and the other 5 in the daily school group.. As us in the SBP group was given the choice to pick our own school.. There are 6 schools listed and I choose SSP..

I commute for the first week to school.. It was tiring and it was the first time I had a spotting which I ignored it due to its amount. I applied for the school's quarters for teacher and this b*&%$ (who stayed previously) had taken her own sweet time to move few small things from the house..

I was due for another appointment at Hospital Ampang on the 19th but feeling uneasy of leaving school on my second week of work made me did not go. I moved in to my new house that day where there was another spotting that day.. The next day the b*&%# came and see me and harassed me because I moved in to early.. At that point I was to tired to argue, my body was adapting to the new condition and the commuting had burn me off. I told her about my spotting and as a woman I expected she will understand. But what I get from her was "itu cerita lain, yang penting Lily dah ceroboh rumah saya"... hello... that is not your house!! You should have cleared everything before the school starts!! I was a bit depressed on the day but told no one.

The eagerly Chinese New Year holidays finally arrived. I went back to Kuantan on monday where another spotting with fresh blood had occurred. This was the first time I had fresh blood spotting and without any delay I went to visit a doctor the next day. The result was shocking.. my baby had not develop and the sac was not with the shape it should be. I tried not to accept the news but I was in tears when I told my hubby about it. I decided to visit my regular gynea for further examination the next day and planned to go to do my d&c at Hospital Putrajaya.

My gynea had confirmed the news. My baby had not develop since the 9th week, the week when I was at IPBA. So she had given me two choices, let it came out normally or d&c, but the d&c procedure must be done that day or the next day. Worrying that Hospital Putrajaya could not do it in such short time, I did it in Kuantan. Simple procedure where I was out for 40 minutes, I was in no pain but I was in tears when the stretcher came out from the operation theater. I just felt empty.