hey everybody! back frm bali! SAFE AND IN ONE PIECE. haha. i'm like kinda dead. i'll have to post a super long post cos i had dance camp too. AHH. i think i'll start with bali lest i forget what happened.
day one went to the airport at like, 3 pm. had a quick check in cos my dad was a SQ solitaire member. then we went to the first class lounge. basically cos there was time. omgosh. the singapore airlines first class lounge rocks. there were like small tubs of strawberry and vanilla haagen daaz ice cream and samll tubs of ben and jerry's berry nice and chocolate fudge brownie ice cream! like duh i ate the choc fudge brownie one. so good. had some soup and other stuff before leaving. saw uncle cedric on the way out. he looked really shocked to see us in the first class lounge. arrived in bali at like 1930 hr. went to my dad's friend's villa to stay. really really beautiful. except for one thing. THERE WERE LIKE 6-8 CATERPILLARS IN THE BATHROOMS. OH MY GOSH. they werent that small either. they were about 2-3 inches long and were the hairy type. yup. imagine. i tell you i was freaked. like i didnt dare to bathe or step into the bathroom alone. didnt use the toilet bowl either cos there were 2 caterpillars carwling on the seat and cover. pity pity. such a nice pretty balinese outdoor bathroom ruined by stinkin caterpillars. so i bathed in slippers. pretty much marched the whole time under the shower. was stepping on the spot so that no caterpillars ould crawl on my foot or slippers. i surprise myself actually. i dared to bathe. haha. then the next morning i woke up and had to have my elder sis come into the toilet with me to make sure there were no caterpillars near me when i was peeing. haha. omgosh. first time in my life i was scared to pee. haha. then later we went out to a nearby surf shop. mainly billabong stuff. and whaddya know, almost all billabong stuff were 50% off! yeah. so like duh i wanted to buy lotsa stuff. not that it was like super cheap or anything. everything was at least 10 bucks after discount. didnt buy yet cos i wanted to see if there were nicer stuff at kuta. went to ku de ta for lunch. really good. had a seafood fusili. mmm. then went to kuta to surf but it was raining. so we shopped around. mostly surf shops. found out only billabong had 50 % off. not all shops though. later in the sfternoon marg and i had a swim in the pool at the villa while chloe and my parents went to the surf shop. chloe got me a billabong shirt. :)) at night we went to eat at an indian restaurant. had a whole lot of naan and mutton curry. nice. then we went to the surf shop. looked around. went back to find aunty kim and family there at the villa. so played with aiken and miles. went to bed.
day two had an alarm call waking me up. chloe brought miles the 3yrold loudspeaker to get us to wake up and jump a little on our bed. woke us up indeed. went to the surf shop and bought myself another shirt. :)) went to kuta that day. surfed for an hour. my eyes hurt so bad cos of the saltwater. the waves were like strong. had some trouble going out to sea cos the water was getting deep and the waves were huge. realised that my surfing skills were kinda rusty. haha. after that went shopping. bought ripcurl flipflops and a bag. oh yeah. the "plastic bag" they used was a nice ripcurl polyesterish bag. haha. went to ubud too. i think i ate lunch at the uma hotel. really good burger and drink. the drink had spices in it and was called the uma explorer. cute. had a pedicure and shopped more. that night ate dinner at bebek bengil. fried duck. real tasty. OH YES. at lunch we told miles to call margaux mango and dunno what he heard. he started saying that his own name was meng po. weird. and for the whole trip he called himself meng po. he responds to meng po. and when somebody says miles, he'll tell him/her that his name was meng po. not miles. haha.
went back to the villa. slept.
day three got woken up by miles/meng po agn. went to the surf shop again. bought a wallet for myself. my mom bought me a surf shirt. checked into grand hyatt that morning cos my dad and i couldnt take the caterpillars. i love grand hyatt. had lunch at one of the restaurants there called salsa verde. had a parma ham pizza. aunty kim's family joined us later. spent the day at the pool. grand hyatt has thesee whirlpools. one of them, the jacuzzi, is 30-32 degrees while the other is the cold plunge which is 12-14 degrees. trust me, the cold plunge feels like ice. margaux and i decided to try to stay in the cold plunge as long as possible. at first we were freezing to death. after a while got used to it. really nicce actually. except that we couldnt put our hands in cos it'll freeze up our whole body. haha. swam swam swam. then at night went to ku de ta again with the smiths (miles' family). had a lobster spaghetti. mm. real tasty. miles was being irritating. he didnt want to eat his meatball spaghetti. and was whining a lot cos he was tired. haha. that was our christmas dinner. cost a bomb for what it was. we were actually eating in fear. cos the police supposedly found some maps of bali and a few explosives stuff i think in bali. so we were kinda scared that we'd be bombed. haha. went back to a caterpillar free grang hyatt and watched the powerpuff girls before sleeping. haha.:))
last day went to kuta to shop around. wanted to surf but the red flag was up. so we shopped around. went to the ripcurl shop agn. my sisters were trying to find boardshorts. but i gave up cos they obviously didnt have my size. was waiting when something caught my eye. THE KIDS SECTION! haha. smart me went to look if there was my size. these are all aussie sizes so it's kinda big. found my size! i am so smart. my parents were only willing to buy me one pair. so i bought the other. now i owe them like 46 bucks.darn it. but it was a good buy. shopped around more. got a beaded beltish thing. went back to the hotel. swam. went into the cold plunge which has become my favourite pool. got a complimentry drink. went back, showered, packed, checked out, went to the airport, ate stuff at the not so good lounge and flew back to singapore. :))
i'll write abt daqnce camp another time i guess. seeya!