Last day at Yogyakarta. Nothing was planned. Need to be at the airport around 3+. Took our time and lepak around the Guest House. Had our breakfast and a morning swim, packed our bags and luggage, put them at the counter there and checked out our room. Asked the receptionist girl, Fia, to see where else got nice food around the guest house. She pointed us to one place, within walking distance, selling beef ribs.
So we started walking towards the place for our lunch and along the way, we saw a lot of paddy fields (again), and the sky was very blue. How to not shoot?
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Day 3 of my Yogyakarta trip. Sorry for the photos, too lazy to filter anymore. Today we plan to go to the town of Yogyakarta and do some walking and discovering. Heard from friends that there’s a Bird Market and a shopping street call Malioboro.
So we woke up early in the morning to catch our Guest House’s breakfast which was included in the rates. Discovered that the area behind where we had our breakfast was very nice. It was just a small area, but decorated/landscaped very nicely. So after we eat, we did some early morning shooting.
A path from the breakfast place to the garden at the back. The taller building behind the pondok is actually the “house” next door!
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Went for a trip to Yogyakarta with Siewmei, Yenc, Jook, Shyng, and Hamyu on the 4th of July. It was a 4 days 3 nights trip with minimum planning. But it was a fun, relax, and filling (stomach wise) trip for all of us. Reached Yogya about 6 something in the evening, our Guest House’s pickup already waiting for us at the airport after we done all the scanning and spraying for prevention of H1N1 Flu. So we head straight to our Guest House. The distance from airport to our Guest house was around 30 to 40 minutes. The sky turn dark very early there at Yogya, so we were already planning what to eat during our ride to the Guest House. Finally we decided to walk around and we found a nice little restaurant that serve indonesian food to eat. After the dinner, we chill around our Guest House, and went to sleep early cos we need to wake up pretty early the next day to catch the sunrise at Borobudur.
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Woke up damn early this morning to go for a cycling trip again at Taman Pertanian Malaysia, Shah Alam. This is the second time I’m there. First stop for us is breakfast! Our gang, Siewmei, YenC, Shyng, Jaemy, Chokyan, Eunice, and me gathered at a Dim Sum restaurant around Atria. After our dimsum session, we head our way to Shah Alam.
Fidella, Zeejay, Cliff, and gang were there already when we reached. They’re already choosing their bikes, and there are a lot of other people there too picking their bike. Luckily we got there in time, if not I think it’ll become a walking trip for us. So we picked our bike and headed to the right side of the park. We’ve already explored the left side when we were here the first time.
Paddy field, it is not call Agricultural Park if there wasn’t the paddy field.
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Day 4 in Bali, our last day to hang around Bali. Had our breakfast at the hotel. At first we wanna try the massage services that’s offered by the hotel itself, but it was fully booked. So we have no choice but to walk out and scout for another one. Luckily for us, there’s just 1 massage parlor opposite the hotel. It’s call Melasti Salon & Spa. We went in and waited to have a good Balinese massage.
Advertising put outside the shop.
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Day 3 in Bali. Remember last night we went up to Ubud and stayed overnight here, so today we start from Ubud.
Let’s see, first stop we’re going to visit is to eat! The very famous Babi Guling Ibu Oka. But when we reached there, the waitress told us the babi haven’t guling yet. Hahaha. So we have some time to explore the town of Ubud a bit. The restaurant is quite near to the art and craft market, just 3-5 minutes walk. But in between the market and the restaurant, there’s this temple.
Not sure about the name of this temple, but if you’re at the Restaurant Babi Guling Ibu Oka, it’s just opposite it. So we don’t care, actually more like I don’t care about what temple it is, got nice temple, shoot la! Hehe…
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It all started in May 2008, where me and the gang were up at Ipoh visiting CJ’s parents. While we were travelling back from Ipoh, we talked about having our first oversea trip, since all our trip were local so far. So we roughly set the location to Bali since none of us been to Bali before.
A year later, Dominic and Sue, Bird and Evonne, Andrew, Steven, and me came to Bali thanks to our low fares airlines. It was kind of an adventurous trip for us cos we’ve only booked the hotel stay for the 1st night, the rest of the nights we’ll need to look for rooms there and then. What we’ve heard was there are plenty of places to stay in Bali, so none of us worried.
The trip was scheduled on 4th – 8th May, seems like 5 days, but the actual time we were there was only 3 full days because we’ve got the late afternoon flight (which was delayed) there and the freaking early flight (which was delayed also) back.
Our pre-booked tour guide for the trip, Abang Made, was waiting for us at the airport. He drove a Suzuki van, which he afraid was not big enough to fit us all cos there are 7 of us, therefore he asked a hotel guy to drive another van to pick us up from the airport. Me, Dom, Sue, and Andrew were sitting in Abang Made’s van while the rest was sitting in the other van. The distance between the airport and the hotel was only 5 minutes, but it took the hotel driver 15-20 minutes to reached there. Based on the victims, the driver banged a car while reversing, lost his parking tickets, and he GOT LOST! WTF! (we were thinking that that guy doesn’t even have a license to drive) LOLz. Welcome to Bali!
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1st Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009. From 19th to 22nd March, balloonists from around the world come to Malaysia to… erm… fly their balloons! This is the first time Malaysia is organizing such hot air balloon event. We Malaysian seldom got the chance to see these balloons. So I’ve decided to go.
I woke up 6 something this morning just to go there hoping to take some nice pictures. Reached Putrajaya around 7:15am. Already saw 1 balloon setting up. And it’s the Nescafe balloon. Talk about branding huh.
Flame shooting into the balloon’s belly to warm the air inside.
Here’s the 1st balloon i saw. “Become a morning person” and they’re the earliest to setup their balloon. Good advertising!
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On the 7th of March 2009, Clive organized a trip of 25 city dwellers, to this friendly little small town Sungai Lembing, 林明. Sungai Lembing is a town that used to mine Tin Ore (Bijih Timah). And now it’s famous for it’s sunrise view with sea of clouds below your feet! My closest gang of people is in one car, which is Andrew, Aivy, Siewmei, and me. The objectives of this trip for a few of us is to photographs the nice sunrise. We did the photographing, I’ll leave you to judge. 
First stop of the places to go when we reached Sg Lembing is Gua Charas. Is a big cave within a rock mountain, and there’s an abandoned tin mine inside too.
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Last week, me and the gang finally went for the several-time-postponed kite flying session. Me, Siewmei, Yenc, and Jook went to gather at Shyng and Jaemy’s house at Kota Damansara. Aftere a brief lunch, off we go to where we never went before, Taman Metropolitan, Kepong.
We reached there around 3 something, where there’s still a lot of parking spaces available. But after we went down a while, it started drizzling a bit. But the kite seller uncle told us very confidentally that this is cloud-passing-rain, and very fast will stop. He also told us to trust him cos he’s very familiar to the weather there. So we did, bought the kite for RM15, and 500 feet string for RM5.
Shyng holding the RM20 kite like a kid + the expression of “can we have this one instead?” on her face.
Yenc re-tying the string to the kite because the string got stuck on the tree while the kite was on the ground on the other side, so she has to free the kite, roll back the string, and tying them back again.
Shyng and Jook, writing some love messages to the kite before flying it. Awww… so sweet.
While the others are busy doing their own stuffs, Siewmei had already flew her kite to the sky. So enjoy~
Me *thinking: which one is my kite?*
Yenc and Jaemy still trying to get their kite flying after some time. I think the kite doesn’t quite like Yenc because Yenc was shouting saying another kite that shaped like a Stingray was so nice, she so likes it. Hehe.
Actually Jook and Shyng also still can’t manage to fly their kite up yet. Maybe the kite was overloaded with lovey-dovey messages. Lol!
Me *still thinking: which one is my kite?*
Yenc sweating like waterfall and tired. Jaemy was thinking *how come other people can fly the kite up so fast geh?*.
The Shyng + Jook team still haven’t manage to fly their kite up, so Shyng trying to walk the kite instead of flying it. Wuahaha…
Ok ok. One last try.
Jook releasing the kite, while Shyng pulling and running.
Finally, the couple managed to flew their kite up the sky.
Flying side by side.
Jook manage to finished his roll of string. Shyng so happy. 
After flying the kite up about an hour, we decided to stop and pose with our kite a bit. I like this shot, but too bad the background a bit noisy.
Me imitating Siewmei’s pose to hopefully get a nice picture. Comments anyone? Haha…
See, I told you Yenc’s kite doesn’t like her. Their string broke, and the kite flew away… to a place far, far, far, far away… But Yenc quite ok with it also after a while, she said next time can buy the stingray kite. :
Jook and Shyng so happy to got their kite up and flying.
Flying kite outing: done succesfully!
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