Simple Post (II)

Oh no... I'm in a desperate mood while writing this post... I mean, I don't think I have any more effort to continue publishing posts weekly. I'm crazy about football now, especially the 2010 FIFA World Cup!!! Besides, the England Premier League has also developed into one of the most dramatic ending in the latest century. But most importantly, football has dominated my entire life... because each time I switch on the computer, I will use it to do my school projects and continue my unrealistic football journey... Well, the craze is here again and wait for my next post... XD

Bali Tour (II)

Sorry for the delayment of this post, it's just that I don't have that much time to complete a post. Ok, talked about the first day and now I'll tell about the following tour of Bali.


On the second day, well my family and me had breakfast at the hotel we settled at- Harris Kuta Resort. A soothing bath came after my breakfast. Did I mention that the water of the hotels around the beaches of Bali Island are salt water? So, the soothing bath ended up to be like, bathing in the sea. Around 11 o' clock, we went to the airport to meet my relatives (who arrived a day later), together with the tour guide. Then, the tour guide went on describing Bali Island. We had our lunch of pressurized chicken, which the chicken bone could be eaten throughly. Duh, it was fun at first but the interior of the chicken bones tasted like...


After the pressurized lunch, we returned to our hotel. Free time was given to us until the evening. But, me and my relatives, sibblings just ended watching television the whole afternoon. Haha. The dinner was supreme, you know. It took us 15 minutes to reach our dinner site- Jimbaran Beach. It was still early before dinner time, so we were allowed to stroll along the beach. Here are some pictures of the beach.

My cousin aunt taking pictures.

One of the views during sunset.

Next, we had our romantic and unforgetable dinner. Our tour consisted of 21 people... and we had a long table for dinner. The dinner was spectacular, which consisted of seafood being roasted, grilled and most importantly, cooked. Why don't you look at the pictures below?

 

Our long table for dinner. I'm in green,with my grandfather on the opposite of me.

 

Our prawn-roaster for the dinner.

Our spectacular candle-light dinner!

Well, that's all for the second day. The whole day was emphasised on food. After returning to the hotel, took a bath, watched some television and it's until 7.00 a.m the next day.

Ok, now, the third day's gonna start, with the same routine- bath then breakfast. Around 8.45 a.m, we started our journey to watch a performance of Barong and Kris Dance. The story was very complicated, but I can just say that it was quite dull, but some parts of the performance was interesting. No picture has been taken because my father recorded it all in his handycam so bye-bye for this section.

After the Barong and Kris Dance, we went all the way straight to the mountain village of Kintamani. The journey took us 4 hours and we just slept on the coach to recharge our energy and pass the time. When we were 3/4 of the journey,  we were attracted by the beautiful, scenic view of rice terraces. We arrived at Kintamani around 1.30p.m. We had lunch there, a normal buffet and outside of the restaurant, the place was filled with villagers who were selling souvenirs to the tourists. Let alone T-shirts, there were already 5-6 people who sold the same thing.

When we crossed the road to the reach the opposite of the restaurant, those people just kept following us, requesting us to buy their things. The degree of them sticking to us was like the UHU Glue. There was one that kept following me, wanting me to have some tattooing from him. He said it costed 20,000 Rp. And I said no. Then, he decreased the price to 15,000 Rp. But I still said no. He kept dropping the price until RM 2! I became a little tempted and sought for my father's permission. But, my father said that those people weren't honest. They may say RM 2 but after doing it they request 2 US dollars. So, I just said no again to him. He felt disappointed and went off.

The scenery, as I have mentioned, was so beautiful that no description can be made. Lake Batur and Mt. Kintamani (a volcano) were inside that view, making the scenery more majestical.Maybe these photos will allow me to elude from describing the view.

The grand view of Lake Batur.

The magnificent view of Mt. Kintamani.

After the visit, we went to The Ubud, Bali's cultural handicraft centre. As we all know, Bali is famous for the wood carvings. And the price of wood carvings at the cultural centre started from 500,000 Rp. Some gigantic horse-like carvings costed a billion Rp. Woah, there's so many 0's that I forgot how much is a billion! We also went by a tropical plantation site of  many plants that cannot be seen easily in cities. For example, cocoa trees, coffee trees and also vanilla plants. You can see the plants that I have mentioned from the pictures below.

The cocoa fruit.

The vanilla plant.

This uncle is roasting the coffee beans to let the best coffee smell come out from the beans.

Ta-dah! The coffee beans that have been roasted and smells so good!

After visiting the plantation site, we started our journey to go and have our dinner of crispy duck at a restaurant called The Pond. The duck was delicious, almost like the pressurized chicken but it tasted way better than the pressurized chicken. Below are some pictures of our dinner.

From left: My cousin aunt, my sister and my cousin sister

The scenery beside our crispy duck restaurant- The Pond

Well, here's the scrumptious meal of crispy duck, with some extra delicacies.

The Pond- The place where we had our crispy duck dinner.

Ok, this may be all I have for today, because I'm out of time. Will tell the rest in the next post. TTFN.

Bali Tour (I)

Well all, sorry for late posting of my blog... some technical problems occured and now only can I write this post. As I mentioned, I went to Bali for a vacation 3 weeks ago. And, thank goodness the trip was safe. No terrorists bombings, suicide bombs or any deadly master plans of those villains, crooks.


The trip was meant to be a 6 day 5 night vacation with my family and other relatives. The currency of Indonesia is 1 MYR for 2700 Rp. We became millionaires at there! The destinations were selected by ourselves although we had a tour guide. Sounds fun, huh? Yup, it really was fun. Most of the destinations were temples, temples and temples. My mom said that we were there not to just enjoy the fun, but to experience their primitive lifestyle and culture. It cannot be considered as primitive, but not too modern too. So it called modern-itive. Haha.


We stayed at a resort called Harris Kuta Resort, a 4-star rated hotel.  It was opposite the beach, so we could go there and enjoy the sea breeze. Well, we also saw a lot of tourists from Europe and America.  They went to Bali for 2 reasons, or maybe 3.The reasons are:

1. Sunbathing (very common, the whole beach is filled with tons of them)
2. Surfing (common, at the airport a lot of them carry a big surfboard around, even larger than their luggage)
3. Investment (uncommon, we don't see them talking the deal but most of the pubs and restaurants are invested by them)

About the populations and the religions, you will definitely be surprised. Although we know that Indonesia is a Islam-based country, most of the people at Bali are Malays that are Hindu in religions. 87% of the people on Bali are Hindu, cool huh? Islam only covers less than 5 % of the populatipn at Bali. So, when you go to Mcdonalds, trying to order a Big Mac, you won't be able to order any. Oppositely, you will see that the menu contains Pork Burger. Woah, Bali rocks!


Let's finally start the tour: starting from the airport at Bali. The airport was called Denpasar Ngurah Rai International Airport. It's named after a brave Hindu warrior in the picture below.

He looks smart, doesn't he?

My family arrived at Bali 1 day earlier than my relatives. So we got to explore more of Bali. Well, nothing special was on the first day, just that we arrived there and had Mcdonald as dinner. Their convinience marts are not called as 7-11 or Guardian or Watson, but known as M Mart and Circle K. There was only 2 bottles of 500ml mineral water supplied by the hotel so we had to buy our own mineral water. And guess what? A mineral water costs 4000~6000 Rp per bottle (1500ml), and buying a dozen of mineral waters costed approximately 60,000 Rp.

Ok, going to Penang now. Will update rest of the tour soon. TTFN.

Going To Bali

It's December now, and quite many students are attending tuitions classes everyday. Well, while others are tuitioning, my father saved me from the wrath of tuition by bringing our whole family to Bali, Indonesia~~ lol. Now, I'm still at Singapore, waiting for the next plane which heads to Bali.

How do I feel of my trip? Well, we were going to take the Singapore Airlines from Penang to go to Singapore, but it turned out to be Silk Air instead, making me feel so "zzz". The economic breakdown must have caused it to become like this... but never mind, the next plane to Bali will have interactive touch-screen games and entertainment. So, I think it's gonna be fun. ^^

I think this is gonna be a short post, so I'll try to put up some pictures. TTFN.

Back From Genting

Well, I went to Genting for the 21th Century International Arts Competition with JSPO for Music Band Competition. We went in two teams: Team A and Team B. I was in Team B with most of the Form 1 and Form 2. We set out on 23 of November on 7.00am in 3 buses. I was in Bus B...

There were a lot of interesting matters that we faced when we went to Genting(the venue where competition was held). But there was one which was too devastating.  One of the buses met an ACCIDENT. Their bus was going up the hill and then their bus's engine suddenly faced problems. The driver tried to pull the handbrake, then the handbrake broke and then the bas went down like CRAZY. The wise driver(considered by our teacher) immediately made the bus turn to the side and the whole big balooka fell into the drain. Netherless, no one was wounded seriously. Only a few students had minor injuries.

By that time, our bus had already arrived at Genting. We were waiting for the other buses. One was involved in an accident and the other had a flat tire. An unlucky day.  The students that were involved in the accident received help from the poilce and a lorry that came to pick them all up to Genting International Convention Centre aka GICC. The sky was raining at that time. A coincidence or ...? They reached GICC later around 5 o' clock. I wanted to put up a picture of the bus but I don't have it... sorry.

Now, want to know the funn things that happened in the bus?? One of my seniors, FM(I won't disclose the full name) immediately took out his pphone and recorded the whole situation. He kept asking the others "Do you have any comments regarding this accident" , "Any opinions on how this accident happened" and etc. The driver's door was stuck while  in the accident and no one could get out. He even helped to pick the poker cards and UNO cards that scattered on the floor. The emergency exit? Don't even mention about it! The door handle of the emergency door broke when being tried to open by the victims in the bus. SO, how did they get out?

A trespassing bus and car saw this and came to give some help. They pound open the drivver's door which was stuck and let all the students come out slowly. Then, we assembled at the lobby. So the matters regarding the accident... I think it's over. Hey, wait a second! We were also on the news~~~ Duh, the reporter said in a dull and sleepy interesting accent that" Breaking news Here are news regarding Genting Highlands. A Jit Sin Philharmonic Orchestra Bus that went towards Genting for a band competition has met an accident. 38 students and 2 teachers were stuck in there but are evacuated safely." Everyone instantly was being watched by millions of audiences with their video that was captured by the news reporter that went there.

Now for the results... Team A got 76%, a silver award while Team B got 70%, also a silvrer award. Yay~~ But a music band from Thailand achieved an astounding score--87%, GOLD WITH DISTINCTION. OMG. They're very pro as they also performed for the closing ceremony + achieved OVERALL CHAMPION FOR BAND CATEGORY. On the other hand, our school's JSCO got OVERALL CHAMPION FOR CHINESE ORCHESTRA CATEGORY. They were overjoyed and thrilled with their achievenment. They sang the Jit Sin school song after receiving the prize. So touching... There was also a dance competition and the OVERALL CHAMPION FOR DANCING CATEGORY was Nutscrew from Singapore. A dance group that dances "machine dance"

So, glad with the results? Of course. So I'll be signing out from here. Any questions regarding the 21th Century International Arts Competition or the accident that you wish to ask, you can ask me via MSN. Ok, this is my best post + TTFN.

Simple Post

Well... today is another lovely day because... we don't need to go to school, HAHAHA. Actually, it's not funny, duh. But, most JSPO and JSCO students(including me) need to go to school for practice~~ It's for the "21th Century International Music Festival" competiton's practice. There's another 2 more practices for me on Thursday and Friday-5.30pm~9.00pm. I'm almost gonna like, spit blood outta my mouth. Demon-like trainings, but quite fun.

Ok, tomorrow 18/11/2009 is gonna be the SPM exam. Woah man it's not gonna be as easy as PMR any more... especially the P.Moral. Oh ya, anyone going to Genting Highlands on 23~26 November? JSPO and JSCO are there, performing the dazzling and stunning musical performances... I heard that it was entrance-free and everyone from the world is gonna be there and surely will be a blast!

Yesterday, the student modal results came out and the male was Wei Lun while the female was Zhi Ning.I felt that Wei Lun quite deserved to be elected ,though. Everyone kept asking me whether I was feeling disappointed or sad and I just said no. Well, to tell the truth there's 10% sad only because I've already expected the results... LOL. And it seemed to be a strange day for Jia Win because first Zi Xin did not get elected, next he lost his debate and finally, he was the BEST DEBATER. Kinda mixed up, huh?

Oh well, gotta get going. TTFN.

Special Thursday

Today, JSHS Form 2 students went to school to take each's report card. Well, I also got there and received mine. My class, 2A3 was at DK 1 with A1 and A2. It was awfully squeezy when it started. I waited for quite a long time until my mother came and got the number 19. The teacher talked with my mother and said I was quite good and bla bla bla. Then she referred tomy Form 1 results and found out that the form results were the same. Lol.

Then I went home and looked at the calender... Friday+ Monday + Wednesday + Thursday + Friday=5 days. So, we 2A3 have only merely 5 days left... And most importantly, when we go to other classes, we MUST still keep in touch~~ I'll try to get all the class e-mail from Hui Wen and add everyone.^^

Besides that, 09/11/09 was the 20th anniversary for the collapsing of the Berlin Wall... We can see that all of the Germanians were very happy and joyful. Happy Berlin-Wall-Collapse anniversary~~ TTFN