gimme a confidence boost, anybody?

hello sweets!

its 10 minutes to 2am, and i’m awake blogging (instead of anything else more productive).

actually its because i’m waiting for my hair to dry before i could sleep. so its also a good reason to stay awake, but for the wrong reasons as well. -_- okay i know i’m confusing.

today. i learnt about a lot of things.

its only today, that i realised, how little confidence i have, as a girl.

plenty of good opportunities, i missed. in the past years.

as i was thinking about all these.. i thought of the song 那些年。。

那些年 错过的大雨。。

but well life goes on. it doesn’t matter already by now.

what that matters, IS THE FUTURE.

i’m looking forward. :’)

anyhows, just around a month ago, like a week before CNY, i had a really bad eye allergy attack! and my eyes were blood-shot RED.

this photo couldn't exactly capture the redness of my eye, but you get the idea. it was so painful i was tearing for hours! T___T

and so. 2012′s CNY broke my record, at least in the recent years. i spent CNY with my spectacles instead of contact lens because the eye specialist said no! :(

my family and i went to China for a 5D4N tour for CNY. the first trip that i probably took less than 10 photos?!? i’m quite certain of that. because i think i look too hideous. T___T

& i spent my CNY holidays being a speckyz. took this at the airport :O i love my shoe!

teehee sorry i haven’t sorted out my photos from china. but in fact i didn’t take much photos too. but you will see the photos when i’m more free. (school is killing me now!)

welll…i got bored while waiting for my hair to be dried. so.. here goes. MY SPECKY FACE rawhhhhhh. heheh photobooth love! will love it more when i can be more vain! lol. i’m still not allowed to wear contact lenses. at least for another two months. hoping for good news from the specialist after that! :’)))

hellooooo from me :)

*waves*

lolol. photobooth love!

 

okay enough of crap. :O

goodnight people! my hair is half dry now. HALF WAY TO GO :D

Chingay 2011 – The JB thing!

Chingay in JB, is on the 21st of the Lunar New Year, according to the Lunar Calendar. Its like the chingay in S’pore, except that its more religion-based; and in chinese its called ‘you shen’. It means that we bring the Gods around town for a ‘tour’, to bless the whole JB town!

Its a family thing, for my family and I! Every year we’d go and join Chingay and walk the whole town :))). (I missed Chingay last year due to my school’s annual dinner and dance!)

Before you curse and swear at my ugly and blurry photos, I declare first. My camera is lousy and/or I’m a lousy camera person. >: 90% (I bet) of my photos are all blur!!!! :< :<

And I detest all the super heavy duty spot lights!!! They prevent me from taking photos!

 

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Home! Before setting off. ;)

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The first ‘rabbit’ I saw! HEHEE. If you forgot, its the Rabbit year! :D

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I know this is terribly blur.. But you know what I’m trying to show right! Interesting..

 

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This too.

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Lol, pirated Bugs bunny. Pink colour one.

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Ba xian guo hai~

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Blurrrrrrrr.

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Only stationary things are clear. And actually nothing that I took in the photos are stationary! Even if they’re individually, the lorries carrying them move!! =.=

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yay niceeeeeeeee!

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hmmm.

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All sorts of decorations on the floats!

 

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Cute qi lins! Its another type of ‘lion’ dance.

 

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Because of the rabbit year, they also have rabbit girls dancing lol!

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A very nice ribbon made dragon! Loook closely! Those materials used to wrap hampers..

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Another one with the dragon head towards me but urgh, partially blocked.

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This is a humongous(!!) flag. I guess you can imagine how big it is? Look at the humans below.

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Lanterns!

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Just a rabbit statue.

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Quard-shaw? (Derived from Trishaw)

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‘Lions’..

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3 lions

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The side of one of the float! I think alot of $$ and effort are spent doing up such enormous stuffs..

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this is how some of my photos turn out. fail!

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cute!

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Balloon themed!

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Balloon dragon!! Cool right? :D I think its the first year they did this. Each and every year different associations innovate and create ‘new’ interesting concepts! ;) I’m impressed every year!

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Da tou wa wa!

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One of the 5 gods! :))

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Another dragon! They were resting before the whole procession started.

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This is my favourite dragon!!!! Its very fluffffy! :D

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See the fluffy-ness!! <3 Reminds me of despicable me. lol!

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One more!!

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Okay last one. I took many shots of this (Coz I love it!) but none of the shots are nice. =/

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Lionsss~

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Lol, you’re not seeing things, he’s holding a Carlsberg.

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Performing stunts!

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A lil boy hitting on the drum! ^^

 

I’ve got more photos to go. Update another time! :DDD~

Hope you enjoy looking at the photos!

CNY Getaway: Bali Day 4

What’s after day 3? Day 4 of course. And day 4 was back-to-reality day! :(

So its bye bye Hard Rock hotel, bye bye Bali. If there’s fate, I’ll see you again in xx years!

 

Some nice things around/in Hard Rock Hotel!

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Their door.. thingy. I can’t remember what is it call naooo! Pretty interesting uh! haha.

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yeahyeah, please make up my room!

 

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Hard Rock Hotel, Bali

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Pretty window panes! Along the staircases.

 

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One more!

 

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G and I! I look squashed and fat ._. because I was too near to the cam! Restricted distance by the landyard with my camera!

 

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Mirror shots are awesome! ;)

 

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Bored while waiting for our bus to pick us up to the airport..

 

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Brother acting suave!

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Bored after acting.

 

Waited a tad too long! So we took a seat inside the bar (not operational though, too early!) while waiting!

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Love these reflective shots!! Shows how smooth and nice the table surfaces are ;P

 

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So we camwhored.

 

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bleah

 

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HEHEH.

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*stares* while she ignores me. hahh.

 

fast forward.. There we are, are the airport! :( The hotel’s really near to the airport! <30 minutes! Queued for freaking long to check in luggage.. before we could finally go into the departure hall..

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Momsie and I! <3

 

Two consecutive flights; Bali to KL. KL to JB. and its Home Sweet Home!

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So.. byeee once again, Bali!

CNY getaway: Bali Day 3!

Hey guys!!

Apologies for the lack of updates! I was real busy last week; busy collecting/collating/delivering candies! But it was worth it!

Anyways! Bali Day 3 as promised! :D

I’d upload more photos next time! Because some of the nice photos are with my brother! :<

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Guess what. I tried to ‘surf’ in the hotel lobby!! Inspired to do this pose because I saw 2 little kids (Prolly 4-5 years old) doing the exact same pose and their daddy took a photo for them! (‘Cept that they were standing and I’m squatting!) I thought it was pretty CUTE! :P

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The queen & king of my life! <3

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Hard Rock Hotel Bali! They decorated the guitar with those chinese crackers. SO WEIRD! D:

 

Anyway!! We went to this beach on that day. And offshore to another little Turtle island!

It was a relatively okay beach, with all those sea activities like banana boat, scuba-diving, etc! But very commercialized I’d say..

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So we were on board this boat, to the Turtle Island!!

 

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Its a glass bottom boat, so in the middle of the boat, there’s actually glass panels so we can see thru the fishes under the sea! Bad photos I took, you can barely see much :( All you can really see is two zebra fishes towards the right of the photo.

 

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The sea! As much as I love beaches/seas, I hate the saltish water! It tangles up my hair and makes it ultra sticky! :<

 

& Here we are at the Turtle Island!!

 

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Momsie and I carrying the turtle together! Its pretty heavy! 2-3kgs at least! So cute but I was still afraid of it!

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This is how big they actually are!

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I turned back my head following our ‘tour guide’ and went like WHAT?! ‘BIG TURTLE HERE’? haha.

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The turtles here are seriously huge!! You can sit on it and get a ferry somewhere.. Like in cartoons! haha! Anyway the oldest turtle over there was like 120 years old!! Super huge!

 

I thought there were only turtles… but..

 

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This is my cute and nice tour guide!!! haha. Komodo dragons (?). Or are they Iguanas? I’m terrified. I gave carrying it a miss.

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It looks pretty threatening.

 

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Snake. Zomg. I’ was afraid as well. Nono reptiles for me! :<

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Birds.. hmm. I wonder what species is this? I took a photo with them!! Though I was mad terrified!.____. But its with brother!

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BATS! They’re really scary.

 

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Eagleeeeeeeeeeeeeee~

 

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I actually have an eagle on my shoulder!! I look so happy right. But inside my heart, i’m actually mad worried it’d give me a peck. :/

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Wah the oil on my face like free flow one! SO OILYYYYYYY.

 

Next we went for lunch somewhere.. and opposite our lunch’s place, its this pretty lake!

 

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Lil bro (not very lil right.), Momsie, Dadsie, and ME! :D

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With Auntie, G and Brother!

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Some rambutan looking fruit..

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I forgot whats this. Probably just a nice lake..

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G and I! Big bully!

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Wakakak.\m/!

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HAHA, duckies for people to cycle around the lake!

 

Left the place! Next destination – a temple build just beside the sea! When its high tide, its actually pretty troublesome to get into the temple.. But when we went, it was low tide..

 

A tourist hot spot.. Thus you see the massive amount of shops along the way..

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I mean really massive. Probably 600 over stalls, if I’m not mistaken!

 

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Gateway to the temple.

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Group photo again! <3

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Bro with his weird face again. Lil one behind!

 

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My one and only personal photo with bro!!! :<

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We made a small donation, washed our face/hands with some ‘Holy water’ and yay we’re blessed! HAHAHA! Everyone got a flower :D

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This lil kid was trying to sell us some clips!

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This fruit!! Saw it there. and When I came back, saw it in my lecture notes! :D

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G and I trying on our tee back in the hotel! :D

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Happy girls we’re! :D

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<3 Bali~

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HEHEHEHE!

 

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Shall end off with a picture taken in the morning!! Face not so oily! :P

 

On the overall, I love my day 3 the most! HAHA! I loved the photos I took with the animals!! :)

CNY getaway: Bali Day 2!

Our day started pretty early! Left the hotel at 8.30ish. Headed immediately to this little village (I think!?) for a local cultural and folk performance. It costed 80,000 Rupiahs, and I spent more than half the time sleeping inside. *SLAPS SELF!!!!*

Anyway its their Barong and Kris dance, if i didn’t remember wrongly.

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This is the ‘Barong’. Its like our chinese lion dance that lion!? Just a myth animal I guess. Really bad exposure behind because it was really bright; This is the best I can deliver!

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Then some dance.. and after this, I’m clueless to whatever happened. Its an hour of performance by the way.. I woke up after the whole thing!

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Camwhoring on the bus!

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As usual, my brother ignored me!!!! ._.

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This is a Volcano!! Apparently it is still active. Kintamani VOLCANO, I think? Zomg my memory is terrible. Its only been a few days. I think its 1000++m above sea level.. Thus the fog and all.

This volcano last erupted in 1994. You can’t really see it in this photo, but when I saw it, areas below the volcano were black! All the magma(?) of the volcano eruption.

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Momsie Love and I :D Messy hair of hers!

 

& Then off we go.. to a coffee plantation.

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It was a pretty mini one. But quite nicely structured.

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They plant all sorts of shrubs/herbs along the way. I saw many different ones, just didn’t see coffee. HAHA!

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Cocoa beans?

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It was drizzling!!!

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So sweeet right! hehe.

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The brothers. The one and only photo I took of the both of them.

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Me and some tree!! By the way, its the FIRST day of CNY! Thus my red red dress! HEHE.

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Someone was there roasting coffee beans..

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Guess whats this? I have no idea what is it called in English.. They call it Luwak there. Read the next photo for more info!

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Apparently its the most expensive coffee ever! They have it there, and a mini cup, like those shots cup, costs 50,000 Rupiahs!!

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Seee his very unwilling and reluctant face. TSK!!!

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Where will it lead me to?

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Look at all my wrinkles…….. =/

 

Left the plantation.. went to see something.

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Can you make out what is it?? Its a rice terrace plantation! I think its beautiful!!!! If you see it with your own eyes, its even better!

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Daddy and Momsie love! They are the king & queen of my life! ;))

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Momsie and me with the rice terrace.

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The kids! Okay obviously the photo is in another camera. Need to get it from brother.

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G and I!

Blahhh.. next up!

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Its a BEACH!!! :D Actually its a humongous beach resort. And we went there for a purpose.

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Guess? Bali-nese massage!! :) We had a Balinese massage, scrub and flower bathe combo! Relaxing ttm!

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This is the exterior of the room.

 

Dinner was next. It was a late late dinner! Poor thing daddy and lil brother had to wait for us for 2 hours because they didn’t want the massage.

Anyway. Dinner was romantic! :P

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Daddy and lil Bro!

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Momsie and me again!

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All of us! Dinner was just beside the sea, on the beach!! Explains my grossly stuck fringe in the previous photo. Hate the sea-wind. So salty it makes my hair tangle and sticky.

 

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Coke & Sprite!

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Seafood dinner!!! :D All the food were BBQ-ed, except the calamari. AND it was the bomb. LOVEEEEE calamaris MAX!

It was a long day.. Dinner ended around 10, when it started to rain!! So we left the place soon after.

But there’s always space for desserts…

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Haagen-Dazs!

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Om nomnomnomzxzx.

Walked back to the hotel after which!

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Thats momsie and me, again, but the picture is terrible. HAHA! Forget about seeing our chui face anyway.

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Hard Rock Hotel Bali! <3 Bad photo I know.

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Thought we could use the voucher we had for a welcome drink.. So we went to the cafe downstairs. Life band was quite cool.

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Saw them disturbing one of their colleagues.. haha.

 

That marks the end for day 2!!

I love Day 3. Seriouslyyyyyyyyy!!!!!! Wait for it! :D