2010 Year Ender

2010 is coming to an end. I went through my photo folders to refresh what I have captured on the camera.

Chinese New Year 2010 at home. Chinese New Year 2011 is coming again soon, 3 and 4th February 2011. Time really flies.

I am glad to meet lovely, energetic and encouraging friends from SCMC.

Celebrated my 23rd birthday at IOI mall. Thanks to my friends who have organised and celebrated with me :)

Joined UPM's photoshoot session. Only one or two photos taken but I enjoyed the experience. This reminded me of how Jia Yiing and I rushed from the equestrian park to SCMC for a party. Could not remember what party, but we asked for fork and spoon from Chinese Vegetarian Stall Uncle to bring to the night gathering.

Ice-skated twice in Sunway Pyramid during my 2 years study in UPM.

After 2 years, I am back to Ka En Chinese Methodist Church where there are more juniors who are going to church now. Praise the Lord! I am glad to be able to drive the church van again, at least I can help in a way, but not playing piano. It was disastrous. Luckily Annie Lau was there to help me :P

First time Hari Terbuka Asrama. I thought we can visit everyone's hostel. hahaha

My first Punjabi suit for Moe's brother's wedding which lead to buying MORE punjabi suits in Little India, Singapore.

Celebrated Ed and Sean's birthday.

and Jia Yiing's birthday in Melaka. Could not find the photo, but thinking back, it was memorable. My first time planning a bday surprise and I was so 'kinteo'. Hid in the bathroom with others and screamed loudly when she entered the room. hehehehhehe =P

Finally Karaoke-ed again

Met up with girl friends in Singapore!

Overnight at Changi Airport with Diana Lo, Jia Yiing and Faisal!

Visited Singapore Zoo with Jia Yiing, Amir and Ed. Interesting and impressive animal shows. Really worth the Singapore dollars we paid. haha

Bali! tried parasailing and jet ski!

Those are among the wonderful memories I had, that I could find in photos. I thank God for His providence for me. There are ups and downs, but I want to remember the happy ones. Choices are made - right and wrong ones, but life has to go on. I am seldom enthusiastic, so I am forcing myself to be enthusiastic for 2011! WHeee~

I hope that everyone have had a wonderful and fruitful year :)

Bali Day 3 Ubud-Kintamani

photo taken at a monument (i can't remember its name)

'banjur'

All along the road you can see this 'banjur' being put up outside houses or buildings. It is in time with the Galungan and Kuningan Festival.

The Galungan festival, Bali's major feast, is held throughout the island and is an annual event in the wuku year. During this ten day period all the gods, including the supreme deity Sanghyang Widi, come down to earth for the festivities. Barongs prance from temple to temple and village to village. The last and most important day of the ten day festival is called Kuningan. (www.bali-paradise.com)

In the morning, we went to visit Batik factory, Gold and silver factory and the art gallery. Very impressive.

at the Batik Factory. Their products are sold in US dollars. Freaking expensive after conversion.

Arowana made from silver. (Ed, don't need to rear, everyday can see on the wall.

haha. just kidding)

Lunch at Bebek Tepi Sawah

The duck looks very skinny ya?

Mount Batur, an active valcano on Bali. Due to cloudy weather, we could not see the volcano clearly. The weather there was cold!

Tried spa for the very first time! felt really refreshed after the 2 hours massage and flower bath.

Babi Guling for dinner. Budi the tour guide recommended this instead of Ibu Oka Babi Guling which most tourist go for in Bali.

After the tour ended, we walked towards Kuta Beach and Hard Rock Hotel and Hard Rock Cafe was nearby. I want that shirt! but it cost RM90. So I ended up talking photo with the t shirt only. haha!

Bali Day 2

Weather was great for water sports, so we headed to Nusa Dua!

Took a boat ride to Turtle Island - a turtle conservation area. Turtle eggs are hatched there. Turtles are taken care of until a certain age and they will be released to the sea. The turtle I took photo with is about 60 years old.

Tried parasailing and jet ski for the first time! It was awesome! Scary at first when I looked down, but after that I enjoyed the ride when I looked at the surrounding (instead of worrying about falling off the parachute). It ended so fast that I did not want to come down.

Budi brought us for lunch. Reasonable price, delicious food, fast service :)

Padang-padang beach

After that we visited two more beaches - Dreamland beach and Padang-padang beach. Padang-padang beach was the location of one of the scenes in Eat.Pray.Love. Even Budi was shocked to see the crowd at the beach. It was a small and crowded beach. He showed us a photo he took a few months ago where there were not many people there. I guess after the movie, many would want to visit this beach.

Next up was Uluwatu Temple, where there are many monkeys that grab people's belonging. Even my camera was almost snatched if the tour guide did not fasten it tightly on his wrist.

mischievous look

We ended the day with dinner at Jimbaran Bay :) It was supposed to be by the beach, but it rained not long after we sat down by the beach. So we sat indoors after that. =P

Bali Day 1

MH is indeed Malaysian Hospitality! MAS has always made me happy whenever I am on their flight. WHy? because I get to order as many glass of juice that I want and I get to eat on board! Yay! Compared to Air Asia, I will sleep throughout the flight hoping not to smell the food others are eating. haha!We board on MH 853 bound to Depensar, Bali. The flight was slightly delayed and we reached Ngurah Rai International Airport at 7pm, 30 mins delay. Luckily Mr Budi, our tour guide was still waiting for us, holding up a sign 'Ms Yvonne Ling'. Actually I was quite worried because I did not know how Mr Budi looked like, but who knows he already know how I look like, thanks to Facebook. I did not know that was him, so I did not respond to his friend request.

Anyways, he drove us to the hotel, Kuta Beach Club and we discussed our plans for the following 4 days. After discussion, Budi dropped us outside Discovery Mall as we wanted to see nearby places.

Their taxis are Toyota Vios

The roads are more narrow, compared to roads in Malaysia and horses with carriage travel on the same road too! As we stayed in Kuta, the traffic is heavy, with road constructions here and there. Drivers honk all the time, indicating that they are approaching, so beware!

So the first night was free for us to walk and have a good night rest!

3rd Wisdom Tooth Extraction

I went for my third wisdom tooth extraction. This time the gum has to be cut open, before sawing the tooth and taking the tooth out. The nurses were arranging the tools needed when I took that photo and waited for half of my jaw to be numb. Thank God for anesthetic, for I did not feel the pain when they work on my tooth (i felt the pain 3 hours later).

This is the 4th day and left jaw is still a bit swollen. This 4 days, I have thinking about food all day long, all the food that I could not bite. Nevertheless, I enjoyed eating porridge from different stalls. I drank Ensure Milk too as meal replacement , very nice taste for milk, it's vanilla flovoured. I ate Spaghetti Carbonara today, but had to cut the pasta into small tiny chunks before putting them into my mouth.

The thread will be removed tomorrow and I look forward to eating normally. Weeee~

Long distance relationship

today I heard a story from mix.fm. They were talking about how much a guy is willing do for a long distance relationship. A caller called in and told his story.

"My girlfriend is in Australia and I am in KL because I had to take care of my parents. I fly over to Australia twice a year to visit. There is this one time I planned a surprise visit to Australia. I told her that I could no go over but I went. I reached the her house in Australia, rang the door bell and a guy answered the door. I looked in and saw that they were having dinner. My girlfriend looked shocked that I appeared. I asked "who is he?" and she answer that he's a colleague. Judging from the dinner, it looked more than a friendly dinner. I left and headed straight to the airport and we never talked since that day."

The radio DJ took the initiative to call his girlfriend who was in Australia. I was like" what you guys are seriously calling her?"

THe girl picked up and explained that the guy was just a friend who has helped her a lot during her stay in Australia and it was a thank you dinner. She has tried calling him after he left but the guy said that his phone never rang all these while. The guy said "It's over, we don't have to talk about this anymore and this is the last time we're talking" and hung up the phone.

Tet. I guess the radio Dj and the girl including myself were stunned. Of course they quickly played a song after that.

(the story is not in the exact words, those are what are remembered)

The story is still lingering in my mind.

I really admire those who has survived long distance relationship and is still surviving and making it work.

December

It's already December. The year is coming to an end soon. During holiday, time seem to fly, during school days, time seem to pass real slow as I look forward to holidays. One more month left before classes start again.