Monday, July 06, 2009

staying in bali - budget?

This website offers good advice on staying in bali:

According to the website, you can get a homestay or cottage to stay in for RP50,000 to Rp 150,000. Wow, that's equivalent to about $22SGD per night and if you share with your friends, it cld be cheaper per head compare to staying at a hostel where you have to share bathroom with everybody.

http://home.mira.net/~wreid/bali_p2a.html

Monday, June 29, 2009

Bali ... The first step


Ok folks, it's been a long time since I posted anything on this webby :)
I have just booked on impulse flight to Bali - air asia's cheap flights were simply too irresistable XD

Coming up on my list of to-dos:


1. Check out the hotels need to stay in Bali, KL.

http://malaysiabudgethotel.com/accommodation/kuala-lumpur-hostels.html
(Just 1 of the websites to check out the budget hotel).


2. Research on the activities and places to go in Bali, KL (Iterinary)


Note*: need to leave KL by 4pm+ to beat the traffic jam.
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No. of Day/Night spent in each country:



















Country\DayNightDayNight
Bali55(8th oct night to 13th oct day)
KL11(13th oct night to 14th oct day)


Flight DateTime:




















8th OCT1610 (SIN)1700 (KUL)
1920 (KUL)2225 (DPS)
13th OCT 1600 (DPS)1855 (KUL)
14th OCT 1950 (KUL)2050 (SIN)

Costs of flights per person (incl. of airport tax):
















BALI - KL$275MYR =$114 SGD
KL - SIN$40 SGD
TOTAL $154 SGD

Monday, July 02, 2007

My Fav Anime/Manga

The list of anime/manga I'm watching at the moment:

Claymore
Darker Than Black
Nodame Cantabile
Devil May Cry
Lovely Complex
Bleach
Naruto

the rest, are not worth mentioning.

For laughs, watch Nodame Cantabile or Lovely Complex. THey are hilarious.
Nodame Cantabile revolves around Chiaki, a conductor wannabe and Nodame, a dirty, messy piano student.
I'm still amazed that a manga artist can think up of a storyline that can make classical music so cool and hip. Banzai!

As for Lovely Complex, it revolves around 2 high sch students, a tall giraffe and a midget. Now happen the giraffe fell in love with the midget and oh, it touches my heart so to see the giraffe tries so hard to win the midget.
Wish I can be as brave as her. I sympathize with her.

Nevertheless, I am waiting for my collection of Nodame Cantabile and xxxHolic from Japan XD
Frankly, I don't mind buying them in japanese and slowly re-reading and translating them on my own. Esp xxxHolic manga. They are beautiful.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Are you hangry?

Some interesting words I found:

thirdhand smoke: Used to refer to residual tobacco smoke contamination that lingers after a cigarette is extinguished.

Now you know those bloody idiots produce firsthand smoke, secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke.

hangry: describes a person suffering from hunger-induced crankiness.

read more at From A To Zimmer

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Mosquitoes

How many of you love mosquitoes sucking your blood? Seldom are people immune to their saliva eh? (My cousin is one such lucky fella)

I bet most of you have itchy red swollen mosquito bites all over your body and are dying to kill em.

Have you ever wonder whether we are hastening evolution on the mosquitoes? We weed out the mosquitoes, try our best to kill it, spray them with insecticide, and still, there are millions of them. I'm very sure we are breeding a highly adapting mosquito species soon since

1. we are too tired to kill the mosquitoes deep in our sleep.
2. we can't detect those silent killers.
3. it is very hard to kill fast moving mosquitoes.

And end up we're breeding, silent, fast assassins that attack you in the night -_-

My first Foccacia bread

I have a breadmaker at home which was collecting dust.
Impromptu decision led me to bake last night after work.

I had bought Prima's foccacia bread mix (costs $2.81 and it includes all the dried herbs everything) and I must say it tastes good enough.

All I need, to make a loaf of bread is the mix, water and olive oil.
Dump all the ingredients into the breadmaker, and wah la! you are done with your part.

Actually, when I poured the ingredients into it, I was tempted to stir and mix it myself - i did that a bit and decided to let the machine do it. I miss the fun of rolling out the dough and beating it.

I'm sure lotsa women might find it fun to destress ;)

Normally, a breadmaker comes with different settings catered for cakes, different kinds of bread even making jam!

The manual recommended to use either Basic or Quick settings and greedy impatient me, decided to go for the quick setting. UNFORTUNATELY, it is not enough -_-. Should have set it to basics.

What's the difference? Basic will take you 3 hours to knead the dough and bake it.
Quick will take you just 2hr 20mins which is NOT ENOUGH.

When the bread came out, it did smelt good and I meant really good, but when I open up the bread, some parts of the bread weren't so cooked - was still kinda damp dough you know what i mean? Fortunately, that was a little bit of it.

Due to my greediness, the bread was cut and devoured before I have the sense to snap a picture of it :p

Oh ya, by the time it was ready, it was around 1030pm and it tastes good with thick creamy English soup yum!

I think that going through the whole process of baking is fun. Nevertheless, if you are hardup for time, wanting to eat fresh bread every morning, then a breadmaker is just for you. I should add that you can set a delay time so when you wake up, your bread's just ready.

It'll not be the first time I baked again - I'll be back with the pictures the next time!

Cheerios

ps: One big flaw - the breadmaker's program sucks. You can't just skip the knead process and go straight to the baking process. So can't continue to bake. My suggestion? Use the toaster oven.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

An Idea of the Tour Packages

Tour packages

The Off-Whistle Tours

Timetable for The Ghan

Monday, June 18, 2007

Food For Thought

Coming up this Sunday:

Starter:
Miso soup: Miso soup paste
Green Seaweed
Beancurd

Main Course:
Japanese Curry Rice
Chicken cutlet
Veggie patty
Scotch Eggs

Jap Curry Rice: Carrots
Taters
Onions
Curry sauce

Chicken cutlet: Flour (Normally coat prawns)
Chicken breast

Scotch Eggs: Breadcrumbs
Eggs
Minced pork meat

Veggie patty: Beancurd
Mixed veggie (corns, peas, carrots diced)
Look around for more beanies to add

Dessert:
Oranges
Mint leaves
Chocolates
Ice Cream (Optional)

Pictures will be posted if deemed to be aesthetically pleasing and delicious.
 

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