Tanah Lot Sunset
The highlight of the first day with Dewa Marco, a driver I’ve decided to coin as “The Best Driver in Bali”, was our sunset visit to Tanah Lot. This temple sits on a rock formation and is set some distance
Category: Traveling
The Place
The flight was pretty pleasant and smooth, and we arrived at Tepi Sawah Villa at 5 pm on Saturday afternoon after weaving in and out of Bali traffic for nearly an hour. Our suite, Pedang Villa, pales a little in
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
I started creating the Excel spreadsheet for my packing list to Bali several months ago. Yep, it’s still that Excel spreadsheet fetish I’ve got. Funnily, that fetish has rubbed off on Ling too. These days whenever she makes an overseas
It was CGed…?!
The two of us have been watching more TV in the last couple of evenings than the whole of a typical month put together. Yep you’ve guessed it; it’s been the Beijing Olympics and just prior to that, we both
Bye Bye KM5D
The first digital camera I owned was a Canon S10, a compact camera I picked up in 1999 at a crazily expensive cost of $1.5K (ouch). That was followed by a better prouser digicam, the Minolta DiMAGE 7 in 2002
Animal rituals
If this following entry offends, I apologize. It’s really intended to be a humorous take on the sort of things we’ve only up till this point seen on animal documentaries. Specifically, and depending on your point of view, the both
Data retrieval
A student was chatting with me last Tuesday afternoon about DSLRs. Basically, he was interested in getting into digital photography, and was asking my opinion on a Nikon D60 setup. We got into quite a discussion, and one issue I
Driving and diving
After working out the travel and accommodation details, the third step of the process involves figuring out what to do. Usually Ling’s the person who plans the itinerary on our vacations including our most recent trip to Phuket, but I
Beach, night spots or rice fields
Here’s a continuing post from the last entry on flying to Bali.:) Ling was musing out loud yesterday evening while on our way home why is it that Asians are happy with 3D2N stays when the Europeans come to Asia
"I don't wanna die on an Indonesian airplane…!"
Or so Ling went the other week. OK, what’s this about? We started making plans for our second short vacation while at Ayara Hilltops, and narrowed the list of possible places down to a select few. It was going to
Here's a little nugget… :D
Guess what, Yang agreed to go for a head, shoulder & back massage with me on the Phuket trip!! Ha ha, didn’t he and Matt say that massages and spa are just not their thing? Well, our suite at Ayara
My man does make adjustment for me :p
There are many horror stories told about how marriage is so very different from courtship. To many women, romance is one thing which often fades off when one enters into marriage. Money is another thing. For example, there are loans
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