Off to Bali! Day 1

Finally get to go Bali after a whole year worth of work! :)

Since we were trying to be as economical as possible, we decided to take a budget airline-jetstar asia which cost the two of us $368 however the flight timing leaves little to be desired but what the heck!it is half the price of SQ at the time when we booked

Flight details:

Departing
Monday 14 Dec 09    JQ117
1825hr at Changi Airport Terminal 1

Arriving
Monday 14 Dec 09    
2115 hr at Denpasar Bali -Ngurah Rai Airport

The trip was only 2 hours plus and there was no time difference for singapore and bali!
The villa that we book was at Uma Sapna located in Semiyak, Bali. The more relaxed area of Bali (compared to Kuta)

At the departure area before flying off

When we reached, the room was well decorated with flower petals..however for the practical me, I thought it was such a waste cos we had to spend time clearing away the rose petals before sleeping and on top of that, there were stains caused by the rose petals on the bedsheets...

The one with the bedroom lights on

The soft lights on (probably without flash too)

More importantly for us, was to fill our hungry stomach because of the time of our flight we were a little hungry when we got there. Our nice driver dropped us off somewhere before reaching our villa for us to buy our nasi padang.

I ordered an egg, some rendang beef and fried chicken. It cost us 22,000 rupiah.(about $3) since the exchange rate was about S$1 to 6300 rupiah when we changed at the airport.

The chilli was really very spicy!

And that ends our first day in Bali!

Our ROM photos (11 Dec 2009)

Vanilla Pod @ Mandai Road

Heh a long awaited post :) had dinner at vanilla pod before proceeding to the night safari for halloween on 31 october (almost 2 months ago!)

Luckily we have pictures to remind us of the happenings on that day

The food has arrived!

Before leaving vanilla pod to Night Safari

Afterwhich we proceed to the Night Safari! My goodness, the queue to enter was horrifying enough already!

Before leaving night safari cos xin had to work the next day

That's all for the night!

ROM invitation card

lots of back dated posts!
We wanted to have our ROM card printed by a professional printer however all the quotations we had were exhorbitant!
80 cards for $100 and we only needed 20 cards so we decided to print ours with my old mighty canon printer!heh

The factory line of invitation cards!heh

And while we were hard at work the two kids were having the time of their life!

Ayam Penyet @ marine parade

We went to katong shopping centre cos i need to get my supply of contact lens - and I only purchase mine from there heh, so poor xin had to accompany me on his off day. So after school, off we went!

And because we had been to katong (quite recently to navie), we had no idea what to eat. xin wanted to had ayam penyet at marine parade. But i must say of all the ayam penyet stalls that we had tried, the one had marine parade is the best- in terms of the portion of the chicken and of cos the spicy chilli sauce.

This time round, it was even more worth it! the whole set- chicken + rice + soup+ drink was only $6.50! usually the chicken itself would have cost us $6.50 already. however this promotion is only valid on weekdays.

The tahu goreng was also well done! but i had problems eating because the food was way too spicy- my lips were swollen! terrible!

Fitting of ROM dress and Dinner at Vivocity

Went down to try out the new ROM dresses at Signoria, and the standard of the dresses were much better than the ones we saw the last time althought there were only 3 new ones. I settled for one tea dress which had a bustier cut and tulle skirt. No pictures this time round cos the boss was around but i have this nagging feeling that i look HUGE in it and im still not able to lose any weight...and time is running out already!yikes~

Anyway after Signoria, we headed to Vivocity and watched Cloudy with a chance of meatball, all the pictures of food made us hungry. I though the storyline was cute, food raining down from the sky, i think my ah ti would request for hotdogs and fishballs everyday heh.

Anyway, we must be pigging out quite a lot cos we had no idea what to eat. In the end, we settled for thai food (one cusine we havent eaten recently). I think my threshold for spicy food must have went down cos I felt the tom yam bee hoon was too spicy for my liking. What have happened to my tastebuds? Went gu niang already heh

Xin's Pineapple rice?(cant remember what he had ordered)

My super spicy tom yam bee hoon

Chubby xin!my goodness!

1-for-1 UOB Promotion ETNA

We went to ETNA at east coast road to have their pasta cos they had 1-for-1 UOB card promotion.

We had the seafood platter- made up of breaded fish and calamari, it has been sooo long ago (cant remember when was it that we went) it was not very memorable but I only thought it was too oily.

Xin had his usual- cream carbonara while i had my usual tomato based crabmeat penne. I felt that the crabmeat penne was good, the strands of crabmeat were very obvious unlike those that I had at pastamanic but oh well the price do make a difference.

We should go for their lunch promotion -set lunch +dessert yipes!