Bali trip - Villa Soma

Total 12 of us - Keith & Mei Ling, Hans & Ice, Elbert & Shirley, Brian & Ghobby, Soon Yu & Evelyn, and Ping Hun and myself. We had a 3 days 2 night luxury stay at this Villa Soma during our trip to Bali @ March 2010. Each night cost us USD500 but it's really worth it...check out some pictures that we took at the Villa.

It's really happening, right? :P

Counting down - 2010 Bali trip

7 days to go......hahaha.... We've been waited for nearly a year for this trip to come. We booked the free flight ticket somewhere May last year, and all we need to pay is the airport tax which cost us RM150 per pax for 2 ways PEN-->KL--> BALI flight. hehehe
and we will be staying there for 7 days...and and also, we will stay at the beautiful Villa Soma, check it out--> it will be stunning!! http://www.villasomabali.com/ of course, the price is USD500 per night for super low season...play play.
total 12 of us will go for the same trip, and we will all stay in the same Villa for 3 days ( share share the bill), of course some of them are thinking ~RM1700 each ( exclude flight ticket, everything else included) is a very expensive trip, but we are going to stay in a 'one-in-a-life time' Villa.....how cold is that.
Well, i will blog about it when we capture some photos of party in Villa and bring back and share with you all.....stay tune :)

Bali Trip - after 1 year waiting :)

After 1 year of air-ticket booking ( we got it FREE thru air asia promotion last year), finally it's approaching the date that we are going to travel to Bali.
Elbert and gf decided to join us and total there are 12 peoples on this trip :)except Brian n Ghobby have to go back earlier due to mis-booked the flight ticket:P
Since most of us are intellier ( Yuson n wife, Ping hun n I, Elbert n gf, Keith n ML, Brian n Ghobby, Hans n Ice), we gone thru the discussion thru Intel's way.
The first meeting have been called yesterday and more follow up meeting will be call later :) AR has been assign and we will plan a fantastic trip to Bali at 2nd Mac - 8th Mac 2010; Bali!!!! HERE WE COME!!

Antelope Canyon - Arizona

羚羊谷 - This is how Antelope Canyon name fr0m. There were herds of antelope living here century before. According to the tourist guide - Andy, this canyon is also called Bear Canyon as from the pictures, you can see so many bear's image from the Canyon itself :)
The tours is lead by Navajo/Native American guides which cost us USD29 per person for less than a hour trip. Last time tourists were allow to visit the Canyon by themselves and only cost USD6. After the big flood that took away 12 lifes, Navajo is the only one that have the licience to bring tourist into Antelope canyon.
It's 6 degree cooler in the Canyon compare to the weather outside, so it's about 5-6 degree in the canyon and we were wearing thick jacket and glove, still we are shiverring while walking in the canyon.
We were glad we visited the Canyon during winter time, which is a non-peak season. During peak season, there were > 300 peoples visitiing the Canyon at the same time...we won't be able to take nice pictures if we visit the canyon during summer.
It's abit hard to find the tour guide office and the receiptionist is not friendly at all. Anyway, i am not going for 2nd timesince it took us more than 6 hours to reach there (from Phoenix) and USD29 per pax for less than 1 hour visit. , the canyon is so stunning and beautiful :)

However, for those that had business trip to Chandler, it's good to have at least one x visit to Antelope.... A not to miss place when travel to Arizona.

on our way to the entrance of the Antelope Canyon


Check out the stunning view inside the Antelope Canyon......

On the other side of the canyon.

Hubby and I..... thank god we were there...no regret!!

HKIA's food

I've "stayed" at Hong Kong International Airport more than 12 hours for the last 1 month due to plane transit and had total of 3 meals in the airport itself.
I've tried the 烧鹅濑粉which cost me about 100 HKD, as below...which not really nice, but since we watched hong kong series and it keep on mentioning the 烧鹅 is the best food in HK, so i decided to give it a try. it taste excatly like Roasted duck, but the one that they served is very oily so i not really enjoying it.
I think maybe i should go to the real Hong Kong restaurant and try out the 烧鹅 and 细蓉。。。haha

this is the restaurant that sell 烧鹅..it is the most expensive restaurant in the food court.


And this is 烧鹅濑粉 lo.... :-)

10 hours's transition

Travel is fun, no doubt. But the long transit and flight hours really kill me.
I'm now in Hong Kong International Airport, waiting for my 10 hours transit...awwwwww :(
i reached HKIA at 5am, and my connecting flight back home is at 3pm. what can I do at this long 10 hours?

Shopping? Everything is so so so damm expensive...furthermore, i just finished my Black Friday Crazy shopping at LV last 2 weeks.

Wandering around? hmm....HKIA not as nice as Singapore IA. :P talk about airport, i haven't been to KLIA so far...it's my country's airport leh...how come?

Food and Drinks? ya, for sure we need to take something for meals... and WOW...guess what? It's as expensive as US, even more expensive. 1 set of burget king cost about HKD5o..

Online? oh yes, luckily i bring along my laptop, and the wireless is FREE!!!! haha, this is the only things i can do without spending money $$.. so, i am blogging now, facebooking, and playing online games.

The San Cervantes - Thansgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving... i think this year thanksgiving is the most meaningful one for me, because i am going to "participate" in the Blackfriday sales start from today midnight onwards at Las Vegas. Yeah...Yahoo!!!
Ping Hun is having his nap now since he has to drive tonight, another 6 hours to LV. and he's just came back from work, pity :(
Well, i am watching 'home alone' now, that particular movie that everyone must watch during X'mas season in Malaysia. i am surprise that this old movie was still popular in US :) at the same time, i just wanted to capture this little Arizona apartment that i spend my 2009 Thanksgiving with my hubby....

The SandBar - Mexican grill and Bar

located at W. Northern Ave, Peoria, Arizona which near to Intel Chandler. :) I had my "welcome to US" party right after i get off the plane. Dennis, Kelvin, ping hun and I were enjoying the cool air as we are sitting outdoor. everything is so fine as well as the BlueMoon Beer :) some high school students came in school bus (oh yes, the typical yellow school bus), with majority of the boys wearing skirts and dress playart as a girls...it was so funny when seeing them dancing with wig and short skirt....the music is fantastic and i like the waitress very much, a sweet and cheerful college girl.

I think this would be a better place for farewell compare to the Big Bang bar :)

The Big Bang bar - downtown Tempe

Kelvin brought us to this Big bang bar last night - the Thanksgiving eve. This place play typical American music which we hardly into it, except Kelvin. While he was listening to American music, we were listening to my parent's mandarin and Hokkien oldiest...of course we won't enjoy much, hahaha....However, this place is still good as the pianist interact a lot with the audience.
Downtown Tempe which is walking distance from Arizona State University is a happening place. A lot of clubs and bars around with hot chics... A lot to see and we actually spend most of our night walking around, cheking out this night life city :)

It's their 6th anniversary this Dec 7th, the serve free food and cheap drink, shall we go again before we leave Phoenix? But frankly, i prefer SandBar more :) the music is just right!!



visit this link for more big bang's info :) http://www.thebigbangbar.com/az/tempe

Perhentian Trip a.k.a. Intel team building

That was our 2nd trip to redang/ Perhentian within 1 month.... If i'm not mistaken, it only cost us RM280++ cheap and nice trip together with ping hun's friends.. not much good pictures that we managed to captured. Below two pictures was capture by Kenny when we are snokeling in the coral sea....

The tropical Paradise - Redang Island

This was my 3rd time to Redang Island within 2 years time :) I just love this island, it was so beautiful, gentle sea breeze all days and gave me a peace of mind. Check out the color tone of the sea water, light blue, dark blue, green, white, navy blue ……it's just amazing!!

Langkawi - free and easy trip

These are some pictures that we took at Langkawi 2 years back. Many says Langkawi is a boring island, but for us, it was so much fun with the site seeing, beaches ( Tanjung Rhu is my favorite), cable car and of course CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP liquor. ;)

This was taken at the cable car center, cold sea breeze and beautiful sea view made us stay there the whole afternoon......




Drive along the mangrove and you will reach Tanjung Rhu. the unique of this beach was when it ebb-tide, you can even walked to the islands opposite you and the water level just reach your knee. The sunset, it's simply amazing!!

Pulau Jerejak @ 2006

I think Pulau Jerejak is the island closest to Penang island (where i live)...... We've been joining Keith, Xen and his gf to visit this island in one fine weekend. From the island, we can clearly see Intel which appeared to be so close to us, that made us felt excited as we are at another island enjoying our weekend ( NO -Work)

Ping Hun was playing paint ball...and i was there to "feed" mosquito.

We enjoyed playing swing just like a kid......

It's a nice boat but not mine :(