Bali Day 3

We start Day 3 with a clear mind...

Wake up at 6 am and the sky start to bright up already. Change to Nike T-shirt 'We Run KL' to run at Bali. We run pass by the Monkey Forest and all the way to our new hotel for a early preview. Our new hotel is the place where the movie 'Eat Pray Love' been shoot.

After a refreshing morning run, we headed back for swimming in the hotel pool. The water wasn't that clear thus we just swim for few minutes before heading off for quite shower and breakfast.

Then we check out and move to Tegal Sari where we were welcome with welcome drink and short tour of the hotel. The tour include a visit to the most luxury room which I try to get but it was fully book. Everyone jaw is dropping looking at the nice room.

We then headed back to previous hotel as I left my small bag there. Thank god the staff keep it for me. We then go to Pasar Ubud for brief shopping. There is a lot of things there but 'bargain' is the big word. Everything must be bargain. Cut the price into half at least. In some cases, I even cut to 80% and they still sell to me, well with black face of course....hehe...

Next stop Ibu Oka Babi Guling, one of the famous one in Bali. The staff come with whole babi on a tray place on her head. But cant get the photo as she walk too fast and by time I want to snap, the person had left the babi on the table. Mind you, we arrive at 11am and the first babi had already sold off. The new arrival of second babi is quietly been skinned off and chop into pieces for our meal...

We then cross the road to this old palace use to be accommodation for the King of Ubud back then. Nothing interesting though....

Next stop is Pura Taman Ayun, the temple in the park. Well, Shyan Hui ask me about the history of the temple and i kinda create a story to cheat her but my story came out to be true. This temple use to be place of worship for the king and queen back then. Erm, seem like I am qualified to be tour guide thought :-)



The temple is beautiful because serounded by lush green and beautiful landscape. We are kinda of bad luck as it start to rain suddenly immediately after we pay for entrace fees. Maybe i snap the photo of their prayer item that I get cursed...

Next stop is Tegal Sari Coffee and Spice garden....What a co-incident....Same name as our hotel name...hehe....Here we are given free sample of coco drink, ginseng coffee, teh halia, teh limau and balinese coffee.....For Luwak coffee, we have to purchase it with 40 thousand rupiah.

Know what is Luwak Coffee? Luwak Coffee is well known as the most expensive coffee in the world for one reason....it was make out of SHIT.....yes, is shit...of civet cat.


Civet cat is feed with coffee bean and the output of civet poop is dried, cleaned and process into coffee....Interesting ya....People pay thousand for a SHIT....sorry, it wasnt my cup of coffee after I take a sip of it...

Ok....after a wet visit to the coffee plantation, we headed back to our van and off we go up the hill and down the hill for Pura Ulu Danu at Lake Bratan. Before that we stop at the highest peak nearby strawberry farm to snap magnifience view of whole Bali landscape. Sadly, camera not that good enough so cant capture good photos...

Pura Ulu Danu, or temple by the lake is located in the middle of Lake Bratan. Lake Bratan is natural lake produce due to volcano million years ago and the view is good. Air in this area is cooling enough and we have nice time shooting picture here. What it turn out to be the sad part is the temple actually just located less than 10 metre away from the land as what I perceived to be really in the middle of the lake. But, well, photograph can cheat people somehow...Haha




Next stop is Tanah Lot....but from Pura Ulu Danu to Tanah Lot, it will take about 1.5 hours to 2 hours so everyone take a nap in the car. As the organiser I always sit in front together with driver to accompany him to ensure he dont fall asleep but for the journey to Tanah Lot, sorry to say I cant tahan that I fall a sleep.


Tanah Lot, the holy temple by the sea. One have to cross the sea during low tide to the temple for holy water and prayers. There is even holy snake nearby which I do not visit. Not fancy of snake and dont feel like forking out money to look for the snake. We cross the sea toward the temple which located about 25 metre away. Was wash away by the big wave and get ourselves wet.


Once we arrive, we wash our hand and face with holy water and make donation. The holy person in charge will then place some rice with holy water on our forehead and flower on our ear. Well, nothing great about the sunset that day as it was cloudy.

We decide not to wait for sunset as it was way too cloudy to see anything. We then headed back to Ubud for bebek bengil at Dirty Duck. There is a story behind this restaurant which I gonna blog about in harkausiewmai.blogspot.com soon. Read the food blog for more news about the food.


That end our very holy day in Bali visiting temple of the garden, lake and sea.

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Day 2 Video

bali - Day 2 (Adventure yet relaxing)

Wake up at 6.30 am for no reason.........and that the way I start my Day 2 in Bali.

After a relaxing shower, I scroll around Kuta town at 7.30am which is consider very bright for that timing compare to Malaysia. I sroll along Kuta Square where the second bombing in Bali taken place. It look like death place as there is no one walking by and all shop is still close.

We head back to hotel for check out as we are suppose to check into another hotel in Ubud. Mr Bagus brief us that journey to Ubud take 2 hours time and it will eat into our leisure time, thus he arrange for another van to fetch our luggage to Ubud while we headed to Nusa Dua for more fun.

We ask Mr Bagus for a good breakie and he bring us to this Nasi Pedas place. Nasi Pedas is actually a Nasi Campur but the chilli was very spicy. I kinda like the Nasi Pedas....Yum Yum

We then make our way to Nusa Dua for water sport. We opt for banana boat and parasailing. The banana boat is damm fun as we were brought to the middle of the sea and throw to the sea. Parasailing was fun but was way too short for me to enjoy. I hope it can be longer....

After a exciting watersport, we ask Mr Bagus to bring us for some local snack and he brought us to Tahu Tipat. Tahu Tipat is actually Tafu with ketupat serve in special cause and some vege. It taste damm good. I believe we are the only tourist that would sit down beside the road side enjoying local delicacy.

We then headed for spa at Moon Tee Spa in Nusa Dua area. 200,000 Rupiah for 2 hours of spa session come with 1 hour of balinese massage with aromatherapy, body scrup, body mask and flower bath.

After the relaxing massage, we end up with Ayam Bertutu place recommended by Mr Bagus. The chickens is nice but we all are simply too sleepy to enjoy the food. Well, all just wake up from sleep after the relaxing spa.

Next stop is Nusa Dua Beach at the luxury resort Nusa Dua District. Calm blue sea full of foreigner with bikini and trunk sun bathing and kids playing with sea water.

Our next stop is the Uluwatu Temple. The temple by the cliff. There is lot of monkey and they snatch glasses, slipper and anything they like....So beware....Our group, Nicholas glasses was stolen and bite into pieces while Ooi Mei's slipper is been snatched and licked by the monkey.



On the journey back, we stop by to take photo with God Garuda....the most powerful god in Indonesia according to our driver...


Next, we have most luxury food in our life. Romantic beach side dinner overseeing sunset. This dinner cost us 1,500,000 Rupiah which is about RM 540. Well, we have lobster, crab, prawn, squid, fish and lala....

We end our day with 2 hours journey back to Ubud, where our new hotel (Ubud Bungalow) is located. I would say the hotel is really worth every single cent we pay for except it was really quite, dark and bath tab was kinda dirty....

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Bali - Day 1 (The city life)

As normal, our trip always start from gathering in KL Sentral and departure to Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) by SkyBus.

I give AirAsia another round of thumb up as the check in via express line for online check in is fast and the boarding time have been carry forward leaving us no time for shopping. Good thing we landed in Bali earlier by 10 minutes too.

Upon arrival, Mr Bagus (One of the best services I ever engage for this trip - gelo82181@yahoo.com) our driver greet us with a good smile. Weather in Bali is super hot with sun shining brightly and temperature was at 37 degree Celsius. We are melting on the way from Airport to Tune Hotel, our first day accommodation.

Tune hotel famous for its cheap and no frill hotel offer the best choice for this trip as the location is good and price is so much cheaper. Moreover we are not going to sleep in the room for more. We pay RM 423 for 3 double room and one single room and 12 hours of air-condition.

Feeling hungry, we ask Mr Bagus to bring us to local warung for food and he bring us to some isolated place for nice food. Thumb up.....The nasi campur was one of the best. Yummy

Our second destination is Kuta Beach. We scroll along the beach without applying our sun block and we can feel the instance burn on our skin. Weather is so unbearable. After half hour under the hot sun, we hop back to our van and we ask Mr Bagus to drive slowly from Kuta to Seminyak passing by Legian. We didn't stop by as we are not really into shopping by passing by nice hotel and shops let us have a eye opener on the life of Bali.

We went to airport next to wait for Shyan Hui and Oi Mei. We take some time exploring the place and get a phone card.

Upon arrival we make our way back to Kuta for a good dinner. This round is Warung Made in Kuta. Frankly this warung have been over-rated by lot of blogger. For food posting on Bali, please refer to http://harkausiewmai.blogspot.com

Seeing time is quite late, I ask Mr Bagus to send us back to hotel and let him to go off for rest as we have long journey to go the next day. As night is still young for us, we headed to Kuta town by foot for shopping and see the night view of Kuta Beach.


That ended our first day in Bali, with the theme of 'Balinese City Life'

The tale begin here....

Just a starter for Bali Trip...

I might take sometime to consolidate all photo and writing so as for now, let me present you some opening clue of what it will be...

Eddie Lim presenting to u....

The tale of visionary monkey with a touch of wisdom glasses and beautiful slipper in the paddy field

Bali posting coming soon

Be ready for the much awaited Bali posting full of great photos, food and story...

The Art of Organizing

I get the idea of blogging this after so many dramatic story happen in Energizer Night Run 2011. I was there personally to experience this event and I come back with a heavy heart. It was such a visionary and wonderful event but it end up in chaos and bring so much unhappiness to every party.

I would not say the whole problem come from one side but many parties have to be responsible in this event and take corrective action to make sure things is in order.

I do have experience in organizing event in university and we take things seriously. No doubt not all event turn up superbly well but we just make sure it never turn out sour like what had happen in last saturday night run.

Like most people say, never wear a big hat if you don't have a big head......It take experience and learning before you can take things right....Thus, runner make a good running event, marketer make a good marketing event...As simple as that...

Lets see what happen that night and you judge whether is it main title sponsor, event management or runner fault.

1. Date of collection of running pack changed and was only notified via their website. Some runner do not received confirmation nor collection postcard.
2. Headlight not given on the running pack collection but was given during running day.
3. Parking fees is RM 10 and collected by unknown RELA staff.
4. One way in and one way out via a narrow tunnel without proper air vendilation. 10,000 runner storm into the tunnel....
5. Headlight collection turn chaos after not enough headlight to be distributed to runners.
6. Queue for baggage area is about 30 metre long and not moving. Runner have to storm in because race is starting soon and get scolded by baggage area marshal.
7. No proper signage. Basically people don't know where to start and when to start. 11km and 21km runner mixed up together and some runner run to wrong course.
8. Water station turn out dry and some water station end up with ice only. But whats the point of giving out 1.5 litre water and canned drinks 1km before the ending of the race.
9. Not enough wrist band as marker for runner who need to run few loops. How to ensure runner have run the exact distance?
10. Shortcut in the course is everywhere and no marshal around to prohibits runner from taking short cut.
11. Worst nightmare is goodies bag collection. Queue as long as 300 metre can be seen even before the ending point. Goodies bag been thrown around and police have to take control to disburse the runner. How can they put 10,000 runner in 4 different narrow collection area....
12. Rude MC scolding runners
13. Medal, certificate and finishing T-shirt not properly pack inside goodies bag leading to delay in passing the goodies bag.
14. Banana is place on the floor. After the chaostic goodies bag area I accidentally step on hundred of banana....Anyway, those banana are green!!!


There are many more complaint which I cant verified whether it was true or not like the T-shirt we get is fake and some car broke into during the race...

What ever it is, now the main sponsor and event management company had both issue notification and apology to runners and will take corrective action. I am not sure how much will that help in building back the reputation and how much step they need to rectify the damages. But just hope everything gone well.

The funnies thing ever, they never register the event with regulatories bodies....what a biggest mistake...

If my memorise never fail me, everytime I do an event in my university that involve more than 20 person or more, I have to make a police report to notified the event so it will never been label as 'illegal gathering' and I will have to issue notification to all parties involve so I wont get into trouble.....But how come an event management company can even overlook on this matter...

I am so thankful that so many event I have organise, none turn out like a nightmare like this.....For me I will have nightmare a day before the event and cant sleep properly but after the event I can sleep for more than 15 hours....Happen to me during my University event....hahaha...

A perfect day

What is perfect day for you???????

Well, I hope I can start my day with a smooth drive to office and have a good subway sandwish as my breakfast.

A day of work can be tiring thus a conducive working environment is very important. Good collueague and friendly working approach is also important to me.

I prefer to have early work and early work release. OT should be minimal if possible. Travel is a must! I cant stand a work that sit in office 365 days.....Tea time with Starbucks Coffee sound great....

After work, I prefer to hit the gym for healthy lifestyle and go back home for a good meal.

Well, that is like fairytale story.....which might not really happen except I work as Sales Personel that I have flexibility in working time....

For now, I still have to go through all the pain of traffic jam, nasi lemak or economy beehoon as breakfast and office pantry Milo as tea break....

Well, I believe life can be better ans while I am still young, I must work hard...earn as much as possible....and have a perfect day in the future

3 parts of my body that I hate

Well, gals always say guys can't get their eye off on beautiful gals....Well, that is true... But guys also like to see handsome guy just to benchmark ourselves with them....hehe...Kiasuness...

Well, who don't like fair and good skin complexion....Who don't like muscular bicepts.....Who don't like smooth back???

As for me, I have 3 parts of my boyd that I hate about myself.....

First of all being my teeth....Gosh, senyum saja, harga saham jatuh....My teeth is so uneven that it look like Ugly Betty...

Second is my back....Sadly, my back is not smooth...There is some acne behind my back...Regret that i ignore hygience when I am young...super regret!!!!

Third is my tapak kaki lo......I won't say I am tall, but my leg is just small....Imagine I can fit into shoe size 7 or 8 le....haiz