Today I want to post a few touching TV commercials showed in Singaopre. These TV commercial are all about family. Watch it when you have free time.
These TV commercials were directed by Yasmin Ahmad, we won’t able to see her new production in future.
I stayed at two different hotels during my trip to Bali. For the first night and last night, I was staying at Bali Sorgawi hotel. It is a decent budget hotel with great service. Then, I was staying at Aneka Kuta Beach Hotel for my second night. I booked my hotel room from the internet, but only for the first two night. I still had no idea on where to go on third night at that time.
I couldn’t sleep well at the first night for the two reasons:
But I decided back to this hotel for my last night stay because I asked them changed my room to pool view and also late checkout. Then, I also bargain reduce the price to Rp 300,000/ night (around RM110++). July – September are the peak season in Bali, a lot of hotels have raised their rate!
The location of this hotel is a bit far from the beach. You need to take around 10-15 minutes to go to Legian beach. But, if you want to go pub or disco around Kuta area at night, it is just about three minutes walk. That’s another reason I returned to this hotel for third night stay.
Then, for the second night, I spent USD69 (around RM245) for a night! Tell you about that hotel later, it is great, but I have no $$ to spend on it for the other night…
In the flight, I met a group of people from Johor, they also went to Bali for holiday. That was their team activity where the company paid for it. We were chit-chatting in the flight. Wao~ I really hope that our company will send us to Bali for holiday as well!
A day before, I called to the first hotel that I would be staying for the first night. Most of the hotels in Kuta/ Legian area provide free air-port transfer to hotel. So, my called was about the free air-port transfer arrangement. But, when I was at the international arrival hall, I couldn’t find the representative from the hotel! I was quite nervous but luckily I brought the hotel contact with me. I asked people around there on how to make call to the hotel. I don’t know why I cannot make call by using my DiGi prepaid when I was in Bali. At the end, the phone shop owners lent me the landed phone for making a call. The driver was caught in traffic.
I understand that without a phone in hand is really inconvenient in the current world. Hence, I bought a XL prepaid card (Indonesia mobile operator) from the seller. The prepaid card cost Rp60,000 (almost RM 21) with Rp5,000 credits inside. According to the dealer, this is the cheapest plan in Indonedia.
After 15 minutes of waiting at airport, the hotel drive has arrived and apologized politely. I said it is fine, as long as you keep the promise and pick me up from the airport, haha! It was almost 9pm when I was at the hotel room. I tell you, my room is facing a small orchard with banana trees…
I bought the air tickets to Bali when AirAsia starts abolished fuel surcharge and zero fare on the tickets. Hence, the tickets were quite cheap. But, I didn’t expect that I would be traveling alone in this beautiful island.
Due to the unforeseen circumstances, I went to Bali alone for my holiday two weeks ago. It was my first time to Bali and also first time for traveling alone. It was a four days three nights trip, and I have paid for the hotel for the first two nights on prior. I didn’t want to waste my precise holidays and the fees that I have been paid for, so I decided went there alone for a new exposure.
My flight was at 3:50pm, Saturday. In that morning, I still haven’t gotten exchange Ringgit > Rupiah. So, I went to Mid Valley for money changer at 10:15am, and the quickly rush back to pack my simple luggage. I stepped out from house at 12:35pm, and my holiday to Bali alone has begun…
Every year, I allocate certain amount of money for purchaing gadget. We work like a cow in every working day, it is good to get something that you liked once in a year to pamper ourselves, right? So, I wanted to get a new mobile phone this year!
Finally I got my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic at Digital Mall last month when it had a promotion for Nokia 5800. I spent RM1150 for it, Avaxx warranty, get a free screen protector. I believe that was a good deal.
I like it because it has GPS, 3G, and WiFi connection. These are the three major features that I am looking for a new phone. Furthermore, Nokia 5800 is a touch screen phone, it looks bit canggih, haha! Apart of it, there are lot of software and games that you can find from internet for this phone. I even installed Garmin Mobile XT by my own, save RM30 – RM50* if you ask the phone dealer do it for you.
So far, I am satisfied with this phone except the camera features. The camera cannot handle bright environment. It produces bad picture when capture at brighter environment. I believe Sony Ericson can produce better picture quality. But, I seldom use the camera feature in mobil phone, so it is still fine to me…
Picture captured by Nokia 5800
*Retail price for original Garmin Mobile XT is USD99.99