Deliciously Me

Woke up early in the morning – got ready and went down to have breakfast with Sat. The earliest birds, Lasker and Elise were already there when we entered the hotel’s open restaurant. Ordered their Indonesian breakfast and both of us hogged the hotel free wifi and did facebooking, check emails, twitters while waiting for the food to come. Jess and Steven came later, followed by the rest.

Food came (no photos again cz I didn’t bring any camera with me) and I ate them up pretty fast as I was hungry. Then we went back to our room to pack our stuffs and gathered at the hotel’s open lobby. I went around and took final few shoots before one of us suggested on group photo.

Since everyone loves this place and loves taking photo, who can say no to this suggestion?! Haha.

All of us boarded the van and we left Sri Ratih Cottage for our next destination in the morning, Goa Gajah. Along the way, we saw an accident. Actually I didn’t notice it, but Sat was pointing and forcing me to turn my head back and snap the off track jeepney. Heehee.

It was a happy, sunny day. I loveeeee taking photos of the outside world while on the move.

I’m not going into detail on Goa Gajah since I were not allowed to enter(Pffff!) and what I did was playing games on iTouch and camwhoring. Muahaha!

Then I got bored and started taking pictures of the area.

And this time, the cow didn’t come early to accompany me (pfffff again) and I felt the wait was longerrrr than yesterday which was rather potong stim. The van driver left the van soon after everyone got down, so humbug!

About nearly an hour later, the rest came back and off we went to the other destination, a silver jewellery making centre. Along the way, like usual I took many pictures while I think I should put them up here.

I don’t remember the name of the shop, but once we got down a man (the centre’s guide) greeted us and started talking to us. We were led to the shed where a man was making something related to the jewellery. Sorry, I don’t really remember what was he doing as I was in the toilet when the guide was talking and I was busy ‘talking’ to a dog in a cage once I got out of the toilet stall. Haha.

But I did take few pictures of the process. I think he was making a pendant.

The picture above abit blur – but don’t care la. Hehe.

Then the guide took us to their gift/souvenir shop. Inside, I couldn’t light my eyes of many, shiny, beautiful jewelleries. I thought of getting one or two, since the price is not that expensive. But then I thought of my purse. The amount of money in my bag.

And my hope dashed.

I could only look around, feast my eyes with those beautiful things and left the store immediately. Sat looked happy knowing that I walked out without buying anything and he sort of ‘console’ me. Lol.

Everyone then went back to the van and we went to the next stop – Sukawati Local Market. Before getting down, Yoga did tell us that it’s okay to bargain to about 70% of the said price.

No pictures of the Sukawati Market since I was busy bargaining instead of snapping.

Acknowledging that, we quickly got down and walked straight to the end of the market. There are ladies from the far right shop calling us to have a look at their products. Someone asked for price, and true indeed the price dropped slowly. Few of the guys were already picking up the design of the shirts they wanted.

Since we just reached there, Sat, AL, Emily and I decided to scout at the inner side of the market. We realised they’re all selling almost similar stuffs, so we stopped at a stall owned by a tall lady and asked for the price of a T-shirt. She offered lower. We went back to the gang and told them about it.

Then Sat decided to try his luck by asking the ladies of the shop if they could counter offer what the tall lady’s price.

Out of sudden, one of the ladies got so angry (or probably agitated) and shouted at Sat back. She said in Bahasa Indonesian, “I already offered you very low price. In fact, every stall here will give you the same price. If you don’t like, then don’t buy here. Go other place!“

Immediately four of us gave the WTFISH looks to her.

Feeling angry for her at yelling at my boyfriend, I scolded her back – “Why are you shouting? We’re only asking for lower price. If you can’t offer that price, just say no. No need to shout like that.“

And she kept hissing and pulling long face that we decided, that’s it – we’re SO NOT going to buy anything from her. So we walked back to the tall lady’s stall. I’m unsure if the rest bought something from that shop or not, but all I know is all 13 of us bought plenty of stuffs from the tall lady because she’s charming and couldn’t stop smiling and the best of all, she jokes too!

That’s what you call top notch customer service!

Because of that, we closed deal to about millions of rupiahs with her! I could see everyone was looking at her with green eyes. She was grinning from ears to ears and when we passed her money, she counted with a big smile on her face. I teased her on able to make a kenduri for her village soon for her new-found good fortune and she just laughed and nodded her head.

When we left her stall, we purposely walked to the shop and flashed our goods to the lady shouted earlier to sort of ‘give’ her a lesson for screaming at her potential customers. I don’t know if she realises that she lost a big business that by us flashing in front of her, but I hope someone tells her about it. Haha.

Yoga asked us on the goods we got since we showed up with many bags and big broad smiles. I can’t remember if we did tell him on the shouting incident. Hmm.

It was a long journey to Kuta, but we didn’t feel that since there are many things to see along the way. One of many is the monument park. The Upt. Monumen Perjuangan Rakyat Bali. Our van slowed down and stopped at the side for photoshooting.

We didn’t get down since we didn’t have the time to do so. So we took pictures from the van itself. That time, I wish I had telelens for zooming. T_T

The picture is senget but don’t care laaaaa! I know that I can straighten it at Picasa but I’m lazy! Bleks!

Just when I thought of taking another nice shot of the monument, Yoga asked if everyone is done with photoshooting and someone yelled yup! and Mr. Van Driver maneuvered his van back to the busy road. -.-“

Yoga then spoke again, asking us if we were feeling hungry. That time it was about 1 in the afternoon. Or was it 2.

But I know that I felt hungry the moment Yoga spoke about lunch. Haha.

Yoga then told us that we were going to stop by a restaurant along the way for lunch. I was joyful as I felt like biting (food) something soon. So yay!

Our van turned left suddenly and stopped in front of a white minimalist concept restaurant with high glass windows. Expecting to dine at a normal restaurant, I was seriously at awe and disbelief. Never would I be expecting to have lunch at such restaurant on a trip. Even my Japan trip a year ago, we ate at either the hotel restaurants (since it’s included and provided by the hotel) or normal looking restaurant tucked somewhere in the outskirts or hidden somewhere in the building built underneath an overhead bridge.

Like usual, we were greeted warmly and led to a very long table. The restaurant is spacious, the ceiling is very high up and the wooden chairs and tables colour complements the white wall and the high glass windows. In the middle of the restaurant, there are long tables with many spread of food – if I’m not mistaken.

Barely 5 minutes of warming our butts against the chair, the ever-smiling waitresses came to us with menu for drinks and placed a glass of water in front of us. Seeing the glass of water, we didn’t order any drink (yeah, we’re super kiam siap! ) and the waitresses presented us our food soon.

It was Indonesian food again! Whee!

But somehow the taste is different from the one we had in Ubud. I finished up the food pretty fast as I was hungry. Some of them were talking and laughing while eating. Some jokes were pretty funny that I ended up laughing too.

Few girls went to the toilet and came back praising on the toilet design. Curiously, I went to the toilet too. I wanted to bring my camera there, but it would be too weird to do so. So I just went empty handed. True enough; the toilet is so mind-blowing. It’s one of those open toilet concept (as in open up, not mixed gender ah!), with waterfall at the front of the entrance, open wall at the side of the washing basin, overlooking greenery. Obviously the toilet stalls are closed, or else there’s no privacy when doing business. Lol. The washing basin is made of stone, and if I’m not mistaken, there are pebbles at the inner corner of the floor beneath the washing basin. I’m writing all this down based on my memory, so please correct me if I’m wrong. Haha.

Mental note to myself: Bring camera to toilet if the toilet is beautifully designed. Haha!

We left the restaurant soon for Kuta after I came back from the toilet.

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