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Ahhh.. How I wish I’m still in KL, where I could with bunch of friends to Sri Petaling for dimsum eventho the dimsum there is nothing compare to the one I had in Ipoh few weeks ago. Haha!
The Ipoh Makan trip was a spontaneous one. It sparked off when my sis requested for dimsum that weekend. Since I got bored of the dimsum restaurant in the neighbourhood, I thought – why not go to Ipoh for dimsum?
And we did! We went to two places somemore! The first one is Yoke Fook Moon Restaurant.
Philippines or Pilipinas. A country with beautiful people and beautiful sky.
Ah well, except for Manila where the place is more hectic, and smoky and horrendous traffic. But hey, Manila’s the capital and that’s what you usually find in a capital. Lol.
As much as I wanted to write on Philippines right away, but I still have 2 pending posts on Indonesia; so probably Philippines would start in August. Still, I felt that I should post something related to Philippines since I’m still in the post-philippines-trip mood. Lolololol!
Hence a video upon reaching Philippines. Enjoy! 
The area is somehow like Uluwatu where we could find ourselves looking at the beautiful view of the Selat Bali. We took a right turn. There’s a path leading to a temple at the edge of the cliff.
Along the way, there are many statues greeting us. One of many is a wooden statue of a man saluting, and I couldn’t help taking picture of him. He sure looks handsome here. Teehee.
Carefully balancing myself against the very strong wind, I walked there with the rest, occasionally grabbed someone for stability, I think I’ve developed fear falling onto the sea while on walking on high place with strong wind blowing against me; which I shall call it “strong-wind-at-high-place-phobia”. Super long, I know. Lol.
I can’t remember how long the journey took from Ubud to Kuta since we stopped at many places along the way. I also can’t remember what happened along the way from the restaurant to Kuta. Probably I’ve fell asleep after lunch. Lol.
I think I fell asleep. If not mistaken, someone woke me up when the van stopped at the side of a busy road. Everyone got down and took their bags along. Blurry, I took my small bag and Sat’s camera bag as he took his and mine big backpacks. We crossed the busy road, walked into a small alley, and turned right into a paradise.
Yoga led us to the hotel lobby which is on the right. The lobby is special – the most unique lobby I ever stumbled upon. The Balinese lobby, as I call it – consists of stone stairs, cushions, pillows and a big wooden coffee table.
Lazily, I sat at the cushions and leaned against the puffy pillows. I suffered from the temporary heat stroke when we walked to the hotel and although I was very grateful for the cooling effect from the stone floor in the hotel lobby, the heat is still unbearable and I had to whip out my foldable fan to cool myself.
Sat and Yoga settled the room registration and then passed us our room keys. Yoga gave us a time to meet up and then all of us went to our room to freshen up.
If I tell you that I was at daze and blur from the sleep and heat stroke earlier, I can tell you that I was immediately cured the moment we walked out of the lobby towards our room. The long swimming pool in the middle of two 2-storey buildings is too fantabulous! I wish to drop all my bags down and just jump into the pool! It’s simply too irresistible!
All of us got the rooms on the first floor of the building on the left side. Our room was still being cleaned when we went up there. So we hid in Ailing’s and Emily’s room to get away from the heat. The room is cosy, and cooling at the same time.
10 minutes later, we were finally able to enter our room. Once got into the room, we quickly took pictures of the room and went shower. Then we dashed out of the room to the lobby where everyone was already waiting.
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.
