Sandat Inn, Kuta,Bali

Next 'stop' for year 2014 is Bali. Budget accommodation is always our preference, so we selected to stay at Sandat Inn which is situated at the heart of Kuta City.

We arrived at midnight, and we were very fortunate that the front desk is always open for check in.

We had a good night stay for 3 nights in Bali. It just that the room does not provide  water heater, (thankfully the weather was nice day and night) and kettle, which was quite unfortunate for our plan to boil instant mee  for snacks.

Nevertheless, there is icebox provided in each room, so it was a great aid for our left over food storage.

Locationwise, it is just a few walks away from arrays of shops for beachwear, souvenir and etc, but be careful, the price might be marked-up higher which wise customers should know when the bargain took place. And didn't I tell you it is just a few walks away from Kuta's center of night clubs? Not that we walked into there, though, but it's worth a stroll to have a feel of the  nightlife here.

Cooking Project in Ramadhan 1435H

I don't regard myself as a good cook, but I have a belief that cooking is one of the therapy to shut my mind from things that didn't turn out  the way that I have expected. Some things.

In Ramadhan this year,I decided to go back and forth to Mak's for breaking fast. So most of the days I arrived home quite close to iftar hour, so all I have to do was to get things ready on the table, plate, drinks,mugs and all.

When weekend arrived, I decided to cook something I like,for all my family member were around for the iftar. They were sweet sour siakap and chicken paprik!

There were 15 of us under one roof this evening, so I cooked sweet sour gravy for 3 fishes! I mean, year in year out, this was the most noble efforts of cooking that I have done so far. heheh.. Ok, that's totally an exaggeration.Forget it.

When I get older these days *cough*, veges are one of primary dishes for my menu, apart from ulam and stuff. So I cooked chicken paprik, that was the early intention, but I only remembered to chop the chicken when all of veges and ingredients were mixed on the kitchen. Lousy cook. Hmmph..

Out of the blue, I feel like eating karipap sambal ikan, and I told Mak about it.No,no, the craving was DIY curry puff, not ones from  bazzar or whatsoever. At the end of the day, it was me who were doing the dough and whatnot. Ok this was the first attempt, and it looked fine, no? Thanks a million for Mak's supervision and great guide.:))

Pullman Lakeside & Resort,Putrajaya

24-26th June 2014

So I was selected to attend a training for 3 days at PLC, Bangi.

I never knew that there is another prestigious hotel situated in Putrajaya, apart from Marriot, which I have stayed there a few times.

A friend of mine told me of this hotel, and I decided to give it go.Why not?

Apparently it was a peak time for the hotel, and due to that reason, my room was upgraded to a suite!

As I entered the room, the exhaustion of long journey  vanished instantly.

The room is spacious, and luxury  that I enjoyed the lone time gracefully. There is a huge balcony outside of the room. But it was hazy, thus being outside out the room was not as comfortable as being the room.

7-day Japan Exploration :Tokyo Disneyland

28th April 2014


Last attraction but not least, the trip would have not been a complete one if we didnt include Disneyland in the itinerary, surely?


This is the second trip for me to Disneyworld after Hong Kong.

So these are some of our exciting moments that we managed to capture, the rest of the activity were queuing after long queue after next long queue. But that wasn't the reason for us to stop enjoying every ride possible in this Disneyland, even though some of them are quite similar to the ones in Hong Kong Disneyland.

If last time we stuffed all of our food in one go before entering the park in order to save the money as best as we could, but this time around, we have upgraded the meal time into  having a proper lunch... A-haaa...Luckily the vegetarian meal is available in one of the restaurants. Alhamdulillahh..

And another remarkable convenient here is that,they reserve a quite a multipurpurpose room to visitors too. So we didn't have to go to some much hassle (like one in Hong Kong Disneyland, as what I've wrote here many years back ) to get our religious obligation fulfilled.

We took one-day pass for this visit, and apparently it wasn't enough time to cover all the rides due to soooo long queue that we have to endure. Nevertheless, it was still worth it for we all have the full package of fun,with satisfactory amount of shopping for family members,which I was missing during last visit.

7-day Japan Exploration-Tokyo city

26-27th April 2014

Our stay in a fairly quiet neighborhood in Kyoto came to its end and we packed up our stuff to move and experienced one notch busier place of Tokyo metropolitan city. As usual, it was time for us to snap some pictures with the girls in kimono. I mean, this time has to be proper ones instead of candid that I showed in previous post during check in.Hihi..

 

It took a while to wait for the arrival of shinkansen. The passers-by who looked at us in bewilderment were not the reason for us to just sit on the floor instead of using the designated seat nearby. Oh, all of them were occupied,anyway. Yes, save the energy while it lasts. 

Finally we arrived at Tokyo after almost 2 and half hours of travelling.( I hope I remember it right, huhu).

We recharged and refreshed at the lodging before resuming to hop on the next train to Shinjuku station. In here, we were eyeing for some souvenirs, and lucky enough, the efforts were a bit fruitful than the previous hunt in Osaka. :)) Nevertheless, there were not so much of price haggling can be done here, and same goes to other places when we purchased the souvenirs. Other than that were restaurant, clothes with brand names that were not familiar in our knowledge.

We were done with this place and next place was to find the BBQ halal restaurant in Shibuya. Being in the busy town like Shibuya, even when we were guided with map in hand, apparently finding the restaurant was not as easy as we thought. Another tool was missing, that was GPS. Dila then approached the Japanase fella to seek for help.

And it took a about another half an hour of walking ,yes, half an hour or so with growling stomach to reach the isolated restaurant. Azab!

 

After a few times of asking the helpful japanese on the distance, at last we reached the restaurant. Fuh!!! Unfortunately he refused to join us enjoying our barbeque dining , instead he resumed to his destination afterwards. Haishhh..

We were super starving like nobody's business as we were served with salad for the starter. Plateful of fresh salad vanished, like in a split second!

A few hours in the restaurant having the delicious fresh meat and chicken, finally we started to move to next destination. Did I tell you how much this dinner costs? 3000 yen per pax. Pfttt..But it was worth it!

Next place was Hard Rock Cafe in Roppongi. All the ladies bought stuff for themselves, and I, on the other hand just managed to catch something for Ju Zie. Nothing to my likings or collectibles to buy.Hmmpphh..

(Hye, can you please snap picture of us and Hard rock Cafe sign pls ? ) to the passers-by. As usual.

The following day in Tokyo, our attention was caught by the city skybus. We instantly agree to use the service to get around Tokyo city in a day. After all, we need to save the remaining energy to explore Disneyland on the next day.

There were a few sky scrapper tower in Tokyo, and Dila suggested for all of us to visit on of the towers, that was Sky Tree Tower. Not a bad idea.

 

So we thought we have saved our energy for riding the skybus, but no, we we quite wrong. Apparently we were forced to queue in a super long line to reach the counter,I would say almost 2 hours perhaps, or more, I felt like going berserk. Grr...

But the chances to see Tokyo from helicopter view was indeed spectacular! Again, the experience was worth the long queue.

And there is also glass floor, spot some faces controlling the gayatness? heheh..

The tour resumed to interesting places around Tokyo city such as...



Tokyo Central Railway Station...

Tokyo tower...

and et ceteraa et ceteraa..

We completed the city tour in the evening before we started to find place to eat.So we have kebab for the day. Annnndddd... birthday surprise to Zaira too! Hihi..