Archive for May, 2009
the great bali escape: may ‘09: day two: legian beach, kuta streets, sunset @ ku de ta
Woke up, had breakfast at Masa Inn then walked towards Legian Street. Sure looks different in daytime. Walked past endless shops and pubs, lots of traffic = noise + air pollution, lots of touters. I think being Asians has its advantages — some of the touters don’t even bother greeting us or look at [...]
the great bali escape: may ‘09: masa inn
I did most of the planning about a week before we were supposed to go. I guess it was mostly because I didn’t want to make *the* decision — of course we won’t be spending much time in the room so it really shouldn’t matter *that* much. On the other hand, it would be nice [...]
the great bali escape: may ‘09: day one: departure, arrival, blasted taxi driver
So Fireangel and I went to Bali and back. We purchased the tickets in August 2008 during one of those Air Asia free tickets thing. It cost RM566 including RM36 optional GoInsure (which wasn’t optional for us because for some reason, the optional box/button did not appear in Firefox). When I was at a dinner [...]
before bali
Am off to Bali today, will be back on Monday. Am rather excited and relieved because I’ve been looking forward to this for a while, I’ve never been to Bali and I quite need a getaway.
We have to leave PJ by 4pm. I have a lot of errands to run, little last minute stuff [...]
t’was not a very good joke
Not much today as I am busy with stuff before I go on a much-awaited holiday. More on that tomorrow. Just want to share something that I feel is relevant to social media use, especially for friends and readers who don’t follow certain tech blogs.
Last Friday, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch (uh, where else heh) [...]