Bali

I come to Bali so much, it's practically my second home. My grandma even made up a short song about it which goes something like, "Beckabee, went to Baliiiiii and got stung by a beeee..." And it goes on with whatever she thinks up on the spot that ends with the "eeeee" sound. My aunt likes to sing it too, sometimes. It's... cute. But yes anyway I still love Bali so much tho, and each trip is so different and exciting. It's my third time here this year - which is probably the most times we've been here in a year. It's mainly because my dad's gotten really involved with this church here which is not exactly a bad thing because the church is pretty cool and the people are super cool. A majority of them are surfers that live in this 'Surf House' here in Bali and they're kind of like, missionaries I guess. Or well, the ones that play bigger roles in the church. I really love it here and this trip we went up to the mountains which was a real different experience from our previous trips. We're here for 10 days and we spent the first 2 days at the W Hotel which was really great (and sooooo purple I was practically in heaven) before going up to Munduk Moding (or whatever it's called) for 2 days. The place was infested with bugs but the pool was so amazing even though the water was freeeeeezing cold. We went trekking and horse riding and stuff and it was so different from what we usually do, especially in Bali. We drove back down from the mountain today and spent more time at the beach here. 5 more days here, I'm gonna make the best of them and hopefully I'll have the time of my life! I don't even know what else we're gonna do hahaha but we'll see!

 Beautiful beach at the W Hotel.

 The sand was shiny!

Cool light.

 Bliss soaps omg (and purple soap dish thingies!!!!!).

Underwater cam hair photo thingy (this is vanity isn't it).

 ONE OF THE MANY ADORABLE PUPPIES WE SAW AROUND THE VILLAGE PLACE (this one was while trekking it was so so so soooooo cute I wanted to kidnap it and bring it home!!!)

 Pretty amazing infinity pool.

Horse (pony?) ride!

NEmation

So last week, I spent 2 days helping my friends out at the NEmation studios (studios?) because I am a good and cool and awesome friend... And just cause I can. I think I was quite helpful eh like seriously hahahaha. Or well moreso on the first day I went, as compared to the second day. On the second day I was quite like noob hahahahaha I was just screwing around online. I did however, manage to scrape this blogpost up for them hahahaha so yes GOOD FRIEND OF THE YEAR = ME. I just read it again. It's still funny. BUT YES I am so proud of Lyss, Daph and Bianca for making it all the way through despite how stressed and like unmotivated they were and shit during the Top 100-40 rounds in September BUT NOW THEY'RE IN THE TOP 10 which is so amazing and I really really hope they win!!!!! Their story is so hilarious and cute yet realistic (and Singaporean) at the same time. You guys are welcome HAHAHAHAHAH jk. But yes they are working soooooooo hard it's crazy so they really deserve to win PLZ VOTE FOR THEM next year. Yes. This post has had way too many caps. Oh well. But yes I shall now post the wonderful photos from the 2nd day I was there because that was half of what I did.. Take/edit random photos. OH AND WE READ MY OLD BLOGS omg I was an embarrassment. Ughhhhh it was so painful. OKAY POST ABOUT BALI NEXT and photos now yay.

 Oooh this one's from the first day tho. Note Bianca's tiredness even though it was only their second day in.

 I SEE MAH FRIENDS (': loljk I'm no Rebecca Black.

 Just chillin' with my cousin.

We managed to make it to the Taj Mahal (and back) ohyeah. 

Oh, the wonders of Photoshop.

New hair new hair new hair!!!!!!!

AFTER 3 ATTEMPTS (2 of which failed miserably) I HAVE FINALLY SUCCESSFULLY DYED MY HAIR. Ok so basically I've been trying to dipdye my hair for like.. forever. Well I've wanted to since last December and so the first time I tried to dye it was during the June holodays but that failed cause I got my grandma to help me get the dye and she got some purple-brown hairdye thingy which sucked cause basically nothing changed and it looked exactly the same. Then on Sunday I tried again and Denise, Danielle and Nicole tried to help me dye my hair again and this time we used purple IT WAS PURPLE but it didn't work cause my hair is black (no shit) and nothing turned out. Sooooooo today I went to Queensway to get my poor little iTouch screen fixed and then while waiting for it I was wandering around and I ended up at this little shop thingy where they sell lotsa um beauty crap? Yeah so I asked if they had bleach and they did and it was like 6 bucks so I got it yay. And so I came home and bleached my hair it was pretty fun. However I tied my hair up and just bleached the end of my ponytail so now when I let my hair down it's quite like uneven but I'm still pretty happy with the result yay. Idk if I still wanna do the purple cause it's pretty tiring (ok not really I think I'm just lazy) but if I do manage to get my hands on a purple dye that I like (much less ANY purple dye) then I'll probably dye it purple yay. I love purple. I really do. But yes okay I shall now post (recycled) photos of my hair cause it's not that easy to take new ones anyway because I am camwhorely handicapped if that makes any sense whatsoever. I actually took more photos than I thought. This is not a good thing.

 With the bleach still on./Swinging my ponytail.

 Weird flash reflection noob effect yeah idk.

 Different lighting? Yeah basically no flash.

Cracked iTouch screen oh yay!

Moon, Roll Me Away.

I love gang vocals. If an album made up of songs filled entirely with gang vocals existed, I would buy it. Then again that'd be like, a choir album or something. So buying every single choir album known to mankind would not be very possible.  K cool.

I've been back in Singapore for 2 days. It's been okay. Oh wait, not exactly. Today was a pretty bad day. Dropped my 1-week-and-two-days-old iTouch and the screen cracked. I hate life. Okay not really but yeah I'm pretty upset, plus fixing the screen costs more than half the price of the iTouch itself which is insane arghhhhhh I hope this works out fjeuyehbdhdisiejebdjf. Anyway Hong Kong was pretty good, overall. I guess life isn't all that bad aside from the iTouch thing grr. I am, however, so excited to go back to Bali. I really wanna surf ahhh I hope my ribs have healed well enough hahahahaha. Yeah I don't know I'm just really tired right now, today has been soooo long argh. Pretty eventful too but I'm too lazy to list everything out but yes life is pretty exciting now. I'd be okay if it'd weren't, anyway. I could use some rest.

Hongkongwithak.

Retarded title hahahahaha but yes I'M IN HONGKONGGGGGG. Everything's been pretty great except the fact that I have a flu, that sucks. But other than that yes I've done lots of shopping (ok not that much, but a fair amount) and eaten so much good food. I've also gotten a tattoo and been on a couple of roller coasters yay. So yeah, biggest highlight so far: H&MMMMMMM! Seriously even though we have h&m in SG now it cannot compare to the ones (yes, oneS, not just one psshh SG) here. There are like 10 here I think and the stuff is really dirt cheap. Okay I'm kind of overreacting cause there are things that they sell both here and in Singapore but the greatest difference is the SALES RACK. Seriously everything there is under $100HK which = about $16SGD. Crazy. And the things aren't crappy or anything SO THEY'RE A REALLY GOOD DEAL. Going to another h&m tomorrow in hopes of finding more sales racks and even better deals hahahaha seriously Alyssa and I are in heavennnnnnn. Other than that, yeah we've been around, looking at things and experiencing the different lifestyle these people lead. School is... Well okay I guess. But today was pretty stupid cause all we did was volleyball (which was quite fun but rather painful too) and history (where we learned about wwi) and then they had Chinese which was really Cantonese and thus Lyssa and I had no idea as to what the heck was going on so we just slept... Oh and we were sitting in the first row hahahahaha I feel pretty bad for the teacher but we seriously had 0 clue about anything at all. So yes that is all for now. I shall now post a bunch of my instagram photos here so that...... Yeah idk.

(Top-bottom: View from a cablecar; Lyssa smiling at her phone; The beach; My feather tattoo; Lyssa's fairy tattoo.)

We can make the world stop.

Didn't get my ramen in the end. I did, however, end up going for Rugby 7's with Jasmine later in the day. It was super fun, partied and stalked and Lyssa came to join us oh yeaaaah it was pretty awesome and Yeah 3x was stuck in my head for a while after. Week went by pretty fast, went to Leah's for lunch on Monday, after 'dance rehearsal' for HK but the dance got cancelled anyway so that was pointless. Good times at Leah's house AND SHE COOKED WELL it was so good. Went to Holland and FINALLY got my ramen on Tuesday. Went for tuition with Jill. Died laughing several times. Chilled at home and watched a bunch of shows (Hart of Dixie, New Girl, Gossip Girl) yesterday and went back to HPPS today. Talked to Mr Lim for quite a while, it was fun. Went to Holland with Josh and Joanne, sat in Starbucks messing around with my iTouch and Joanne and I were trying to iMessage and FaceTime each other even though we were sitting next to each other hahahahaha. It didn't work. Wireless@SG was too noob to handle it. Finally got to use iMessage when I got home and I've been fooling around on it ever since hahahahaha. I think this iTouch might be a little more of a curse than a blessing, especially since I have 3 tests tomorrow that I have yet to start studying for and it's already 10.30pm. I think I'm gonna go to sleep now and try to cram tomorrow morning. Or well if I fail all the tests.... Too bad I guess. Last day of school tomorrow, Hong Kong the day after. I am excited.

Stand still, pause clocks.

We can make the world stop.

I really like this video.

I want ramen.

I am currently walking to the car, church just ended. I really really really really want ramen. Today is Sunday, tomorrow is Monday which is a holiday cause it's a holiday in lieu of today which is Hari Raya.... I'm not sure which one, but basically not Puasa. I apologize for my slight ignorance of this holiday and should anyone care to enlighten me I would gladly accept such enlightenment yes I don't know what I'm saying I'm just really hungry I'm in the car now and we're going for lunch at Alexandra Village I hope there's ramen there oh man. Leah just texted me to ask me if I like bananas. Oh ok. I shall reply her now. I hope I get my ramen. This has been a random blogpost that was brought about by extreme hunger.

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Fixing Up

Yes so I'm tryna change my template and stuff and looking for a good background etc and anyway I came across my cousin Rachel's Valentines' Day baked goods and yes fksjlrkhsarsharlkjaer why didn't I get any of the culinary talent boohoo.

3rd post of the day I should probably stop spamming oh man.

MY COOKING ADVENTURES

So I got around to making my pancakes which didn't turn out all that bad. I'm actually pretty culinarily inept and I managed to fail Home Ec last year which just reiterates that point. Also, I managed to screw pre-mixed cake mix once which left my dear Danielle without a birthday present (and I still have yet to get her one oh man) and I constantly kill cookies, be it whether they turn out burnt or too big and end up sticking together or even that one time at Bianca's house where we didn't flatten the dough and the cookies turned out really cakey which was.. Interesting. But seriously, since I was a small kid I would go to my grandma's house to bake, sometimes with my cousin (and the two of them are amazing cooks/bakers) and I somehow always managed to burn my batch cookies. It was pretty demoralizing. So yes in terms of baking, I have probably only successfully mastered the art of baking brownies and scones which is pretty sad cause I just suck at everything else. But yes I made a brownie for Afifah's birthday and made pancakes today which was the point of this post cause I wanted to post the pictures so yay for my culinary skills (or lack thereof).

Affy's Birthday Cake

Cause I kinda like the bokeh effect

+ I am so bad at icing hahaha

Cookin da pancakes

 

Trying to be artistic

Hungrygal eyeing the pancakes

   Hungrygal enjoying the pancakes

Yummy chocolate filling

Milo

Maple syrup in a maple leaf shaped bottle

Packin' for HK

Last night, I couldn't sleep because I was trying to think of all the things I would bring to HK and it was pretty hard to decide some things like WHAT BAG TO BRING such that the chances of being robbed would be the slimmest (mmm yes I am slightly paranoid from a. What the tourguide said during the briefing and b. That wongfu video about the pickpocketers in HK hahahaha damn.) But yes I have various other dilemmas as well, besides being afraid that my stuff might get stolen. Like how big a luggage I need to bring. Yes I realize these are all extremely trivial and shallow dilemmas but hey I have weighed my options and yet, I still can't decide! I don't want to not have enough space when I buy stuff, but I'm afraid that if my luggage is too big, it might be hard to lug around especially if we're taking the MTR. Yes. If anyone has any advice, I would appreciate some. I might probably turn to Google for advice in the end, anyway. I love Google. Do a barrel roll. I have been craving ramen for ages but I shall make myself some pancakes now instead.

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