Africa

The trip to Africa was different from the usual ones. No nice shopping malls, no constant water or electricity supply. Life inside and outside the hotel was different. Some of the kids we spoke to say they use laptops in school, and I was surprised to find out facebook was actually popular in Africa.

I love the blue skies, hate the food and love the warmness extended to us when we were there.


Here's the view from the Hotel, Indian Ocean, My favourite part of Africa :p



Roadside stall




Tuktuk anyone?



Blue skies!

I went to their local market with a colleague from Zimbabwe as well. Will post up the photo once I get access to that.

If there's an opportunity to be back in Africa, I would definitely try to check out the Safari!

So I came back safely from Africa. A much nicer country than I expected though. Met nice friends there, though it ended on a bad note with the driver, I thought it was overall a pretty good experience.

Sunset in the hotel. :)

Yesterday was terrible. I found out that dumbo has a higher pay than me. She's so predictable, did not delete her payslips in her email after she left the organisation, me with her email account has no problems taking a peep, and totally regretted it. For someone like her, she had a better pay without much effort. My conclusion, her agency pays well. And I graduated on the wrong year. Sigh.
Then I had news of ex-colleagues promoted in 2 years. I have never ever been promoted. The closest I came too was last year, and I left before it happened since it's almost 2.5 years. I have more experience and I work better, I don't understand. Perhaps, this is how God keeps everything in equilibrium cos the hubby loves me, I have a good job that doesn't pays too shabby for the amount of work I'm doing, even though I'm paid lesser than bimbo.

Anyways, try to look on the bright side. Yes, I will.

Bintan

We came back from a 2D1N trip to Bintan, 6 adults, 1 baby, 1 toddler.
Came back real tired from entertaining the kids, but it was quite fun. I can't imaging how a mum and dad can do it on their own. It was tough with all the luggages!

We had some time at the beach, so I played with Instagram again. :p

Bintan Agro Beach Resort

Was looking through my list of food photos which I'm supposed to upload, I found some from Bintan! In sep, before hubby changed his job, we went for a short trip. In order to avoid the crowd at Nirwana and Bintan Lagoon, I opted for Bintan Agro Beach Resort. It's a pretty painless affair to book the package from http://bintanspavilla.com/packages.html as they were based in Singapore.

I took package C, a sweet memory package which includes ferry tickets, land transfer, 2 nights accomodation, 150 mins spa, poolside candlelight dinner with an additional upgrade to Blue Ocean Suite. The full package costs us $656 for 2 pax and payment was made via bank transfer and within days, my trip was confirmed. There was no need to go down to the agency at all. Internet really made life so much easier.


Agro Beach resort has 2 other sister resorts, Cabana and Yasin Bunglows. Agro seems to be the more popular one. I wouldn't say it's crowded, in fact there's probably less than 10 rooms occupied when we were there! It's was nice and quiet, most likely due to the fact that we went there from Thur to Sat. The suite we got were simple, very simple but clean and a nice view of the ocean. The resort has been around for a while, so some of the stuffs were pretty old.

We had fun snorkelling though!! I bought a digipac to place my camera so that we could take photos underwater, and it worked really well.

Anyway, food was good too! We went to the Sun Moon Restaurant (and it has no affiliations with the one in SG), food was not to expensive and it's really nice.

Some pics I took. The Dragonfruit juice. It was fresh dragonfruit jucie and the 1st time I tried. It wasn't too bad.

Fried Rice, their specialty. Don't belittle this small simple plate, it was really good. Still drooling over it now.

Weather was cold, so we ordered tom yam soup. This was not too bad as well, just the right amount of spicyness.

The prawns were nice and fresh, maybe cos they were pretty near the sea? All in all, the meal was actually quite cheap and affordable.

All in all, it was a good trip to rest and relax. Looking forward to the next trip to Bintan in Feb with hubby's friends!

Staycation at Changi Village Hotel

Merry Christmas!

We had our early christmas celebration at Changi Village Hotel 1 week before Christmas. Took a 3D2N package with Executive suite for about $400nett, so it came with access to the executive lounge, with free flow of drinks and evening cocktails.

The lounge was filled with the Shopaholic Series which I love! I didn't read them cos I have the whole range at home. I love the infinity pool! Blame it on my good friend who came to visit, so I didn't get to use the pool at all.

We stayed on the same level as the executive lounge and had a really cool ocean view from the room. The bathroom was quite unique with the see through glass window. I only realised that we can pull down the window screen for privacy on the 2nd day. :p

Spent 2 hours cycling along changi beach, pass the long stretch of road where you race with the airplanes. It was really fun, but tiring since we haven't been cycling for so long.

Ordered Room service. It was really nice for a rainy afternoon. Yes, it rained really heavily after cycling, luckily we were already back in the hotel.

The last day was spent slacking around in the room, before we checked out.

The overall experience was ok I guess, the Wifi is really weak, even the hotel staffs said so. The air con was really cold, somehow, we off the aircon and slept through the first night. (A good friend said cos it's haunted. :p) I hope to stay at Hotel Quincy the next time, also under the Far East Group.

How was your staycaytion experience?

Hello!

I'm on day 7 in japan. Currently in Osaka.

Our trip didn't start off that well, but still, it was challenging, tiring and fun.

So far, we have missed our trains, delay exchanging our passes cos the centre closed early, camera died on us on our 2nd day, a lot of luggage lugging up the stairs and down the stairs cos most of them are not equipped with escalators, went to a tourist spot that's closed....

But, we saw Mount Fuji on our train ride to Kyoto, got a new camera, went to castles, temples, shrines, shopping is way too expensive and too tiring cos each mall has at least 10 floors to go through.

Loved the food here though expensive for some, we tired eating in the train station where you are supposed to stand, expensive japanese food, Macdonalds, Mos Burger, Ramen store, vending machine, Bento on the train, Japanese spaghetti, Japanese Pizza, Desserts, ice cream, puddings, cakes.. yum!

Gotta go, washing our clothes!

Happy New Year!