巴厘岛之日落篇

我爱大自然，我爱日落，我爱那种和大自然合为一体的感觉。

在出发到巴厘岛之前，我花了很多时间做功课，在看过了网上讯息和旅游书籍后，我决定，一定要争取我们在巴厘岛唯有的两个黄昏，在两个美级了的景点等待
日落，沐浴在夕阳的余晖里。


第一个日落，在Tambanan区的Tanah Lot寺庙。我是那么的幸运，潮退了，我开心地跨过被海水浸软的沙，跳步到寺庙的脚下，淋了圣水，额头点了些米粒，一朵绽放的小白花就在耳边上。我笑着爬上寺庙的边上，坐着看着底下排击着寺庙的大浪，浪花朵朵，浪花都是金色的，我用眼睛给这一刻拍下了永恒的照片，我的心笑了，真的好开心。感恩我有幸在这一边看到了世界的美丽。


第二个日落，在Uluwatu寺庙。寺庙在一个山坡上，遥不可及似的。好多好多的猴子，放肆地嬉戏。我们付了钱，到另一边的山坡上欣赏巴厘岛的传统舞蹈 - kecak dance.表演者们不断地唱着kecak, kecak,kecak....女神们曼妙的舞姿，夕阳西下，这一个日落，带着浓浓的传统文化气息。纯朴的大自然让我暂时远离城市的虚伪诈骗，赤子之心找到了歇息的地方。

这一颗的笑容，是最真实的。

巴厘岛之友情篇

经过了忙碌的大半年，我的护照又再度重出江湖了，呵呵。这一次，是阳光与海滩 - 巴厘岛是也！！

由于资金有限（唉！），加上我们都不喜欢匆匆忙忙跟着大队的时间赶呀赶的，我们决定来个经济又实惠的度假：没有5星级酒店，只有实惠的小旅店；没有导游，只有自己收集资料，猛做功课，自己当导游。原以为这一趟将会是个“不带走一片云彩”的4日游，可是缘分让我们遇上了好几个新朋友，成为了我们生命中的过客。


我们在计算经费后，觉得搭D不划算，决定租用司机与小车，来给Free & Easy 4日游，怎么知道这一家收费廉宜的出租公司还免费提供了一位英文会话的兼职导游，以方便沟通。就这样，我们有缘认识了她 - Mariani，一个22岁的典型巴厘岛女孩，一身黝黑皮肤的她脸上永远绽放着如巴厘岛阳光般的笑容。我们能遇上她可说是老天特别眷顾，因为她是一个用心来对人的可爱女孩，常常就为了让我们在有限的时间内完成我们的旅程计划，而绞尽脑汁紧张兮兮的，让我们太内疚了。 司机Ari 则非常害羞，不谙英文的他只会害羞地笑，很可爱，但是每当我们因为交通阻塞而稍微耽误了时间，他就不停地捏汗，想尽办法绕小路，看得出他的用心，太感动了~~~ 我永远记得他们俩在我们临走前，为了让我们如愿以偿品尝到道地的Nasi Campur Babi Guling，而四处奔波在Ubud, Batuan, Batubulan一带寻找 warong。当我们的车子拐到一条小路是，Ari看到了一间小摊子，大喊:"Ada buka, ada buka!!"，他们俩脸上的喜悦，是骗不了人的真情流露。非常感激，和感动，真的。


也因为他们俩，我们因缘巧合认识了一对来自希腊，目前定居于纽约的犹太裔夫妇，英俊的Paris 和他美丽的妻子，Tina。他们俩非常友善，42 岁的Paris是一个室内设计师，自己开了间设计公司，可他老像个大顽童似的，对身边的所有新鲜事物都非常好奇，拿起相机不断地拍呀拍，看见巴厘岛民庆祝Galungan 庆典时眼睛睁得好大，还不断追问马来的一切，东南亚的故事，甚至挑战我们说出道地月亮的传说，看看哪个比较逻辑。Tina 是个温柔儒雅的美丽女人，一举一动都那么的优雅（比起她，我真太不像话了，汗。），可她也非常的幽默，当我们应Paris的邀请，一块在Tanah Lot 附近的小山上来个“无敌海景”的海鲜晚餐时，Tina看着我们身边两位仁兄小至各国建筑、风俗，大至世界经济、政治等课题高谈阔论时，不住的揶揄，对我说女人的智慧，就在于沉着不外露，就让男人在外头吹牛吧，待会儿关上了门我们再慢慢地教训他们，哈哈。Tina自小在希腊长大，在意大利念书，在纽约工作，她打趣地说她充其量都只算是个兼职的室内设计师，因为她80% 的时间都给了他们两岁的女孩。不说不知，原来他们的巴厘岛度假还有个原由，因为Tina第二天就满40岁了，Paris为了满足她想要个夏日风情的生日，特地把女儿暂时安放在希腊的婆婆家，再老远的飞过来，希望给她一个美丽的回忆，太浪漫了！

其实，巴厘岛的友情篇，怎么写也写不完，因为岛民们真的好友善，热情中带点腼腆，还有小旅店里餐馆的叔叔，Jimbaran Bay Seafood里拿几位可爱的侍者，在Tanah Lot遇到的一群可爱伙子们，都让我们的巴厘岛游，留下了温暖难忘的回忆。最后，至Mariani，希望我们送给你的巴厘岛旅游咨询小本子能带给你更多的资料，好让你早日达到梦想，成为一个出色的导游。=)

Rendition

Rendition.

Not going to blah blah blah about this, just watch it.

Oohh there are 2 of my favourite actress....

The legendary Meryl Streep and the best newcomer Reese Witherspoon.



Definitely much better than the "National Treasure 2", the typical Hollywood film, which I laugh all the time watching it while predicting accurately on every single detail of the story. Waste my Nicolas Cage.

RENDITION!! Yeay!!

The Kingdom

If you enjoy action movie, this movie is your sort.
If you always concern of the endless wars in lotsa hostile countries, you will be interested in this movie.
If you are curious what is the thinking of the citizen living in chaos, and even the secret power behind which force some people to risk their life for something they believe are worthy, I guess this movie can give you some idea as well.

Jamie Foxx, one of the current best actors in Hollywood, is the main attraction for me initially for this movie, but then I knew I will like it after a few scenes in the beginning of the story - it tells you the story in middle east, the disputable role of US in this place, the different thinking and story of Saudi Arabian, and of course, the force which makes both US army and t*rrorist to fight for the justice they believe. Most importantly, this movie is sitting on the fence thoroughly, no particular stand in either party, no religion discrimination and no US ego which I never buy it.


I can't help shedding my tears in the last scene, when the Arabian officer, Colonel Faris sacrificing his life for the faith he believes - peace. Colonel Faris is my favourite character in this film, because he believes in peace, regardless of anything. He is a warm-hearted mankind who disagree in simply taking people life, which is so contradict with those cruel "masked warloads" who are willing to risk others life for their own benefit.

"What did you tell her that day?"
One of the FBI agents asked Officer Ronald what did he tell Officer Janet to comfort her of losing their teammate in a well-planned attack.

"What did grandfather tell you when he was dying?"
The daughter of the General Al Abdulmalik asked her lil girl after their compound demolished by FBI and her father died.

"We will kill everyone of them."
The same answer of both of them. The endless war.

Fusion Haven

Fusion cuisine, the cuisine with a style of cooking that uses ingredients and techniques from around the world, especially one combines Eastern and Western influences. I'm a food lover, I alwiz wanna try different kinds of great food, but then, fusion cuisine is alwiz EXPENSIVE, or high-end where you might need to spend a few hundred bucks per meal, but hey..... I've found one, I mean, it's introduced by my food kaki, but it's the great one, the great cuisine with the reasonable price!!

I paid a visit to the restaurant in Sri Petaling on a Saturday night, wishing to get something special and delicious, and yes, I got that!!

Look at what we've ordered:



Appetizer: Vietnamese Baked Mussels, it's full with ginger taste and unique. Not so fatty but still, I prefer the mussel with lemon sauce in Fish & Co. :p



Main course 1: Milan Style Fried Chicken, luv the special made sauce, and guess what, the lil orange brown thing is RICE!! Cool huh~~



Main course 2: Japanese Miso Spicy Baked Butter Fish, oh, I luv the spicy miso thing paired with the fish. It suits gal because it's in small portion. =)



Dessert: Chocolate Mud Cake with Ice-Cream, you can see the chocolate flowing out from the mud cake when you cut it, yummy~

The food served with "style", and they're undeniably delicious with a very acceptable price, although the dessert is a lil bit too sweet for me. :)

We managed to chit chat with the boss, and hey, he is one great cuisine lover too!! He is a friendly and funny man, the funniest thing is, he dislike and he does not believe in occasion promotion, such as Valentine Dinner because, "I do not feel good to earn double on occasion while at the same time, limit people the food choice," he said. "Let them choose what they like to eat."

I'm glad that he is a food lover than a restaurant owner, and I'm glad that I got the chance to know it - FUSION HAVEN. =)