sydney is illuminated

2012 vivid sydney @ customs house hot igloo harbour bridge sydney the building that needs no introduction jedi spotty museum of contemporary arts

bali lovelies

seeing my friends' blogs (that they update regularly) always reminds me that i should update mine. so here's another attempt at it.

i just came back from a trip to bali. bali has always been my favourite places to go to, but this time it was even more special and memorable because i was there with 3 lovelies that i truly adore. so here's one snapshot of one of the many, many happy moments there.... <3
me and two of the lovelies (the one more lovely took the picture)
@nammos beach club, karma kandara, ungasan, bali
photo taken by sz

watch this space for more pictures, or you can also go to my flickr

notting hill

enjoy!

พระบรมมหาราชวัง, Phra Borom Maha Ratcha Wang

my friend laura and i went for our annual trip and this time we chose to go to thailand. below are some pictures of the details of the grand palace in bangkok and you can find more pictures here

destination: london, united kingdom

i really need to catch up on my blogging, just like i need to catch up with everything else that i have been putting off because of work.

well, i am starting with a few shots from my winter vacation to london. needless to say, i instantly fell in love with the city

destination: the gilis, nusa tenggara barat, indonesia

my friend laura came to visit from sydney and we went on a 4-day trip to the gilis, a group of islands on the northwest coast of lombok (the island east of bali).

we flew from jakarta to mataram (or sometimes listed as ampenan) which took about one and a half hours. we then took a taxi from mataram to bangsal to catch our boat to the gilis. i must say that being at the bangsal harbor is a little uncomfortable as there were people agressively offering us boat tickets as soon as we entered the premises. not to mention luggage porters that will snatch your bags and overcharge you for bringing it on to the boat. but anyway, if you are ever in bangsal, make sure you 1. buy your ticket the counter and 2. hang on to your own bag, and if your luggage is too heavy, you need to agree on the fee first, before you give your luggage to the porter to carry. no need to worry, the people in the harbor are harmless, they are just desperate for some work (and money). you can also catch a private boat from another harbor, but that will cost up to $35. considering our budget, laura and i settled with going by the public boat and we only had to pay less than US$ 1 per person. we got to gili trawangan, safe and in one piece =).

the gilis (gili means island) consist of 3 little islands, gili trawangan, gili meno, and gili air. gili trawangan is the biggest of the 3 and that's where we stayed. there are no motor vehicles in this island, so you either walk, cycle or take the horse carriage (or rickshaws?). how's that? clean air, soft sand, blue sky and crystal clear water. days in the sun do not get much better than this =)

my full set of pictures is here