we waited and waited and waited for sunset, and it was oh so niceeeee... i swear errbody was takin pics hahaha...


errbody includin me, but ofcourse! heehehe

we waited a bit more for dinner, they served us some good ass home cooked meal... i aint complainin =D

the next mornin we had to wake up bright n early... breakfast at 7am and then off to surfin lesson at 9am... that wasnt exactly my 1st time tryin to learn how to surf... i had to do it back in 2004 when i covered a surfin competition sponsored by roxy n quicksilver... and it wasnt pretty!... so i wasnt really lookin forward for another lesson... buuuuttt there i was, and i had no choice, had to do it for mtv, arrgghhh!

here is a pic of avi, mora, and i before we tried our luck in surfin.. hahaha...


i am ready, wait no, they're ready, i am just scuurreed.. hehehe

im comin in! eheheheh... u kno surfin has got to b one of the most difficult sports ever... it sooo not as easy as it looks... i got slammed so many times it wasnt even funny.. i even scrapped my knee.. but thank god it wasnt major... i kept fallin n i kept gettin up, wasnt gon give up easily u kno ehehe... i ended up doin that for about 45 minutes until i managed to stand on the board (for only a quick 5 secs that is hahaha, that is soo sad)... but hey i was happy =D


pray for me hahaha

after the surfin lesson, we got ready, and then off to Bingin Beach... where the surfin competition took place... ooh its called Oakley Thump 2 the sequel.... we had lunch as soon as we got there, u kno a girl needs her food so she can work all freakin day... hehee...

and then it was time to work work work... that day was super duper hot... but hey the view was awesome... the whole surroundin was great so it deff didnt feel like workin... more like hangin at the beach... which is always fun fun fun...

here's a pic before we started "workin" hehehehe


bring it on ;-)

interview, interview, and more interview... and then it was time 2 give out the trophies... oh i saw some surfers did great moves, most of them been surfin since they were lil boys tho so no wonder!...


the winners woot woot hahaha

no matter how hot it was, we just gotta take pics.. uh huh, thats rite... hehehehe.. lets see who we got here...

(L-R)
- Rio from Cosmopolitan Magazine
- Mora from GoGirl! Magazine
- Avi from Maxxim Magazine
- Meeeee
- Ria from MTV.. yeaaa !!!... hehehe


hot daaayyyy

and then it was sunset already... aaaahhhh... amazin im tellin uuuuu...


sooo wish Oka was there with me... hiks hiks...

ooh they got a DJ spinnin some stuff after the competition ended.. a so called after party or wut not... the DJ wasnt spinnin some hip hop and rnb so i wasnt really feelin it, but wutever... ooh as usual they got door prizes at events like this, and for some odd reason i WON Hard Rock Cafe vouchers!!!... i was the 1st one to win some stuff too!! how kewl !!! hehehe


smileeeee at the after party

we didnt stay at the after party for too long... we left Bingin Beach at 10pm, got to the hotel around 11pm.. we got ready for a really late dinner.. we were gon go to Hard Rock Cafe but we ended up eatin dinner at the pool side, wasnt too bad cuz they got a live band performin... so all gravyyyy....


dinner by the pool

monday mornin was our only time to go shoppin !!!
i wasnt too crazy bout it cuz ummm kinda broke from my korea trip hahaha... so i only bought a couple of stuff.. for oka, febian, and my girl friends... ooh and for me ofcourse ;-)

here's a pic of us at Kuta Square


as u can see i got my plastic bags of goodies.. hahahah

oooh i also got me a pair of CROCS !!!
finallyyyyy... i've had my eye on those since my last trip to S'pore... which was a couple of months ago... i kept thinkin if i should get it or not, difficult decision cuz its kinda pricy and i didnt wanna spend that much on sandals... but then i got to bali and i just had to get em...aaaahhhh... after that decision was made, pickin the color was even more difficult.. hahaha... i ended up buyin the baby blue with pink straps.. hehehe... supa dupa cute!


luuuuvv my crocs!

after shoppin we headed back to the hotel, and checked out, and then off to the airport...
had fun fun fun....
cant wait til my next trip to bali !!!

last pic, was actually taken when we got to jakarta...


a lil blurry but oh well

BALI !!!

im goin to bali !!!

i kno wut u guys r thinkin, this chick doesnt do anythin and yet she goes on vacays all the time.. hehehe... but dont worry this time im actually goin there cuz of mtv... yup im substitutin for one of the vjs.. apparently they're all busy so they're outta vjs aaannddd as usual thats where i come in.. ehehehe... which is aaa oo kaayyy... i mean we're talkin bout Bali here, theres no way in hell i would reject this offer hahahaha...

so anyways i'll b coverin a surfing competition sponsored by Oakley... and theres a fat chance i mite get free stuff... so again, theres no way in hell i would reject this offer.. hahahaha....

i'll b leavin on sat mornin... the event is on sunday, all day loonggg... and then i'll leave for jakarta on monday noon... sounds great riteeeee? =D

im excited cuz its been a year since my last trip to bali...

so bali... here i commmeeeeeee !!!!

hehehe...

luv this guy!

luv him sooo much.. i luv it that i can b who i am when im with him and vice versa ofcourse... we're just two silly ppl.. hahaha...

nephews

oka's nephews, Putra and Ara are here for the summer... they r the cutest !!!
soooooo cute! .. a lil shy at 1st, very shy actually.. hehe.. but now we're like best friends.. hahaha... they even call me Tante (auntie) yani now.. awwwww... they r super funny, they ask so many questions.. just too cute! =D

they just moved to New Jersey from New York, so u kno they're lil gangstas.. hahah.. they're favorite song is Many Men by 50 cent !!! they even kno some of the lyrics.. hehehehe... and dont u worry bout doin "low bangs" with them cuz they sure knoooo how to do it with their Om (uncle) Oka.. hehehehe...

heheheh... cute cute cute!

showing off his "six pack" hehehe

Ara- Om Oka- Putra

wut up gangstas??? hehehe

my korea trip

so we left for korea on july 8th at 10pm, the flight was about 7 hours long.. sheeshhh.. not a big fan of airplanes, especially cuz our flight wasnt a smooth one.. apparently we went thru a storm or a typhoon or wutever it was called, so it was bumpy, sucked... the flight ended up being 8 hours.. arrgghh...

we arrived at Incheon International Airport on sunday mornin... we as in me, my dad, my aunt, and 25 other ppl (these ppl went there along with my dad for some trainin)...
the airport was huge, nice one for sure..


with my dad waitin for the big ass bus hehe

so we were in Seoul for a whole 7 days, sat to sat, yikessss a lil too long dont u think? eheheh.... since it was still mornin time, and our check in time at the hotel wasnt til 1pm so we went straight to do some site seeing... here we go with the whole tourist thing.. ready??? hahahaa...

1st it was the blue house...


with mi auntie

and next is the National Folk Museum...


the museum is rite behind it, i swear.. hehehehe

ta daaaaa... told ya!! hehehehe


tourist pic for sure.. wahahaha

and then afterwards we checked in at the hotel...its called Seoul Royal Hotel... awesome area it was in.. its called Myeong-Dong, the so called fashion district so it was deff sorrounded by stores!.. woo hooo.. hahaha... so we walked round for a bit, no shoppin yet tho... and then we had dinner, and then all of us were knocked out.. haha.. damn jetlag...

the next day rained all day long.. hiks hiks... it sucked cuz its summer and yet it rained... it actually rained for the 1st couple of days... still that didnt stop my aunt and i to go shoppin.. hahaha... but 1st we had to buy umbrellas 1st... and yea, i just had to buy a yellow one.. hahaha...


one of the streets by our hotel

so all we did that day was shoppin, while my dad and the rest of the group gotta do training.. ehehhe... we ended up goin to Namdaemun Market.. its a traditional market, and it was oh so crowded... goodness... but i got me some nice stuff... yaaayyyy !!! let the shoppin begiiinnnnnn !!!... hehehhehe

the next day, it was still shoppin day for us ladies.. i swear mannn, u cannot not shop when u r sorrounded by these stores and markets.. hahaha.. wut a lame excuse, but oh well ;-)
so we decided to take the subway aka metro... one thing i always enjoy doin, takin the metro hahahaha... i mean cuz back in the states i drove so never really took the metro, only once or twice u kno... and in indo, well we dont have one, not yet at least... soo yea i like takin the metro, and wuuutt? hehehhee...

anyways so we took the metro to Dongdaemun Market... its a another famous fashion district, and its known worldwide.. and they got like 10 large buildings... sheeeessshhh... my favorite one is called Migliore... pretty cheap and u can bargain, which im not very good at, but then again i got my aunt to do all the bargainin.. hehehehe...

anyways here's a pic of me before i went shoppin...


ready to shop shop shop

aaannnnddd here's a pic of me after shoppin !!!! hahahaha... that's wut i got for one day of shoppin, and that was only our 2nd day in Seoul.. hehehehe...


woo hooooo !!!

and later that nite my dad n i walked round Myeong-Dong again aka our hotel area.. and took a couple of pics...


guess i should've picked a more crowded street to take a pic.. haha.. oh well.. u get the idea

the next day we still had to do some shoppin, need i remind u i got lots and lots of cuzins... yup gotta get each and everyone of them atleast sumthin ya kno... we basically went back to Dongdaemun market, but we didnt take any pics that day, too busy shoppin hahaha... ooh and we actually met up with one my aunt's friend, we had a yummy lunch, yup almost forgot bout that hehehe...

the next day my aunt and i joined the group... yuupp since the group was goin to the indonesian embassy, we said y the hell not.. hahaha.. it was kinda borin tho... cuz the whole group had a meetin with the Ambassador, and i was just there to take pics.. o well...

here's a pic of meeeee infront of the embassy...


another tourist pic.. hahaha

after the embassy we went to the National Ginseng Center... apparently Ginseng is a big thing in Korea... ewwww i dont really like ginseng, 1st it tastes weiiirrrddd and 2nd it is soooo expensive... my dad n i wanted to get some but then after we found out the price, we were like ummm thanks but no thanks.. hahahah....


with my dad

then we were off to Korea Traditional Culture Center... and we learnt how to make Kimchi, the oh so famous veggie in Korea.. hehehhee...
honestly i dont really like it, cuz i dont like veggie unless its a salad.. heheheh... buuttt it was still fun to make...

here's a pic of us bout to make kimchi...


lets make some kimchi shall we