http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Alice-16/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Alice 16 en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:56:16 +0000 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:56:16 +0000 thought this would be my last blog as im flying home tonight. ive enjoyed writing them but dont think i can get away with keeping on going once i get home um ive had an enjoyable week of chilling out in singapore. its been a really nice way to end the trip in style. it was good to visit the 'Geyleng' area seeing old cute chinese guys playing Mahjong on the sidewalk and the women shopping fo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Toa-Payoh/blog-307370.html the plane landed in Singapore at 1245am this morning. i dont know how common it is here but the other passengers and myself were greeted by about 15 scary bald security guys with huugee guns as we came off the plane... a lovely welcome to Singapore i was amused and tried to take a photo before being told in no uncertain terms to delete it. haha naughty naughty. we sped though immigration http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/Jurong-West/blog-304739.html i fear this may be the crappest blog ever but ill do it anyways cos im sure you're all having withdrawls.im on gili trawangan off lombok. most amazing place ever but first i shall recapyogya was awesome as i knew it'd be. even though it became apparent that esther HAD after all contracted dengue fever. and we DID spend like 3 days in the hosptial with her. and she DID faint AGAIN but this ti http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Lombok/Gilli-Trawangan/blog-302660.html BUT IM BACK I YOGYA haha yaay.we got some cheap flights it didnt seem worth staying in bali while wishing we were in yogya so here we are. god. pol got soo effing sick a few days ago. she fainted in a shop and hit her head real bad on the glass cabinet argh drama. luckily we had bumped into the Aliotis and they helped us get to the clinic the whole day was rather disasterous we went to the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-297290.html so we're in ubud now. catching up sanur was lovely but boring. we didnt have the best time we felt starved of culture and friends everything was rich european prices and i got sick from the food. on our second day we went to Tanah Lot. it was pretty crowded even in the morning its a huge rock sea temple and its very beautiful. the surroundings were just as scenic it reminded me of the gre http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Ubud/blog-295504.html sorry this will be rushed as this internet cafe is ffing expensive and im feeling poor.everythign in bali is at least 4x the price of yogya. its still semi cheap but i cant get used to it and am refusing to eat until its for 20c again. haha oh do i miss yogya...we're staying in this amaazzing expensive place in sanur that pols grannies wanted to pay for its full of really rich europeans who ar http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Sanur/blog-293423.html i wrote this all a few days ago so ill update a new one soon.. in bali now..I WAS ON TV THE OTHER DAY that will be in next edition... which is far more exciting than this blog. sorrrryyy...i havent written in a while ive been so busy. every day after work theres always so much to doim finding that i just have so much energy here. i get up at 7 every morning and spend 8 hours running around http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-293058.html I had my first run in with the famous Indonesian Police a few nights ago. We were driving Jalan Marliboro and jeje didnrsquot stop at a red light no one takes any notice of through traffic lights here and we got pulled over. They were very scary told me to stay where I was with the bike while they ushered jj away for a few minutes. He returned laughing saying he wanted to show me as much o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-289199.html argh second half got deleted so ill try again... AS I WAS SAYING i found a new girl crush. her name is yanti and its like shes a 6 yr old cheeky boy only shes stunning so no one knows how to react to her. she plays practical jokes on everyone and teases all the boys. we go and get ice tea a lot so she can bully the cleaning stafff.... on the way home from work it began to rain so so hard. it wa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/blog-287113.html hello before i forget im adding some photos on facebook because this site is crraaap for adding photos. i thought id write cos ive got the whole day off today and i have a week or so of news to catch up on. well on monday i had the day off work because i woke up stiff and bruised. i just hung out with jeje. on wednesday i went out reporting to a place called Kulon Progo. we visited this concert http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-287105.html ooh gosh i have a lot to get through in a very short amount of time.umm wednesday last week i visited this amazing islamic uni. ok ill try think of the most interesting thingsok well you know the general dude from last blog seems i left quite an impression with him... on thurs last week we were outside his headquarters when he came out with all these guards with guns and serious looking men marc http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-285756.html long and tedious showers with a few drops of water eating chocolate cake for breakfast and remaing a lady while dismounting from a motobike...ive done three days at the tv station now. the trip there takes about 25 mins on the motobike didik drives. i love going through the small villages. the scenery people going about their lives and just the fact that every building is different nothing mat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-283642.html ok well im here yogya is perhaps not as idylic and peaceful as i expected... its loud and polluted and everything is 'under construction' but its very vibrant and theres always soemthing to see. its probably bigger than i thought it'd be too. mostly uni students as expected because the biggest uni in indo is here gagah mada. my delayed flight from melb to KL meant that i arrived in kl at about 4 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Yogyakarta/blog-282384.html