Archive for May, 2007

Angklung

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

 

A friend was wondering what were the things I bought from Bali and I decided to post this pic.

 

Angklung

This was the thing I bought from Bali. I have always been fascinated by the sound coming from the bamboo.

I remember during my secondary school, the teacher in charge of the Band team introduced this piece of instrument. It’s called the Angklung and what wonderful music to the ears when it’s played.

Judging from my non-musical background, I’m afraid the purchase of this Angklung was merely at a moment of weakness. Of course, I’m sure this instrument will lay in on side of the living room and gather dust by the end of the year. However, it proves to be good material for me to use with the kids in my class. I predict they would be amused with such an extraordinary musical instrument.

Xr_n_angklung

 

Behold the Great Angklung Player to-be.

My niece, XR, trying to make some melodious music by fiddling with the Angklung.

 

Woke to see the Bali sunrise

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Phew! It’s been ages since I made an entry here. Lots of %$^&&^ reasons, i.e. broadband was down for entire month in April, traveled a bit and mainly, I was so immersed in my work with the kids!

Well, anyway, we had a couple of days for a vacation, the hubby and I. And boy was I glad for the short break!

The destination was Bali, Indonesia and the timing was perfect for a relaxed vacation. When I say ‘relaxed’, I mean, real invigoration of the body and all the lazing under the sun.

This time, we stayed in two hotels for the 4 days we spent there. Day 1 was spent in Kuta Beach, near Hard Rock Hotel. Yep, I was a little paranoid then, kept thinking that bombs would start exploding any minute. The public beach in Kuta was filled with surfers, having a thrill with the waves while local hawkers were selling fried chicken by the beach. We idly watched the busy commotion from the terrace restaurant as we lounged and drank iced drinks. It was real cool, I mean, relaxing in this way.

We checked in to Club Med, Nusa Dua the next day and were joined by the rest of the group from his company. From that day, we were lost to the world outside the resort. Our next couple of days were spent with fun-filled moments. We even kayaked out to the sea! It was real fun cos I have not indulged myself with water sports for ages!

Yea, tried to wake up to see the sunrise but all was in vain. It was so cloudy that we failed to watch the emergence of the ‘yolk’ shape of the sun. Dang! So, we only managed a pititful quality pic which I don’t think it’s nice enough to post it here.

Welcome_to_bali


Well, I could say that this vacation, we played hard (golf, basketball, archery, kayaking, volleyball etc), lazed and had our skins burnt to brownish gold and partied hard during the nights when we danced away with the GO’s of Club Med.

Wish I have more pics of this vacation but we were too busy and lazy to bring our camera out.


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