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This was the surprise i was hiding from most of my friends. This year my family and I celebrated Deepavali in Bali for the first time. Never expected this Deepavali would be a unique one....

Actually its more of a vacation trip rather than celebration trip....The spectacular and breathtaking views of the seaside makes Bali a wonderful place to visit. The Hindu-majority area in Bali doesn't seem to amaze me to be honest. This is because their lifestyle and culture is very much different than ours.

Traveled there by air-asia???
Yes, for the first time (and definitely my last time) I traveled on a air-asia ticket. Why so? Well, MAS flights are fully booked and this was our only choice.
How was the experience???
Well....it's truly a memorable flight. The journey to Bali was fine but when coming back home was otherwise. The journey to KL left us starving to death because the food we wanted to order in the plane was finished and we were only left with a sandwich and maggi me and a 100ml of water on a 2 hour-50 minute flight! Luckily the food we had on the journey to Bali was pre-booked online.(like the chicken rice??)



What kind of culture they had compared to ours?
1. The Hindu Balinese praying altar is just a decorated empty chair and they pray to it by imagining that the God is sitting on it.
2. The vibhuthi our the forehead is usually white ashes, but theirs is actually rice!(i was puzzled at how it can stick on the forehead for a long period of time.....)
3. The 'Galungan dan Kuningan' is a two different day festival on October which is very grand in Bali(similar to the Deepavali in Malaysia) There were hundreds of beautiful hanging garlands of leaves on each houses, shops, etc. to light up the festivities.








No doubt their culture is unique in their way, but I bet Balinese hindus are very religious and cast-orientated. Practically I can see temples at almost every corner of Bali and some of the road-side temples have priests to bless passers-by who come to pray. But whenever there is prayers or special dance in the temple, the Brahmins are the one who should be on the front line then followed by the others!

Whatever the situation may be, Bali is still the great place to visit and to witness the wonders of picturesque nature and undivided culture.

Actually there's a lot to post in my blog....the Bali trip....the MAS hangar practical experience...the soon-to-be-jailbroken ipod touch...and much more....but i have to set some time aside for my preparation for an exam cum 31st oct....
so to all my followers out there....stay calm...I'll update my blog as soon as I'm fully ready......

Its now i realized i didn't updated my blog for nearly 2 months!! Gosh....i almost lost touch of blogging...thankfully i'm back again to inform that this deepavali will be a little surprise.....

what surprise will it be???
its too early to say it now....but thinking o' it makes me feel very exited and happy.
So friends sorry to say that none o' you are invited to come to my house this deepavali(even relatives all well) thanks to this little surprise. Preparations were on the way....did some heavy shopping at klang's little india(see the throngs of crowd along the streets in the pic) and jusco.


normally every year the celebration will as mundane as it can be but NOT THIS TIME!!
so for those who knew about it....i think you should remain tight-lipped about it because i dont want to cause a big commotion about it....

Hopefully the MAS management will approve the 2-day leave on friday and monday....


speaking of MAS...
this is the first time doing practical on presumably live aircraft at complex A, MAS hangar.

So how do i feel about it??
hmmm....not as exited as i expected and at the same time not as bad as i expected....but one thing for sure is that i've learned plenty of things during this practical and i cant wait to share to those whom are still at metc(i'll blog about it fully after I've completed the practical)

so for those who wondering what surprise will it be...keep wondering....those who don't care about the suprise...its okay....and for those who KNEW about it...stay zipped!

ADVANCED HAPPY DEEPAVALI TO EVERYONE!!!