Bali vacation 2009

It is really true that not until you witness and experience Bali yourself, then you realize that Bali really is the "Land of Gods" (Pulau Dewata).

This one week holiday in Indonesia we spent it in Bali with my wife's family. My wife, my sister and andreas went to Bali first last wednesday. I join them on Friday due to work. On Saturday we went directly to Sukawati Market, where we can find a lot of things made in Bali, such as T-shirt, paintings, arts products etc. all them are really unique with Balinese touch in every items. After that we went to Kuta beach..and Oh my God, not only the view but the experience is truly amazing..I have travel the world, but nothing is like this..too bad, we cannot explore the whole kuta beach..

The next day we went to GWK (garuda wishnu kencana) , again this place really wow-ed me..the GWK would be the largest statue in the world later on when it finish. And then we went to dreamland beach..the view was also amazing from here..

The next day we went for watersport in benoa cape (tanjung benoa). We tried the parasailing and bananaboat,which is quite expensive. I actually wanna try more like the flying fish, snorkeling an diving. In the afternoon we went to tanah lot for sunset, but the weather was not so good, so we cancelled.

There are a lot more that we have not seen in bali, and I believe there will be more trip to bali. Maybe next year for our honeymoon...;)

Winter holidays

Every semester my department normally held an event called MT (Membership training), that's where all the lab member gather and go to a certain place for a holiday. I'm not sure why the called it MT, but there is no training at all, it's just simply a vacation. We have MT twice a year, summer holiday and winter holiday. For this winter holiday, as of last year, we went to a ski resort (Muju Resort). It takes about two hours from Daegu by bus. Last year I joined this winter MT also and I played snowboard, but this year I planed to go around the resort and enjoy our time together as a family and of course take a lot of pictures. However it was not so cold this year, not as cold as last year. Therfore the snow was not as much as last year, but still we got to see the beautiful scenery of Muju Resort. (Complete photo album click here)

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New year 2009

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This is the first time we spent the new year together as a family, me, my wife and Axel...This time we celebrate new years eve in the comfort and warmth of our home, because it was too cold outside for us to go and celebrate the new years outside. At midnight, we prayed together thanking God for the abundant blessings that He had poured to us in 2008, and believe that there will be a lot more coming our way in 2009.
The next day we went to Children's Cafe to bring Axel to play there. I think this is a great place to hang out for families with little children. And I think it is a good business opportunity in Indonesia. We spent our day playing with Axel and then we went shopping for our daily need and went for dinner.
Well, even though this year started with a not so promising world economic condition and crisis, but we believe that we can pass through this and we will see a new bright future ahead of us. And as we open the new year, we will also open a new chapter in our family live since I will be graduating by February this year. We have seen God's work in our past live, He's amazing grace and wonderful miracles. And He promise us that He would never leave us alone and He never change. Therefore there is no reason for us not to have faith in Him for 2009.
We wish everyone a happy and blessed new year...

Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is our first Christmas together as a family, and this year we celebrated in Korea, in this cold weather. Today, we were invited by the Prodger to have Christmas at their house. Thanks to Karl and Narina for inviting us, and for the delicious turkey, ham, whipped potato and the salad...they are all yummy. Some of our friends from Church was also there for the Christmas party. It was a great Christmas party.
We also missed our family back home in Indonesia, and I hope one day we can celebrate Christmas as a big family...Merry Christmas everyone, and have a blessed new year....

Summer Lotte World

Yesterday we went to Lotte World amusement park. We were kinda tired because the last day we went shopping to Myeongdong and Namdaemun market, and it was raining last Saturday. However we were excited to go to Lotte World. We went there at noon, and arrive at this underground mall that leads to the main entrance of Lotte World. We bought the ticket and get a discount because we are foreigner. We enter the gate and came up to the main indoor hall where all the indoor games are located. Lotte world has an outdoor and indoor area. Since it was so hot outside, we decided to spent most of our time there indoor. And it was surprisingly great, they have a lot of indoor games, they even have indoor Roller Coaster, which goes through in between the narrow buildings.
The first ride we took is the monorail, where we got to see all the surrounding park both the indoor and outdoor. The ride was so crowded, we have to queue for about half an hour. But before we got there, we went to the wrong queuing line, and at the front gate of that ride strangely Axel couldn't get in. At the end i asked my wife and osin to just get in. And I found out later that it was a water rafting (Arung jeram) ride. And only my wife was wet when they got out from the ride.
We took this balloon ride, which is like riding a real hot air balloon ride the on the ceiling of the indoor hall. It was actually quite high, i think its about 10 storey high. And my wife are so scared and he just sit there throughout the whole ride and didn't even saw the beautiful view outside.

We also went to this ride call tornado. Outside they show that inside we would felt like we are in a big storm with earthquake, winds and other stuff. And we couldn't use our multipass to get in, we have to pay 1000won. We were so curious and get in, which was really disappointing, there was actually nothing there. It was just like a dark aisles with wind blowing over your head and a noisy sound.

We also take the desperado ride, where we learn how to become a sheriff, learn how to ride a horse and how to shot bad guys. All of us get in to the ride including my boy Axel, and we did really good. We won the competition and they put our picture as the best sheriff.

They also have some exciting show and carnival. We enjoy ourself very much, including Axel. He was having so much fun, and he can't stop staring at the colorful view surrounding him....