Malaysian Wife, Australian Life

Today is Nyepi Day in Bali. Nyepi means Silence and it's a day of exactly that - total silence, seclusion & meditation which is also the 1st day of the Balinese New Year. Everything stops on this day, even the airport is closed. People are expected to stay home - no work, no nothing and we're not allowed to have the lights on. Visitors are expected to respect this day as a holy day. The only people on the streets are the police making sure no one's out and about and inspecting homes ensuring their lights are not on. They take this very seriously. Some say that these prohibitions are intended to trick any lingering evil spirits into thinking the island is abandoned and for them to return to the underworld. Interesting yeah? However, the hotels in Bali are allowed to operate as usual but guests are not allowed to leave the hotel grounds - government regulations. So a lot of hotels around Bali do special Nyepi deals for tourists as well as locals and they come with spec...

This week, Squeaky number 1 previously known as Ha - it's Sisha or Yeesha nowadays, turns 32 months old. My other coming-soon Squeaky, is turning 32 weeks in my tummy. Now that's out of the way... I'm back! :p I'm not really busy doing stuff or going places or anything like my normal excuses when I'm not updating. I'm away from blogging because my laptop got stolen, along with a few other valuables, at my sister's wedding. That was almost 2 months ago, so obviously, I was over it. But it was still such a bummer incident in the midst of a wonderful event, which I'll talk about in another post. So upon returning to Bali, I was out of computer & internet action for about a month, which drove me a little bit crazy but after that long I was kind of used to not having it around. Read a lot of books, did so much more stuff with Ayisha - amazing what a distraction the internet can be even though I was not much on it even before! So even after my incre...