My Endless Love ... for Bali

I was there in Feb this year and it was truly a wonderful paradise island from the minute you arrive at the Denpasar international to the sec the sarong'd cab drivers take you to your kuta paradise hotel which cost just $28 per nite (half the price of that in jakarta or KL). Cheap because of the exchange, but rich in its architectural structures and the balinese garden and cafes in the hotel.

But hotels tend to be filled with aussies from Queensland on weekends, where you might find a bit of pool skinny dipping from 1am upwards. Another big thing in bali r jap chicks who'r usually in a 2 sizes-too-small string bikini looking like a $10 whore but alwayz giggling, making peace signs n snapping anything that moves with their digital cameras. Although they look like tight tarts with the dyed haircut and all, they're actually quite polite and nice when you approach and talk to them. If a jap chick likes you, she'll usually ask you to drop by to her room to help her fix her tv. This is the most popular excuse used.

Theres loads of places to eat and a nasik goreng would cost you as little as rp7000. Thats only rm3.50. Locals smile at you wherever you go hoping to interact and engage in coversation on topics often relating to the country of your origin. Like the whole island is one big hotel. Thats how friendly people are. Probably brought up on the understanding that their livelyhoods depend on the influx of foreign money brought in by tourists.

Try talking to the locals in bahasa indon, and they'll really show you hospitality. They'll even offer to take you to see local their chicks if you let them. .. a strong no and 'I have a gf back home ....' phrase should do the trick. Sure i went to the usual tourist places on kuta, legion bars and jimbaran restaurants. Did HRC and Paris club. Even did the beach nite market and the seafood restaurant where 5 people lost their lives.

If it had happened in Feb this year, then I would have been a potential casualty no doubt. It had been a cheap but exciting holiday destination for most of asia. But now that things have gone the way they did, and as long as the aussies and yanks still go there and take their bikini tops off on its beaches, I don't think it will ever be a holiday destination for me again. But at least I've experienced the holiday paradise aura that Bali had to offer.

Goodbye Bali. I really don't think i'll ever see you again. Thanks for the sweet memories. Nighty nite. Oh .. and a happy b'day to me today.